Background Screening and Identity Services for the Retail Industry

Sterling Backcheck understands the retail industry’s needs for agility and provides screening solutions that help you onboard new hires quickly and safely.
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Protect Your Customers and Employees

Retail companies are consistently faced with high employee turnover and seasonal demand fluctuations, so smart hiring decisions are the best way to reduce risk and theft. That’s why some of the biggest and most successful retailers in the world turn to Sterling Backcheck for fast, comprehensive background checks to help hire trustworthy candidates that align with their culture and values.

50,000 people are charged with shoplifting each year in Canada1

Top 3 Reasons Retailers Use Background Checks

Build a Brand Known for Trust and Safety

Establishing workplace safety has always been a primary reason some of the world’s largest retailers turn to Sterling Backcheck for accurate and fast background checks when screening job candidates. This trend has only accelerated since the pandemic began, with candidates’ and consumers’ expectations of employers to maintain onsite safety increasing drastically since the beginning of 2020.
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Minimize Theft and Fraud

Retailers know over 65% of non-cash losses come from internal theft. Employees have access to sensitive information every day: from credit card information to sensitive company details. Screening candidates before employment can help mitigate risks of fraud, inventory loss and other factors that could hurt your organization’s financial stability.
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Culture and Values

From social media checks to employment verifications, Sterling Backcheck offers many screening solutions to help you focus on the issues that matter specifically to your business. Sterling Backcheck can help ensure candidates who look good on paper will truly fit with your organization’s values and culture.
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Build a Brand Known for Trust and Safety
Establishing workplace safety has always been a primary reason some of the world’s largest retailers turn to Sterling Backcheck for accurate and fast background checks when screening job candidates. This trend has only accelerated since the pandemic began, with candidates’ and consumers’ expectations of employers to maintain onsite safety increasing drastically since the beginning of 2020. Get Started
Minimize Theft and Fraud
Retailers know over 65% of non-cash losses come from internal theft. Employees have access to sensitive information every day: from credit card information to sensitive company details. Screening candidates before employment can help mitigate risks of fraud, inventory loss and other factors that could hurt your organization’s financial stability. Get Started
Culture and Values
From social media checks to employment verifications, Sterling Backcheck offers many screening solutions to help you focus on the issues that matter specifically to your business. Sterling Backcheck can help ensure candidates who look good on paper will truly fit with your organization’s values and culture. Get Started

The Sterling Backcheck Difference

Our financial stability has allowed us to continue investing significantly in technology and resources to better improve client and candidate experience, decrease turnaround times, and increase screening accuracy.

Sterling Backcheck pioneered proprietary technology that delivers industry-leading turnaround times, and information you can trust.

We help clients minimize risk in a complex, evolving regulatory landscape with a combination of technology and in-house expertise to comply with global, federal, state, and local hiring regulations.

Our modern, mobile-first candidate experience makes the right first impression, reduces candidate drop-off, and accelerates the recruiting cycle.

Through serving customers for decades, there’s little we haven’t seen. We draw upon our deep experience and rich data to uncover relevant considerations, trends, and risk factors for customers of any industry.

Sterling Backcheck’s award-winning client service includes industry-dedicated Account Executives and implementation teams to enable and sustain program success.

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