Savannah Georgia Private Investigators

People think that background investigations are somehow all the same, or that they are all perfectly suited to one’s needs. This could not be further from the truth. The truth is that a background investigation is only as good as the sum of all of its parts, and the parts are critical.
This article is designed to provide a solid understanding of the different types of background investigations that are out there, and how to know what you are buying, but most importantly, how to choose the right one for you or your business.
There are:
Pre-employment Background Investigations – Basic, mid-level management and Executive
Employee Backgrounds and Credential Verification
Business Background Investigations – Basic, basic + D&B, complete, and in depth
Domestic Background Investigations – Basic, extensive, pre-marital, and other
Asset Background Investigations – domestic, business, counter-intelligence

So you can see that there are many types of background investigations to contemplate before you even look into what each one entails.
What is critical is knowing how the information is obtained for your needs. If you don’t know how it was determined where the subject has lived for at least the last seven years, or where the business originated, you could buy a background, expensive or inexpensive that is a complete waste of your time and your money.
Online backgrounds are a dime a dozen. We no longer keep count of the many online companies who promise this or that for as low as $14.95 or $24.95. If price is what you are after, happy hunting on the net. If the right information on the right entity from the right source is what you need, call a professional.
If what we did was really as simple as television and the internet and movies want you to believe that it was, we would not be in business.
If you or someone you know has ever been the victim of an incomplete or bad background investigation, you know the value of having it done right.
Doing it right involves pulling information from the right bureaus and then taking that information and conducting the appropriate searches to ensure that sensitive or critical information about your subject is not missed. It isn’t the information that you acquire that will hurt you or your company. It’s that one piece of information that you missed that will hurt you and/or your business in the end.
If you use an employment agency or temp-to-perm methods of employment, you must ask your agency exactly what they are referring to when they tell you that they run “backgrounds” on all of your hires. We work with employment agencies as well and know that their “backgrounds” are tailored to their clients’ specifications and often this means no criminal history is run on individuals at all before they are sent to the job. You must specify the elements of a sound background investigation for your needs.
We suggest no less than verification of name, date of birth, social security number, and a criminal history report for the past seven years at every reported jurisdiction of residence.
A simple background investigation involves little more than verifying that a person’s name, date of birth and social security number are accurate, as well as their address history. These take a short time and are very inexpensive.
A complete Pre-employment background investigation usually includes at least a seven year criminal history run on the individual in each location where they have lived for that period of time, in addition to the information in a simple background.
An Executive Background Investigation will include additional items deemed necessary for the client such as driving history, education verification, professional licensing or credentials, and mass media searches just to start.
Business, Domestic and Asset Background Investigations can be extensive or basic as well. These backgrounds are usually very tailored to fit the needs of the client and their cost varies widely dependent upon many things.
The cost of a search can depend on where it is run, whether it is a criminal history or a driving history. Costs vary from state to state and often from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
What clients and the public at large do not understand is that there are various databases used to create the same result, and they do not produce the same result. If information is obtained from a huge repository of information that is available to the public, it might not be a reliable database. You must know its source.
When buying information from companies online, and often from investigators, you are buying information that has already been sold to the person who sold it to you, and if they are not an information broker or an investigator, licensed to conduct searches, you are getting information that is generic in nature, and not pulled specifically with your search parameters in mind.
For example, if you search for a person you used to know and you go on line and put their name in and retrieve the answer from most online services, you are receiving nothing more than the first 10 to 50 or maybe even 100 names from a database which matched your criteria in name only. SO, you might be getting information on all of the John Does from Alabama, up to 50 total names. Your person may be in Wyoming, and you will never get it from that company.
The problem is that you don’t know where the information you are buying is being pulled from. Likewise, when you then take that information and try to run histories of possible criminal or civil activity on the individual, you don’t even know if you have the right one. Unless a name, date of birth and social security number have all been matched on that person, you don’t know what information you are getting, or on who.
Any company who claims to offer you everything you want to know on a person or a company is selling you a bill of goods for sure. “Everything” can not be searched on a person without certain consent forms for various searches in various states.
It gets quite involved and you should trust only a person or company you know will use the proper methods, conducting searches legally in your jurisdiction or another.
We conduct hundreds of background investigations every year for the purposes of employment or business engagement of some type.
We offer background investigation services to ensure that you know who you are doing business with or hiring.
With access to over 190 million consumer records, business sources, credentialing tools and other online and offline resources, we can research the background of a professional, check their credentials and determine if there are areas of concern to present for your decision making.
We search countless web sources for intellectual property, personal indicators and
records of consequence for your purposes.
A background investigation for you or your company can include but is not limited to the following: Driving histories, education verification, Criminal, civil court record checks conducted in federal, state and county, as well as municipalities and additionally, we will scan for professional disciplinary filings and securities regulatory actions.
Often, information that is vital to a complete background investigation can only be found when searched by hand in locations such as a local library. We take this method into account an utilize it when needed to complete the most diligent search for the client.
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Georgia clients should know this: Georgia is one of the most closed states in our country. Much information that is available in other states is not available readily, or in some cases legally in Georgia. Drivers Histories, Criminal Histories and Vehicle information as well as utilities are not legally available in Georgia without signed consent forms and utilities are never available legally without a subpoena.