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To the HR and recruiting professionals or anyone familiar, do background checks of potential employees usually rely on profiles data brokers have compiled on them? (discuss.online)

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Do background checks to verify potential employees rely on profiles data brokers have compiled on them? Or do background checks rely on more direct means?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I beg to differ. In my country (Europe) they can get almost nothing on their own (if I haven't volunteered it on social media). Public institutions, schools, banks, the police etc. do not release information to random people.

When we have the odd American client that insists on hiring a background check they come to me to give them paperwork that proves education, past employees and (lack of) criminal history. Then they start bitching that they can't get in-depth information about each of them and I tell them to fuck off.

I'm curious what exactly they're trying to get, maybe you can offer some insight. With the stuff I give them they are able to confirm that I really went to that school and worked at those places, should that not be enough?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The background companies we go through here in the US aren't "random people" and you sign a release of that information for them when they start that background check. So you've given them permission to access that info on you. I don't know what HRs your dealing with but if it's random hiring managers asking you then they have no idea what's in a typical background check anyway.