Canadian Background Screening Services

The Background Screening division of Kroll provides organizations all over the world with a wide range of screening services that help them make empowered decisions and mitigate potential risks. The information we supply our clients helps them make informed choices in critical areas like employment, vendor selection, identity theft prevention and assistance, business decisions, and investment placement. From traditional background checks to specialized searches, Kroll’s products and services can be tailored to meet the needs of any organization.

Kroll's core specialty is helping you verify the backgrounds and resumes of potential new hires, by detecting potential risks such as resume fraud, criminal convictions, and past terminations. For more than 30 years, Kroll has researched job candidates at all levels, from Fortune 500 managers to entry-level personnel.

Our Canadian office has more than 15 years of experience in providing such crucial background screening services, serving a portfolio of global, national and regional clients including financial institutions, insurance providers, healthcare organizations, staffing agencies, hotel and resort chains, and security firms. We have an in-depth understanding of procuring background information in Canada, searching primary sources (including electronic resources), verifying resume data through contact with academic institutions and employers, and conducting interviews with a job candidate’s professional references.

Kroll's Canada office can provide the following background information on your job applicants:

• Detailed Criminal Record /Indication of Pending Charges Search
• Indication of Criminal Record/Pending Charges searches
• Credit Report
• Education and Employment Verifications
• Professional Licenses and Certification Verification
• Reference Interviews
• Driver Record Abstracts (except Alberta)
• Civil and Bankruptcy Record Searches
• Lien Search
• Internet and Media Presence
• Regulatory Body Search (industry-specific)
• International Financial and Political Sanctions Search (WorldCheck)

Kroll fully understands that in background screening, accuracy is critical. As a result, Kroll has implemented our comprehensive Quality Assurance strategy, allowing us to maintain a more than 99 percent accuracy rate on the information we provide our clients.

Canadian Presence, International Reach

Based in the multicultural city of Toronto, our diverse staff of more than 80 employees is not only sensitive to cultural nuances, but is fluent in numerous languages, including English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Cantonese, Tamil, Punjabi and Japanese. We can also provide reporting in both official Canadian languages. These language capabilities and understanding of cultural protocols are supplemented by a network of offices, which works with us to provide background screening around the world.

Kroll can help domestic organizations check, verify, and uncover information relating to candidates who have lived, worked, or studied abroad. We can also assist those organizations with various international locations develop and implement a global screening solution. Kroll is well-versed in country-specific regulations that govern access to information about individuals, providing our clients with compliant reports.

Other Services

In addition to providing pre-employment background screening, Kroll also offers a wide range of other services designed to protect your reputation and mitigate potential risk. For example, we can assist organizations with investment-related due diligence by examining both corporate entities and individuals to generate public record dossiers.

Kroll can also help you verify capabilities and integrity of potential and existing vendors – both business entities and key vendor employees. Also, our Fraud Solutions unit helps protect organizations, their employees, and clients against breaches that can put private information at risk. These identity theft prevention and recovery programs lead the industry.

How We Deliver Our Services

Kroll has pioneered a secure Internet-based system that collects information on job candidates and provides clients with ongoing project updates. Our proprietary interface is designed for ease of use and scaled to meet each client's unique screening needs. When Kroll's research is partially complete, you can access the findings at a password-protected Web site. You will also receive notification when the report is complete.

Kroll is focused on finding solutions to minimizing the burden on your in-house personnel to manage your screening programs. Our Applicant Submission tool allows job candidates themselves to fill out a detailed questionnaire online and submit it securely to Kroll, bypassing the need for data entry on the part of your employees. We are also committed to automating human resource-related data exchanges. We have successfully integrated with Human Resource Information Systems, applicant tracking systems, and our clients' own customized recruiting software.