You’ve offered jobs to candidates outside the United States. How do you quickly and efficiently check their backgrounds, while making sure that your screening service complies with each country’s regulations? ADP^® has the answer, expanding its Background Screening and Selection Services from the United States to 166 countries around the world.

The need has never been greater, given that nearly 20% of Asia Pacific employees have some form of background discrepancy (Reuters^®, 2014) and 27% of employment verifications from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa uncover a discrepancy in education, employment, or professional history (Bloomberg^® BNA, 2014).

ADP's global preemployment background-screening solution offers:

• Comprehensive identification authentication
• Criminal background checks
• Employment, education, personal/professional and credential verifications
• Access to an array of additional public records and registries
• A single system for both domestic and global applicant and employee screening
• Workflows integrated with ADP platforms and services such as recruiting, tax credit services, and onboarding

"This development addresses two major conflicting issues in the talent markets today, the need to act quickly and decisively, and the need to mitigate risks and uncertainties," says Christa Degnan Manning, Senior Vice President, Global Workforce and Talent Strategies practice of HfS Research^®. She adds that, "ADP's expansion reflects the trend that companies want to partner more tightly with fewer service firms they trust to seamlessly support their workforces worldwide."

ADP began offering screening and selection services in the United States in 2001. Today, the company serves more than 120,000 clients of all sizes and completed more than eight million background checks in the United States last year alone.

The expansion of background screening services comes on top of ADP's move this past February to open a new "center of excellence" in Bucharest, Romania. That office will serve as a global delivery center for clients using ADP's Human Capital Management (HCM) services.

ADP already operates a shared-services center in Prague, Czech Republic, and last year expanded its presence in Barcelona, Spain, to support ADP Streamline^®, its global payroll and HR service. ADP Streamline is currently delivered to clients in 100 countries.