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Background Checks:

What is a Background Check?

   What is Background Check? Is it different than a pre employment background screening? Different than a background investigation, or a due diligence investigation? An investigation? What do these terms really mean, and how are they different? 

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    What should be very simple seems to have become somewhat clouded over the years, partly because so many people have jumped into the background search field, started companies, begun websites, and started using different terms for different things. This is an attempt to be as clear as possible about what terms mean, and what means what. Please, let us know if you've found this helpful.

Reality vs. Fiction

Remember, what someone tells you or shows you is solely a representation, not a fact, until it is verified, documented. Someone may say they have certain assets, a certain license, education, capability, or experience, that they are X and Y and Z. These are representations. The reality may range from an accurate and honest representation to slight exaggeration to total fabrication. Verification services are designed to do just that, to verify that a representation is, indeed, a fact, or that it is not. It may also be a purpose to illicit what is not represented, but what is hidden, such as a criminal record or bankruptcy. A person may represent that they have a degree from X University, but X University records state that no degree was ever granted. Until a representation is verified, you have no way of knowing whether it is reality or fiction. A person may claim they have a drivers license or a commercial drivers license (CDL), but the verification process should show what the reality is:  suspended, multiple DUIs, etc. Without solid and reliable verification, with whatever matter is at hand, you place yourself at some risk. Verifications enable you to make more sound decisions.

Background Check:  A check of the background and circumstances involving a person and/or organizations, involvements, records. A Background Check and a Background Search are synonymous. A background check involves checking or searching various record sources (credit agencies, licensing agencies, courts) to verify representations or locate information regarding the subject of the search. What is checked is not standardized, and varies from company to company.

Pre Employment Screening or Pre Employment Background Search, Screening, or Check:  A "Pre Employment" is a Background Check for the purposes of employment, as applied in the process of hiring or employing. A good firm will provide this service by aligning the services with the many laws, rules, and regulations regarding employment, and not violate these with illegal searches or methods that may place the employer at risk or in a liability situation. It's a background search applied to the employment process. Please see more on this at PRE Employments on this website.

Due Diligence, Due Diligence Investigations:  This is a background check of an individual and/or organizations that is broader, deeper, and more far-ranging than a background check. It is a matter of depth, detail, range, and the subject of the investigation or target of the investigation may have more consequence or risk. a move or a decision with some higher magnitude, importance. Please see Due Diligence on the website for more detail.

Employee Check, Employee Background Check, Employee Status Update:  There are these and similar terms in use, but they all get at the same thing. People and their circumstances change. Time goes on, and very often people do not remain the same in time and place. It is, again, a background check applied to recent occurrences and records (sometimes an update from the original pre employment background check). These checks are ordered by the employer either for suspicion or knowledge of some wrongdoing by the employee, at specific time intervals, or based upon an event:  promotion, move or relocation, discovery of a theft, incident, etc. The reasons to perform these are valid. For more on this see Employee Checks on this website.

Investigations:  In the strict definition of the term, to provide actual investigations requires a license as an investigator or private detective, may involve background checks in addition to surveillance and other methods that are normally employed.

SERVICE SUMMARY for Background Checks:  background checks, pre employment screening, employment screening, pre employment background checks, employment background checks, employment verification, background investigations, due diligence investigations, criminal record checks, criminal background checks, background screening, credit checks

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