Background investigation is an extensive process largely done with an intention to cross check against criminal records, commercial records and financial records of an individual or an organization. Such type of investigation is mainly requested by the employers as the part of their employee screening process. Although, it is necessary for all the employees, but employees who designated on sensitive profiles, for them it becomes mandatory.

A company's reputation may be put on stake if any of its employees caught in any type of fraudulent activity. Such employees not only ruin the reputation of the company but they can also become the reason of business loss. Hence, it becomes mandatory for the companies to make sure they are hiring quality employees, not only in terms of skills but the character as well. It is important for the organization to assure that their workforce is safe and secure and their employees are not indulged in any wrong activity.

It has been observed through the study that sometimes the credentials provided by the potential employee to their employer differ from the actual record. Sometimes the differentiation could be minor while at occasion it could be awfully fraudulent. Like, if the potential employee was indulged in any criminal case in the past, then obviously he/she will not disclose such sensitive information to his/her prospective employers. May be he/she got a clean chit from the authorities, but hiding such sensitive information could badly cost a company in terms of losing lucrative business deal.

Most of the employers evaluate the employees on the parameters of his/her qualification, character, fitness, address check etc. They investigate the employee on primary level, as it is not possible for them to indulge in deep investigation because it requires additional manpower who is well equipped to carry out such task and extra recourses. This could be a costly exercise especially for small to mid sized organizations.

To help such organization, these days there are various organizations private as well as government which offer criminal background check service on nominal charges.

Background screening is an important exercise not only in measuring potential employees but it is helpful in the cases like identity theft, invasion of privacy or catching any other illegal activity. Background screening companies are quite smart. They swung in to the action without letting know the employees. They take all the measures to make sure that employee either current or prospective is not aware with the ongoing screening process. Sometime, they remain careful that employees self respect should not be harmed.

Generally, such organizations have team of experts who have knowledge and acumen pertaining to the investigation. They are well equipped to carry out the task silently. They just not rely on the resource provided by the client to carry out investigation, instead they create their own resources to unearth the truth. They truly understand the sensitivity of such issues. If they found anything spurious, they informed about it to their client confidentially.