Employment Verification Delays: Impact on Time-to-Hire

Employment verification is often the longest step in time-to-hire. While interviews can be scheduled in days, verification drags on for weeks. The impact is significant: lost candidates, vacant roles, recruiter frustration. When verification is the bottleneck, your entire hiring process slows down. This guide quantifies the impact and explains how to fix it.

The Impact of Verification Delays

Long time-to-hire means losing candidates to faster competitors. Vacant roles cost productivity—work doesn't get done. Recruiters get frustrated—they've done their job, but verification holds everything up. Candidates drop off—they lose interest or accept elsewhere. Industry average for verification alone: 7-14 days. Total time-to-hire stretches to 40+ days. Verification is often the bottleneck. Optimize it, and your entire hiring process speeds up.

Quantifying the Delay

Reducing verification from 2 weeks to 3 days cuts 11 days from time-to-hire. That's 11 fewer days of vacancy. That's 11 fewer days for candidates to get other offers. For a company hiring 50 people per year, that's 550 days of vacancy reduction. Speed in verification directly improves time-to-hire. There's no other single lever that has this impact.

True Probe

True Probe's 1-3 day verification directly improves time-to-hire—helping you fill roles faster and win talent over slower competitors. The fix is faster verification. Automation delivers it. When verification stops being the bottleneck, your entire hiring process accelerates.