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Nobody knows in terms of how many recruiters do this (I’ll get to the background check in a minute). Outside of a small cadre of companies like Google itself, Facebook and Apple, every company I know encourages it or has no specific policy on it. This is changing but changing quite slowly.At Facebook, doing so is a very quick way to lose your job. Despite all the negative (frequently warranted; frequently unwarranted) press, Facebook treats your internet footprint as sacrosanct and has a “one strike you’re out” policy on doing any back door or irregular reference check. That’s for HireRite, not its recruiters. We trust the process and cannot alter it.Why?Facebook obsessively tries to remove hiring biases from entering the process. The hiring team’s #1 charge is to eliminate bias from the hiring process. By taking it upon one’s self and doing an irregular data search on a candidate, the recruiter is introducing potential bias.How?It’s unlikely the recruiter does it for every candidate. What if they unconsciously check only Indian or female candidates? What if they don’t do a thorough job and find someone who fits the description but isn’t them? What if they DQ someone who was maliciously targeted earlier in life? Recruiters aren’t trained to be forensic specialists. So Facebook bans just that activity.

Rather then re-type an answer, this was answered well by @Corrie Hausman and @Barry Chignell.@What is part of a "pre-employment background check," when reference checks have already been completed?

The Department of Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration requires companies that have big trucks, especially those that drive interstate, to keep files on their drivers. These are called DQ (Driver Qualification) files and consist of an application for employment, a driver’s record (which you’ve checked over), negative pre-employment and random drug and alcohol testing reports, and copies of their valid commercial DLs and health cards (i.e., Medical Examiner’s Certificates).A state trooper had gotten angry with us for some reason, so he referred us for an audit, which did occur in a limited form. Basically, it was limited to collating mechanic’s repair reports with driver’s need-repairs reports and looking over the DQ files. It turns out that the auditor liked us; he seemed to have a genuine affinity for our little trucking operation, and so he performed a very limited audit, which we passed, with only a couple of infractions noted.If I remember there were two infractions, both of which being easy to fix.One was that he noted the owner/President of the company did not have an application for employment.—I took the owner a job application. He wrote in his name and information. For job wanted, he put boss.For references, he listed me, myself, and I (three references). How long had these people known him? He put down his age.For salary requested, he wrote as much as I can get. Signed it, dated it.I filed it away, and I guess he was hired over 30 years after he started the company.