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What’s New at Checkr: Fall Product Highlights

Watch the webinar to learn more about checkr's recent product updates — along with a preview into what we’re working on for you this quarter.

Transparency is Key: Estimating Report Completion

Learn how Checkr uses data from millions of background checks to provide estimated completion times at the county level.

How to Fast-Track Time to Fill for an Exceptional Candidate Experience

Time to fill is one of the top criteria used to assess staffing firms. Here’s how experts from SIA, Gojob, and Checkr say you can expedite hiring.

Streamline Your Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification With Checkr

Expedite and consolidate your hiring and onboarding workflows by streamlining Form I-9 verification with Checkr.

[VIDEO] Compliance Insights: What is Adverse Action?

Learn about the adjudication process in the context of background checks and how to conduct an individualized assessment when reviewing screening results.

Ban the Box Laws: What Employers Should Know

Ban the Box: What to know about these ever-evolving policies.

Checkr Named to the 2023 Forbes Cloud 100

Representing the world's top private cloud companies, Checkr claims a spot for the sixth consecutive year.

What’s New at Checkr: Summer Product Highlights

This summer, we made a number of enhancements to the candidate experience, verifications, and the Checkr Dashboard. Watch the webinar to learn more about these updates—along with a preview into what we’re working on later this quarter, including I-9 verification.

[VIDEO] Compliance Insights: What is Adjudication?

Learn about the adjudication process in the context of background checks and how to conduct an individualized assessment when reviewing screening results.

Automated Clean Slate Laws Are Being Introduced Across the US. What Does That Mean for Your Business?

Clean Slate laws impact the entire background check industry and Checkr has solutions to support successful implementation.

International expansion and multi-region deployments

Checkr’s fair chance hiring initiative unblocked 400k job candidates in 2019 and 1.5 million in 2020 who were previously ineligible due to criminal records that were irrelevant to their prospective…

Checkr’s Expungement Service: from Hack Week to MVP

How did a scrappy Hack Week team build one of the simplest, fastest, and most affordable record expungement offerings in the nation? An expungement removes or “seals” prior criminal records from…

The Sounds of Silence: Lessons From an API Outage

This article is a written version of the talk “The Sounds of Silence: Lessons from an 18 hour API outage” presented at RailsConf 2020.2 Couch Edition. You can watch the video here. Bugs are the…

Hybrid API management with Kong

Combine declarative and imperative ways of managing your API Gateway to enable organizational growth and to deliver the best experience to your platform.

How we’re humanizing the background check process with Candidate Stories

Individuals with criminal records, including the 650,000 people released from prison each year, face significant challenges when applying for work. Without a steady job, citizens reentering society…

How We’re Using the Design Process to Further our Mission

According to the FBI, as many as 70 million Americans (one in three adults) have a criminal record. That criminal record can follow a person for decades, denying them employment long after they’ve…

Checkr Contest: Join us at Grace Hopper!

At Checkr, our mission is to build a fairer future by improving understanding of the past. That means having an employee base which accurately reflects our client and applicant base is a must. We…

Who’s Who? Identity Matching Using Applied Machine Learning

Ask yourself — how many people have your first and last name? What about the same name and date of birth (DOB)? How about the same name and live in your state? At Checkr, millions of records run…

We’re excited to highlight Michelle Xue our Director of Engineering, Foundation!

In her role, Michelle leads and mentors the Infrastructure, Data and Platform teams. To get to know Michelle better, we sat down and asked her a few questions: How did you get into engineering? In…

Building software to manage the complexities of background checks

At Checkr we are building software to help companies hire at scale, and our background checks are a big part of what makes that possible. On the surface a background check seems straightforward —…

A Kafka Epic — How Checkr built a more reliable and performant background check platform by…

Back in Fall of 2017, a group of Checkr engineers came together during a hackday to research a bottleneck in our system that was causing delays in our background check product. The team made a big…

3 Lessons from Building Our First Bug Bounty Program

A bug bounty program is a program where you pay or reward researchers for finding and reporting valid vulnerabilities in your software. We started off by asking: How would implementing a bug bounty…

The Checkr Engineering Team: Meet Gabe Westmaas

We’re excited to welcome Gabe Westmaas as our new Director of Product Engineering! In his role, Gabe will lead and mentor a team of engineers, shape our product roadmap, and help grow the…

Introducing Checkr’s Integration testing workflow and OpenMock

In the world of microservices, teams at Checkr are developing increasingly complex systems that unit tests alone cannot reliably cover. For example, we have many state-machine events that go between…

Welcoming the Lytmus team to Checkr

We’re excited to share that members of the Lytmus engineering team are joining Checkr! Lytmus was founded to help recruiters make data-driven hiring decisions and level the hiring playing field. Our…