Screen your team quickly and equitably
Find qualified candidates, save time, money, and get peace of mind while building your team. Checkr has built in compliance features that can help you avoid costly hiring mistakes. And with Gusto + Checkr, you can recruit, screen, hire, and pay your team all in one place.
Keep your team compliant
Stay one step ahead of the compliance curve. Integrated compliance tools let you quickly process background checks while keeping your company protected.
One place for hiring and onboarding
Checkr Background Checks are fully integrated within Gusto’s user-friendly workflow to accelerate the hiring process from application to onboarding.
Equitable and informed hiring
Customizable Fairness Filters mean getting the right person for the job while reducing human error and bias across the board.
Gusto + Checkr
The most powerful background check service for employers—fully integrated with Gusto.
Gusto already makes hiring a snap, but connecting with Checkr puts everything you need at your fingertips. Send, track, and review background checks for candidates, employees, and contractors, with the power to map custom-built checks to specific roles in Gusto. You and your candidate will receive status updates and actionable items—and it’s all seamlessly integrated into Gusto’s hiring workflow.
Informed hiring
Faster candidate screening, better-informed decisions.
Checkr’s AI and individualized adjudication tools speed up the screening process while reducing bias and mitigating risk at every step. Whether you’re looking for basic education and employment checks or in-depth criminal history, driving records, and social security verification, Checkr gives you eligibility criteria to help you make the right decision for every position.
Peace of mind
Keep your company protected with built-in compliance.
Checkr leverages technology to help reduce bias and human error throughout the background check process, and to bring you accurate data for more compliant decision-making. Checkr’s compliance engine automatically filters out any information that can’t be used when making a decision, and we stay up to date with ever evolving regulations so you don’t have to. Avoid costly mistakes and create an informed, equitable, and compliant hiring process from start to finish.
Frequently Asked Questions
A background check is an investigation into the history of a potential employee. It typically covers things such as criminal records and employment and education history. It can also go deeper to include driving records, drug tests, a credit check, or even social media use. It’s critical for employers to know how to stay compliant with background checks.
Only certain industries such as healthcare, transportation, construction, and finance have mandatory background checks, and these laws vary by state. Some employers may choose to use background checks to mitigate risk or protect themselves from liability. In these cases, it’s important to follow fair practices. Gusto helps employers do so by drafting a company policy that is shared with candidates and by mapping job roles to a reason that a check is needed. For example, running a motor vehicle report on a person who will be driving on the job is relevant.
There are a few rules to remember before running a background check:
1. Tell the applicant or employee about the upcoming background check in writing. This notice must be separate from any other information you provide. It’s illegal to sneak a notice into an employment application, for example.
2. Get written permission to perform the background check. In most cases, this means having the potential employee sign the notice you provide. (Want to periodically check your employees’ backgrounds throughout their employment? You’ll need to tell them that, too.)
Because the laws surrounding employment background check services vary so much by state, it’s important to stay up to date with the regulations in your locality. Luckily, Checkr takes care of compliance for you and has powerful AI tools built in to filter out any information on which it’s illegal to make decisions. For more information on staying compliant, check out this guide on background check law in each state.
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