Background Screening Services

Make sure you know who you’re hiring with the support of industry-leading pre-employment verifications backed by a powerful fulfillment engine. Sterling Backcheck’s verification services deliver fast, detailed confirmations of a candidate’s educational background, job history, and other credentials so you can be confident in every new hire.

Reference Checks are a valuable tool for screening candidates but can be time-consuming and difficult for hiring managers.

Beyond telephone interviews, Sterling Backcheck also offers online reference interviews. Fast and economical, these online questionnaires can also be complemented by telephone follow-up to validate and verify answers. Furthermore, we can customize the references to better serve your organization.

Take advantage of Sterling Backcheck’s credit inquiries to help meet screening requirements for candidates with managerial and accounting responsibilities and confirm their financial trustworthiness. Our ID Cross-Check can also be added to other services, such as the Canadian Criminal Record Check, to uncover forgotten aliases and pinpoint incorrect information.

Protect your people and property with driver abstract checks, which help get new hires on the job quickly while maintaining safety and compliance standards. Sterling Backcheck provides driver abstracts on thousands of Canadians each year. Established direct relationships with relevant provincial agencies complement our processes and technology that can be relied upon to deliver fast, accurate, and detailed results.

With social media becoming a fundamental way billions engage with each other, social media background checks are increasing in popularity to minimize risk of a bad hire. Sterling has partnered with Fama to offer clients the ability to screen potential and current employees using publicly available online information. Our solution helps organizations build great cultures by identifying traits that align with an organization’s values, while also enhancing ethical decision-making and compliance by proactively recognizing risk-creating behaviours such as bigotry, racism, and sexism.