Self Background Checks for Personal Insight and Preparation
See what employers, landlords, or agencies might find—before they do—with a personal background check.
Personal Background Screening
for Jobs, Rentals, and Peace of Mind
A Self Background Check allows individuals to proactively review the publicly available
records and personal history that employers, landlords, or government agencies
might access during a formal screening. Whether preparing for a job application,
rental agreement, or professional licensing, this check helps ensure accuracy
and resolve discrepancies before they cause issues.
You can conduct a self-check independently or through a trusted agency like
Reveal Background, which compiles verified data across criminal, credit, identity,
and professional records.
Why Self Background Checks are Important
Knowing your own background profile puts you in control. It allows you to correct inaccurate information, confirm that your records are up to date, and protect yourself from identity misuse.
A self background check helps individuals:
- Prepare for job interviews, licensing, or lease applications.
- Catch and correct errors in criminal, credit, or employment history.
- Detect fraudulent activity or identity misuse.
- Understand what potential employers or landlords may see.
- Ensure data consistency across resumes, applications, and online platforms.
This is particularly important in regulated industries such as healthcare, finance, education, and social services—where even minor record discrepancies can impact eligibility.
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What Does a Self Background Check Include?
Reveal Background’s Self Background Check compiles data from public, government, and commercial sources to provide a comprehensive personal profile. All reports are generated in compliance with privacy and consumer reporting laws.
A typical Self Background Check may include:
- Identity Verification: Name, aliases, current and former addresses (based on SSN trace).
- Criminal Records: Local, state, and federal checks for arrests, convictions, and pending charges.
- Education Verification: Institutions attended, degrees earned, and graduation dates.
- Employment History: Companies worked for, job titles, and employment duration.
- Credit History: Payment behavior, debt obligations, credit score indicators (optional).
- Driving Records: License status, infractions, suspensions, and violations.
- Property & Asset Records: Publicly recorded assets such as property or vehicle ownership.
- Sex Offender Registry Search: Confirms presence or absence on the national registry.
- Global Watchlist Screening: Flags potential matches in terrorism, sanctions, or fraud databases.
- Social Media Presence (optional): Public content that may impact professional image or trust.
Employee Screening Packages
Reveal Criminal - Basic
For your ease of onboarding this package includes,
$24.99
- National Criminal Check
- Alias Name Search
- SSN Trace
- Sex Offender Registry
- Global Security Watch List
** Sign Up Not Required
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Reveal Criminal - Plus
For your ease of onboarding this package includes,
$49.99
- National Criminal Check
- Alias Name Search
- SSN Trace
- Sex Offender Registry Check
- Global Security Watch List
- State Criminal Database Search
- Federal Criminal Records Search
** Sign Up Not Required
Reveal Criminal - Complete
For your ease of onboarding this package includes,
$69.99
- National Criminal Check
- Alias Name Search
- SSN Trace
- Sex Offender Registry Check
- Global Security Watch List
- State Criminal Database Search
- Federal Criminal Records Search
- County Criminal Records Search
** Sign Up Not Required
Customize Your Screening Package
Reveal Background offers flexible screening solutions—standard packages,
individual checks, or custom options tailored to your needs.
Self Background Check
Dating Background Verification Check
$Starting from $19.95 / candidate
Turnaround Time: 24 Hrs
A national criminal check including alias search and alias name search. Also includes a social media search. Turnaround time is 24 hours.
Frequently asked questions
Find quick answers to common questions about our Self Background
check services, compliance standards, turnaround times, and more.
How to do a Self-Background check?
One can do a Self Background check by collecting reports by himself from various offices and compiling them. Otherwise he can approach a certified agency like Reveal Background Check to obtain the data.
How to do a self Criminal Background Check?
A self Criminal Background Check can be done by the candidate by requesting information from State Criminal History, National Criminal History, County Courts, Administrative Office of the Courts, Terror Watch List and Sex Offender registry.
Does self employment show up on Background Check?
Yes, self employment shows up on Background Check, because the personal record of the candidate reveals the previous employment and self employment. Moreover the credit history also shows up the financial transactions of the applicant.
What does self adjudication 3.0 mean on a Background Check?
It helps the employers to improve the effectiveness of hiring decisions based on background reports. It shows the screening reports that require additional assessment.
What are the laws to be followed in a Self Background check?
Ban the Box laws should be followed which limits what information can be asked about a candidate’s criminal history. FCRA, Fair Credit Reporting Act should be obeyed before collecting data.
Why a Credit History is required in a Self Background check?
A Credit History reveals the payment history, tax liabilities, credit to debit ratio, account details and bankruptcy which is very important to know about the financial condition.
What is Identity Theft?
A Self Background check reveals an identity theft which is associating a person wrongly with the criminal record of someone else, only because both names were identical.
What are the details to be given to an agency to carry out a personal background check?
Personal Information such as the name, date of birth, Social Security Number and residential address of the candidate are required.
How does a Reveal Background check helps in Self check?
Carrying out a self Background Check individually is very expensive, time consuming and tedious. Whereas Reveal Background check collects data from their wide database within hours and communicating the information through email. The data are accurate, quick and reliable.
Are the packages offered by Reveal Background check affordable?
Yes, Reveal Background check offers three different packages which are very economical starting from few dollars to collect all the important data.
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