- Where is my fair chance dashboard?
- What is the fair chance dashboard?
- How do I use the fair chance dashboard?
Where is my fair chance dashboard?
You can access your organization’s fair chance dashboard from the Fair chance tab in your Checkr Dashboard. This dashboard displays hiring-related education, resources, and analytics for customers with available data.
The fair chance dashboard is available for all customers who use Checkr products for employment purposes. The fair chance dashboard doesn't apply for customers who use Checkr products for tenant, insurance, or business purposes.
What is the fair chance dashboard?
Through the Fair chance tab in your dashboard, you can find fair chance-related education, resources, and (for some customers) data. Learn how your organization can widen your talent pool while transforming lives through opportunities to work.
By engaging individuals who are impacted by a criminal record, you can widen your talent funnel, successfully recruit and engage top talent, and contribute to lowering the unemployment rate of workers impacted by criminal records.
How do I use the fair chance dashboard?
At Checkr, we believe people with records should have the opportunity to move forward from their past.
Fair chance hiring refers to the practice of hiring people with criminal records. It is built on the premise that everyone, regardless of their background, has the right to be fairly assessed for a role they are qualified to hold.
By practicing fair chance hiring, companies can find qualified, diverse talent with a wide range of experiences that builds diversity and ultimately leads to stronger business outcomes.
To learn more about the fair chance dashboard, review the fair chance user guide.
The information below applies to customers who have analytics in their fair chance dashboard:
Who can see fair chance analytics data?
This data is private and appears only for users in your organization who have the permission to access analytics enabled. These roles are admins or other roles that have explicit permission to access analytics in the Checkr Dashboard.
What does <charge category> mean?
Pending charges
- A pending charge means that nothing has been officially decided and the prosecutor is still reviewing the charge.
- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) encourages employers to consider factors such as the nature of the offense when determining eligibility for candidates with records.
Petty charges
- Petty charges are the lowest-level in severity, meaning the charge may not be serious in nature and may be irrelevant to your business or job type.
- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) encourages employers to consider factors such as the nature of the offense when determining eligibility for candidates with records.
Charges over 7 years old
- The more time that has passed, the less likely an individual is to commit another offense. Charges that are older than 7 years old have surpassed the statistical reoffense rate.
- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) encourages employers to consider factors such as the time that has passed since the offense when determining eligibility for candidates with records.
Charges from when the candidates were younger than 25
- Emerging science about brain maturation suggests that adolescent brains continue to mature well into the 20s.
- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) encourages employers to consider factors such as age at the time of offense when determining eligibility for candidates with records.
How is the fair chance data calculated in the 3-bar chart?
3-bar chart: This analytics feature displays customer adverse action rate as compared to that of average and high fair chance customers of a similar size over the past year.
- Adverse action rate refers to the total candidates that your organization has initiated adverse action for / total reports marked Consider.
- Similar size is defined as customers conducting a similar number of background checks per year.
- Average is defined as the adverse action rate of the 50th percentile for your group of customers of a similar size.
- High fair chance is defined as the adverse action rate of the top 10% of accounts (of your group of customers of a similar size) with the lowest adverse action rates.
For more information about fair chance hiring practices, refer to Checkr's Fair Chance Mission.