Background Screening & Identity Services for the Retail Industry

We provide retail organisations with agile screening and identity solutions to help you onboard new hires quickly and safely.
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Protect Your Customers and Employees

Retail companies are consistently faced with high employee turnover and seasonal demand fluctuations, so employers need smart hiring decisions to reduce risk and theft. That’s why some of the biggest and most successful retailers in the world turn to Sterling for fast, comprehensive background checks to help hire trustworthy candidates who align with their culture and values.

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The retail market is set to grow 5% by 20271

Top Reasons Retailers Use Background Checks

Retail is a highly consumer-facing industry, with trust and safety at the forefront. Sterling offers affordable and scalable solutions that can protect your customers, employees, and brand. Our retail industry experts will work with you to build customised packages to fit your hiring goals.
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Minimise Theft and Fraud

Employees have access to sensitive information every day, from credit card information to sensitive company details. Screening candidates before employment can help mitigate risks of fraud, inventory loss, and other factors that could hurt your organisation’s financial stability.
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Culture and Values

From social media checks to employment verifications, Sterling offers many screening solutions to help you focus on the issues which matter specifically to your business. Sterling can help ensure that candidates who look good on paper will truly fit with your organisation’s values and culture.
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Creating workplace safety is a primary reason why retailers require accurate and fast background checks when screening job candidates. This trend has accelerated since the beginning of the pandemic, while candidates’ and consumers’ expectations of employers to maintain onsite safety have increased drastically since the beginning of 2020. Get Started
Minimize Theft and Fraud
Employees have access to sensitive information every day, from credit card information to sensitive company details. Screening candidates before employment can help mitigate risks of fraud, inventory loss, and other factors that could hurt your organisation’s financial stability. Get Started
Culture and Values
From social media checks to employment verifications, Sterling offers many screening solutions to help you focus on the issues which matter specifically to your business. Sterling can help ensure that candidates who look good on paper will truly fit with your organisation’s values and culture. Get Started

The Sterling Difference

Our financial stability has allowed us to continue investing significantly in technology and resources to better improve client and candidate experience, decrease turnaround times, and increase screening accuracy.

Sterling pioneered proprietary technology that delivers industry-leading turnaround times and information you can trust.

We help clients minimise risk in a complex, evolving regulatory landscape with a combination of technology solutions and in-house expertise to help comply with global, federal, state, and local hiring regulations.

Our modern, mobile-first candidate experience makes the right first impression, reduces candidate drop-off, and accelerates the recruiting cycle.

Through serving customers for decades, there’s little we haven’t seen. We draw upon our deep experience and rich data to uncover relevant considerations, trends, and risk factors for customers of any industry.

Sterling’s award-winning client service includes industry-dedicated Account Executives and implementation teams to enable and sustain program success.

Sterling’s people listened to us and really understood what we needed as a business. They had the compliance experience on global regulations and legal requirements that meant we were confident in their abilities to provide the support we needed.”

Joanna Scott

Global Project Manager,
Child Safeguarding and Talent,
The LEGO® Group
Since 2014, Sterling has been helping us shape a successful hiring program with products and solutions best suited for our business. By applying a Client Matrix Adjudication grid, we’ve experienced a decrease in review rate by more than 13%, improved efficiency, and enabled a faster and more compliant hiring process."

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