They have also eliminated requirements to verify employment - a potentially troublesome decision if it turns out that the new tenants fall behind on their payments.

Zillow verifies every lender's identity, employment and broker license.

Prior to sitting for the examination, a CPO candidate must be prepared to verify employment as a professional organizer preceding the exam date.

To protect privacy rights, such information cannot be obtained except to verify employment for Federal entitlement programs and to collect child support.

AS long as employers have wanted to check up on job applicants, an industry of tiny background-checking companies has existed, prowling courthouses to check criminal records and working the phones to verify employment and education.

"We verify employment, we verify education, we verify finances and we go out in the field and we check on a variety of different items."

Prior to sitting for the exam, a CPP candidate must verify employment in the payroll profession preceding the exam date.

Similarly, if an employee is concerned that a supervisor might share unfavorable information or be unwilling to verify employment, The Work Number provides some protection from this, as the system only reports objective data.

The school district verifies employment and experience with a candidate's former employers, said Rebecca Brito, the district's director of instructional staffing.

In qualifying Mr. Knox for a $90,000 mortgage at 9.23 percent that he ultimately could not afford, company records show, Aames waived its own rules for verifying income and employment.