Backgrounds Online
Pre-Employment Screening

Enabling high performance screening solutions since 1997
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Enterprise-scale business?

Even the largest firms benefit from peer-level contacts who know the “how, what, when and why” of background screening.

Small Business Background Checks

We love working with small firms. Partner with Backgrounds Online for access to our powerful pre-employment screening tools.

About Backgrounds Online

Experience, technology and customer service are the keys to rapid screening success

We understand the problems faced by human resource professionals. Our experience in criminal record searches, employment verification, reference checking, education verification, driving record searches and more, is your assurance of success. We help develop and manage the highest quality solutions. We shorten your recruiting cycle. Our tools automate and speed the process, improving your efficiency.

From our base in Sacramento, California, we’ve been delivering innovative, technology-enhanced screening since 1997. Our legacy extends back another decade in database development and data management, where we provided the highest quality information services to legal professionals and private investigators. Backgrounds Online has helped thousands of clients nationwide screen hundreds of thousands of job applicants.

Backgrounds Online’s vision is simple: develop, manage and utilize custom online tools to aid in recruiting and retaining the best employees; doing for clients as we do for ourselves. And this sets us apart. What we do for ourselves is team-spirit collaboration to solve problems, nurture new ideas. The creation, deployment and utilization of higher-performance screening solutions, tools and techniques is our passion, our profession and our expertise. This is what we are about.

Partnering with Backgrounds Online will speed critical screening decisions. As you access our tools and resources from the convenience of any web browser, our customer support pros are only a telephone call or e-mail away.

Our privately-held firm is an active member of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS). We'd love to add your organization to our family of clients. Call us at 800-838-4804.

SMB or Fortune 500, our background suits you

Highly regarded for attention to detail and meticulous QA, we’ve acquired a reputation for unsurpassed pre-employment screening. Our experience spans the full range of businesses from startups that cannot afford a bad hire to Enterprise-class companies with critical volume needs.
  • More than a decade of experience has produced screening tools that accelerate recruiting through automation
  • A legacy of quality data production for HR success
  • Direct help navigating screening’s legal requirements and challenges
  • Our employment screening service delivers one of the shortest cycles in the industry