Keeping Students Safer Via More Comprehensive and Accurate Background Checks

Rita relates that Sterling offers a host of services that provides the robust screening that she and her team requires not only to enforce thoroughness of background screening among job applicants, but also to promote the safety of the students that Texas A&M serves.

“For example,” she explains, “we have what we call our Campus Programs for Minors, which are part of our University Youth Programs designed for students under the age of 18 who are not yet enrolled at Texas A&M. These include summer camps, some of which are athletic, while some are learning labs, and so on. Most of these programs are staffed by volunteers. So it’s essential that we have the ability to run solid background checks for all of our volunteers to make sure that we are keeping those students safe.”

In addition to comprehensive screenings, Rita says that another benefit of Sterling’s services that she saw very quickly was accuracy.

“One of the things that we found when we first went to Sterling is that we were getting better data,” she states. “We know this because there were things Sterling found that our other vendor didn’t. For instance, some previous background checks done by our other vendor had come up clean, but Sterling found older issues with some applicants that just weren’t being pulled on those original checks. Also, from our old vendor, we would get data for females when in fact it was males being screened…just lots of information that was not valid. I’ve never had that problem with Sterling. I can say that in the three years that we’ve partnered with Sterling, I have never found invalid data passed over to me.”