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Retail

Streamline your candidate experience and fill roles faster

Running background checks with Checkr helps retailers verify candidates faster and more comprehensively.

  • Improve conversion rates with a mobile-focused experience, real-time visibility into report completion, and dedicated support.
  • Scale hiring effortlessly and consistently across locations with standardized packages, billing, and adjudication.
  • Automate candidate communications with built-in, dynamic communications and forms based on candidate location.
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Retailers can’t afford delays in the hiring process

Peak season revenue is lost

Understaffed stores and warehouses during your busiest season means poor customer service and lost sales.

Candidates drop off

Delays result in a poor candidate experience–if you can't make the offer first, seasonal workers will take a job with another retailer.

Hiring teams are frustrated

Slow turnaround times are a roadblock to an efficient recruiting process, causing their pool of eligible candidates to shrink.

Background checks built for peak season hiring

From storefronts to distribution centers, avoid peak season hiring delays with background checks accelerated by AI and automated workflows.

Built to accelerate time to insight

Reduce total background check time with easy-to-read reports, custom adjudication filters, and automated data retrieval.

Automation improves efficiency

Proprietary data pipelines, API-powered data collection, and AI-powered document verification accelerate turnaround time.

Easy to conduct checks

Combat retail theft with comprehensive background checks, self-service package building, and continuous monitoring.

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How TAL Building Centers hires a strong workforce with Checkr

As one of the fastest growing family-owned building material centers in the region, TAL Building Centers relies on Checkr’s modern approach to reduce their background check turnaround times by 80%.

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Gain new efficiencies in retail

Answer 5 quick questions to see a forecast of the savings you can get by switching to Checkr and achieving new hiring process efficiencies.

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Drug testing

End-to-end drug testing options built for an easy candidate experience and to help you hire faster.

Employment verification

Minimize onboarding delays with instant employment verification through payroll connections.

Education verification

Confirm candidates have the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the role with education verification.

FACIS search

Screen for penalties or disciplinary action taken against healthcare professionals, including pharmacists.

Identity verification

Spot fraudulent candidates early and before the background check process with identity validation.

75%
of customers rate Checkr as easier to use than other screening solutions

63%
of retailers see a reduction in background check turnaround time since switching to Checkr

98%
of Checkr’s Basic+ package reports complete in <1 hour

“We're able to onboard employees quicker and reduce drop-off”

Screening resources for the retail industry

Maximize your team’s efficiency by integrating Checkr with your preferred ATS, HR and onboarding systems

Retailers can choose from Checkr’s broad ecosystem of 100+ partner integrations, including these four most commonly used in the retail industry: