Cornerstone and First Advantage provide clients with a powerful recruiting system that streamlines the background screening process and makes receiving your Work Opportunity Tax Credits (WOTC) faster and easier.
About the alliance
58% of hiring managers have caught a lie on a resume, and employee theft accounts for $18 billion in losses; let Cornerstone and First Advantage help you strengthen your bottom line and build a stronger workforce!
First Advantage is Cornerstone “Edge Integrate” ready, making the entire integration process faster and easier. With our background screening and/or Work Opportunity Tax Credits integration into your Cornerstone Recruiting application, you will have a powerful system at your fingertips helping you streamline your recruiting process and workflow.
Background Screening Integration
The Background Screening integration allows organizations to be insightful when it comes to decision making. Real-time background screening results help you make right hiring decisions easily and efficiently. Trustworthy information empowers your recruiters, enlightens leadership, and helps you hire your best talent with confidence.
Product segments
TYPE:
- Technology
VERTICAL:
- All verticals
REGION:
- Asia Pacific & Japan
- Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Latin America
- North America
Background Screening Integration
Product Features
Right Fit Screening
Access criminal record searches; education, employment, and license verifications; global sanction searches; credit checks; I-9 processing; fingerprint screening, drug testing, and more.
Global Experience
With 26 offices in 14 countries and over 35,000 customers, First Advantage conducts more than 54 million background screens on 16.8 million applicants worldwide each year and screens for 45% of the Fortune 100.
Data Safety
First Advantage encrypts all externally-transmitted, sensitive information; masks personally identifiable information; and ensures compliance with ever-changing laws and regulations.
World-Class Support
As a trusted partner with your organization, you'll receive multiple layers of support, from solution engineering…to integration services…to dedicated and helpful customer service…all working to serve your team.
Legal Expertise
First Advantage’s in-house legal team shares best practices to help you better understand fast-evolving issues, like legislative changes, country-specific employment laws, and acceptable testing methodologies.
Reports
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Work Opportunity Tax Credits (WOTC) Integration
The Work Opportunity Tax Credits integration can add bottom line savings by screening new hires for tax credit eligibility. This allows users to monitor thousands of employment tax credits and economic incentive programs throughout the United States, to help to ensure that you are not overlooking these valuable opportunities. Our flexible and responsive tax credit programs will help reduce your operating costs and minimize your tax liability, resulting in unlocked bottom line savings for years to come.
Product Segments
TYPE:
- Technology
VERTICAL:
- All verticals
REGION:
- Asia Pacific & Japan
- Europe, Middle East & Africa
- North America
Work Opportunity Tax Credits (WOTC) Integration
Product Features
Bottom Line Savings
The WOTC program is designed to promote hiring of individuals within target groups, who may face challenges securing employment due to limited skills or work experience. By screening, hiring and retaining WOTC qualified employees your business may receive a federal tax credit ranging from $1,500 to $9,600 per qualified individual, based on the certified target group.
Expertise
Our team has 60 + years of combined domain knowledge and development of industry best practices for maximum tax credit generation. We maintain a strategic presence in multiple states, covering all time zones and offer 24/7 tax credit screening services. Our government advocacy team is driving automation efforts in nearly half of the 50 states, and proactively collaborating with other states to initiate or upgrade systems to expedite efficiencies.
HireIQ
Our proprietary, multidimensional data management solution manages and analyzes all critical areas of a company’s tax credit program.
MyCredit
Proprietary technology that offers you a second chance to proactively screen employees previously missed in the screening process.
E-Sig Screening Solutions
Simple, fast and secure technology that optimizes Form 8850 completion and program results, including integrated screening through Applicant Tracking System (web-services and URL Redirect screening) and Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

About First Advantage
First Advantage leads the background screening industry globally, delivering over 23 million background screenings annually, with solutions designed to ensure candidates have the background skills, attitudes, and aptitudes to make a positive difference in our clients’ organizations, anywhere in the world. Learn more at https://www.fadv.com/integrations-and-apis/cornerstone.aspx