How Tines Reclaimed 20 Hours a Week With Checkr

Tines ran criminal checks and employment verifications as two separate workflows inside their previous vendor’s Greenhouse integration. When an employer couldn’t be reached, the vendor stopped trying.

From there, the recruiting team took over: explaining options to candidates, requesting documentation, following up when submissions came in incomplete, and uploading files manually. During heavy hiring periods, a single recruiter could spend several hours a week just managing background check paperwork—time that couldn't go toward sourcing, interviewing, or closing candidates.

The prior vendor also couldn’t be configured as a single package inside Greenhouse. It had to be added as a separate interview stage, which meant recruiters had to jump between workflows to kick off and track two different checks instead of managing everything in one place.

Several peers in the recruiting community had already recommended Checkr, which focused Tines’ evaluation down to Checkr and one other competitor. Speed was the first differentiator: 3–5 business days for a completed check versus the 1–2 weeks they were used to.

The platform’s ease of use for both recruiters and candidates also stood out—especially important for a company that builds automation tools and holds itself to a high standard for experience.

What ultimately pushed Checkr over the top was the people.

Pricing was another factor. Compared to other vendors Tines evaluated, Checkr came in as one of the more competitive options, which carries real weight at a growth-stage startup.

Checkr’s employment verification process gives candidates clear options from the start, including the ability to skip contact with a current employer and submit documentation instead. When documentation is needed, Checkr handles collection and guides candidates on what to submit, so the recruiting team no longer has to manage back-and-forth communication.

Since switching to Checkr, the entire recruiting team has dealt with only two or three cases that required any manual follow-up.

Across the full team, that’s about one hour of work per month—or as Leslie Cormier, Principal Recruiter at Tines, puts it, they’ve “only had a couple of cases where we needed creative workarounds—we’re talking about an hour of work a month.”

The Checkr widget lives directly inside the candidate profile in Greenhouse. Recruiters select the location, choose from a preconfigured dropdown of packages, and launch the check in two clicks. Everything runs as one workflow—no separate stages and no jumping between tools. This simplicity is why, as Leslie Cormier puts it, it’s “only two clicks, and then you’re good to go.”

Tines holds its recruiting team to what they call an 11-star candidate experience. Employment verification used to undercut that goal. Candidates arriving at the background check phase stressed about verifying old employers or employers they didn’t want contacted, and recruiters heard about it.

With Checkr, candidates get clear options in a single email, can complete everything on mobile, and don’t need to go back and forth with the recruiting team to sort out documentation. Complaint volume has dropped.

Leslie Cormier joined Tines as their first US-based recruiter more than four years ago and has since helped hire across nearly every team. When Leslie introduced the new process to her colleagues, the reaction was immediate: “Everyone cheered.”

For a growing company hiring across multiple countries with needs that shift by quarter, flexibility matters. Tines can add checks for one-off roles, adjust packages over time, and support international hires without having to rebuild their workflow from scratch.