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How Background Check Companies Sneak in Hidden Fees (And How to Spot Them)

September 12, 2024

Background checks should be simple, right? You run the report, pay the fee, and get the results. But some background check companies have a different playbook. Instead of putting you first, they’re finding creative ways to pad their profits—hello, hidden fees and confusing invoices! Let’s look at the main culprit […]

Sequential Screening: A Secret Legacy Vendors Won’t Reveal

April 25, 2024

“I’m so tired of paying $100+ for every candidate whether or not I end up hiring them.” We hear this often from people before they switch to Yardstik. The screening vendors of yesterday want you to believe there is only one workflow for vetting candidates—their workflow. It’s an intentionally expensive […]

A Background Screening Dashboard Built for Strategic Decision-Making

March 19, 2024

“Why is this cost so high?” Ever heard this from your CFO before? Pretty sure we all have. And after your blood pressure levels out and your heart rate returns to normal, we often realize it’s a pretty fair question to ask. Especially for companies who are hyper-focused on cost […]

Additional Articles

Benefits of Embedded Trust for Platforms: Why Companies Are Making Trust Their Product

Jun 25, 2026  Industry Insights
Embedding trust into your product is the same move platforms made with payments. See how it pays off in experience, differentiation, control, and revenue.

Embedded vs. Out-of-the-Box: Where Trust Should Live

Jun 16, 2026  Industry Insights
Pre-built integrations keep teams in their ATS. Embedded trust tech lives in your own product. Here’s which one fits, and why embedded is the one to watch.

Beyond Background Checks: The 6 Fastest-Growing Risk Technologies of 2026

May 28, 2026  Screening Products
The background check as a single risk solution has been outgrown. For most of the last two decades, running a check at hire was the workforce risk program. You verified history, you flagged anything disqualifying, you filed the report, you moved on. The model worked…

Every Industry Has Workforce Risk. Including Yours.

May 14, 2026  Industry Insights
There is no such thing as a low-risk industry in 2026. There may have once been a time when companies outside the regulatory spotlight could reasonably assume the risks playing out elsewhere had nothing to do with them. That assumption hasn’t aged well. For a long…

How to Build Workforce Trust in 2026

Apr 30, 2026  Industry Insights
Many companies think workforce trust is a problem that’s been solved. But times have changed, and some questions have gotten much more difficult to answer in 2026: Can you actually prove that your workforce is trustworthy? Do you know that they are who they say they…

Trust is becoming more rare. We want it to be universal.

Apr 17, 2026  Industry Insights
Trust runs everything. It’s what makes a stranger feel safe getting into a car, what makes a patient let an aide into their home, what makes a company hire a worker they’ve never physically met. Take trust out of those moments and the whole thing falls apart. Right…

Post-Hire Workforce Risk: Why One Background Check Isn’t Enough

Mar 26, 2026  Industry Insights
You’re hiring at scale. Hundreds of workers a month, maybe thousands. Every single one goes through a background check. The results come back, the worker is cleared, and the machine moves on to the next one. It feels like a trust program. But there’s a problem hiding…

The Purpose of Background Checks in Hiring Today

Dec 10, 2025  Industry Insights
Decades ago, background checks were implemented with conviction. Business leaders understood that hiring the wrong person was a liability. They knew that a bad hire could ruin the company reputation, deal a hit to revenue, or change the culture of a winning team. But…

What Metrics Your Background Check Provider Should Give You

Nov 5, 2025  Industry Insights
Better data means better decisions. It’s that simple. Every high-volume hiring team we talk to wants the same things: hire faster, spend less, reduce risk, and make the process easier to manage. For them, that feels impossible. But it usually feels that way because…

Top 17 Types of Fraud in Hiring in 2025: Stories and Data That Show Impact

Oct 1, 2025  Industry Insights
AI can do things you’d never even think about doing. But fraudsters have thought about it. And they’ve even figured out how to use it to steal from you and your customers without you ever noticing. 1.6 billion pieces of consumer data were leaked last year. (Source)…