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Candidate verification

Stop candidate fraud and AI-generated applicants

Protect your recruiting process with real-time biometric verification

Key benefits

Secure your hiring pipeline

Verify real candidates, filter out AI-generated resumes, and stop bots, deepfakes, and identity swaps in interviews, while saving recruiters time and keeping hiring compliant.

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Protect your brand and IP

Prevent insider attacks, extortion, and malware attacks from fraudulent hires.

Lower cost and complexity

Avoid expensive terminations, remediation, and re-hiring costs. A bad hire can cost up to 30% of the employee’s first-year salary. Source: U.S. Department of Labor

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Focus on qualified candidates

Engage only real applicants and eliminate time wasted on deepfakes and identity fraud.

Seamless UX

Verify real candidates instantly with minimal effort, giving genuine candidates a smooth experience.

Maintain audit readiness

Meet compliance, legal, and privacy requirements with centralized records and audit logs.

Hire with confidence

Secure every hire with real-time biometric verification

Fraudsters and deepfake actors are targeting your hiring process. They use fake resumes, synthetic identities, and stolen credentials to slip through weak points.

Stop fraudulent candidates from interviewing

Protect your organization from security risks, high recruiting costs, and downstream disruption.

Accelerate your hiring process

Block bad actors early while giving genuine candidates a seamless, automated verification experience that speeds up hiring decisions.

Verify identities with confidence

Passive and active checks confirm each candidate’s real-world identity, giving your recruiting team certainty from application to onboarding.

Enterprise-grade security

Powered by Incode’s proprietary AI stack, Candidate Verification delivers unmatched accuracy and resilience against evolving identity threats.

Hiring security threats

How your business is at risk

Hiring without identity verification leaves your organization more vulnerable to fake applications.

Fake applicants get in

Burner emails, bots, and fake resumes bypass ATS filters.

Business impact: Longer detection times lead to wasted recruiter hours and higher hiring costs.

Background checks miss the real person

Criminal checks are useless if the ID belongs to someone else.

Business impact: Impostors gain access to payroll and system access, often caught late.

Deepfakes pass video interviews

AI-generated faces and voices fool basic video screens.

Business impact: Offers extended to fake candidates, wasted recruiter hours, insider risk.

Proxies take technical interviews

Stand-ins complete interviews instead of the real applicant.

Business impact: Wrong hire leads to delays, poor performance, and insider access.

The person who shows up isn’t the one you interviewed

Devices and credentials are handed to the wrong individual.

Business impact: Unverified hire gains Day 1 access to payroll, IP, and sensitive data.

Secure recruitment

Incode protects and streamlines your hiring process

Stop fraud at the source, reduce risk, and speed up secure hiring with minimal disruption.

Real-time, adaptive identity verification

Secure every stage of your recruitment workflow.

Adaptive verification methods

Multiple ways to verify identity (government ID, selfies, passive signals, liveness checks) with workflows that adapt based on risk level.

Integrations with leading ATS platforms

Integrates seamlessly with systems like Greenhouse, Workday, Ashby, and SuccessFactors to keep processes efficient and in sync.

Connections with government sources

Direct validation against official databases for the highest level of assurance.

Orchestration platform

Flexible engine that allows different verification checks and journeys to be created based on applicant type, role, or client preference.

Secure video interviews

Identity verification triggered before critical interview steps to confirm the real person is present and to prevent impersonation.

Verified identity throughout the journey

From pre-hire to Day 1, identity validation ensures the right person gains access to systems, devices, and credentials.

Identity verification process

Protect your organization throughout hiring

End-to-end protection from application to Day 1

Screen at application

Incode inspects email, phone, device, and IP signals to detect disposable sources or suspicious locations.

Assigns a fraud score to filter out high-risk applicants before recruiter engagement.

Verify identity before interview

Candidates complete ID verification using a smart link.

Includes government ID validation, selfie match, passive liveness, and deepfake detection.

Pass/fail results appear directly in your ATS, such as Greenhouse, Workday, or Ashby.

Secure video interviews

Identity verification happens before critical interview steps, ensuring only verified candidates are admitted. A verified badge and audit log give your hiring team confidence in who is on the call.

Re-verify on Day 1

At laptop pickup or IAM enrollment, candidates complete a second selfie match.

Confirms the same person hired is the one receiving credentials.

Optional identity checks can be added for help desk calls, MFA resets, or sensitive access later on.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is candidate verification?

Candidate verification confirms that a job applicant is who they claim to be — validating their identity document, matching it to their biometric, and ensuring the person in the interview or onboarding flow is the genuine applicant.

How does AI candidate verification differ from a traditional background check?

Traditional background checks validate credentials and criminal history after the fact. AI candidate verification confirms identity in real time, at the point of interview or onboarding — preventing fraudulent applicants from ever getting through.

What is interview fraud and how is it increasing?

Interview fraud occurs when a candidate uses a proxy, deepfake, or AI tool to substitute another person during video interviews. It's rapidly increasing with the rise of remote hiring and generative AI tools that make real-time face swapping accessible.

Can candidate verification work for remote and global hiring?

Yes. Cloud-based candidate verification platforms like Incode support identity documents from 200+ countries, making them suitable for global distributed hiring without requiring in-person checks.

How does candidate verification integrate with ATS and HR platforms?

Modern candidate verification solutions integrate via API or pre-built connectors with major ATS platforms (Greenhouse, Lever, Workday), embedding verification steps directly into existing hiring workflows.