Residence Verification
An address verification or residence history search makes your background screening more comprehensive and accurate. It’s a valuable procedure that complements your criminal record search by identifying additional jurisdictions that have to be included in the background checks for job applicants, employees, volunteers, and tenants, among others.
Candidates may write down their current and previous residential addresses on the resume or application forms, but this may not be all of their previous addresses within a span of seven years. Residence verification basically validates the address information that has already been obtained or provided by the candidate. But more importantly, the verification process also reveals additional addresses and names or aliases that should be further checked for possible records of criminal activity or history.
A comprehensive verification of addresses is conducted through a variety of sources, such as the following:
Postal change of address requests
Credit report information
SSN verifications
Other benefits of address history search include:
Protecting your company’s assets and sensitive data against people who are not who they say they are
Reduce the risk of exposure to negligent hiring claims
Maintaining a team of employees with good character and morals by being wary of candidates who are not honest with their information
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You can trust SimpliVerified to perform employment screening for your business, as we’re PBSA-accredited, which represents the gold standard for the background screening industry. We also work quickly to ensure you’ll have the correct information before making the wrong hiring decision.