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Run Sterling background checks from your workflows: add candidates, order screenings with your packages and invite candidates to consent, wait for results, save reports, attach documents and manage adverse action.
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Triggers
Start a workflow when something happens in Sterling.
- New packageRuns when Sterling adds a screening package to your account. Packages there before the workflow is turned on don't start it. How often it checks follows your workspace plan.
- New sub-accountRuns when a sub-account is added to your Sterling account. Accounts there before the workflow is turned on don't start it.
Actions
Steps a workflow can run in Sterling.
- List packagesList your screening packages, with the searches each runs and the candidate details each needs.
- Get packageGet one screening package: its searches, how many of each, and the candidate details it needs.
- List sub-accountsList your Sterling account and its sub-accounts, with their ids.
- List bill codesList the bill codes you can put on an order.
- List candidate formsList the Candidate Hub forms (workflows) an invite can use, such as Consent Plus.
- Create candidateAdd a candidate: the person to run a background check on. Give what the package needs, or leave it for the candidate to fill in through an invite.
- Get candidateGet a candidate's details and the ids of their screenings. SSN and date of birth come back partly hidden.
- Find candidatesFind a candidate by their email address or by your reference for them.
- Update candidateChange a candidate's details. Fields left empty keep what Sterling has; screenings already ordered keep the details they were ordered with.
- Create screeningOrder a background check on a candidate with one of your packages. Sterling bills for it on Production. Optionally invite the candidate to give consent and fill in their details first.
- Get screeningGet a background check: its status, result, each search's progress and a link to the report in Sterling.
- Wait for screeningPause the workflow until Sterling has finished a background check (or needs someone to act on it), then give its status and result. Checks every 30 minutes.
- List screening notesList the notes Sterling's team made on a background check and on each of its searches, such as when they contacted the candidate.
- Resend screening updateHave Sterling post a background check's latest update to its updates address again. Only for a check ordered with an updates address.
- Get screening reportSave a background check's report in Lodol as a PDF or web page, to email or store.
- Create report linkMake a link to a background check's PDF report. It works once, within 5 minutes.
- Attach document to screeningAttach a file to a background check, such as a signed consent form or the driver's license Sterling asked for.
- List screening documentsList the files attached to a background check.
- Download screening documentSave a file attached to a background check in Lodol.
- Attach document to candidateAttach a file to a candidate, such as their resume, for searches that need one.
- List candidate documentsList the files attached to a candidate.
- Start adverse actionStart the adverse action process on a finished check with a Consider, Review or Level 3 result: Sterling sends the candidate a pre-adverse action notice with their report.
- Pause, resume or cancel adverse actionPause, resume or cancel an adverse action process before the final notice goes out. Cancelling scores the report and needs a reason.
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