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Hiring teams have evolved. Offers move quickly, background checks run faster, and onboarding tools streamline the process.
Yet for years, employment verifications have lagged behind: they are often slow, expensive, and frustrating. So painful, in fact, that some companies quietly stopped running them because the delays outweighed the value.
Today, however, employment verification has regained importance as a critical checkpoint for building trust in candidates amid rising hiring fraud.
At Checkr, we’ve never accepted “that’s just how it’s done.” A decade ago, we transformed criminal background checks from a manual, error-prone process into a fast, API-driven experience—setting a new standard for accuracy, speed, and transparency. That innovation rewired the industry and has since earned us an NPS of +60, the highest among major background check providers, along with top G2 rankings year after year.
Now, we’re taking that same approach to reimagining employment verification.
The bottleneck everyone feels
Even in an era of AI-driven recruiting and automated onboarding, employment verification still feels stuck in the early 2000s: slow, manual, costly, and frustrating for candidates and HR alike.
What employment verification feels like today:
- Rising passthrough fees result from legacy third-party databases providing data.
- Manual outreach, calls, faxes, emails, and voicemail loops that create delays.
- Incomplete or inconsistent data requires HR teams to chase documents and reconcile mismatches.
- Limited coverage for hourly and small-business workers creates additional work.
- At times, the verification process can be vulnerable to incomplete or inaccurate information, which may impact the reliability of the results.
What employment verification should feel like:
- Transparent and predictable costs, without unnecessary passthrough fees.
- Automated workflows that remove manual outreach and accelerate progress.
- Complete, accurate data that reduces HR follow-up and reconciliation work.
- Coverage that ensures employment verifications provide valuable coverage across all types of positions.
- A tamper-resistant verification process that closes loopholes, prevents circumvention, and delivers high confidence in the integrity of every result.
Our vision
Imagine a world where employment verifications quietly work behind the scenes to drive high-quality hires, without adding delays or extra effort to your hiring workflow.
Verification deserves reinvention
In 2026, Checkr is delivering the first meaningful modernization of employment verification in decades. With millions of verifications processed each year, we see exactly where the industry stalls—and where modernization can truly move the needle.
Our AI-powered data platform eliminates HR's biggest employment verification pain points. Here's how:
- Reducing reliance on legacy databases and inflated passthrough fees.
Employers shouldn’t pay for outdated, inaccessible data. New payroll connections and alternative sources are shifting this model. - Faster paths to verified records
Automation, intelligent routing, and improved employer outreach shorten verification times—especially for complex or manual cases. - More complete, accurate, and fraud-resilient results
Multi-document workflows and AI-assisted document intelligence reduce manual review and increase confidence in results. - A better candidate experience
Clear guidance, intuitive workflows, and fewer back-and-forth requests reduce frustration and improve conversion.
This transformation will unfold throughout 2026, with each milestone moving verification closer to the experience it should have been all along—faster, more accurate, and less burdensome for both HR teams and candidates.
Instant database is the first major milestone of this transformation, which begins rolling out this week and will be available to all customers over the next couple of weeks.
This progress builds on our strategic acquisition of Truework, a leading verification provider. By integrating their technology into our existing employment verification process, we can now tap into over 52 million records, enabling instant employment verifications at a fraction of the cost of traditional legacy databases.
The result is clear: faster, more accurate, and actionable verification that reduces manual work and delivers real efficiency for HR teams.
A call to HR leaders: Don’t let verification slow you down
The companies that win top talent optimize every step of the hiring journey—not just sourcing or compensation. Employment verification is often the most involved part of the process for candidates. Providing information can be cumbersome, waiting for the right contact at a past employer is nerve-wracking, and retrieving documents after days of delays can be frustrating.
These pain points directly impact hiring outcomes:
- Hiring vs. losing a great candidate
- Smooth onboarding vs. delayed start dates
- A strong employer brand vs. frustrated candidates
It’s time to stop accepting that verification is a bottleneck. At Checkr, we’ve transformed complex processes before. Now, we’re making employment verification faster, more reliable, and cost-efficient. More innovations are coming throughout 2026.
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