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HireRight

Score8.7 out of 10

79 Reviews and Ratings

What is HireRight?

HireRight is a background screening solution designed to support international and multinational organizations, as well as small businesses. It can function as a standalone product, or integrate with other ATS products with broader recruitment features.

Categories & Use Cases

Background check software that every organization needs.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is always important to have a background checkable platform. I love that it's easy to use, employee registration is easy, all you need is the name and email address, select the service and send it. It works well for US-based employees who have never lived or studied in any other country.

Pros

  • Customer service is very useful and we get a swift response from them.
  • It is integrated with our workflow so its easy to set up.
  • It creates a record of each employee in the system which makes it simple to store data safely.

Cons

  • Sometimes the drug testing results came off however its a minor bug that can be improved with update.
  • During a background check when we the customer representative change in between calls we need to start from scratch again.
  • It's UI is little bit out dated.

Most Important Features

  • HireRight's extensive ATS integration portfolio makes the recruitment pipeline very attractive.
  • It provides end to end solutions to hiring.
  • Application tracking background check reduces a lot of time in hiring process.

Return on Investment

  • Productivity has been improved as it takes less time in hiring process.
  • It is easy to store applicant records safely.
  • The cost to company has been reduced.

Alternatives Considered

GoodHire

Other Software Used

GoodHire, Checkr, Accurate Background

HireRight Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use HireRight when we are looking into hire new employees for our organization. HireRight allows us to keep a running database of all our potential candidates and keep real time tracking of all notes on the prospective employee as well as get updates on the process from first interview to full employed.

Pros

  • Decreased wait time in hiring
  • Faster background check times
  • Real time updates to status of checks

Cons

  • More integration with other applications
  • Ability to sign documents within the application
  • Trying to find some information on metrics is difficult

Most Important Features

  • Updates to status of background check
  • Access for all employees
  • Support available at all times

Return on Investment

  • Decreased hire times so employees in field faster
  • Decreased cost in background check expenses
  • Increased efficiency for HR

Alternatives Considered

BambooHR

Other Software Used

ADP Celergo, NetSuite ERP

HireRight performs as advertised

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

HireRight is a partner in our industry that keeps us in compliance with our state and government projects we work on. HireRight performs all pre-employment and random drug free screenings and background checks that assists us in having the right employees for the projects we work on. Many of our projects are public works and/or government led where these employees have to meet certain standards for employment.

Pros

  • Drug free and background checks
  • Quick turnaround of data
  • Partner with other companies for compliance

Cons

  • Contact person for issues

Most Important Features

  • Drug Free testing
  • Background checks
  • Government compliance

Return on Investment

  • Compliance allows government projects
  • Employee safety and less down time
  • Employee trust knowing that our company promotes safety

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise, Adobe Acrobat, Navisite Productivity and Collaboration (Microsoft Office 365 and MDM)

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

HireRight makes us easy for us to collect the data that we need from prospective new hires, from an HR perspective it does a lot of the HR elements for us. It notifies us as potential candidates upload their personal information, it also allows us to quickly verify their background with the different collection data agencies, we actually have a virtual of the software that allows HireRight to automatically check online resources versus the data that the candidate has sent us that has sped up our hiring processes by over 30% percent.

Pros

  • Easy to send out to candidate
  • Easy integration with current HR portal
  • Very short learning curve

Cons

  • Needs a function for re-hires especially in contract roles

Most Important Features

  • automation
  • ease of use
  • ease of use for candidate

Return on Investment

  • sped up our background checks by 30%
  • saved us 20% over what we paid last year on a similar product

Alternatives Considered

Equifax Verification

Best BGC platform for Pre Employment Background check

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We mainly work with State of Ohio and Hireright is the only approve BGC companies for State of Ohio Background check .We are using since a while for BGC purpose and it’s very easy to initiate and result will automatically shared with MSP partners once BGC completed.we can do employment check through Hireright easily

Pros

  • Employment check
  • Criminal check
  • Urine test
  • SSN track

Cons

  • Sometime time taking
  • High costly
  • Integration to Vectovms

Most Important Features

  • Criminal check
  • Employment check
  • Urine check

Return on Investment

  • Cost friendly
  • Less time taking
  • Easy to initiate
  • Customization

Alternatives Considered

VectorVMS

Other Software Used

VectorVMS, Beeline Extended Workforce Platform, Microsoft 365, Oorwin, LinkedIn Jobs, Indeed Hiring Platform