Employment Verification

Employment verification is a background check that confirms a candidate’s work history by contacting their former employers. This check verifies job titles, dates of employment, and occasionally, additional details such as roles or responsibilities. In practice, ScoutLogic reaches out to each workplace submitted into our system to verify that the person actually worked there in the capacity they claimed, thus providing you with an accurate record of their employment history.

Hiring someone without verifying their work history can lead to role misalignment at the least, and at most, expose your company to significant risk.

Studies have shown that a large percentage of job seekers have misrepresented information on their resumes, and nearly one in three Americans admits to lying on a resume or cover letter. Employment verification through ScoutLogic helps you catch these discrepancies before it’s too late.

Ensure candidate honesty. Verifying past employment helps you avoid candidates who have inflated titles or fabricated job duties, preventing unqualified hires.

Hire qualified talent faster. By confirming a candidate’s experience meets your requirements, you can move forward quickly and with confidence.

Protect against negligent hiring. Employment verifications create a documented trail that demonstrates due diligence in vetting each hire and can help circumvent negligent hiring claims.

Ensure compliance. Certain regulatory frameworks encourage or require verifying employment history, and employment verification helps ensure you’re meeting these compliance obligations.

Our approach is high-touch, efficient, and yields industry-leading accuracy.

97% verification completion rate. ScoutLogic achieves this stellar completion rate by overstaffing our verification team and measuring our Scouts on completed verifications, not just attempts. Other providers will attempt to verify an employer three times, then mark it as “unable to verify.” We make as many attempts as necessary to provide you with the information you need throughout our standard fulfillment process. Our “unable-to-verify” rate is less than 10%, meaning you get far more complete reports.

Dedicated verification specialists. Your dedicated Scout becomes familiar with your company’s needs and the context of each check, then they personally handle the calls, emails, or faxes needed to verify a candidate’s employment. This personal ownership leads to faster turnaround times and higher-quality results.

Direct & transparent process: If a former employer uses a third-party verification service, ScoutLogic will go through that service without adding any markup to the pass-through fee – you pay only the required fees for external databases. If no third-party service is available, our team verifies manually by reaching out directly.

Faster hiring decisions. By incentivizing our team to complete the entire background report quickly (rather than in siloed steps), ScoutLogic returns background check results faster than the competition. We also proactively notify you of any delays or issues during an employment verification, so you’re always informed.