Applicant and Employee Background Checks | First Advantage
2026-03-01 22:03 Diff

Profile Advantage®: Easy, Online Background Checks

The Online Screening Experience Applicants Expect

Online background check solution built for next-gen talent

Expectations for fast employee background checks are growing more sophisticated. Today’s generation wants greater conveniences and a simple hiring experience from application to background screening to onboarding. First Advantage can help make that happen. We created Profile Advantage™, a quick, online background check solution that applicants can access anytime from anywhere—including on their mobile devices*.

Profile Advantage delivers the online background check solution experience applicants want while creating efficiencies that help strengthen your overall background screening process.

Applicant-driven online background check solution experiences

Getting screened can be a stressful, sometimes complex experience for applicants. Profile Advantage helps alleviate some of these pain points by providing a user-friendly, easy, fast employee background check process. Online pre-employment screening from First Advantage enables applicants to: 

  • Experience mobile-friendly background screening where they can view their background check reports at any time on their mobile devices*
  • Streamline the background screening process through minimized data entry thanks to smart importing functions and easy drop-down menus as part of the digital background check platform
  • Securely complete their online background check through a technology provider who values fairness and transparency

Background Check Integration with ATS

Profile Advantage also boosts your onboarding process by easily integrating into your ATS or HCM, allowing you to: 

  • Experience the power of AI automation and compliance systems in an automated background screening tool
  • Secure quality talent with an easy, online background check solution available in 18 languages – optimized for use around the world

Profile Advantage delivers the seamless background check experience applicants want while creating efficiencies that help strengthen your overall background screening process.

Easy and fast employee background checks, anywhere you need them

Profile Advantage allows you to easily screen top talent around the globe quickly with an online background check solution. By enabling applicants to submit their documentation via mobile device, hiring managers can reduce the potential for back-and-forth communications and streamline multinational onboarding. Convenient and easy-to-use, Profile Advantage is equally efficient for desktop users.

Background Check Software for Employers: See the Benefits of Improving Applicant Experiences

Profile Advantage is tailored to the desire of today’s applicants to have an improved experience. Not only does this improve your background screening program, but it also benefits your business operations. A positive applicant experience means you are more likely to:

  1. Attract high-quality talent
  2. Appeal to and compete for top applicants
  3. Increase your brand awareness

Improving the applicant experience starts with optimizing every step of your hiring and onboarding process, including leveraging an automated background screening tool. With a digital background check platform through Profile Advantage, you can take comfort knowing applicants are getting the background check experience they want while you get the support you need to complement your acquisition strategy.

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