Background & drug screening made simple for small employers.

Designed for employers with 1–50 employees

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About Us

Employment Background Check Provider for Small Employers

At The Screening Source, LLC, we help small businesses run fast, accurate, and FCRA-compliant employment background checks and drug screenings—without contracts or complicated systems. Our time-saving platform and à la carte pricing let you choose only the screenings you need, so you don’t overpay for unnecessary bundles or add-ons.

Partner with us to build your best team.

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Background & Drug Screening Made Simple

TRUST & CREDIBILITY

✔ FCRA-Compliant Screening
✔ No Contracts or Minimums
✔ A-La-Carte Pricing
✔ Over a Decade of Industry Experience


WHO WE SERVE

We specialize in employment screening for small businesses that don’t have large HR departments or enterprise budgets.

Our clients include:

  • Construction and Trades
  • Dental and Medical Offices
  • Financial and Professional Practices
  • Retail and Local Service Businesses
  • Growing Companies with small teams

If you’re hiring your first employee—or your twentieth—we’re built for you.

We specialize in employment screening for small businesses that don’t have large HR departments or enterprise budgets.

With transparent, a-la-carte pricing, you choose exactly which background checks and drug screenings to run. No long-term contracts. No minimums. No unnecessary add-ons.

WHY WE’RE DIFFERENT

No Bundles. No Waste. No Enterprise Complexity.

Large background screening companies sell bundled packages designed for enterprise HR teams. Those bundles often include services small employers don’t need—driving up costs.

We do things differently.

With transparent, à la carte pricing, you choose exactly which background checks and drug screenings to run. No long-term contracts. No minimums. No unnecessary add-ons.

You stay in control of:

  • How much you spend
  • What you screen
  • When you screen

SERVICES OVERVIEW

Employment Screening Services

Our screening services are delivered through a secure, easy-to-use platform built specifically for small employers.

  • Criminal background checks
  • Employment and Education Verification
  • Drug Testing Programs
  • Ongoing screening support

All screenings are conducted with compliance, accuracy, and turnaround time in mind.

Employment screening service overview including background checks, drug testing, driving records, and employment verifications for small employers.

Every background check and drug screening we provide follows Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requirements and industry best practices.

COMPLIANCE & CONFIDENCE

Every background check and drug screening we provide follows Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requirements and industry best practices.

We help small employers:

  • Stay compliant
  • Reduce hiring risk
  • Make informed decisions

—without needing legal expertise or an in-house HR team.


HOW IT WORKS

Get Started in Minutes

  1. Create your employer account
  2. Select the screenings you need
  3. Invite your candidate to complete their portion
  4. Review results securely

A quick setup call ensures you choose the right screenings and stay compliant. We’ll walk you through the best screening options in a short onboarding call.

Account setup

Join small employers nationwide who trust The Screening Source, LLC for simple, compliant background and drug screening.

Screen Smarter. Hire Confidently.

Join small employers nationwide who trust The Screening Source, LLC for simple, compliant background and drug screening.

Set Up Your Employer Account Today: Click Here


The Screening Source, LLC Earns Accreditation From BBB With An A+ Rating

July 2016 – The Screening Source LLC. has been awarded an A+ ratings by Marketplace Trust issuing company, BBB, solidifying their place as one of the “Premiere Background Screening Provider in the United States”.

Check Us Out on BBB: The Screening Source LLC | Better Business Bureau® Profile (bbb.org)

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FAQs

General

We’re designed specifically for small employers with 1–50 employees, including contractors, construction workers, dental and medical offices, professional practices, local service businesses, and growing teams that don’t have dedicated HR departments. Any small business, non-profit, or organization that is looking to onboard safe, reliable people.

To get started, simply complete the “START YOUR FREE ACCOUNT” form on the right side of this page. One of our dedicated background screening professionals will call you, introduce themselves and help you get started. It’s that simple!

Is the setup call a sales call?

No. The setup call is not a sales presentation. It’s a short, practical conversation focused on:

  • Understanding how you hire
  • Identifying which screenings you actually need
  • Helping you avoid unnecessary or non-compliant screenings

Our goal is to help you screen confidently and correctly from day one.

We can have you running your own background checks in 1-2 business days.

Between our automated system and the humans in our compliance team our results come back with some of the best turnaround times in the industry. A typical National Criminal Database search returns results in a few minutes.

At the beginning of each month, we email out invoices for the screening run the prior month. There are payment options on the invoice. We accept most forms of payment. (Direct ACH, Company Check, AMEX, MC, VISA). You only pay for the screenings ordered!

No. We do not require long-term contracts or minimums. You only pay for the screenings you run.

No

Security is a top priority and played a very important part in the design and development of our online background screening system. We pay close attention to high publicity threats such as viruses, denial of service attacks and other malicious activities over the Internet as well as to maintaining the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive application data such as credit reports, social security numbers and other personal identifying information.

Our programming/IT team uses the best, leading technology to secure our website and the environment in which it operates. This includes client authentication (Password controlled access), encryption of data, public-private key pair, firewalls, intrusion detection, filtering routers and data backups. Each of these components acts as a layer of protection to safeguard information from unauthorized users, deliberate wrongdoing and inadvertent loss.

Pre-employment background checks commonly include verification of identity, employment history, education credentials, criminal record, and occasionally credit history. The specific details checked may vary depending on the employer and the nature of the job.

An employment background check is a process where an employer investigates a candidate’s past to verify information provided on their resume or during the hiring process. This typically includes checking employment history, education credentials, criminal records, and sometimes credit history.

Employers

To start a background check, you will only need your candidate’s full legal name, email address and state the job is in.

Your candidate will receive a link to a secure site where they can provide the rest of the information we need: Social Security number, date of birth, and current home address. Our electronic consent process, with built-in e-sign, keeps the entire process quick, easy, and accurate.

Of course, you can collect the candidate information yourself, if you prefer.

The Screening Source is considered a Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) and therefore is mandated by the FCRA to comply with all FCRA guidelines, rules and regulations.

No, you have other options – you can submit the names to us via CSV spreadsheet file format. We will create a Batch Order for you. There is no additional charge for this service. Please contact us for more information.

Results are available on our secure, encrypted website, which you can access 24/7. There is no software to buy; it’s a free website offered exclusively to our clients. In addition, we can fully integrate your system with ours to eliminate any duplicate data entry.

We work with our clients to help determine the level of security they are seeking for a particular position. While you might want to check an applicant’s driving history, if that employee is not going to be driving for employment-related purposes, then it’s a waste of your resources.

The social security address trace report may NOT be used as the basis for adverse action. It is used to verify or correct information or as a tool for additional research. The social security address trace report does not signify someone’s eligibility to work in the US nor their immigration status.

Candidate

Different names may show up on an SSN report which means the applicant may have gotten married or just changed their name entirely. The most common reason for an unrelated name on the SSN Trace is due to data entry errors when entering SSN on any applications or documents. This does not mean that someone else is using the applicant’s SSN. A SSN report may show “NO RECORDS FOUND” which could mean the number was entered incorrectly, or the applicant has very little or no address history or the individual may have recently been issued their social security number.