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.

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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 Clients Further

For over 13 years, Sterling has focused on providing a truly global API that most of our competitors cannot offer, especially for their gig economy clients. Our RESTful API connects your platform or third-party onboarding solution with Sterling’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. Sterling 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 Sterling 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, Sterling’s wealth of experience can be leveraged to design the most appropriate solution for your business.
Digital Identity

Explore the resources below for essential information covering the Trust Framework, the process for using digital identities, and how Sterling is integrating Digital Identity across its services.

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Criminal Record Checks

Sterling works closely with the Disclosure and Barring Service, Disclosure Scotland, Access Northern Ireland, as well as a wealth of global safeguarding authorities to verify the candidate’s criminal history.

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Right to Work Verification

The UK Right to Work Powered by Sterling Identity service checks the candidate’s identity documents using a unique combination of artificial intelligence and, as required, expert human review.

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Drivers abstract/drivers record – DVLA Report:

A DVLA report provides details on any conditions, restrictions or endorsements present on an individuals’ driving record in England, Scotland and Wales. To learn more about Sterling’s global drivers abstract and drivers record services please get in touch.

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Rescreening

Rescreening is being widely adopted as a best practice approach across a range of industries, even outside of the typically high-risk and regulated sectors such as healthcare and financial services.

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