ClearStar Celebrates 30 Years of Providing Background Screening Services to Employers
ClearStar has offered innovative background screening solutions to businesses in the Human Capital Management (HCM) industry since 1995.
ClearStar – a global background screening company that has provided services to employers for 30 years – is celebrating the company’s 30th anniversary in 2025 after offering innovative background screening technology solutions to businesses in the Human Capital Management (HCM) industry from its corporate offices in Alpharetta, Georgia, since 1995.
“When Ken Dawson, Bill White, and Robert Vale left a large corporation in 1994, they decided their next endeavor should be a hiring solution that could change the world. They wanted to do it better than anyone else by combining technology with a company culture that puts its people and candidates first. The rest is history,” according to ClearStar’s “About Us” web page.
“What began as Compass, a web-based data provider geared towards addressing the emerging information needs of the security industry, in 1995, is now ClearStar, the premier choice for background checks and drug screening solutions that provide critical data on candidates across many industries and businesses around the globe.” ClearStar’s services include:
Our Technology
- Assured Compliance® – The Assured Compliance® program is a real-time compliance solution that automates and manages local, state, and federal notice, disclosure, consent, and adverse action requirements.
- ClearID – Need a faster way to verify the identity of your contract workers? ClearID uses on-the-spot ID validation and facial recognition to make hiring contract labor a snap.
- ClearMD – The groundbreaking ClearMD platform streamlines and fully automates the electronic registration for drug tests, clinical services, and occupational health screening to make the process simple and easy for employers and candidates.
- ScreenMeNow – ScreenMeNow is a verification tool offered by ClearStar that helps employers check background information about candidates in an easy and hassle-free way.
- Smart Screen™ Powered by Equifax® – Smart Screen helps background screeners, employers, and housing authorities streamline their criminal background check process. This revolutionary screening solution checks for the absence of records in two robust and proprietary data networks that include an incarceration data network and a sex offender registry network.
Our Solutions
- Background Checks – Background checks are an important and sometimes legally required part of the hiring process. Due to the complexities and legal requirements of background checks, you must choose the right screening partner.
- Drug Testing & Clinical Screening – A drug and alcohol free work environment helps to maintain compliance with numerous state and federal regulations while helping to improve work quality and employee safety.
- Employee Monitoring – Monitoring employees using proactive and continuous record checks helps your organization identify employee activities that may pose a risk to your organization.
- Global Background Checks – Multinational companies rely on our expertise to screen their employees all over the world. Today’s workforce is not constrained by countries or borders. Your business doesn’t have to be either.
- Occupational Health Screening – We understand occupational health screening can be complex, time consuming, labor intensive, completely manual for many employers, and a terrible candidate experience. We help remove these problems.
- Pre-Employment Screening – Our pre-employment screening solutions provide companies, non-profits, and government agencies with the assurance that candidates meet their specific requirements. We can tailor searches to ensure standards are maintained in compliance with policies, contracts, or regulations.
- Social Media Screening – We offer Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) compliant social media searches to help businesses understand potential liabilities or organizational risks which can be critical for reputation management, risk assessment, and values alignment.
Our Industries
- Aerospace & Defense – The Aerospace & Defense industry is regulated unlike any other industry. Ensuring you have the best people is critical to your business, your current and future contracts, and the safety of the United States.
- Healthcare – Healthcare is one of the most critical and important sectors of the economy. Having the best people is vital to your business, the safety of your patients, and your business growth.
- Hospitality – Hospitality is all about the guest experience. Great employees are key to the guest experience and a major aspect of Hospitality is getting great employees hired and helping to generate amazing guest experiences.
- Manufacturing – Manufacturing is all about getting the right product to the right places at the right time. We are your partner to ensure that you have the right people in place and ready to build, produce, and ship.
- Non-Profits – Non-profit organizations are one of the cornerstones of the United States. Regardless of your organization’s size, scope, or footprint, hiring great employees is key to the overall success of your focus, goal, or mission.
- Retail – The Retail industry traditionally has higher turnover than most other industries which means you need to find new employees quickly. We help you hire the right people and get them working as quickly as possible.
- Staffing & Recruiting – The Staffing & Recruiting industry has unique needs and demands. Regardless of industry specialty or placement options, you need a screening Partner who understands how to get you the information you need to place individuals with the right company.
- Tenant Screening – Landlords and Property Owners/Managers have a responsibility to protect a real estate investment by finding the right tenants and leaseholders. Selecting the wrong applicant can negatively affect the profitability of any real estate property, so partnering with the right screening company is critical.
- Transportation – Transportation is a highly regulated and competitive industry. In order to stay compliant, it is essential to partner with the best screening company. We offer comprehensive and compliant screening solutions for U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) regulated and non-regulated employers in the Transportation industry.
In addition, ClearStar has a talented and experienced Leadership Team, a variety of strategic Partners, an informative News Page, on demand Webinars, a monthly Screening Compliance Update, numerous Awards, Affiliations, and Certifications, and interactive maps for “Ban the Box” Laws, Marijuana Legality Laws, and State Drug Testing Laws.
About ClearStar
ClearStar – a seven-time Inc. 5000 honoree, HRO Today Baker’s Dozen award-winning enterprise solution provider, and an accredited and founding member of the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA) – offers “better, easier, faster, and safer” background screening solutions. For more information, please visit www.clearstar.net.
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