Warning - Not all background checks are the same

This is my public service message for today.

In today's world of quick everything, a background check is not a place where I personally want quick answers. Quick can in some cases hurt you (the end use consumer) when you are depending on someone else's word that they ran a background check.

Today I applied to get leads for my in-home service-based business, from a nationally known platform and as part of the application process they asked to do a background check on me as one of the owners. What shocked me though was that I received notice within 4 minutes that my background check returned as clear, and I was good to go. This background check was run by another nationally known company. Having run thousands of background checks myself I was completely shocked and dismayed that these results came back so quickly until I realized that they did not run for any local or state jurisdictions, these are the courts that see most of the actual crimes. They only ran for Federal (and I sincerely doubt that was done within the time frame of the returned return)

When I run a background check with a well-known and trusted company, it can take days to get the info back since each counties courts systems have to be checked where the person being screened has lived in the past couple of years. This takes time.

In my opinion, I will be leery of anyone saying they ran a background check now, I will dig deeper and ask with what company was the check run and were local courts checked? And I will advise anyone who hires someone to come into their home to perform services of any kind to do the same.

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