Credit Checks
Understand financial responsibility before you hire or approve a tenant. Run credit checks across Canada, the United States, and supported international markets.
Get the literal checks and balances
Know your candidate’s financial position before making a hiring or tenant decision.
Understand your candidate’s financial context anywhere you hire
Certn’s credit checks provide financial insight for candidates across Canada, the United States, and supported international markets, helping you assess suitability for roles involving financial responsibility or tenancy decisions.
Build financially responsible teams, globally
Evaluate financial stability across regions to help reduce risk when hiring candidates for roles involving trust, funds, or fiduciary responsibility.
Create consistency across your screening process
Standardize credit screening across domestic and international candidates with transparent checks designed to support confident hiring decisions.
What you get from Certn’s Credit Checks:
Credit checks as simple as 1, 2, 3
Certn keeps credit screening simple.
1. Select your preferred credit check
Choose Canadian, US, or International credit checks within the Certn platform.
2. Candidates complete their screening
Candidates provide required information such as name, date of birth, and address history.
3. Review the report
Results highlight relevant adverse credit events within the applicable reporting period.
Get the world’s easiest credit checks with Certn.
FAQs
A credit check reviews a person’s credit history to identify financial behaviour and reportable adverse credit events that may indicate financial risk.
Certn supports credit checks in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and additional international countries. The information available can vary by region depending on local credit bureau data and regulations.
A credit check is a soft inquiry of an individual’s credit file. A “soft inquiry” doesn’t impact the credit score. Credit reports include: tradelines, bankruptcies, public records and collections information, and a credit score.
The information included in a credit check depends on the country where the report is run.
In Canada and the United States, employment credit checks may include:
- Credit account history (tradelines)
- Bankruptcies and collections
- Public financial records
In the UK and other international markets, reports typically highlight adverse credit events, such as bankruptcies, County Court Judgments (CCJs), Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVAs), or other reportable financial issues within the applicable reporting period.
Credit scores don’t appear on reports for pre-employment screening. Where permitted, credit checks should only be ordered for reasons such as positions at financial institutions, managerial roles, and roles with regular access to proprietary or financial data.
To start a credit check, you simply invite the candidate through the Certn Client Portal using their email address.
The candidate securely provides the required information, which may include:
- Full legal name
- Date of birth
- Address history
Candidates may also provide previous names, which can be included in the search to improve match accuracy.
Credit checks can be ordered in two ways within Certn:
Address-based searches
The system uses the candidate’s address history to determine which countries should be searched.
Country-based searches
You can also select specific countries when ordering a credit check if you want to screen a candidate’s credit history in certain regions.
Candidates will be able to run searches on current or previous names.
Many credit checks return instantly or within minutes, especially in Canada and the United States.
International credit checks may take slightly longer depending on the country and available data sources, but results are typically returned quickly within the Certn platform.
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