It’s called “Information Age” and not without good reason. Everything’s so fast over the net, including collecting information; it’s hardly a flip of the screen and less than a second that is the time span before you get a few thousand results to any search. It’s truly amazing. When the target of your search is a person and his background; let’s safely say “instant” isn’t so far away from synonymous.

Let’s push things back ten years to give you a crisp comparative view of how things have gone from long documental procedures to the typing of a few words and the press of a button. A few years back, if your daughter was going around with a man and you’d want to know of his possible ‘marriage in the shadows’; it could give you a serious reason to get worried. If you were hiring a driver for the kids to reach school, verifying your driver’s identity and background could give you anxiety fever; while hiring a man for your office would require you to hire an HR professional just to be sure his credentials are all legitimate. Not really something the last generation can’t relate to, with crime on the rise, and not really any better a decade ago; it was all about security on both personal and professional grounds for the price of a lot of devoted time and expenses. Now, things really have changed.

I wanted to screen a few folks before my aunt hired him for her home catering business. As a delivery man, he would be visiting households, often with young kids or old people along; as that’s the majority of her clientele. I went over my options:-

The Coppers: Definitely a valid source, but the thought of waiting a week for results after a few hours of documentation and explanations would be a pain. It’s a choppy affair, even after considering my very valid point of investigation.

My Local Social Security Agency: A good go on resourcefulness, a bad choice for my wallet. An online writer doesn’t earn much, and the idea of coughing out $5 a search made me pale. After all, if my aunt rejected him, or something nasty turned out in his past, my very fund conservative aunt wasn’t bearing another $5 for the next screening.

The Internet with my cheap Broadband: A major Hit!!

I borrowed 10 dollars from my aunt (never to be returned) and got a $2 unlimited trial into a website that hosts a massive 200million records and set up a search. The six candidates she had me screen all turned out to be horrible choices; three had lied about their clean driving record, one has a pending sex offence and the other turned out to have a credit record almost as bad as the face he had in the picture at the Credit Office files. The last fellow didn’t even turn up on DMV files till I screened the archives to find a license that expired 6 years ago! I used the remaining 8 dollars on a beer and some crisps; took the job myself and get a few extra bucks to sustain me apart from this article writing show.

The reason I emphasized “instant” at the first paragraph was the inspiring part; the entire screening of the six people took me less than an hour, including the time I went to get the beer. It isn’t free, as it is never expected to be, but if you’re in need of regularly screening people and execute public background checks for your job; I would say you only need to type in the magic words into your internet browser and enter a search to start getting results. Choose a good site, pay an annual subscription (or longer) of about $25 and you’d save a lot of hours and the salaries of a few HRs in your process to accessing instant public background checks.

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