Whether you use a company or you are the person in charge of performing online background checks there are things going on behind the scenes. In some cases, the things occurred long before you typed a name into the search form. Let’s see how the process works as you begin your search and what actually is done in the background.
The very first thing you will need to do to perform a background check is to obtain the person’s full name, date of birth, current address, and previous addresses. Other information that will also help would be the place of birth and their social security number. However, you can perform a search with only a name and current address. The information you retrieve will then have to be sorted by you by way of age or other data. Such as if, you know the person is around 45, then you will not want to look at the information of individuals in their sixties or in their twenties. This will help you narrow down the information when you may not have all the information to pinpoint the person.