To HR professionals and recruiters and anyone else familiar, do background checks to verify employees commonly rely on data broker profiles?
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?
Compliance person here. Background checks are run by a third party who we contract to gather information from authoritative sources like state agencies, governments and credit reference agencies.
No serious company would purchase profile data from a data broker.