Minnesota Background Checks

Minnesota’s workforce is diverse, skilled, and competitive, making it possible for employers to find exceptional candidates for nearly any role. But while résumés and interviews can tell part of the story, they don’t always provide important insights into a candidate’s history. That’s where background checks come in.

Employment screening is more than a step in the hiring process; it’s a proactive way to have the information you need to maintain compliance with your company’s policies and requirements and make more informed hiring decisions. By verifying the candidate’s credentials and identifying information that could potentially disqualify them for the role, Minnesota background checks help you hire employees that are eligible for employment and meet your organization’s criteria.

At Accurate, we design background check solutions that fit your hiring goals, whether you’re bringing in a single new hire or managing ongoing recruitment for an entire department. Our screenings can be completely tailored to your industry, business, and the specific requirements of any position.

In today’s hiring environment, speed matters, but so does accuracy. A thorough Minnesota background check can help you with all of the following:

• Verify that a candidate’s license or credentials are genuine
• Identify potentially disqualifying information
• Reduce turnover by making more informed hiring choices

Every company has different priorities. That’s why we help you select the screening components that make sense for your open positions, saving you time without sacrificing quality.

Minnesota employers can tailor their background checks to meet the specific needs and risk tolerance for each role they’re filling. Some of the most common components of a Minnesota background check for employment purposes include:

• AccurateReach: a tips and leads search that provides a national database search to help uncover more records than solely a search based on the candidate’s address history Criminal Background Check Services, including County, state, and federal criminal searches
• Employment history
• Education verification, including verifications of credentials and other certifications
• Professional license verification
• Motor vehicle driving history
• Sex offender registry search
• Government and healthcare sanctions

Every company has different priorities. That’s why we help you select the screening components that make sense for your open positions, saving you time without sacrificing quality.

Employers in Minnesota should stay updated on state and local regulations that may restrict how, and when, they can use information obtained through a background check for hiring decisions.

• Ban the Box: In Minnesota, employers may not ask job applicants about their criminal record until they’ve been selected for an interview or, if there is no interview, before a conditional job offer has been extended.
• Use of Criminal Records: The city of Minneapolis restricts employers from considering arrests that did not result in a conviction, except when a pending criminal matter is directly related to the position. Minneapolis has also made it unlawful to discriminate against individuals based on their justice-impacted status. However, employers may make an adverse employment decision as long as it reasonably based on the relationship between the conduct underlying the criminal history and the duties, responsibilities, capacity, and fitness required for the role. Any such decision should be evaluated using specific criteria.
• Marijuana Laws: Medicinal and recreational marijuana is legal in Minnesota, so employers should also review state marijuana laws and other relevant regulations to maintain compliance. Exceptions may apply to safety-sensitive roles or federally regulated positions.
• Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA): Under the FCRA, employers should provide proper disclosures and obtain written authorization before conducting a background check. The FCRA also requires employers to follow a pre-adverse and adverse action process if you plan not to hire, or rescind an offer, based (or partly based) on information in the background check.

Every company has different priorities. That’s why we help you select the screening components that make sense for your open positions, saving you time without sacrificing quality.

Accurate provides the tools and insights you need to make informed hiring decisions more easily, quickly, and reliably.

Whether it’s for a single position or larger recruitment efforts, we deliver results you can trust. Contact Accurate to learn how Minnesota background checks can help support your hiring goals.