SmartHRCheqs
For 20 years, SmartHRCheqs has been a leader in the pre-employment screening community. We are revolutionizing background screening with smarter intelligence and a human touch. As an all-U.S.-based team, we deliver comprehensive, accurate, and efficient employee screening solutions tailored to your organization’s needs. We Leverage cutting-edge technology, industry expertise, and a commitment to compliance to provide actionable insights that help you make informed hiring decisions. With a focus on security, integrity, and transparency, SmartHRCheqs is your trusted partner in building a secure and dynamic workforce.
Seamless Integration with Lever
SmartHRCheqs integrates directly with Lever to streamline background screening, drug testing, credential verification, and workforce compliance within the hiring workflow. Through embedded workflows and API-driven data exchange, recruiters and hiring teams can initiate, monitor, and manage screening activities without leaving the Lever platform. By eliminating manual processes and disconnected systems, organizations can accelerate time-to-hire, improve operational efficiency, and create a more seamless recruiting experience.
Embedded Screening & Automated Hiring Workflows
The SmartHRCheqs integration enables organizations to centralize and automate critical hiring and onboarding processes directly within Lever. Users can order criminal background checks, employment and education verifications, identity validation, drug testing, professional license verification, and compliance services from a single workflow while receiving real-time status updates and reporting visibility. Configurable screening packages and customizable workflows allow organizations to tailor screening requirements based on role, location, industry, or internal policy—supporting consistency, scalability, and operational control across the hiring process.
Enhanced Recruiter & Candidate Experience
By embedding screening directly into the recruiting workflow, SmartHRCheqs reduces administrative burden for recruiters while delivering a faster, more candidate-friendly experience. Candidates benefit from mobile-responsive workflows, text message notifications, automated release forms, secure digital document collection, and transparent status communication throughout the screening process. Recruiters and HR teams gain improved visibility, fewer manual touchpoints, and faster turnaround times that help keep hiring processes moving efficiently and reduce onboarding
delays.
Compliance-Focused Screening & Risk Mitigation
SmartHRCheqs combines advanced technology with experienced investigative review and direct court sourcing to deliver accurate, compliant, and actionable screening results. Unlike providers that rely exclusively on automated databases, SmartHRCheqs incorporates human-led review processes designed to reduce false matches and support FCRA and EEOC compliance objectives. In addition to pre-employment screening, organizations can Leverage integrated solutions to support
ongoing workforce compliance, credential monitoring, and post-hire risk visibility.
High-Touch Customer Support
SmartHRCheqs delivers enterprise-grade screening technology backed by a highly responsive, relationship-driven support model. Clients work with dedicated points of contact who are accessible by phone and email, providing direct communication and personalized support throughout the hiring and compliance lifecycle. Rather thanrelying on impersonal ticketing systems and extended support queues, SmartHRCheqs prioritizes rapid response times, proactive communication, and issue resolution measured in hours—not days. This high-touch approach helps organizations minimize disruptions, maintain hiring momentum, and receive the level of service and accountability often missing from larger providers.
A Trusted Partner for Modern Hiring Teams
Since 2005, SmartHRCheqs has helped organizations reduce workforce risk and hire confidently through configurable technology, compliance expertise, and responsive service. The SmartHRCheqs integration with Lever empowers organizations to unify recruiting, screening, and workforce compliance within a single ecosystem— improving efficiency, reducing risk, and enhancing the overall hiring experience. SmartHRCheqs is also recognized as an industry thought leader through SHRM and HRCI educational programming, national speaking engagements, and an ongoing commitment to workforce compliance and hiring best practices.
A Full Suite of Screening Service
SmartHRCheqs provides an end-to-end workforce screening and compliance solution designed to help organizations hire faster, reduce risk, and improve efficiency—now integrated with Lever. Our services include criminal background checks at the county, national, and global levels, employment and education verifications, identity validation, fraud prevention, and comprehensive drug testing through a nationwide lab network with electronic chain of custody and real-time status tracking. We also support FCRA-compliant workflows, I-9 and E-Verify, audit-ready reporting, professional license verification, and ongoing credential monitoring to ensure organizations maintain strong compliance and hiring integrity. Through our native Lever integration, screening and drug testing are embedded directly into the hiring workflow via API-driven connectivity, enabling faster and more informed hiring decisions while improving the candidate experience. This seamless connection reduces manual work, minimizes compliance risk, and provides continuous post-hire visibility through alerts and workforce monitoring—helping organizations scale hiring operations with a flexible, automated solution tailored to their needs.
Brand Promise/Net Promoter Score
What sets SmartHRCheqs apart from other background screening companies is our band promise that we guarantee to provide our clients. We commit to inspire confidence on every background investigation assignment by providing Smarter Minds, Smarter Intel and Smarter Hires. The company participates in a weekly huddle to review Key Performance Indicators that drive our business and our clients’ business toward success. We are transparent with our clients and provide responsive communication which provides them with a higher level of service.
Passion and Corporate Culture
CEO Mario Pecoraro has been in the investigative and background screening industry his entire life. He developed a strong passion for the industry at a pretty young age, working in his parent’s investigation firm. At the age of 24, he was told he was the youngest private investigator ever to be licensed in the State of New York after he realized the minimum age requirement was 25. His passion led him to found the company in 2005 when he saw an opportunity to really help manage risk forcorporations at all levels. His priority was to hire employees that are passionate about achieving success both personally and professionally by living the core values of integrity first, being successfully engaged, maintaining a positive attitude and having a passion for excellence.
Industry Thought Leaders
SmartHRCheqs is privileged to know that companies look to us as industry thought leaders. CEO Mario Pecoraro has published two books including “How to Avoid Costly Hiring Mistakes” available on Amazon.com. He has been featured on ABC’s 20/20, Bloomberg Business Reports and Fox Business News with Neil Cavuto. He gives presentations at various industry association conferences on a local, state and national level. SmartHRCheqs stays abreast of constantly changing laws and provides information on compliance and best practices. The company has presented Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) accredited webinars since 2014 and in 2020 has been approved as a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Recertification General Provider.SmartHRCheqs is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.