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Contractor Background
Screening Solutions

Create a more consistent approach to screening contractors, contingent workers, and vendor-supplied talent with streamlined workflows that help you onboard faster while mitigating risk.

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ONE WORKFORCE, CONSISTENT STANDARDS

Bring Greater Consistency to
Contractor Screening

Contractors and contingent workers may work alongside your employees and represent your brand. A consistent background screening process helps you apply established standards across worker types.

Apply established screening standards to contractors and contingent workers who interact with customers, access company resources, and represent your organization.

Use role-appropriate background screening to help identify relevant information before contractors begin assignments or receive access to facilities, systems, or sensitive information.

Create a defined process for screening workers across internal teams, locations, vendors, and projects rather than relying on fragmented or manual approaches.

Configure screening workflows around your organization’s policies, program requirements, and applicable laws while promoting greater process consistency.

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CENTRALIZED CONTRACTOR BACKGROUND SCREENING

Manage Screening Across Your Extended Workforce

Our contractor background screening solutions give organizations a centralized way to coordinate across their extended workforce. A branded portal connects sponsor organizations, contracted vendors, and individual workers through one streamlined process.

EFFICIENT, CONNECTED PROCESS

How Contractor Background 
Screening Works

Connect your organization, vendors, and contractors through a structured screening process that reduces administrative work and improves visibility.

First Advantage creates and configures a portal around your organization’s brand, vendor relationships, and contractor screening program.

Contracted companies register through the portal, allowing sponsor organizations to review vendor participation and manage screening activity across their extended workforce.

Contractors and contingent workers receive instructions and provide the information needed to complete their screening from a computer or mobile device.

Sponsor organizations and authorized vendors can track screening activity, review status information, and easily identify workers who have completed established requirements.

Digital readiness indicators and available continual monitoring capabilities help authorized users maintain visibility beyond the initial screening process.

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BUILT FOR AN EXTENDED WORKFORCE

Simplify Screening Without
Sacrificing Oversight

Replace disconnected processes with technology designed to streamline contractor onboarding and reduce manual coordination, helping your organization manage screening across complex vendor networks.

Enable contractors to enter required information and complete screening steps from anywhere using a mobile device, tablet, or computer.

Provide vendors and workers with a dedicated screening experience configured for your organization and workforce program.

Let vendors initiate screening for their workers while sponsor organizations maintain centralized visibility into vendor registration, screening activity, and status.

Use digital readiness indicators to help authorized users determine whether a worker has completed established screening requirements.

When included in the program, our criminal monitoring solution can report criminal activity after the initial background check.

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Why First Advantage?

Our advanced fulfillment systems will accelerate the turnaround times on your background criminal record checks. Approximately 90% of our U.S. criminal searches utilize intelligent automation to speed up the entire employment criminal background check process of searching for court records*.

CONTRACTOR SCREENING FAQs

Understanding Contractor Background Screening

Contractor background screening is the process of reviewing relevant information about independent contractors, contingent workers, freelancers, and vendor-supplied workers before or during an assignment. The screening criteria may vary based on the role, work environment, access level, organizational policies, and applicable requirements.

Contractors access the same workplaces, systems, information, equipment, and customers as traditional employees. Screening can help apply consistent workforce standards, make informed decisions, and manage potential operational, financial, safety, and reputational risks.

Not necessarily. Screening packages should reflect the responsibilities, access, work environment, and potential risks associated with each role. Organizations should establish documented screening criteria and consult appropriate legal counsel when developing or changing their programs.

Our contractor and extended workforce screening solution connects sponsor organizations, contracted vendors, and individual workers through a branded portal that streamlines screening and provides visibility into workforce readiness.

First Advantage configures a branded portal for the sponsor organization. Approved vendors use the portal to initiate background checks for their workers, and workers provide the required information from a computer or mobile device. Authorized users can then monitor screening activity and completion status.

Yes. We support mobile-friendly workflows so contractors and contingent workers can provide required information and complete screening steps in the field or away from a traditional office.

You may incorporate continuous monitoring into your program to search and report verified criminal records after the initial screen. Confirm availability and program configuration with First Advantage.

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Whether you want to rethink your employment background check program or need enhanced background checks and identity solutions for more informed hiring, we can help.

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