In today’s unpredictable job market, candidates’ mindsets can shift just as quickly. 

One minute your HR team is pursuing top talent, and the next, that same candidate decides to walk away.

Why? They might see you dragging checks for weeks, they might receive silence on the loop, and often, they might not be told upfront about the background check process.

They become anxious, lose patience, and grab any other lucrative offers but not you.

We don’t blame you, as we understand that, like 38% of other companies, you may have tightened screening to secure better hires, even if it extends timelines.

But isn’t it meant to lose your top-notch targeted talents?

However, the good news is that there’s a simple solution to make the situation win-win for both of you, and that’s Lystproof (We’ll explain).

How to Reduce Candidate Drop-Off During Background Checks?

If you can build a candidate-centric hiring process where candidates feel engaged and respected for their invested time and interest, you secure their trust and control candidate attrition. So, how can you start?

The First Step is to Manage Expectations Within Your Team

Not every company runs background checks for the same reason.

For some (38%), it’s about minimizing criminal risks. For others (27%), it’s about compliance. Around 17% of companies want to be sure candidates have the right skills, 77% tend to protect employees and customers, while 6% do it to safeguard their reputation.

And, you might have any one or all of the reasons. But did you know that without internal alignment, these priorities clash?

For example, while hiring managers focus on securing the best talent as soon as possible, HR is tasked with maintaining compliance throughout the process. These competing priorities can slow down the timeline and leave candidates feeling frustrated.

Another common scenario? Midway through hiring, one team insists on an additional background verification step or a new layer of approval. Again, this internal disagreement delays the process.

Here, it’s pretty clear that the more hierarchies or stakeholders you pull into hiring, the bigger the expectations get and the longer the process drags on.

So first and foremost, you must cut off this internal drama. Before you place your offer online in any job portal, make sure about the assessment, key decision criteria, and most importantly, who’ll be in charge of making final decisions – provide your candidates a smooth experience.

Your Go-To Employee Verification Tool Comes Next in the Scene (With Lystproof)

So you’ve fixed the internal clash. But now you need to find those candidates who’re honest, trustworthy, actually skilled, and clean enough. And that’s why here comes the real test: employee background checks itself.

We don’t need to tell you here how things get messy. You’re juggling multiple vendors and looking for quality and accuracy (83%), speed (58%), and cost efficiency (54%) like other employers. But get any one or two of these, but probably not all three at the same time. 

However, Lystproof changes that with accuracy, speed, and lower TAT.

​How does Lystproof fast-track the process?

Step 1: Sign up with Lystproof to set up your profile & signatories

Lystproof is an automated employee verification platform that helps build trust between employees and employers during the hiring process. Your first step is to opt in to sign up.

• Click ‘sign up’ with your business email address while providing other necessary details, and verify your given email address to activate your account and go straight to the dashboard.

• Next up is ‘organization profile setup’. You put your basic organization details, upload the company logo, and provide original and valid documents such as a PAN card or GST to verify your organization. Once the verification is done, you’re good to go to access every single feature of the platform.

• Head to the ‘organizational profile’ to add authorized signatories. Your chosen signatory will be responsible for approving verification requests and managing all employees’ details, along with signatures for official verification reports.

• Next, you can add the official letterhead to configure the template, make your request credible, standardized, and build transparency so that you can get the response and audit report faster from us.

Step 2: Secure sensitive data by setting custom roles and permissions

This is where Lystproof really flexes its power. Not everyone in your organization needs to see everything, right? With custom roles and permissions, you can decide exactly who gets access to what.

• Click on “add role” to either create a fresh role or clone one that already works for your team. From there, you can instantly assign employees under that role to handle background checks and tweak permissions in organized modules.

For example, your managers and HRs can view, edit, and approve documents, while employees are limited to uploading and updating their own. This keeps the process error-free and ensures compliance oversight without disrupting daily operations.

Step 3: Manage employee data for end-to-end background verification efficiency

This is the easiest part, of course.

We know verification urgency comes your way anytime – almost always post-offer, but pre-final hiring stage if you’re in regulatory industries. Otherwise, it can start before issuing any offer.

So whether you’re checking an existing employee’s background or confirming a clean record for an ex-employee, Lystproof makes it simple.

• Go to the Employee Module to import data such as employment status, joining date, CTC, address, reporting manager, etc., and mark them as ‘new’ or ‘existing’.
• Track import status and see who initiated it and when, to quickly identify and correct errors.
• Add or edit details for ex-employees, including reason for leaving, notice period served, and exit date.
• Attach organization-specific notes for context or special instructions.
• Choose what information to include in verification reports and share only with the relevant stakeholders.

And, thus, Lystproof, the right employee verification partner, reduces turnaround time, helps you manage disputes from the beginning, and provides your targeted candidates with a faster onboarding experience.

That’s why, Lystproof is your very obvious solution.

Next, You Must Communicate With Candidates Early and Often

Last but not least, no one likes being left in the dark.

You can speed up background verification with automation, but in the very next moment, how you collaborate with your candidates matters.

How can you pass the human judgment, empathy, and lead the way to convey truth to them, especially when they fail in the verification process – reflect on how you hire in your company.

And, when candidates see not just your operational excellence but an impressive experience throughout the process, it works like word of mouth. They can build a way to trust your organization and reduce the drop-off rate significantly.

Lystproof Helps You Win the Race!

Finding a skilled and experienced candidate may need time – we get it!

But if they get stuck in the background verification process, it’s not worth it.

That’s why we’ve built the solution, Lystproof.

Lystproof is especially built for you to save your and your candidates’ time, remove employee theft, and build trust and confidence between both of you.

After all, they’re the ones positioning your company reputation in front of your customers, stakeholders, and in the competitive market.