Around a week ago I desperately needed to find out some personal information on a new employee of mine. To cut a long story short there were some issues with theft at my place of work and the fingers were pointed at our new employee.
A lot of evidence pointed towards the guy but there was no proof, we strongly suspected that he had lied on his application form and was in fact an ex criminal. After doing a bit of a search online I came across a service called Inteligator.
I signed up and chose the one month membership option and ran a full search on the employee's name. I was surprised at how many records were returned but I narrowed it down to his current city of dwelling. Once I found the exact person I was looking for I couldn't believe the wealth of information I had on offer! Inteligator gave me useful information on criminal records, court records, background checks, previous addresses and so on.
In hindsight I could have saved a lot of trouble by simply checking this guys records before hiring him, what I did find out about him is that he had previous convictions for shoplifting, theft and burglary. After confronting him about these and showing him what Inteligator had found on him he owned up to the thefts.
I was very impressed with what Inteligator had to show me and feel a lot more comfortable now about hiring potential employees. Once you sign up to a month's membership you can run as many searches as you like and the amount of records is somewhere in the billions apparently.
If you need to carry out a background check on anyone then check out the Inteligator site, don't make the same mistake I did!