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The Importance of International Background Checks
Conducting a thorough background check on potential new employees is critical. But managing a successful screening program across different regions is challenging - you must understand compliance regulations and know which checks can be conducted and records checked in certain countries.
Partnering with an organisation experienced in global background checks can help your hiring team overcome a wide range of challenges more efficiently.
- Consistent Hiring Standards - Protect your company, customers, and employees by establishing rules and processes across regions that align with your business objectives.
- Risk Management - Maintain a holistic view of local compliance laws and regional privacy regulations.
- Positive First Impression - A simple, straightforward experience allows candidates to submit information quickly, regardless of their location.
- Single Source of Truth - Give your global team one consistent experience to interact with candidate data, submit screening orders, and review results.
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We combine deep regional screening and compliance expertise with an extensive operational footprint to help navigate and simplify the complexities of global background checks.
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First Advantage provides highly localised technology-enabled experiences, tools, and services to more than 80,000 customers globally. Our extensive portfolio allows you to conduct an international background check quickly and easily, regardless of where your candidates live or work.
First Advantage offer screening solutions both in your location and across multiple regions, depending on your needs.
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Frequently Asked Questions
An international background check allows you to screen candidates who have operated outside of the current jurisdiction within which you're looking to hire.
Conducting background checks across different regions can be challenging as you will need to understand cultural and compliance nuances to know what records can and can’t be checked in certain countries. Consider taking the following steps when conducting an international background check:
- First, you will need to determine what type of screening you need to conduct for your candidate based on their location and the position you are hiring for.
- Second, you must obtain the appropriate, legal consent from your candidate to conduct the screening, based on where they live.
- Third, once you have received authorisation from the candidate, you will want to order the screening from a qualified provider, such as First Advantage.
When conducting an international background check, you must comply with the laws specific to the country where the candidate is being screened. When screening an international candidate, employers must adhere to any applicable national and/or local laws and regulations that are in place in the country where the candidate currently resides. First Advantage’s global compliance team provides regular guidance on the complex, evolving global regulatory landscape to help you reduce risk and stay compliant.
First Advantage makes it easy for you to screen top talent quickly and accurately, regardless of where they live. We employ in-house experts in every region that can help provide you with highly localised screening service options — such as criminal record checks and verifications — tailored for the needs of your industry. We also offer resources to help you understand local requirements that can impact the screening process.
First Advantage makes it easy to implement a global screening program using the following approach:
- Consultative by Design. We listen to your global hiring goals, objectives, and requirements.
- A Single Centre of Excellence. We help you apply a consistent set of requirements and standards across your organisation so that your entire hiring team can follow a single, unified approach to screening with the flexibility to incorporate regional and local nuances.
- Seamless Experiences. Easily leverage streamlined identity and screening workflows via our Client Hub or by integrating your program with one of our 30+ multi-regional applicant tracking system (ATS) integrations.
- Local Considerations. First Advantage’s technology-enabled experiences account for regional privacy laws and data housing requirements, as well as other local factors such as currency and language.
- Unrivalled Support. Your global program manager will work closely with regional team members to provide resources and help you execute your desired regional and local hiring strategies.
- Ongoing Partnership. First Advantage partners with you to analyse your program data and provide guidance, best practices, and other recommendations to help ensure your continuing success.
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