{"id":25494,"date":"2024-05-27T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.staging.certn.co\/?p=25494"},"modified":"2024-12-10T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T15:56:03","slug":"from-biometrics-to-blockchain-the-current-and-future-state-of-background-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.staging.certn.co\/anz\/blog\/from-biometrics-to-blockchain-the-current-and-future-state-of-background-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"From Biometrics to Blockchain: The Current and Future State of Background Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Enough with the paperwork. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certn is guided by the belief that background checks shouldn\u2019t include any paperwork, but we have an even bigger mission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My co-founders and I created Certn to make sharing information faster and easier and to solve one of society\u2019s hardest problems: building trust. We believe that opportunities increase alongside trust, so we\u2019re improving digital verifications to mobilize greater futures. This isn\u2019t just about hiring, but every transaction that requires trust between a person and another person or a business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2016, we\u2019ve been making background screening faster and easier for our 20,000 clients through simplified workflows, online background checks, and AI-powered screening products such as our instant identity verification service, Certn ID. While we\u2019ve been innovating all parts of the background screening process for employers, property managers, and lenders, and influencing change in the industry, we\u2019re also preparing for a future when there are no more background checks, at least not in the traditional sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Problem with Background Checks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The old way, background screening is time-consuming and frustrating. Without Certn, a person completing a background check might have to show up in-person to a police station to verify their identity and pay to have their records mailed to them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cbest case scenario\u201d for both parties involves a lot of confusing paperwork, trying to scan documents, and endless email chains. Other vendors get away with promising results in days, but it usually ends up being closer to weeks by the time the information is received and the results are processed. The clients we work with say slow vetting processes often result in missing out on opportunities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the Certn background check process<\/a>, we offer fully digital results in as little as 15 minutes (depending on the check you run). Our identity verification<\/a> process, powered by Trustmatic, now Certn ID, is also online, which means you don\u2019t have to travel or wait in line to establish trust. These are just two examples of how we make things faster and easier, and why we have the world\u2019s easiest background checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Digital Trust<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Digital trust is everything. Carrying the Certn logo, you\u2019re not just embracing faster and easier ways of doing things \u2013 you\u2019re leading the charge in building trust at scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While trust is an abstract idea, it\u2019s fundamental to building a safer digital world. You deserve to know for certain who you\u2019re interacting with online, that the technologies and processes involved are secure and ethical. Digital trust is the belief you have that the people you\u2019re interacting with online are genuine people, not bots or someone pretending to be someone they aren\u2019t. It\u2019s also the faith you have that the systems you rely upon are secure, reliable, and meet stated privacy standards. We cover more on this in our piece, The Evolution of Identity Verification<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creating and maintaining trust in our digital world is challenging in an era when high-profile security, privacy and ethical missteps have become commonplace. We also understand there are also factors driving gaps in trust such as stories of growing fraud and misinformation being spread online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background Checks to Build Digital Trust<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To improve digital trust, the current state and near future of background screening and background checks (whether for hiring, property managers, lenders, etc.) will be characterized by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n