How to Investigate a CEO’s Background Before Promotion or Acquisition

When it comes to CEO promotion or acquisition, you need deep background searches. The first step is to get basic information verified, including their identity and the validity of their degree or MBA. Once that’s out of the way, a private investigator can help you get insights into the candidate’s financial records, media or reputational image, international business dealings, and social media activity. At Martin PI, we create comprehensive records that also include data on industry regulation violations, felonies and misdemeanors, fraud, and conflict of interest.

How to Legally Run a Background Check on a Domestic Employee

You can legally run a background check on a domestic employee when you do everything by the book. First, obtain consent from them to do the background check. You can make consent mandatory for all candidates who wish to proceed from the application stage to the interview and hiring stage. This way, those who are not comfortable with it can exit the process. Once you have the consent, the next thing to do is hire a licensed background screening service company like Martin PI.
It will then fall on us to color within the lines – to comply with all privacy, FCRA, and drug screening laws. We will get you insights into your candidate's employment history, criminal records, lifestyle tendencies, and even social media activity. We can even help you with live scan fingerprinting and drug screening.

How to Run a Background Check on a Housekeeper Before Hiring

Housekeepers get extensive and sometimes unsupervised access to your home and private life. It stands to reason then that you must conduct in-depth background searches before hiring them. DIY searches can cost you a lot of money and time to get comprehensive insights that help you make the right decision. The best practice is to hire a PI. Martin PI, the best private investigator service provider, hires ex-FBI and ex-Secret Service agents. This means that we’ll leave no stone unturned in our search –from employment history to criminal record search and even social media activity tracking, expect a mother of all background search reports.

How to Run a Background Check Before Investing in Someone’s Startup

When it comes to startups and businesses, most background checks tend to lean toward financial searches. That’s okay, but at Martin PI we have seen many startups go up in flames due to legal and reputational troubles and even conflict of interest. Therefore, our approach to background search for investors is three-fold –Personal, Legal, and Financial. Our strategies involve reviewing public records, and premier databases and recruiting and interviewing informants. Expect reports that run to hundreds of pages complete with our expert analysis to help you make the right decision.

Marriage background verification before immigration sponsorship

If you are interested in sponsoring someone for immigration, start with a background search. Marriage background verification is essential for spouses looking to sponsor foreign spouses to enter the USA. Private investigators can help you gather evidence on the person you wish to sponsor. The search will establish and verify their marital status through document search, surveillance, and informant interviews. Our PIs will look at credit statements, utility bills, email communication, social media activities, photos, and affidavits to find evidence of marriage or cohabitation.

PI Background Check Services for Senior-Level Executive Hires

Intel gathering must be conducted by fully licensed private investigators and in full compliance with the law. Start with identity verification and then move on to check their professional, criminal, and reputational records or histories. Martin PI will get you comprehensive insights that also comply with FCRA and the GLBA. FCRA is the Fair Credit and Reporting Act which requires a legally valid reason to look into a person’s finances.
You will either need consent or a court order to access and use a person’s credit history in your investigation. GLBA is the Gramm-Leach-Billey Act. Similar to the FCRA, it requires written consent before investigating a person’s financial records.

Run a background check for someone in international business

A private investigator will run a search on the international entrepreneur to answer questions such as: How do they treat their business partners? Do they have professional licenses? What competing or conflicts of interests do they have? At Martin PI, our investigators are ready to activate international connections and foreign detectives to help uncover everything you need to know about the business person. We’ll check international databases to put together comprehensive reports on the person's assets, nature of business, financial risks, and legal troubles.

Run background checks on church staff or volunteers

Start from the known to the unknown. At present, you probably know their full names and have copies of their government-issued IDs. Next, perform an in-depth background check to uncover their address and validate their name and ID. This search can also bring to light any criminal background or litigation history the investor has. A deeper search involves checking employment history, financial records, social media activity, and lifestyle habits to ensure that everything they do aligns with the ethos, mission, and vision of your organization. Martin PI can help you get started.

Run a background check on the contractor before signing the service agreement

Martin PI detectors are former FBI and ex-Secret Service agents so they are really good at profiling, connecting the dots, and finding missing pieces of evidence. There are many strategies used in these investigations, but the best of all include pattern analysis and threat assessment models that evaluate the level of risk (legal, financial, and reputational) the contractor poses to your business. Social network analysis and behavioral surveillance are also critical, leading to comprehensive investigative reports that can help you make an informed decision.

Run background on someone before going into business with them

Tools, people, and strategies – that’s how private investigators conduct a background search and asset check on your potential investor. Tools include public records such as court records and business registration records. In addition to publicly available data private investigators frequently use premier solutions such as LexisNexis, Echosearch.net, and TLOxp to find in-depth data about the person in question and their businesses. But beyond tools and databases, people are the most crucial source of data and data verification. Private investigators typically trace down and interview friends, acquaintances, colleagues, and former partners to help build a comprehensive profile of your potential investors.

Martin Investigative Services

Martin Investigative Services office is located at 620 Newport Center Dr Suite 1100, Newport Beach, CA 92660 

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