First Advantage is the largest provider of pre-employment background screening services in the Asia Pacific region. Established in Hong Kong in 2000, the company has grown rapidly and has built a reputation on value, professionalism, flexibility and responsiveness.

92% of the FORTUNE 1000 companies have a formal pre-employment background screening program in place in the U.S. - but most have not yet implemented programs overseas. First Advantage helps clients implement best practices for pre-employment background screening programs in the Asia Pacific region. Our services are tailored to our clients’ exact requirements and can be customized for the risk profiles of different categories of employees.
Providing the most pre-employment screening reports in the Asia Pacific area allows First Advantage to focus exclusively on the client’s screening needs, build a scalable operation, and commit top management to the process.

INTERNATIONAL SCREENING METHODOLOGY
First Advantage follows a proven methodology for obtaining quality screening results. Through a thorough verification process to uncover qualifications, memberships and licenses, to interviewing previous employers and supervisors for gathering information regarding performance, honesty, and reliability, First Advantage sets itself apart in the region. Public record searches are also conducted utilizing: criminal, credit, civil litigation, bankruptcy, local & international media, financial and regulatory, proprietary databases, and international proscribed lists, all based on jurisdictional availability.

BREADTH OF INFORMATION SOURCES
First Advantage utilizes numerous databases aggregating regulatory, criminal and compliance information from around the region and the world. Additionally, we have developed a “Degree Mill” database which contains details of hundreds of organizations around the world that sell unaccredited “degrees” by mail or on-line. The database is checked with each candidate degree claim and any suspect findings are flagged for clients.

First Advantage employs a group of experienced professionals with legal, accounting, HR, finance, banking and law enforcement backgrounds. Our corporate structure and personal approach to the business allows us to deliver a focused and flexible solution. First Advantage currently runs comprehensive screening programs for over 150 leading companies in the Asia Pacific region. Clients include top investment banks, fund managers, technology companies, retail banks, BPO’s, software developers, overseas background screening companies, oil companies and manufacturers.

COMPLIANCE
First Advantage understands the difficulties companies face in choosing a suitable and competent screening provider in the Asia Pacific region. Understanding local laws and regulations is paramount for a successful screening program. First Advantage only provides information from the public domain that has been legally and ethically obtained, setting it apart from many other regional screening companies. This dedication to providing high quality information and professionally retrieved results is why over 30 of the FORTUNE 100 trust First Advantage for our screening solutions, quality assurance, data security, and supplier diversity.
First Advantage currently has offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Perth, Australia, Tokyo and the United States. For more information regarding First Advantage’s international background screening services, click here.