Background Screening Services

Background checks are becoming more common in our digitized economy. Everything from employment to housing applications can use this method to verify someone’s identity, employment history, criminal history, education, financial standing, and other relevant details.

However, while these checks help confirm a person’s identity and ensure they meet your basic requirements, background checks can become complex very quickly. As a result, it’s important to understand the key laws and guidelines related to background checks before you move forward. By knowing these essentials in advance, you can stay compliant, make informed decisions, and avoid costly mistakes throughout the background check process.


Check out our SmartHire Comprehensive Solution

As a result, SmartHire now offers you, the consumer, a chance to see what a hiring manager sees when they pull your pre-employment background screening report. Backed with over 40 years of experience and PBSA certified; SmartHire will create a personal report that you can look over and scan for any discrepancies. For this reason, this process helps you know what to expect when applying for your new career goal.

Why Choose USA Fact?

Every hire, contractor, or review of an employee is important. USA Fact is committed to help you screen your candidates thoroughly. With our broad range of products and expertise, we can help your business hire right the first time.

Smart Hire

Smart Hire

SmartHire is brought to you by USAFact.com a Background Screening company that has been around for over 40 years. So you know the quality of your report will be exact and complete.

Executive Fact

Executive Fact

Our mission is to provide relevant, accurate, and timely information to our clients so they can make informed decisions. We enjoy helping our clients get the answers they deserve. Every case we take on is unique, often like solving a puzzle, and this gives us the motivation to get the facts necessary for a successful outcome

LendFact

LendFact

The LendFact™ screening platform harnesses 37 years of USAFact’s proven pre-employment background screening and verification service experience and expands our reach for the specific format of loan origination screening that lending institutions need for due diligence in loan origination.

Gauging Your Success

For nearly 40 years, USAFact has been at the forefront of the background screening industry. In fact, when we first started, there was no background screening industry. We helped create it by providing the services and solutions our clients were asking for. You don’t stay in the background screening industry for 40 years without knowing a thing or two about doing background screening right. USAFact’s pre-employment and post-employment screening services combine the latest Internet technologies with an experienced professional staff. This combination delivers a proven resource to thousands of clients. We offer a variety of screening services and packages for businesses sized from global Fortune 100 companies, to small, not-for profits, and every size in between. USAFact provides services custom-tailored to our individual clients’ needs.

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    Hiring decisions create long-term operational and legal consequences. Employees directly affect productivity, workplace safety, customer trust, and organizational stability. Despite this, hiring errors remain common. A CareerBuilder survey reports that nearly 70% of employers have made a bad hire, often resulting in measurable financial loss, increased turnover, and internal disruption. This guide addresses the specific questions HR professionals and business owners ask about pre-employment screening: why it is required, what it should include, how to apply it consistently, and how to remain compliant. Interviews, resumes, and references do not fully verify credentials or identify risk. Pre-employment screening provides objective data…