Employee Screening Services

Paychex Employee Screening Services can help your businesses find the best candidates, save time and money, and enable you to hire with more confidence. Plus, with the Paychex Flex® Hiring integration you can recruit, screen, and hire employees from the same platform, then once they’re onboarded, pay them, too.

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What are Employment Screening Services?

Employment screening services can provide additional information about a candidate’s background to help reduce some of the worry in the decision-making process.

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

A business owner looking at a new employee's background check

Hire Safer with Background Screening

Learn about a candidate’s job history, qualifications, and experience with our background check services that can include criminal background checks to help you hire potentially safer employees.

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 caught otherwise.

Compliance-Friendly

Paychex Employee Screening Services comes with HireRight’s Compliance Workbench, which can provide alerts when certain types of criminal or drug screening are disallowed because of ban-the-box legislation.

Get Quick Results When You Need Them Most

Quality candidates are highly sought after, so getting back results quickly so you can make a decision makes a big difference. Our Applicant Center easily allows candidates to upload any required documentation, plus our mobile-friendly verification platform helps save time on administration and minimize data errors.

Get Secure Access to Results

For a background check, candidates sign a release and share their Social Security Number to allow the employment screening services to look for a criminal record, educational records, and more. Repay that trust by demonstrating how much you value what’s important to individuals their private information. Paychex has partnered with HireRight®, whose industry-leading technology includes safe and secure transactions via an SSL-encrypted website.

Elevate Your Employment Screening Program

When you’re ready for the next level of background checks, Paychex Employee Screening Service delivers comprehensive, fully customizable solutions to meet your evolving needs. So, you can have peace of mind while you focus on building your business.

Consider your Company’s Reputation

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

Because hiring is so crucial, Paychex offers multiple subscription packages for its employee screening service. A subscription offers two key benefits: it allows your business to plan more easily and budget; and it features a built-in discount over a-la-carte pricing.

Consider Other Tools to Enhance Employee Onboarding

Your employees need to know workplace policies, safety regulations they must follow, and much more.

A business owner creating an employee handbook

Employee Handbooks

Maintaining and updating your employee handbook can help protect your business from potential penalties and non-compliance with employment laws.

OSHA and Safety Programs

Your employees should understand from their onboarding experience what they’re required to do to help maintain safety in the workplace. A safety program from Paychex can help your business with OSHA compliance, and we’ll also help conduct 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, provide the required forms, and utilize other tools to create a proper introduction to your business policies and culture.

Recruiting and Applicant Tracking

Using the power of recruitment software and applicant tracking that automates the process can save you time by simplifying tasks and improving communication. It can also potentially save you money by lowering the cost per hire.

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 look at a potential employee’s background once a conditional job offer has been made and accepted. This can help give employers the confidence that they have made the right choice.
What is included in a background check?
What is included in a background check?

A background check may involve searching and verifying the candidate’s job history, qualifications, experience, education verification, and reference check. There are additional options for a more-thorough check not usually considered part of a general background check. They include searching the national criminal database, Social Security Number verification, national sex-offender registry, motor vehicle reports, and more.
Why are employment background checks important?
Why are employment background checks important?

Background checks may benefit employers in many ways, including verifying candidate qualifications, a potential reduction in employee turnover (and the related costs of making a bad hire), and limiting exposure of the business to claims of negligent hiring practices.