Integrations

Link Your Screening and Hiring Processes

If you’re looking for the most efficient way to manage your employee screening program in tandem with your current e-recruiting efforts, look no further.

AmeriaScan is an integration platform that enables the connection between AmeriaScan products and services and your organization’s applications and systems. It supports the delivery of AmeriaScan pre-integrated solutions for industry leading talent management suites, and through the AmeriaScan, provides components to support custom integrations with applications, and tools for securely transferring screening information to your systems. Complement your organization’s talent management suite, recruiting application and business system process with integrated background screening solutions using AmeriaScan

Maximize Talent Management Suites

AmeriaScan helps organizations manage their background screening program through industry leading talent management suites to offer greater visibility and control while accelerating the screening process. By establishing a single interface, AmeriaScan brings an unprecedented level of efficiency to the recruitment and hiring process and makes managing screening programs easier than ever before.

AmeriaScan is an enabling technology that dramatically reduces the effort associated with integrating applications and exchanging information with AmeriaScan products and services. This makes the integration of custom applications and creation of data feeds possible and enables the deployment of a single version of an application. AmeriaScan makes it faster and easier to to obtain maximum benefit from AmeriaScan Background Screening solutions. Key benefits include:

  • A seamless screening and hiring process
  • Secure transfer of screening information to systems
  • Consolidated user interfaces to streamline workflows
  • Consolidated business processes for greater efficiency
  • Do more with applicant information and screening results

Resources

FAQ (Frequently Asked Question)

1. What are the startup fees? What is the setup procedure?

No set up fees apply and accounts can be set up in minutes.

2. Is there a set amount of background checks I must order every month?

No! At AmeriaScan, we offer our clients flexibility. There are no monthly minimums.

3. How fast can I order?

Once you have set up your account, you can begin ordering immediately!.

4. What is the turnaround time?

Most of our searches will allow you to make SAME DAY HIRING DECISIONS!

5. What applicant information should I provide?

To initiate a background screening, you should provide the subjects full name, Social Security Number, and date of birth. To obtain MVR or credit information, you should also provide their address and drivers license number. In addition to this, if you require employment, education, or professional license verification, you must provide the relevant information.

6. Can one account have multiple users?

Yes!.

7. Are the reports emailed to me?

Yes. Reports can be emailed, faxed or viewed online.

8. Do I have to order your complete package, or can I order a la carte?

Our service packages are offered as one way of providing basic services to our clients. However, we do offer a la carte services to best serve your needs.

9. Can you provide batch processing during the seasons we may have a large surge in applicants?

Yes! Batch processing is available.

10. Do you provide drug screening?

Yes, Information about our drug screening services is available here

11. Does a live person answer the phone when we call?

Yes. Once you select AmeriaScan as your provider, you will be assigned a dedicated customer professional to handle your needs.

Compliance & Information Center

Using these forms and supporting info will help you run a legally compliant screening program. Of course, you should always consult experienced legal counsel to be fully compliant.

CRA Certified Technicians & Consultants

To help ensure our clients run a legally compliant screening program, members of our team who interface with customers are required to earn their FCRA Certification from the National Association of Professional Background Screeners.

Disclosure & Authorization Forms

When providing these forms to your candidate, you will need to start with the FCRA Summary of Rights followed by the FCRA Disclosure. Provide the FCRA Disclosure form as a stand-alone document, separate from any other forms. If your candidate lives in California, you must provide a California Investigative Consumer Report Disclosure in addition to the FCRA Disclosure. This must also be a stand-alone document, separate from all other forms.

Disclosure & Authorization Forms

Definitely Follow This Guidance From The EEOC

Definitely Follow This Guidance From The FTC

Legal

These links provide information to help guide you through various legal issues when using a consumer reporting agency such as AmeriaScan.

Using Consumer Reports: What Employers Need to Know

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Drivers Privacy Protection Act (DPPA)

Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)

A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act

Notice to Users of Consumer Reports: Obligations of Users Under the FCRA

Using Consumer Reports: What Landlords Need to Know

Using Consumer Reports: What Landlords Need to Know

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

Social Security Administration (SSA)

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

AmeriaScan is committed to protecting your privacy and the privacy of your applicants and employee. It is a AmeriaScan policy that company and personal information such as name, address, phone number, e-mail, and search results is kept private and confidential. We do not sell or rent your company or personal information to others. We use customer information only for the purposes of setting up your profile, delivering our service, enhancing the operation of our site, and administering our systems. We may use third parties to assist in delivering our employment background check service, to serve site content, or to help administer customer emails. In such cases, we only provide access to the information needed to do their job, and we require that they abide by our strict privacy policy.

When you visit our online web site, we may collect usage information, such as the URL you came from, your IP address and domain type (e.g., .com or .org, etc.), your browser type, the country, state and telephone area code where your server is located, the pages of our site that were viewed during a visit, and any search terms that you entered on our site. This information is used for internal purposes only and helps us to continually improve our web site and online service delivery.

Our focus on privacy and security is reflected in both our technology and the way we work.

We have built our entire system so that neither customers nor employees can access company, employee or applicant information without an appropriate password. In addition, we employ SSL data encryption when data is transmitted over the Internet, and have installed firewall’s to prevent external “hacking” into our system. We also periodically commission external security experts to attempt to gain unwarranted access to our system, to ensure that no security breaches exist. Our emphasis on privacy and security is equally reflected in the way we work. Each employee and all contractors of AmeriaScan receive a thorough background check. In addition, security training is part of every new employment orientation