Greater Wichita YMCA: a SafestHires case study

The Greater Wichita YMCA has eleven branches, four outdoor water parks, two sports centers, 1,000+ employees, 650+ weekly group exercise classes, and hundreds of organized sports teams and leagues, educational initiatives, and support programs.

Their major challenge is the constant cycle of recruiting and background checks for sensitive positions. They need to perform initial screening plus bi-annual re-screening to ensure their workforce and volunteers remain eligible to work with children and vulnerable populations.

One of their biggest pain points was getting three references completed on everyone quickly with fully customized questions.

They are able to use our custom ordering link that gets emailed to candidates. Even with criminal searches and three references on every order, they still enjoy one to three day turnaround on average, which is much better than the one to three weeks turnaround time they had been getting.

They also like that we have given them the ability to customize their reference questions, which are tailored to uncover critical information related to working with children.