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Empower your hiring process with quick, cost-effective checks of your candidate’s employment history. 

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Employment Verifications Help You Hire More Confidently

Get the information you need to be confident in your candidate’s qualifications. Our employment verifications utilize smart automations, intelligent data, and expert specialists to deliver faster, cost-effective results.

Experience quicker verification results with our intelligent automation and cost-effective Verified! database, featuring over 130 million records*.

Verify present employment in less than a minute* and avoid more costly third-party providers by encouraging your candidates to use Instant Present Employment.

Select a scalable workflow option that delivers the right products and strategy to more effectively drive your business objectives.

Hire confidently around the world with our extensive selection of global employment verification services.

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Verifications Tailored to Your Needs

Explore our wide range of employment verification services and options, tailored to fit your unique business needs. Partner with our industry experts to build a background check program that simplifies your hiring process and streamlines the verification experience for you and your candidates.

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Employment Verification FAQs

A First Advantage U.S. employment verification compares the history a candidate provides with the details from their employer. It usually confirms the employer, job title, start date, and end date, however the exact information we verify can vary depending on the type of employment verification being conducted.

Employment verifications can often be completed in under two days*. However, the time it takes to complete employment verifications can vary based the method required to complete the verification and how quickly the verifying party responds if further information is needed. For example, by using First Advantage Instant Present Employment Verification, which provides verification via the present payroll provider, verification can be obtained in seconds.

Yes. If the candidate indicates they don’t want us to contact their employer, First Advantage will respect their request. There are several ways to check employment without directly contacting the employer. One option is to verify employment instantly through the candidate’s payroll provider using First Advantage’s Instant Present Employment solution. If this option is unavailable, many employers outsource employment verifications to third-party companies. In these cases, the employer is not notified when an employment verification request is made, allowing us to obtain the verification through the third-party source. If these methods do not provide verification, W-2s or recent paystubs may be accepted as proof of employment, provided the hiring company allows this as part of their process.

At First Advantage, we can check our proprietary Verified! database of over 130 million records* to see if we have the necessary verification information when an employer is no longer in business. If the information is not available in Verified! and the employer used a third party for employment verifications, we may still be able to obtain the verification through that third party source. Additionally, if the hiring company accepts documents as proof of employment, W-2s or the first and last paystubs may serve as verification.

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

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