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First Advantage

First Advantage provides employment background screening, identity verification, and continuous workforce monitoring to employers worldwide.

Operating headquarters
Atlanta, GA, US🇺🇸
Founded
2003
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  1. 01Products & Services
  2. 02Market Outlook
  3. 03Competitive Strengths
  1. 01Products & Services
  2. 02Market Outlook
  3. 03Competitive Strengths

Product Overview

First Advantage sells employment background screening, digital identity verification, and post-hire monitoring to employers, staffing firms, and housing providers. Offerings span criminal record checks, employment and education verification, drug and occupational health screening, and right-to-work and Form I-9 compliance. Customers integrate the service through APIs and applicant tracking and HR systems.

First Advantage maintains more than one billion records in proprietary databases and screens candidates across more than 200 countries and territories. Its identity solutions combine documents, data, liveness, and biometrics to detect fraudulent candidates before hire.

Source: fadv.com

Market Outlook

Employers are extending screening and identity verification across the whole employment lifecycle rather than only before hire. A survey of more than 5,000 HR leaders and job seekers found risk mitigation and hiring speed among the top priorities for hiring teams.

Identity fraud in hiring is adding to demand, with one in four candidate profiles globally projected to be fake by 2028. Continuous monitoring and digital identity checks carry screening past the point of hire.

Source: globenewswire.com

Competitive Advantages

First Advantage pairs a large proprietary records database with automated workflows, so most United States criminal screens close within one business day. More than 100 applicant tracking and human capital management integrations keep screening inside the systems employers already use.

Scale gives First Advantage reach across more than 200 countries and territories and a customer base of about 80,000 organizations, including most of the Fortune 100. Its identity verification combines document, data, liveness, and biometric checks inside a single workflow.

Source: fadv.com