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Employers who use background checks greatly reduce the risk of employee theft, fraud
Background screening may reveal past criminal behavior and save your company thousands of dollars by helping you prevent a bad hire. Additionally, it is important that you protect your employees and clients from sex and violent offenders. Background screening sends a message to your employees, vendors, and clients that you are serious about safety
A background check is a review of a person's criminal, commercial and (sometimes) financial records and employment history. Background checks are common in employment and professional settings. It's estimated that approximately 70% of employers run background checks on employees before hiring them.
Employers who conduct background screening greatly reduce the risk of employee theft, fraud
While this resource page is designed to explain all the ins and outs of employee background checks, you'll still need to work with a certified, third-party background check provider to actually run proper background checks on your potential hires. Fortunately, Complete Payroll is just that. So please, browse this page, learn all about how employee background checks work and better prepare yourself to start running them on your potential hires.
The National Quick Check Package provides a compiled report saving time and money by bundling services. This powerful report will help identify unknown risks, improve compliance, and help reduce liability.
The National Quick Check includes:
• Multi-State Criminal Database Search
• National SSN/Address Locator
• National Sex & Violent Offender Search
• Terrorist Search (OFAC Search / Government Watch List)
This search typically provides instant results; however, verification of possible database records may take 1 - 5 business days. Some jurisdictions take much longer due to county clerk delays.
National Quick Check searches all criminal databases available. It searches based on First Name, Last Name, and Date of Birth (D.O.B.). Some jurisdictions do not provide D.O.B. In such case, Complete Payroll will display results based on a First Name, Last Name match. Sources of records are subject to change without notice. Complete Payroll does not guarantee that data for all states or jurisdictions is included in this database search. Please review our database Coverage Area for more coverage details.
Complete Payroll makes every effort to maintain updated records and to add new sources for records as available, but as with all public records, we rely on the completeness and accuracy of each state’s records. Even though the National Quick Check is a “national” criminal history search, it is not a substitute for live criminal court record searches. We recommend completing additional criminal court records searches as part of your background screening process.
The County Criminal History search is a manual, physical examination of a person’s criminal history report from the county seat in any U.S. county. Our team of experienced researchers will provide a comprehensive criminal search containing information on felony and/or available misdemeanor offenses located at the county seat for the previous 7 years at the county level. Depending on the state, some county courts have both an upper (felony) and lower (misdemeanor) court. In this case, the upper court is the court that is searched. If a lower court is needed, please contact us.
Each name and jurisdiction is a separate criminal record search.
Turn around time is usually 5-7 business days or less, but may be longer depending on what time of the day you submit your search request.
Additional fees may apply as some counties charge additional search fees.
National SSN/Address Locator is primarily used to identify aliases and counties where applicants reside. This search gathers information from a multitude of venues such as credit bureaus, public records (real property) and moving records from mailing houses. Our Background's National SSN/Address Locator searches credit headers and association algorithms in over 20 billion records, which uncover recent relocations as well as historical addresses.
This nationwide search provides summaries of the applicant's name, name variations (such as maiden or previous names), date of birth, current address, and phone number. Our National SSN/Address Locator is a comprehensive tool to identify 30-50% more counties.
Having problems verifying an SSN or the identity of an applicant? Consider our CBSV Service which is administered by the Social Security Administration. Features include:
• Verifies personal identifiers to the government source;
• Matches Name, SSN, DOB, and Death Indicator;
• Acceptable for pre-employment hiring purposes.
Turn around time is less than 24 business hours.
Credit Reports help employers protect money and merchandise by allowing them to assess financial risk within a matter of minutes.
Credit Reports supply credit history information as well as previous employers and prior addresses (if available). All Employment Credit Reports comply with the FCRA.
Please be familiar with your state laws before requesting credit reports for employment purposes.
Motor Vehicle Report (MVR) provides fast, consistent reporting with direct access to driving records. Each report contains the dates and descriptions of any violations, suspensions, and/or revocations.
Additional state fees apply.
Let Complete Payroll help verify your applicant's college education. Simply order the search and we'll take care of the rest. An e-mail will be sent to you as soon as the results are available.
The cost is per educational institution/per degree that is verified. Additional charges may apply should we have to access the institution's 3rd party service to obtain verification.
Please note that this is ONLY for domestic higher education institutions (not high schools or international schools/colleges).
Let Complete Payroll help verify your applicant's employment history. Simply complete the Verification form and we'll take care of the rest. An e-mail will be sent to you as soon as the results are available. The cost is per applicant per employer.
Additional charges may apply should we have to access the employer's 3rd party service to obtain verification.
International verifications are available. Please contact us for information.
The Government Watch List helps impede terrorists by identifying individuals linked to terrorism or classified on government watch lists, improving compliance with the Patriot Act.
