2025 Global Screening Trends Revealed

Recorded May 15, 2025

When it comes to screening, keeping up with the latest trends, best practices, technology advancements, and more can be challenging. First Advantage just released our 2025 Global Trends Report, and this webinar will dive deep into the data-driven insights you need to know to help you hire smarter and onboard faster. 

Explore background screening trends from across the globe, including:

• Unlike the previous two years, Speed of background checks wins over Risk and Cost as most important to customers.
  
• Regulatory Compliance was ranked as the top reason customers conduct background screens.
• In the US, identity fraud has tripled over the last decade, and with this our RightID and Identity products have grown by 68% since 2022.
• In 2024, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) UK criminal searches for England and Wales with Digital ID had a 45% faster turnaround time than those without it.

Speakers

Savanna Leavitt-Green

Sr. Advisory Business Process Consultant, First Advantage

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Savanna Leavitt-Green

Sr. Advisory Business Process Consultant, First Advantage

Savanna Leavitt-Green is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with over 17 years of experience in the background screening industry. She is an authority in solutioning, lean processing, client/internal training and education, project management and data analytics, having worked closely with some of the world’s largest and most trusted brands to optimize their screening programs.

Brian Larrow

Sr. Advisory Business Process Consultant, First Advantage

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Brian Larrow

Sr. Advisory Business Process Consultant, First Advantage

Brian is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with extensive experience optimizing client screening programs through data-driven analytics and results-focused engagements. He has pioneered new methods of analyzing key metrics such as turnaround time, adjudication, missing information, and industry benchmarking. In his prior role with First Advantage, he leveraged his self-taught Mandarin Chinese languages skills in managing the APAC region for several large global clients. In addition to his supply-chain focused BBA from the University of San Diego, Brian is passionate about city planning and completed the [IN]CITY certificate program at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design. An avid traveler, he has visited 40 countries, 49 US states, 30 Chinese provinces and more than 160 units of the National Park Service.