How to Do a Background Check

Video Transcript

"You and your spouse, who have children together, may have decided that you want to hire a nanny or someone to come into your home to watch your children. And you want to make sure that you know as much about this person, as possible. And so you're interested in doing a background check, but you really don't know where to begin or how to start. Hello, I'm Robert Todd and I'm here to answer the question, how to do a background check on someone? The first thing you can do, if you don't know anything about doing background checks, is you can hire a service. There are many services listed on the Internet, listed in your local Yellow Pages, that do nothing but background checks. This can be expensive, but it can also be exhaustive searches and also be very costly. So if you want to try to do it yourself, the first thing you want to do, is get as much information about the person whose background is in question, as possible. Obviously, their name, their address, their date of birth, their Social Security number, their driver's license and number. Schools they have attended, not just the names of the schools, but the addresses. A list of employers for whom they have previously worked. The more current employers, the better. Obviously, the names and addresses and telephone numbers of those employers. And then of course, references. The more references, names, addresses and telephone numbers, the better. And then, you want to set about and check out every bit of this information. To make sure that it comports with the information that this perspective applicant has provided you. I'm Robert Todd and thank you for watching."