Gig Economy Background Checks You Can Trust

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An API Designed for Gig Platforms

Sterling has focused on providing a truly global API integration for gig platforms that is customizable to fit within existing workflows to help reduce turnaround times of background checks without sacrificing quality. Learn how Sterling's API helps hundreds of high-volume platforms everyday.
2023 Excellence Program

2024 Excellence Program Award

For the second year in a row, Sterling is proud to win the Marketplace Risk Solution Provider Excellence Program Award for Screening/Background Checks
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Serving All Gig Industries

We understand all gig economy companies have unique screening and identity requirements for their workforce. Sterling’s gig economy background checks can fit the needs within any gig industry. Don’t see yours listed? Contact us today to learn how we can help within your industry.
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We’ve Got Your Gig Industry Covered

In-Home Care

Whether your clients need help with a failed DIY project or require care for their children while working from home, trust and safety is their top concern. We’ve helped thousands of quality gig professionals onboard for:

  • Child care
  • Medical care
  • Pet care
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On-Demand Healthcare

Hospitals and medical practices are turning to on-demand healthcare workers to fill necessary gaps in their staffing needs. These roles include:

  • Office Admin
  • Techs
  • Nurses
  • Doctors
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At-Home Projects

Many home owners need assistance completing projects around their house and find help through a gig platform. Platforms include services such as:

  • Construction
  • Landscaping
  • Home Cleaning
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Driver and Delivery

Does your gig company rely on your workforce to drive their own cars? Whether it’s ridesharing or delivering groceries, Sterling’s background screening and identity verification services can meet your needs. Our screenings include Motor Vehicle Record checks. We support gig clients whose services include:

  • Ridesharing
  • Delivering groceries and carry out
  • Car rentals
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On-Demand Marketplace

Gig platforms service a wide variety of industries and need a background screening partner who can handle them all. Sterling’s On-Demand Marketplace serve:

  • Tutoring/Education
  • Staffing
  • Cannabis
  • Asset Sharing
  • Catering
  • Customer Service
  • Online Researching and Surveying
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Whether your clients need help with a failed DIY project or require care for their children while working from home, trust and safety is their top concern. We’ve helped thousands of quality gig professionals onboard for:

  • Child care
  • Medical care
  • Pet care
Explore Solutions

Hospitals and medical practices are turning to on-demand healthcare workers to fill necessary gaps in their staffing needs. These roles include:

  • Office Admin
  • Techs
  • Nurses
  • Doctors
Explore Solutions

Many home owners need assistance completing projects around their house and find help through a gig platform. Platforms include services such as:

  • Construction
  • Landscaping
  • Home Cleaning
Explore Solutions

Does your gig company rely on your workforce to drive their own cars? Whether it’s ridesharing or delivering groceries, Sterling’s background screening and identity verification services can meet your needs. Our screenings include Motor Vehicle Record checks. We support gig clients whose services include:

  • Ridesharing
  • Delivering groceries and carry out
  • Car rentals
Explore Solutions

Gig platforms service a wide variety of industries and need a background screening partner who can handle them all. Sterling’s On-Demand Marketplace serve:

  • Tutoring/Education
  • Staffing
  • Cannabis
  • Asset Sharing
  • Catering
  • Customer Service
  • Online Researching and Surveying
Explore Solutions

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How Much Can We Save Your Gig Business? Unhappy with your current ROI on background checks or curious about what we offer? For years we’ve helped gig businesses save on hiring the right candidates - without sacrificing quality.
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Scale Globally with Regional Expertise

Our proprietary technology delivers more reliable gig economy background check information to help build a quality workforce, quickly. Pairing our diverse integrations, local fulfillment platforms, and multi-lingual support teams, gig economy platforms can navigate cultural differences and regulations to make globalization easier on your developers, trust and safety teams, and your candidates.
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We Take Gig Platforms Further

For over 13 years, Sterling has focused on providing a truly global API that most of our competitors cannot offer, especially for their gig economy clients, making us one of the most trusted screening services for the gig economy. Our RESTful API connects your platform or third-party onboarding solution with Sterling’s background screening for gig economy workers service resulting in a seamless onboarding experience.

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We deliver on customer service. You will have a dedicated team that works exclusively within the background checks for the gig economy, providing years of professional experience and expertise to help your business run more efficiently. And because our team works from the start to build a meaningful relationship and comprehensive understanding of your platform, we are able to provide the type of support you need to attract the talent necessary to fill your open jobs.

For gig platforms, the ability to onboard high volumes of candidates quickly is crucial. Sterling has created a scalable service for gig economy background checks that effectively screens 90% of background checks in less than one day.

Get a full picture of a candidate’s background by pairing Sterling background checks with our identity verification services and achieve a more in-depth look into your applicant.

Services Tailored for Gig

While the specific screening needs of every organization differs, Sterling’s decades of experience can be leveraged to design the most appropriate solution for your business.
Criminal Background Checks

Getting a complete picture of a candidate’s criminal history is often more complex than people think. At Sterling, we make it easy for you to make fast, more accurate, and safer hiring decisions through a combination of robust services, solutions, and technology that allows us to:

  • Uncover more criminal activity
  • Gain direct access to more US criminal records
  • Deliver accurate results quickly
Criminal Background Checks
Pre-employment Verifications

Make sure you know who you’re hiring with the support of industry-leading pre-employment verifications backed by a powerful fulfilment engine. Sterling’s verification services deliver fast, detailed confirmations of a candidate’s educational background, job history, and other credentials so you can be confident in every new hire.

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Fingerprinting

Sterling offers fingerprinting services as a biometric check for identity purposes, and to screen candidates for employment and promotions. Sterling Identity offers a national network of hundreds of collection sites, certified with the FBI, AHCA, and NMLS to submit electronic fingerprints directly. Sterling’s fingerprinting services uses digital fingerprint capture technology that reduces rejection rates and speeds up processing time, with an average turnaround time of less than 24 hours.

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Identity Verification

Identity Verification is designed to help you mitigate risk through a simple process where candidates verify that the information they provided about themselves, such as their name and date of birth, is indeed their own. This allows employers to verify that candidates are in fact who they claim to be. In any situation where remote verification is needed, both accuracy and reliable technology play critical roles.

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Sterling API

Whether your organization is looking to onboard service providers as quickly and safely as possible or you use a proprietary HR platform, Sterling offers highly configurable API options with dedicated support to help you create a seamless brand experience. We provide our clients with:

  • Access to a robust suite of services
  • Global availability for sustainable growth
  • On-demand approach with progressive workflows
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Integrations

Increase productivity and profitability through a seamlessly integrated screening experience with HR tools you already use to manage your hiring process from start to finish. Here are some of our industry-leading partners:
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