Certn and ClearHire
Certn: Background screening with an employment verification that contacts past employers for titles and dates. This page is the practical half: what carries across, in what order, and where it stops. For this one, very little does.
Who should stay, and who should move
Choose Certn if you are an employer who needs a criminal record, identity and employment check in one order.
Choose ClearHire if you want the past employer's answer kept on the person's own record, free, with the name of who answered.
There is nothing to move
Certn sells a check to the employer or lender who orders it. ClearHire keeps a record that belongs to the person it is about. One does not replace the other, and no Certn report comes across.
- If the history is yours, start with Request employment verification.
- If you run a company and people name it on their claims, start with ClearHire for companies.
What we checked
Every row was read on Certn’s own pages on 7 November 2026. A page that did not say gets “not stated”, never “no”. Open Certn’s site and check us.
| What | Certn | ClearHire | Certn’s page |
|---|---|---|---|
| A free plan that does not end | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes | — |
| A named company countersigns a role, and the record is then locked | Partly | Yes | certn.co/pricing |
| Covers roles you have already left | Yes | Yes | certn.co/pricing |
| People write about companies in public | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes | — |
| Certn plan | Price | Note | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment Verification | $29.99 per check | Currency symbol only on the page; pass-through access fees may apply | certn.co/pricing |
ClearHire’s plans and prices are on Paid plans, and the full side-by-side is on ClearHire’s comparison page.
Where ClearHire falls short
- Only resumes leave in six formats. A resume exports as PDF, Word, JSON, HTML, Markdown or XML. Cover letters copy out as plain text, and a portfolio has no export.
- Free exports name us. A resume exported on Free carries one “built with” line. Paid plans remove it.
- There is no career path on your record. The roadmap and skills-gap pages are reading, not a plan kept for you.
- A company’s answer about a person stays private. Only that person and the company’s admins can read it.
Built and maintained by the ClearHire team — aoneahsan.com · GitHub.