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Experience Matters

Sterling has helped shape the background screening and identity services industry since 1975. We’ve spent decades developing deep industry expertise, building powerful relationships and integrated global networks, and providing game-changing technology and client services that enable us to produce trusted, meaningful results.
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    globally
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    years of trust
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People-Driven Approach

We help people find the right people. But helping our clients achieve their goals can’t be done with technology alone. Our people provide our services, which are powered by robust cloud platforms and differentiated by deep market knowledge and unrivalled client service.
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Adaptive Services Designed for Impact

Sterling’s adaptive screening and identity solutions support a modern global workforce and can be tailored to fit your specific needs. We combine automation and the human touch to deliver measurable productivity and profitability.

Advanced Technology

Sterling innovates through strategic investment in emerging technology and product development for the evolving global workforce.
Our automation and AI-powered cloud technology ensures faster time-to-hire and the highest standards of accuracy. Our technology extends to compliance-enabled tools and processes that help minimise risk and simplify always-evolving global regulations.

Driving Results
that Matter

Let’s face it, every background screening and identity solutions company out there will tell you its services are the best. When it comes to what Sterling offers and the results we drive, we let our clients do the talking.
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Against a background of the biggest public health emergency in living memory, we worked closely with Sterling to ensure that the vaccinators we recruited were competent and could be deployed safely to the front lines. Working at pace and under significant pressure, Sterling delivered an outstanding service which helped us to deploy vaccinators where they were needed, quickly and effectively.”
NICOLA MCQUEEN
Chief Executive
NHS Professionals
Sterling’s people listened to us and really understood what we needed as a business. They had the compliance experience on global regulations and legal requirements that meant we were confident in their abilities to provide the support we needed.”
Jo Scott
Global Project Manager, Child Safeguarding and Talent
The LEGO Group
The team at Sterling carefully took the time to understand our needs and worked with us diligently to develop a consistent and compliant background screening programme, providing a greater experience for both our candidates and our HR staff.”
Julia Wilkes
Head of HR Services,
Prince’s Trust
We soon recognised Sterling as a key partner who could help us to achieve a more efficient and robust screening programme. The quality of their Customer Success team sets them apart from other providers and we are consistently impressed by their response times.”
Pravin Dalal
Virtusa Senior Manager
I am delighted to be working with Sterling. It is clear that they absolutely understand the requirements of Amnesty International and, by taking a true partnership approach to their work, have ensured that we have a robust screening programme in place that makes Amnesty a safer place to work for our employees, volunteers and those we work with around the world.”
Sharon Jacques
Head of International Recruitment,
Amnesty International

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