Noticing a screening order that quietly went nowhere
Checkr fires an invitation expired event when a candidate never finishes the form, and most integrations listen for a completed report and nothing else. A report can also sit suspended because an exception asked for a document that never came back. On the collection side a donor pass gets issued and the candidate does not attend, or the specimen returns dilute and the sequence restarts from the beginning. Seen from the applicant system these are identical: a start date approaching and a screening field that is still not clear.
The parser reads the resume, then somebody corrects the employment dates it merged, which is most of the time it was supposed to save.
Resumes arrive in every format that has ever existed, including scans with no text layer and designed templates in two columns that get read in the wrong order. Parsing is nearly always a third-party component, and its characteristic failure is employment history: dates written as ranges with words in them produce merged employers and wrong tenure.
- Checkr
- Bullhorn
- Twilio
When this is the wrong thing to build
Pick something else if screening runs through one vendor whose dashboard a coordinator already opens every morning. The gain comes from watching several vendors at once against start dates, and at a handful of starts a month the dashboard wins on cost and on honesty.
The constraint that shapes it
This is the sector where the boundary is sharpest, and it is worth stating plainly: rejection is the regulated act, not enrichment. More on how this sector works.
No alarm goes off when a thing simply stops arriving. Read what this shape is, or start from one of these.
- Noticing that an agent licence has quietly lapsed
- Watching an MLS feed for the day it goes quiet
- Catching a lapse date nobody put on a calendar
- Closing the registration window before it closes you
- Scheduling the visits a membership already promised
- Closing the permit that never got its final inspection
- Why did my Checkr invitation expire before the candidate finished it?
- What does a suspended background check report actually mean?
- How do I find screenings ordered but never completed before a start?
- What happens when a pre employment drug screen comes back dilute?
- Can I get alerted when a candidate never attends the collection site?
Back to recruiting and staffing, or see how this is priced and scoped.