Workforce Verification

Workforce fraud is a growing threat to modern organizations. Fake candidates leverage fabricated identities, AI-generated resumes, and deepfake interviews to infiltrate companies. The impact is real: theft of intellectual property, wasted time in fraudulent interviews, missed opportunities with genuine candidates and considerable financial losses from fraudulent salaries. Employers may even face regulatory exposure for unknowingly compensating individuals tied to sanctioned countries. Conventional hiring tools are proving insufficient to detect these advanced fraudulent schemes.

Socure’s Workforce Verification solution enables a fast and passive low-friction employee candidate verification or automatically escalates to higher-friction verification steps only when risk levels justify it. Socure’s Workforce Verification workflow enables instant identity risk decisions at every point in the inbound employment journey.

Key features

Precision identity matching engine – RiskOS™ unifies identity, device, and behavioral data, enabling fraud detection and seamless onboarding while ensuring every candidate is verified with confidence.
Applicant risk intelligence for hiring – Socure continuously monitors device, network, and behavioral signals throughout applicant verification to detect high-risk sessions in real time. Surface red flags like emulators, masked locations, remote spoofing, and other fraud tactics before fake applicants advance.
Persistent Identity Tracking with SocureID™ – Creates a persistent, cross-platform identifier for every applicant based on verified identity attributes and behavioral patterns.
Seamless integration across HR systems – Quickly deploy APIs to integrate with HR platforms, payroll systems, job boards, and applicant tracking systems for faster go-live and frictionless candidate verification.
AI-driven workflows – Analyze device, digital, and identity signals in real time to stop fake applicants, deepfake interviews, and fabricated resumes.

Key benefits

Identity-centric fraud prevention – Stops manipulated or fabricated applicants at the point of entry by validating identity, preventing them from entering the hiring process or misrepresenting themselves.
Optimized recruitment pipeline – Improves recruitment efficiency by automatically filtering out fraudulent applicants, allowing hiring teams to focus time and resources on qualified, legitimate candidates.
Built-in regulatory compliance – Ensures adherence to workforce laws and regulatory requirements by incorporating sanctions screening, watchlist checks, and configurable policy controls into every verification workflow.
Global reach and scale – Provides real-time eKYC coverage across 160 countries, enabling fast, compliant identity verification at scale.

Get started

Enable Workforce Verification

Turn on the Workforce Verification workflow in your RiskOS™ workspace to evaluate candidates with instant risk decisions.

Create a hiring workflow

Build a RiskOS™ workflow that evaluates identity, device, and behavioral signals for applicants.

Submit candidate data

Send applicant PII to the /api/evaluation endpoint to get a decision and only escalate when risk justifies it.

Features

Identity matching

RiskOS™ unifies identity, device, and behavioral data to verify candidates with confidence.

Risk intelligence

Detect emulators, masked locations, remote spoofing, and more in real time to block fake applicants.

Automated decisions

Configure policies to approve, deny, or escalate based on decision outputs and risk indicators.

Advanced use

Payload schema

View required and optional fields for Workforce Verification requests, including segmentation by role or job type.

Handle results

Use the decision, reasonCodes, and sourceAttribution fields to drive HR actions.

Debug & escalation

Trace applicant evaluations using eval_id, inspect logs, and escalate issues with context when needed.