Includes the following databases:
1. OFAC Sanctioned Countries, including Major Cities & Ports*
2. Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories*
3. Department of State Trade Control (DTC) Debarred Parties
4. U.S. Bureau of Industry & Security (formerly BXA)
5. OFAC Sanctioned Countries, including Major Cities & Ports*
6. Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories*
7. Department of State Trade Control (DTC) Debarred Parties
8. U.S. Bureau of Industry & Security (formerly BXA)
a. Unverified Entities List
b. Denied Entities List
c. Denied Persons List
9. FBI Most Wanted Terrorists & Seeking Information
10. FBI Top Ten Most Wanted
11. INTERPOL Most Wanted List
12. Bank of England Sanctions List
13. OSFI – Canadian Sanctions List
14. United Nations Consolidated Sanctions List
15. Politically Exposed Persons List
16. European Union Terrorism List
17. World Bank Ineligible Firms
18. FinCEN 311 List
19. Palestinian Legislative Council List
Lists notated with an asterisk (*) indicate a geographic-based sanctions list.
Identifies non-criminal lawsuits by or against a person or company. A civil record is a non-criminal dispute between two parties and can involve contract disputes, money, property, etc. Civil Searches are highly recommended to determine a person's character or to screen companies, contractors, potential business partners and outsourcing companies. The Civil Litigation Search is conducted directly at the county courts and is not available statewide. Please note that civil litigation searches are only matched by first name and last name by the courts. Rarely other identifiers are available.
Additional county fees may apply.
Results vary and may take 3-5 days.
Searches for Federal and State Tax Liens by county.
Tax Lien searches are only conducted at the county level where they are filed by the State or Government for failure to pay taxes. Neither of these are filed at a state or federal level because they usually are a lien on a house or some kind of property.
Results vary, but they are typically returned within 5 - 7 business days. Price is per search per county. Additional county fees may apply.
Our Federal District Court searches now are state specific based on the state that you choose when ordering. If a state contains more than one Federal District Court, then all of those courts will be searched. The criminal cases landing in the federal court are initiated by the federal government through the U.S. Attorney, in coordination with a federal law enforcement agency, and with the acceptance of the grand jury.
These Courts do not include cases filed in
We also still provide the ability to perform a nationwide Federal District Court search. This option allows you to search all Federal District Courts. If you require this nationwide coverage, please contact us.
Please allow 24-48 business hours for results.
Nationwide search of bankruptcy records through the Federal Court Bankruptcy System.
Turnaround is up to two business days from the day the search is ordered.
Tired of spending time sifting through social media sites trying to determine if your candidate is a good fit for your company?
Our analyst-generated report of the top 10 most popular social media sites can help uncover unknown information about your candidate. Spend your valuable time on other, more productive areas of your hiring process. Our analysts search the most popular social media sites including:
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Linked In
• Instagram
• Google
• Google +
• Youtube
• Vine
• Tumblr
• Foursquare
• Pinterest
Standard look-back period is 1 year. Report turnaround of 2-3 business days.
Whether it be on the resume, during the job interview or through other information like employment or education history, it's estimated that 50% of job applicants provide misinformation somewhere in the process. Background screenings are an effective way to hold your candidates accountable.
33% of business failures are due to employee theft. Typically people who steal or embezzle money from a company have a pattern of illegal behavior. Background checks can help you avoid hiring someone that may end up stealing from the company, its employees or even various partners.
17% of all violent crimes occur in the workplace. And 8.2% of all full-time employees are illicit drug users. Background checks are an effective measure for determining if your candidate is likely to use drugs or bring violence or hostility to the office.
We have an extensive list of screening options and reports for your pre-employment screening. Please see the sample of a few of our packages below. There are multiple custom and state packages available. If you would like to see all of our services or would like to set up an account, please contact us.
7-10 year Multi-State Criminal Database Search
1 County Criminal Search
County Courthouse Verifications of Database Hits (up to 2)
National SSN/Address Locator
Sex & Violent Offender Search
Terrorist Search (OFAC Search / Government Watch List)
7-10 year Multi-State Criminal Database Search
County Courthouse Verifications of Database Hits (up to 3)
National SSN/Address Locator
Sex & Violent Offender Search
Terrorist Search (OFAC Search / Government Watch List)
7-10 Year County Courthouse Search with Statewide Upgrades in Some States (up to 3 counties/states)
7-10 year Multi-State Criminal Database Search
County Courthouse Verifications of Database Hits (up to 3)
National SSN/Address Locator
Sex & Violent Offender Search
Terrorist Search (OFAC Search / Government Watch List)
7-10 Year County Courthouse Search with Statewide Upgrades in Some States (up to 3 counties/states)
7 Year Federal Criminal Search (statewide)
The service from start to finish has been exemplary and on a professional, knowledgeable, yet friendly level that far exceeds any other vendor we have come to deal with. Nothing ever seems to be too much trouble for their team and our company is made to feel unique, never feeling that we are just one of many clients that they have to deal with each day.
Talent Management Compliance Manager
They give the client the feeling that no matter how large or small, we are entitled to excellent customer service. They provide training materials that we incorporate in our manager training as well as offer the service to train as well. Bottom-line, I highly recommend them.
Director, Employee Services
It is an easy process to do the searches on our new/prospective employees and the response time is typically 24-48 hours.
Nicohl Swartley, Controller at Three Brothers Wineries and Estates
Most background checks can be set up right away and deliver results within a day or 2.
We are accredited by the National Associated of Professional Background Screeners.
You'll be surprised how affordable it is to run background checks on potential hires. Especially when you consider it against the cost of making a bad hire.
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