To HR professionals and recruiters and anyone else familiar, do background checks to verify employees commonly rely on data broker profiles?

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To HR professionals and recruiters and anyone else familiar, do background checks to verify employees commonly rely on data broker profiles? - Discuss Online

Do background checks to verify potential employees rely on profiles data brokers have compiled on them? Or do background checks rely on more direct means?

Not a HR professional or recruiter (I work in IT), but I know my company uses a third party background checking service for this kind of thing.