Pre-employment screening automation
Automate the full pre-employment screening pipeline. Identity verification, criminal records, education and employment verification, sanctions checks, and FCRA-compliant adverse action. Your HR or CRA ops team owns the workflow. Komos runs the manual portal work between the steps.
The checks an employer or CRA runs before extending an offer
Pre-employment screening is the set of checks an employer (or a CRA acting on behalf of an employer) runs on a candidate between the verbal offer and the start date. Identity, criminal records, education, prior employment, professional licenses, sanctions, and sometimes credit and motor vehicle history.
The work is mostly portal navigation. Different counties, state police sites, education verification services, former-employer HR portals. Each one with its own login, its own search form, its own results page. Multiplied across every applicant.
Most teams handle this with a mix of in-house researchers and vendor BPO seats. The volume is the constraint. So is the turnaround time the candidate sees.
Every step in the pre-employment screening pipeline
Komos automates the portal and verification work. Your team owns adjudication, exceptions, and final decisions.
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Identity verification
Komos pulls the applicant's identifying information from your ATS and runs the verification across the source systems you use. Status comes back to your team.
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Criminal records search
Komos searches county, state, federal, and international criminal databases through the portals you already have agreements with. Returned records flow back into your case file.
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Education and employment verification
Komos contacts schools and former employers through the channels you specify and tracks until the verification comes back. No analyst chasing emails for two weeks.
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Sanctions and watchlist checks
Komos runs the sanctions screen across OFAC, PEP lists, and any industry-specific watchlists you check. Hits get routed to your reviewer.
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Reviewer hand-off
Your team adjudicates. Komos packages the full case file, the source documents, and the supporting evidence into the format your reviewer uses.
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FCRA-compliant adverse action
If the decision is adverse, the workflow continues into the pre-adverse and final adverse action notice. See the dedicated workflow. See FCRA adverse action automation →
HR teams and CRAs
In-house HR / People teams
You run pre-employment screening yourself instead of outsourcing to a CRA. Komos handles the portal work so your recruiters and HR ops focus on adjudication and the candidate experience, not on logging into 12 different sites per applicant.
Consumer Reporting Agencies (CRAs)
You provide pre-employment screening services to employers. Komos automates your researchers' portal work and gives you a faster turnaround time without scaling headcount.
Pre-employment screening with Komos
Does Komos make the hire / no-hire decision?
No. Adjudication stays with your team. Komos runs the data collection and packaging so your reviewer has the full case file to make the call.
Is this FCRA-compliant?
Komos is the automation layer that runs the workflow you define. Your compliance team owns the policy: which checks to run, when to disclose, when adverse action notices fire. The audit log Komos produces gives your compliance team the paper trail they need.
Does Komos integrate with our ATS?
Komos pulls applicant data from common ATS systems and writes results back. Where direct integrations do not exist, Komos reaches the ATS the same way a person would, through the browser.
How does Komos handle international candidates?
International criminal records and verifications go through whatever country-specific portal or service you use today. Komos navigates the same portals your researchers do, in sequence, with timezone-aware scheduling.
What if a portal is down or rate-limited?
Komos retries on a schedule and surfaces the failure to your reviewer if it persists. Cases queue cleanly and resume when the source comes back. No silent dropped runs.
Pre-employment screening, end to end, on autopilot
Book a demo to see Komos run the full screening workflow on a real applicant.