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Scalable Background Screening API

Our Background Check API Makes Connecting Easy

Adapt to meet evolving business needs while streamlining your background screening workflows.

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REST API Background Screening

Increase Recruiting Team Productivity

Leveraging APIs within your screening process creates additional opportunities to streamline manual processes and share data between platforms in real time.

Connecting your application of choice to a screening provider’s system via APIs helps accelerate your time to hire in the following ways:

Initiate a background check and receive results back directly within your system of record, with real-time status updates throughout the process.

Access our trusted screening and identity services directly through your HR system, from basic criminal searches to drug screening and verifications.

Take advantage of our mobile-first interface to support streamlined data collection and validation for your candidates.

Our global screening API seamlessly supports international services and multi-regional compliance for data privacy and applicable law requirements.

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REST API Background Screening

Industry-leading API Technology

Our technology can process thousands of background screens per hour, allowing you to funnel a high volume of candidates quickly and efficiently through your hiring pipeline.

We follow established best practices for enhanced authentication to ensure sensitive candidate information transferred to us is stored in a compliant manner within our systems.

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Developer Portal for Screening API 

Scalable Screening Tailored to Your Unique Needs

We offer robust API documentation and a dedicated team of technical consultants to get you set up and running quickly.

Our Developer Portal and sandbox API environment allow you to test new services and features before you utilize them live in production.

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Why First Advantage?

Our advanced fulfillment systems will accelerate the turnaround times and enhance search accuracy on your background criminal record checks. Approximately 90% of our US criminal searches utilize intelligent automation to speed up the entire employment criminal background check process – from checking candidate data against court records to applying your adjudication matrix*.

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