SafestHires, Inc, a leading employment background checks and drug testing company co-founded by three US Navy Veterans announced today that it has been selected as a preferred background screening vendor by Buzz Franchise Brands, a fast-growing multi-brand franchising company that builds companies that get people talking.
With a primary focus on providing quality home services, the Buzz Franchise Brands family is made up of four brands, including Pool Scouts, a residential pool cleaning and maintenance provider, Home Clean Heroes, a residential cleaning brand, British Swim School, a swim instruction franchise that provides swim lessons and water survival skills to kids of all ages, and most recently, Wonderly Lights, offering premier holiday lighting installation.
“We’re always looking for ways to make hiring easier for our brands,” said Buzz Franchise Brands COO and President Brian Garrison. “SafestHires does incredible work helping employers staff their companies with the most qualified candidates. In addition to their award-winning user-friendly platform and compliance-focused approach, we really like that they are veteran-owned and that they donate 5% of their profit to Breast Cancer research,” he said.
“At SafestHires, we live by our vision to make every hire the start of a success story, and that sentiment is the cornerstone of our partnership with Buzz Franchise Brands,” said Andrew Andersen, co-founder and President, SafestHires. “Our partnership creates a more streamlined and efficient hiring experience for franchises, benefiting our clients and their candidates.”
This year, Buzz Franchise Brands was honored as a Top Workplace of 2023 by Inside Business. The Top Workplace accolade is the “gold standard of employer recognition” as it is completely based on employee feedback. In addition to their core brands, they recently partnered with private equity firm Audax Private Equity (“Audax”) on a passive investment in Medi-Weightloss®, a nationally recognized weight-loss franchise committed to fighting obesity and changing lives.
Here are the standard packages and pricing for the franchises. If a custom package is required, just ask and we can accommodate you.
Franchise Package w/ MVR: $34.95
- SSN Address Trace / Alias Search
- 7 Year County Criminal Search – Based on
SSN Trace Address History - Nationwide Criminal Database Search
- Sex Offender / Gov Watch Lists Search
- Federal Crimes Search
- MVR (Driving Record)
Franchise Package – No MVR: $29.95
- SSN Address Trace / Alias Search
- 7 Year County Criminal Search – Based on
SSN Trace Address History - Nationwide Criminal Database Search
- Sex Offender / Gov Watch Lists Search
- Federal Crimes Search
We do not automatically order alias names for you. We make this optional. If you want the background check run on any alias names, you can add these to your order if you want to.
Let’s define what an alias name is.
One of the searches in your package is called the SSN Address Trace. This search is used to determine if the applicant’s name and SSN match, and if there is a match, this search reveals to us your applicant’s residential address history.
This enables us to run a county criminal search in the counties where they have lived, dating back seven years.
The SSN Address Trace pulls information from credit headers – a section of a person’s credit file where the name and address info is stored, as well as utility providers, retailers and lenders.
Alias names are “other names” that appear because of how the person’s name was entered by a creditor, such as a lender, credit card company, etc. when that person’s credit card or loan or utility account was created.
In most cases, an alias is the same name as your candidate, but with a slight variation in the spelling. Perhaps the first or last name is spelled differently by one or two letters or perhaps the middle name or initial is factored in. Or maybe it’s just that the sequence differs, like first, middle, last or last, middle, first.
If any of these scenarios applies, we would say DO NOT order these aliases because it will be your candidate and ordering the aliases will only delay the report and incur additional cost while producing the same results.
If the entire first name or last name is completely different from your applicant’s name, then it would be worth it to run the alias just to make sure your candidate is not trying to game the system with a fraudulent name. The other scenarios with a completely different first or last name is the person may have recently changed their name (maiden to married or vice versa, or possibly some other reason for a legal name change) or it might be that they incorrectly entered the SSN by even one digit, and rarely, it might even be a case of identity theft.
So just to recap:
> We do not automatically run alias names
> We give you the choice to run alias names if you want to
So just to recap:
> We do not automatically run alias names
> We give you the choice to run alias names if you want to
Criminal Record Verification and Third-Party Fees
Some courts charge us a fee to access criminal records. If this happens, we will cover the fee and add it to your invoice. You can view court fees here. Also, every state charges a fee to access a driving record. You can view these fees here.
To maximize FCRA compliance for you (and us) regarding accuracy, we now automatically verify any criminal record hits from criminal database searches with a county criminal or statewide search from the reporting jurisdiction, and then we only report these results and not the criminal database results. This is because criminal databases are not always the most accurate information source. They can be a good leading indicator but the results must be verified with the criminal record on file at the courthouse.
CareerPlug
Many Buzz franchise owners use CareerPlug. We are not directly integrated with CareerPlug but there are still easy ways you can initiate a SafestHires background check order from inside CareerPlug. One option would be to create a Background Check Form in the Onboarding module. We can supply the language for this form and the link your candidate will click, which takes them into our portal. They will enter the info we need to collect to run the background check, view their legally required disclosures and electronically sign their authorization form. We then email you the completed report. And you would have login credentials to our system to view progress, implement adverse action, view and pay invoices, etc.
You can also add custom “Steps” to the onboarding workflow, which may not be a form, per se, but still provides them with instructions to complete their background check. We can provide the instructions and the link to our portal.
You can also set up a custom background check email message in CareerPlug. We can supply the language for the email message, including the link to our portal. When you are ready to order the background check, you would simply trigger the sending of this custom email message.
If you want to learn more, please book an intro call with us here.