Personal Reference Checks

Our Reference Checks & Similar Services

Global Data Fusion, LLC is pleased to provide a variety of reference checks and similar services for businesses and individuals. Examples of these services include employment verification, education verification and personal reference checks.

Here’s some information about each of these services and why Global Data Fusion is your best choice to provide them to you.

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Types of Verification and Reference Checks Offered:

Employment Verification

Employment history checks are a common part of the background checking process. There are some jobs that require a certain amount of experience in the field for hiring, especially when there are very technical or skilled aspects to the job in question. Without employment verification processes, a candidate could easily make up their qualifications based on prior work experience they did not actually have.

Employment verification checks ensure employers have all of the necessary information to work with when making their hiring decisions. This is important, considering that a 2012 SHRM study showed that approximately 53 percent of applicants occasionally falsify employment information on resumes and job applications.

Education Verification

For employers, verifying a job applicant’s education history is an important aspect of making sure the applicant is exactly who they’re representing themselves as. This is especially important for some fields that require an especially high level of education or training, such as in the medical field and other types of sciences.

Education verification checks confirm an applicant received a degree, certificate or diploma from an educational institution. This way, you don’t have to simply take it on faith that you are hiring people who are actually qualified for their jobs.

Checking an applicant’s education background is helpful for employers, but it is also a good idea to go beyond what’s written in a resume to get further insight into the character and capabilities of the applicant.

Most job applications require applicants to provide several personal references. These references tend to be colleagues, coworkers and mentors. Personal reference check services involve contacting those people to get a more in-depth sense of the applicant’s capabilities for the position and to learn more about their work history. These checks typically have a standard set of questions, but customers are also capable of developing their own questions they wish to be asked.

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Why Global Data Fusion, LLC Is Ideal for These Services

Whenever you’re going through the process of hiring a new employee, it’s important to get all the information you need to feel comfortable making a solid decision. Our company focuses on providing outstanding customer service every step of the way so you can make sure you’re getting thorough checks of your applicants’ backgrounds and that you’re able to quickly confirm that your applicants do have the credentials they claim to have, both in terms of their education and the positions that they’ve held in the past within your field, so you can efficiently move through the hiring process. As your business grows, we’re capable of growing with you so you can continually use our services as you hire new employees.

In addition, our staff provides the added service of analyzing all the information that comes back in the reports and weeding out anything that is irrelevant to what you’re looking for. Any discrepancies worth noting in these reports will be forwarded to you, but discrepancies that existed as a result of a simple data entry error, for example, would not be deemed worth your time.

For more information about each of these services and the benefits of working with our small, experienced team of professionals, contact us today and we’ll be happy to speak with you.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Here are some of the questions we most commonly receive regarding our sex offender checks:

Can I refuse to hire a sex offender?firefly-wp2019-07-15T16:54:36-05:00

Can I refuse to hire a sex offender?

There isn’t a clear-cut answer to this question. State laws generally have some limits with how employers can use convictions in their hiring and promotion decisions. But there are also negligence issues to consider when bringing in an offender into the workplace.
The general rule is that there must be a clear connection between the offense and the job the offender would be performing for you to use their status as an offender as a reason to not hire them. For example, if an offender committed a sexual crime involving a child, then you are more than justified in not hiring them to be in a position where they’d be supervising or interacting with children.
It can be a good idea to consult with an employment attorney if you’re wondering what responsibilities you have when making hiring decisions taking criminal history into account.

Do sex offenders have to notify their employers?firefly-wp2019-07-15T16:54:12-05:00

Do sex offenders have to notify their employers?

Sex offenders who are still on probation or parole or are actively in treatment may be required to inform their employers or potential employers as a condition of those programs. However, offenders who are not under any form of supervision or enlisted in any program are not legally required at all to inform their employer that they are listed on the sex offender registry, and there really isn’t much benefit to them in doing so anyway.
This is why it’s important for employers to be proactive in ordering these sex offender registry checks themselves if they wish to get this information before making hiring decisions. If they’re on the registry, it will be relatively easy to find them. But if you don’t check, don’t expect them to tell you during the application process.