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Checkr

HR
Velocity5.0

Checkr keeps moving verification work off its reviewers and onto data sources and candidates

background-checksidentity-verificationautomationtransportation-screeningcandidate-experience
◆Current state
The recent run is dominated by verification mechanics: fraud detection on employment documents, smarter document collection, an Instant Database source for US employment, and Clearinghouse post-hire limited-query support. The newest entry gives candidates two self-service routes to resolve an incomplete driving history rather than routing it through support. Transportation and fleet screening keeps getting dedicated attention, from PSP reports to driving-history remediation.
◆Where it's heading
Two threads run in parallel: automate the parts of a check a human used to chase, and give the candidate a path to unblock their own report. Both attack turnaround time, which is the metric this category competes on. Identity verification is being broadened from a gated product into something self-serve customers configure themselves.
◆Prediction
Expect the self-service remediation pattern to spread from driving history to other stalled check types, since the same friction — a report blocked waiting on candidate input — applies across employment and education verification.

◆Recent moves

  1. 20d ago

    A Clearer Path to Resolve Incomplete Driving History

    Candidates with an incomplete driving history get two clear ways to supply what is missing, for any customer with a driving-history requirement configured. It extends the self-service unblocking pattern into the transportation screening path, though the entry carries a Q3 2026 shipping estimate rather than a firm live date.

  2. 1mo ago

    Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse: post-hire (limited query) support

    Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse screening adds post-hire limited query alongside the existing full query. It rounds out an FMCSA-mandated check for fleet employers who need ongoing rather than one-time visibility.

  3. 1mo ago

    Fraud Detection for Employment Documents

    Fraud detection is applied to employment documents, the last-resort verification method used when payroll connections, databases, and employer outreach all fail. It hardens the weakest link in the verification chain rather than adding a new check.

  4. 2mo ago

    Smarter employment document collection and verification

    Document collection and validation get reworked, the release the later fraud-detection work builds directly on. Part of the steady effort to make the fallback verification path less manual.

  5. 3mo ago

    Cancel Individual Criminal Searches

    Individual criminal searches can be cancelled from a candidate's report without scrapping the whole screening. A granularity fix that removes an all-or-nothing decision customers previously had to make.

  6. 4mo ago

    Identity verification available for self-serve ordering

    Identity verification becomes orderable through self-serve, letting customers build IDV into packages without a sales-assisted setup. It continues moving IDV from a gated add-on toward a default component.

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