Candidate Stories - Checkr
2026-02-28 22:15 Diff

Give your candidates a voice

With our candidate stories feature, your job candidates can share additional context around their records, prior circumstances, and efforts they’ve made to better themselves directly with background check requesters. Empowering your candidates to tell their own story is a huge step toward a fairer future.

Why use candidate stories?

Lowering the barrier, not the bar

80M

Americans have an arrest or conviction history

$87B

Annual economic loss due to barriers to employment

87%

Retention rate of justice-impacted employees

"As we look at the workforce, and we see the available candidates, there's a great deal of population that don't have an opportunity or they're not sure how to take that next step. Working with Checkr and the vision you have around fair chance hiring really aligns with those individuals we're focusing on."

Angie College Hooper

COO at GoJob