About Fair Chance | Checkr
2026-02-28 21:57 Diff
https://checkr.com/company/fair-chance

Fair chance hiring is the practice of basing employment decisions on a candidate’s qualifications  and eligibility for a role, rather than automatic disqualification due to an arrest or conviction history. 

By engaging in fair chance hiring, employers can find a pool of qualified talent with a wide range of lived experiences that ultimately leads to stronger business outcomes.

80M

Americans have an arrest or conviction record

$87B

Annual economic loss due to barriers to employment

87%

Retention rate of justice-impacted employees

A pledge for the future

Checkr has committed to Pledge 1%, pledging to donate one percent of our product, one percent of our equity, and one percent of our profits towards advancing fair chance hiring. 

Learn more at Checkr.org.

A 12-month earn-and-learn program that provides job training and formal learning programs to create career pathways for those with an arrest or conviction history. Hosted by Checkr in partnership with other employers, this program aims to bring justice-impacted individuals into the workforce with support for hiring and training.

Take a moment to walk in the shoes of someone leaving prison and reentering society. This thought-provoking experience will both enlighten and challenge your perceptions around justice-impacted individuals and the obstacles they tackle while settling into life post-incarceration. 

Checkr supports individuals reentering society through many programs with our community partners. These programs include in-person volunteering at various correctional facilities to provide coaching and tutoring, mock employment interviews, job fairs, and business pitch bootcamps.

Checkr's record filtering products help you build safeguards to only surface reportable charges that you flag as relevant so you can increase consistency and reduce potential bias. Plus, you'll speed adjudication and lower compliance risk.

Built directly into the Checkr platform, the Fair Chance Dashboard provides helpful tips, resources, and inspiration to gain the actionable insights needed to bring fair chance hiring to your organization and grow your talent pool.

With Candidate Stories, your candidates can share additional context around their records, prior circumstances, and efforts they’ve made to better themselves directly within the platform. Empowering your candidates to tell their own story is a huge step toward a fairer future.