Verify a candidate's employment history.
Confirms dates, employer names, and titles — sometimes eligibility for rehire — via payroll registries or direct HR contact. An add-on on vID, fulfilled through partner CRAs.
Also called work history verification, past employer verification, The Work Number.
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How it runs on vID
Identity verified
Search runs
Report returned
What it covers
Employer names and dates confirmed by the chosen method- Titles and, where the employer answers, eligibility for rehire
- A documented gap when an employer will not talk
JDP, DataFacts (custom questions available), RSI, and SimpliVerified all run employment verifications; the failure mode is promising a 7-year history and only hitting The Work Number. vID binds the candidate so the history belongs to the person applying.
What it covers
- Employer names and dates confirmed by the chosen method
- Titles and, where the employer answers, eligibility for rehire
- A documented gap when an employer will not talk
What it doesn’t cover
Performance or culture fit — that is a reference check- Unreported or cash work
- Overnight turnaround when a human at HR must respond
Where the data comes from.
Payroll / employment registries
Fast, incomplete — a first pass.
Direct employer / HR contact
Slow, reaches further; custom questions available through several partners.
Why identity comes first.
Proxy applicants with real work histories exist. vID binds the history to the person you actually met.
How the network fulfills it.
Partners handle international employers, education-adjacent history, and unresponsive HR offices. You will not be limited to a registry-only portal.
This is the wrong search if…
Volunteer and youth-sports roles
Usually skip it — the criminal and registry stack is the product. Do not add a week of HR voicemail to a coach clearance.
You needed education, not work
Different offices, different product.
Commonly ordered with.
- Education verification
The other half of a claimed career.
- Reference checks
Adds opinions about the work, not just confirmation.
- Identity verification
So the career belongs to the candidate.
Add Employment verification to your next check.
Identity-verified, fulfilled through the partner network.
Frequently asked questions.
Confirm the jobs that matter.
Registry where it hits, humans where it does not. Identity-verified candidate either way.
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