Employee Screening Services and Background Checks

Paychex Employee Screening Services can help your business find qualified candidates, save time and money, and help you hire with more confidence. Plus, with the Paychex Flex^® Hiring integration you can recruit, screen, and hire employees from the same platform. And once they’re onboarded, Paychex Flex makes it easy to pay them.

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What Are Employment Screening Services?

Employment screening services help confirm applicant background information to help increase confidence in your candidate selection during the hiring process.

Background checks
Drug testing
Quick turnaround
Secure, 24/7 access to results

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Benefits of Employee Screening With Paychex

Background Checks
Drug Testing
Compliance Workbench
Quick Turnaround
Secure Access to Results

Hire Confidently with More Information

Learn more about a candidate’s job history, qualifications, and experience with our background check services. Our services also include the option for criminal background screening checks.

Conduct Drug Testing

Creating a drug-free workplace starts during the pre-employment screening process. A 2019 Employment Screening Benchmark Report from HireRight® revealed that 71% of organizations uncovered issues during a drug screen that they wouldn’t have been aware of otherwise.

Compliance-Friendly

Paychex Employee Screening Services comes with access to HireRight’s Compliance Workbench, which can help employers stay informed about state restrictions related to criminal background screening and drug testing.

Get Quick Results When You Need Them Most

Working both efficiently and with urgency are important when attracting and assessing job applicants — especially in a tight labor market. Our Applicant Center allows candidates to easily upload required documentation. Plus, our mobile-friendly verification platform helps save time on administration and minimizes data errors.

Get Secure Access to Results

For a background check, candidates must sign a release and share their Social Security number. It's important to build on that trust by demonstrating that you value keeping applicants' private information secure. That's why Paychex offers this service through HireRight whose industry-leading technology includes safe and secure transactions via an SSL-encrypted website.

Elevate Your Employment Screening Program

When you’re ready to conduct background checks, Paychex Employee Screening Services deliver comprehensive, customizable solutions to meet your evolving needs. With these solutions, you can have peace of mind while you focus on productivity improvements and building your business.

Consider Your Company’s Reputation

A mistake in hiring due to a lack of proper pre-employment screening could cost you more than just the time you spent recruiting, interviewing, and training an individual. There can be financial implications, liability issues, and potential damage to the reputation of your business. Our thorough services can help you save more than just money.

Paychex offers multiple subscription packages for its employee screening service. A subscription allows your business to plan and budget for screening services and offers a discount over a-la-carte pricing.

Consider Other Tools To Enhance Employee Onboarding

Employees need to know workplace policies, safety regulations they must follow, and much more. Paychex Flex Hiring can help you to ensure all of this company-specific information is available for new employees, consistent, and housed in a central online location.

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Employee Handbooks

Maintaining and updating your employee handbook can help protect your business from potential penalties and non-compliance with employment laws. Keeping handbooks up to date can also help current and new employees understand rules and regulations pertinent to your business.

OSHA and Safety Programs

When it comes to safety, employees need to have a clear understanding of your requirements to help maintain safety in the workplace. A safety program from Paychex can help your business with OSHA compliance and employee training.

Employee Onboarding Services

Eliminate stacks of paper and reduce first-day jitters with our Employee Onboarding Services. With an online experience that can be completed on any mobile device, employees receive required forms and access to other tools to introduce them to your business policies and culture.

Recruiting and Applicant Tracking

By using the power of recruitment software and applicant tracking, automated processes can save you time by simplifying tasks and improving communication. It can also potentially save you money by lowering your cost per hire.

Employee Benefits Administration

Once eligible, employees can learn about, enroll in, and manage their benefits online — participating in open enrollment, making updates to personal plan information, and changing contribution amounts.

Employee Training

Demonstrate your commitment to growth and professional advancement by offering employees convenient online training. Our learning management system includes topics such as business skills, employment laws, and health and safety.

Paychex Employment Screening FAQs

What Is a Paychex Employee Screening Services Background Check?
What Is a Paychex Employee Screening Services Background Check?

A Paychex Employee Screening Services background check can be conducted following a conditional job offer that has been made and accepted. This can help give employers the confidence that they have made the right choice.
What Is Included in Background Check Services?
What Is Included in Background Check Services?

A background check may involve searching and verifying the candidate’s job history, qualifications, experience, education, and references. There are additional options available for a more thorough check depending on your business needs, regulations, and requirements. These include searching the national criminal database, Social Security number verification, national sex-offender registry, motor vehicle reports, and more.
How Can Employment Background Checks Benefit an Employer?
How Can Employment Background Checks Benefit an Employer?

Background checks help verify candidate information and qualifications and can potentially reduce employee turnover and the related costs of making a poor hire. Additionally, they can help limit the exposure of the business to claims of negligent hiring practices.
What Is the Most Common Background Check for Employment?
What Is the Most Common Background Check for Employment?

Depending on where your business operates and the nature of the position, many types of employment background checks may be available for employers. Among the most common ones include identity verification, reference checks, criminal history search, credit reports, driving record checks, and fingerprint background checks.
How Do Companies Verify Employment History?
How Do Companies Verify Employment History?

When an employer plans to extend a job offer to a job candidate, they will often conduct an employment history verification with the candidate’s consent. This process involves contacting each workplace listed on the person’s resume. The purpose of this step is to confirm that the applicant was employed there, check what the applicant's job title was while there, and verify their dates of employment. In most cases, previous employers may not share sensitive information, such as health data or the candidate’s salary and earnings history.