Background Checks Designed for Your Gig Platform

Whether delivering goods, services, or caring for people or furry friends, we have a program that simplifies the screening process for your evolving workforce.
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Built for Your Business

In an industry predicted to grow by over 300% in the next 3 years1, Sterling is committed to providing our clients with scalable innovations that make an impact. By creating a partnership with our clients, we can design custom screening programmes that protect your brand, improve trust and safety for contingent workers and everyone that uses your platform, while promoting quicker turnaround times and accuracy.
2023 Excellence Program

2023 Excellence Program Award

Sterling is proud to win the Marketplace Risk Solution Provider Excellence Program Award for Screening/Background Checks.
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We’ve Got Your Gig Industry Covered

Serving All Gig Industries

We understand all gig economy companies have unique screening and identity requirements for their workforce. Sterling’s background screenings can fit the needs within any gig industry. Don’t see yours listed? Contact us today to learn how we can help within your industry.

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Care

Whether your clients need help with a failed DIY project or require care for their children while working from home, trust and safety is their top concern. We’ve helped thousands of quality gig professionals onboard for:

  • Medical practices and hospitals
  • Palliative, hospice, and at-home care
  • Babysitting and child minding
  • Home renovation and construction projects
  • Dog walkers
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Driver

Does your gig company rely on your workforce to drive their own cars? Whether it’s ridesharing or delivery, Sterling’s background screening and identity verification services can meet your needs. Our screenings include DVLA checks. We support gig clients whose services include:

  • Driving people
  • Delivering food
  • Car rentals
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Education

For years the education industry has utilized contracted workers to further educate their students through tutoring programs. We’ve incorporated an education verification check especially for you. We can run a global candidate screening that checks education history and credentials to provide you with qualified candidates for teaching positions.

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We understand all gig economy companies have unique screening and identity requirements for their workforce. Sterling’s background screenings can fit the needs within any gig industry. Don’t see yours listed? Contact us today to learn how we can help within your industry.

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Whether your clients need help with a failed DIY project or require care for their children while working from home, trust and safety is their top concern. We’ve helped thousands of quality gig professionals onboard for:

  • Medical practices and hospitals
  • Palliative, hospice, and at-home care
  • Babysitting and child minding
  • Home renovation and construction projects
  • Dog walkers
Get Started

Does your gig company rely on your workforce to drive their own cars? Whether it’s ridesharing or delivery, Sterling’s background screening and identity verification services can meet your needs. Our screenings include DVLA checks. We support gig clients whose services include:

  • Driving people
  • Delivering food
  • Car rentals
Get Started

For years the education industry has utilized contracted workers to further educate their students through tutoring programs. We’ve incorporated an education verification check especially for you. We can run a global candidate screening that checks education history and credentials to provide you with qualified candidates for teaching positions.

Get Started
Dog walker

Scale Globally with Regional Expertise

Our proprietary technology delivers more reliable background information to help build a quality workforce, quickly. Pairing our diverse integrations, local fulfillment platforms, and multi-lingual support teams, gig economy businesses can navigate cultural differences and regulations to make globalisation easier on your developers, trust and safety teams, and your candidates.
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We Take Gig Customers Further

First Advantage is focused on providing a truly global API that most of our competitors cannot offer, especially for their gig economy customers. Our RESTful API connects your platform or third-party onboarding solution with First Advantage‘s background screening service resulting in a seamless onboarding experience.

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We deliver on customer service. You will have a dedicated team that works exclusively within the gig economy, providing years of experience and expertise to help your business run more efficiently. And because our team works from the start to build a meaningful relationship and comprehensive understanding of your company, we are able to provide our best support that caters to your needs.

For gig companies, the ability to onboard high volumes of candidates quickly is crucial. First Advantage has a direct integration with the Disclosure and Barring Service for Basic DBS checks. This means that many DBS checks processed via this automated service are returned within 24 hours.

Get a full picture of a candidate’s background by pairing First Advantage background checks with our identity verification services and achieve a more in-depth look into who you’re hiring.

Services Tailored for Gig

While the specific screening needs of every organisation may differ, First Advantage‘s wealth of experience can be leveraged to design the most appropriate solution for your business.
Digital Identity

First Advantage’s Identity Fraud Mitigation solution is designed to help you mitigate risk through a simple process where candidates verify that the information they provided about themselves, such as their name and date of birth, is indeed their own. This helps employers establish a required level of confidence. In any situation where remote verification is needed, both accuracy and reliable technology play critical roles. 

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Criminal Background Checks

Getting a complete picture of a candidate’s criminal history is often more complex than people think. At First Advantage, we make it easy for you to make fast, accurate, hiring decisions through a combination of robust services, solutions, and technology. Our innovative approach to criminal background checks allows us to deliver accurate results quickly.

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Right to Work Verification

A legal requirement for all UK companies, UK Right to Work checks validate the candidate’s identity documents using a unique combination of artificial intelligence and as required, expert human review, to ascertain their eligibility to work for UK-based organisations.  

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Drivers Abstract/Drivers record – DVLA Report:

If your employees drive as part of their job, you need to be certain that they’re qualified to be on the road. A DVLA report provides details on any conditions, restrictions or endorsements present on an individual’s driving record in England, Scotland, and Wales. Having insight into a driving records and history helps organisations safeguard their reputation on the road, promote safety and compliance, and mitigate risk. 

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Rescreening

Widely adopted as a best-practice approach across a range of industries, implementing a structured employee rescreening program can help maintain ongoing compliance, safety, and enable you to proactively mitigate personnel risk. 

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