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Global Background Screening Solutions

Consolidate global background screening across countries, business units, and worker populations. Gain greater visibility and consistency, help mitigate workforce risk, support local compliance requirements, and improve hiring efficiency.

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ONE GLOBAL SCREENING PROGRAM

Simplify Global Screening and Strengthen Risk Management

Global background screening can span different countries, regulations, systems, and providers. Bring these moving parts together to improve oversight, efficiency, consistency, and risk management as your organization evolves.

Support hiring and screening across markets with global resources and knowledge of local requirements, processes, languages, and customs.

Gain greater visibility into screening activity, performance, costs, and providers across countries and business units.

Connect screening with your HR systems and workflows to reduce manual steps, improve consistency, and create a more streamlined candidate experience.

Use automation and standardized workflows to help improve turnaround times and support changing hiring volumes, new markets, and business growth.

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REDUCE GLOBAL COMPLEXITY

Reduce Complexity and Strengthen Risk Oversight

Fragmented screening can create inconsistent processes, limited visibility, and potential gaps in risk management. Consolidate providers, processes, and technology to strengthen oversight and scale with greater confidence.

GLOBAL SCREENING SOLUTIONS

Build a More Connected Screening Program

Bring identity, background screening, and compliance workflows together to help identify potential risk, improve consistency, and support a more connected global screening program.

Our robust, multi-layered identity verifications help you mitigate potential fraud, reduce friction, and improve screening accuracy early and often across the hiring lifecycle.

Quickly and cost-effectively confirm your candidate’s experience, skills, and credentials with verifications that use smart automations combined with our proprietary Verified!® database of 130M+ records.

With online access to 90% of U.S. criminal records, our background checks deliver fast, consistent results and a clear view of a candidate’s history for informed hiring.

First Advantage offers tax credit solutions – such as Work Opportunity Tax Credits (WOTC) – that help employers identify, capture, and maximize available federal and state tax savings while reducing administrative burdens associated with tax credit programs.

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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*.

A global technology company consolidated its screening program, expanded consistency across regions, and strengthened its approach to identity fraud and hiring-related risk.

GLOBAL SCREENING FAQS

Frequency Asked Questions About Global Background Screening

Global background screening is the process of checking a candidate’s identity, qualifications, employment history, education, criminal history, or other relevant records across applicable countries. Available checks and requirements can vary by location. Explore global screening trends.

Global background screening helps organizations make more informed hiring decisions, support compliance requirements, and mitigate workforce risk. It can also improve consistency and oversight across countries, business units, and worker populations.

Organizations can consolidate screening providers, connect screening with their HR systems, standardize appropriate workflows, and centralize reporting. This can improve visibility and efficiency while preserving necessary local flexibility. Explore background screening technology.

Available records, consent requirements, permitted checks, and hiring regulations can differ by country or region. Organizations should consult with their legal counsel when designing screening programs that account for applicable local requirements while supporting broader program consistency.

Depending on the role, location, and applicable requirements, global background screening may include identity, employment, education, criminal record, sanctions, credential, and financial checks to help organizations address different areas of potential workforce risk.

First Advantage offers screening technology designed to connect with HR systems and hiring workflows. Integrations can help reduce manual steps, improve consistency, and create a more streamlined experience for hiring teams and candidates. Explore connected screening technology.

Global background screening can help organizations verify candidate identity and review relevant background information across applicable markets. A coordinated program can also improve consistency and visibility, helping teams identify potential gaps and manage workforce risk more effectively.

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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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