In today’s economy, many employers and landlords will struggle through stacks of applications to find the perfect applicant. Narrowing down dozens of applicants to find the most qualified applicant for an available position or a reliable potential resident for an available property can become incredibly demanding. Luckily, our technology is rushing to keep up with this demand. The embedded QuickApp within the InstaScreen system allows you to invite an applicant to electronically sign and authorize a background check, fill out their own personal information and return it to us for processing. This process allows you to apply your valuable attention back to maintaining your business.
One issue that every employer should always have on his mind when it comes to staffing is compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. There are numerous examples of class action lawsuits with settlements in the millions of dollars against pizza chains, major banks and other employers. These lawsuits are for simple technical FCRA violations like including a release of liability in the same document as the FCRA Summary of Rights. Compliance with the FCRA also applies to collection of personal identifiers, ensuring that the information reported is complete and accurate (no room for data entry errors) and even organizing secure storage of authorizations. The QuickApp is a comprehensive aid in avoiding these issues entirely while simultaneously simplifying your application process.
Our built-in QuickApp includes default, fully FCRA-compliant disclosures for employment, tenant, and volunteer screening, including the Summary of Rights under the FCRA, notices for residents of California and New York, and the ability for the applicant to request a copy of the report. Any newly-released FCRA compliance updates are automatically added to our default disclosures before the required implementation date. Applicants’ completed QuickApp authorizations are stamped with the date, time, and IP address of the applicant and stored in a dropdown for access on the report results page at any time. If you have unique disclosure requirements or would like to make any modifications to our default disclosure language, we can make those changes on your behalf.
After reviewing disclosures and providing their authorization for the background check, applicants then proceed to completing the data entry on their own behalf. This means that any data needed for the background check, including their own personal identifiers, residence and employment history and any other required information is filled out and verified for accuracy by the applicant themselves. If you’d prefer to avoid any sensitive discrimination issues related to reporting of the applicant’s SSN or DOB, these identifiers can be completely masked once the order is submitted. Applicants can even be required to cover the cost of their own background check in a completely automated process which does not require any additional effort on your end.
If you have a stack of applicants in need of a background check, the QuickApp process supports batch ordering; upload an Excel file containing only the applicant’s name, e-mail address, and the searches you’d like to order and allow your applicants to do the rest. The QuickApp system is available for you to make your life simpler, by helping you to keep your application process compliant, avoid errors, and vet your perfect applicant, all in one.
This video is one of our clients, they mention how easy it is to use the quickapp:
