GoodHire is a high-quality service for screening potential employees, but the platform can be expensive for small businesses that only need to run a few searches.
Background checks are one of those ‘Necessary evils’ of modern society that employers use out of necessity these days. After all, it is a lot easier to do some due diligence upfront, rather than having to deal with the consequences afterwards. A thorough background check is an important step to vetting a potential candidate prior to the hire, which is particularly important when the position that is being recruited for has financial responsibility, or other sensitive information. Few organizations can do background checks on their own, as they can’t devote the resources to it, and therefore the vast majority outsource this critical step in hiring to an outside vendor. This is where GoodHire comes in that can take on these background checks, with an enviable track record for a fast turn around with a high degree of accuracy. No worries with GoodHire as you are in great company. GoodHire, which is based in Redwood City, California, and indicates that among the over 100,000 firms that it works with over 65K searches monthly are households that include Renewal by Anderson, SelectQuote, Parts Authority and DraftKings. GoodHire prides themselves on accurate results. This includes a low error rate of less than 0.1% mistakes, defined as the individual disputing the results of the background check. These results are also obtained quickly, with over 90% of criminal background checks providing results on under 1 minute. This company indicates that it is a technology company at its core. This shows through on its well polished interface that is designed from the ground up to foster an “Intuitive, paperless workflow.” It has a dashboard that can provide Status Alerts, with a number of records found for review. There are also categories across the top that include Clear Results, Results with Alerts, Awaiting Info, Missing Info, and Results Processing that makes it a snap to assess the progress of the background checks on candidates. GoodHire is extremely easy to use, both to initiate a background check and to evaluate the results.
