Background checks are an important part of the hiring process for many businesses. They are meant to help employers decide who to hire and make sure that the people they do hire are trustworthy, reliable, and qualified for the job. But how do background checks actually work, and what kind of information do they find?

Here we’ll go through the most common misconceptions about background screening, and provide you with some of the solutions we suggest to our clients. Information on candidates has to be gathered from diverse sources, and local laws dictate how you are allowed to obtain that information and what you can or can’t do with it.