Leading provider of employment background screening, identity, and verification solutions, First Advantage Corporation published its Q1 2024 India Employment Screening Trends Report.

Comprising 33 pages, the document contains anonymized data and analytics from the Company’s background screenings performed for its customers in the Indian market during the first quarter of 2024.

The document reads that in Q1-24, industries such as FMCG, Healthcare & Pharma, Services and Telecom sectors showed higher range of discrepancies exceeding the overall average of 9.59 percent.

It outlines a noticeable surge in discrepancies in the employment sectors of BFSI, Engineering & Infrastructure, Healthcare & Pharma, Retail, and Services in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the previous quarter.

It also found that education discrepancies were higher in the BFSI, FMCG, E-commerce & Logistics, and Services industries.

There was a shift observed in employment verifications with sectors like IT, Consulting, FMCG, Engineering & Infrastructure, and Manufacturing increasingly favoring alternate modes of verification.

This trend highlights evolving industry practices and the growing emphasis on thorough background checks.

Established in 2003, First Advantage delivers innovative services and insights that help customers manage risk and hire the best talent.

Enabled by its proprietary technology, First Advantage helps companies protect their brands and provide safer environments for their customers and their most important resources: employees, contractors, contingent workers, tenants, and drivers.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, First Advantage performs screens in over 200 countries and territories on behalf of its more than 30,000 customers.