{"id":1582,"date":"2022-12-17T00:27:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T00:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scoutlogicscreening.com\/background-check\/best-for-small-business-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T07:34:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T07:34:11","slug":"staffing-agencies-background-checks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scoutlogicscreening.com\/services\/staffing-agencies-background-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Background Checks for Staffing Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As a staffing operations leader, you need to fill roles as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. Staffing agency profit margins are also very thin, so running high-cost checks can eat into your bottom-line. To accomplish your objectives, you need a background check which is high quality, compliant and provides a great experience for recruiters and candidates. This blog post shares practical guidance for designing the best background check packages by position, improving your compliance to reduce litigation risk, and what good service looks like for recruiters and candidates.<\/p>\n

Designing Staffing Background Check Packages By Position<\/h2>\n

To design the right package by industry, we have provided two general package types to help guide you: .a criminal package and then a package with employment and education verifications. In addition to these packages, we also provided information on \u201cad hoc\u201d searches, which you can use as add ons depending on the type of position.<\/p>\n

Before we detail those package types and ad hoc components, we want to warn you about one kind of background check–a stand-alone national criminal search. Sometimes advertised as \u201cinstant checks\u201d with price points under $7 per check, these reports have several issues. First, they only cover about \u2154 of U.S. counties. Web screen scraping tools often build these databases and, if a county doesn\u2019t have criminal records online, they can\u2019t be screen scraped. We have seen many staffing companies run these types of checks, only to be \u201ccaught\u201d when an employer runs a full check with counties when they permanently hire someone from their staffing partner.. Second, they may not be compliant. Some background check vendors for staffing agencies will not validate findings at the original reporting source and may not be complying with the most conservative interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Just because a background check is inexpensive in the short-term, it doesn\u2019t compare to losing a client or a lawsuit.<\/p>\n

That said, national criminal database searches are a great tool as part of a background check report with additional components. Per our comments above, below are two basic types of packages, which are great starting points.<\/p>\n

Criminal Package<\/h3>\n