Finding out someone's past for employment purposes is incredibly important.
Not only is the information you find used in such delicate processes as employee screening, so you need to be sure that it's all correct and legitimate stuff that you find.
Background checks are basically where you find public details about someone, and then put all that data into a single report / file.
This background report contains everything from their financial history through to their birth details.
It's made up of all public information, which are stored in the likes of court houses and police stations all over the country.
The problem with employment background checks is that you need to be able to rely on the information 100%.
In the times before the Internet, background check companies used to have to find people's records by hand, and this was actually extremely hit-and-miss.
The information they came back with was often for all different people, and you could never be sure you had the correct details.
Now, with the Internet, things have thankfully become a lot cleaer and transparent.
Sites such as Public Records Pro allow you to type the person's name into their website, and it will then bring up all the details they have for that person.
This is great, because it allows you to see exactly who you're dealing with - giving you the reassurance to you having the correct details.
What's more, with these sites, you can actually search hundreds of millions of records, which means that you can search the entire bank of US public records in a matter of seconds.