ID verify compliance now means something noticeably more specific than it did even two years ago. Employment eligibility rules like E-Verify are only one layer, a newer, fast growing body of state law now directly regulates the AI tools, biometric checks, and video interview technology recruiters use to verify and evaluate candidates in the first […]
Candidate fraud red flags rarely show up as one obvious, disqualifying moment, they accumulate quietly across the hiring funnel, one small inconsistency at application, another at interview, another at reference stage, none alarming enough alone to stop the process. That accumulation problem is exactly why fraud goes undetected so often. 41 percent of organizations report […]
AI interviewers, systems that conduct or score all or part of a candidate interview without a human present for that step, have moved from a rare pilot to a mainstream experience remarkably fast. 63 percent of US job seekers have now faced an AI interview, according to Greenhouse’s 2026 Candidate AI Interview Report, a survey […]
Candidate trust in job postings has eroded to the point where treating a listing as a good faith, straightforward offer is now the exception rather than the default assumption. This is not one problem, it is several separate failures that have compounded on top of each other over a short period. Only 8 percent of […]
Skillfishing describes candidates, and sometimes existing employees, who overstate their capabilities, presenting a version of themselves on paper that looks strong but does not hold up once the actual work begins. The term is new, but the underlying research behind it is not a fringe finding. A full 91 percent of HR professionals now believe […]
The AI hiring arms race describes a specific, self reinforcing dynamic: candidates use AI tools to apply to far more jobs than they ever could manually, employers respond by using AI to screen and filter that flood, and neither side ends up better off. Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait has described the result bluntly as an […]
Ghost jobs are postings for roles a company has no real, immediate intent to fill, published anyway for reasons that have nothing to do with an actual hiring need. The scale of this is no longer a fringe complaint from frustrated job seekers. Current research puts roughly 30 percent of tech job postings in 2026 […]
AI assisted cheating in interviews covers two related but distinct threats: candidates using generative AI to feed themselves answers in real time during a live interview, and candidates using synthetic, AI generated video to impersonate someone else entirely. Both have moved from rare edge case to common occurrence extremely fast. Recent research found that 45 […]
Assessment cheating covers the ways a candidate can produce a test result that does not reflect their own, unaided ability on a written or coding assessment. Unlike interview cheating, which happens in a live conversation, assessment cheating happens against a clock and a fixed question set, which shapes a different set of tactics and a […]
Interview cheating covers the tactics a candidate uses to misrepresent who they are or what they know during a live conversation, as opposed to a written test. Remote video interviews made this meaningfully easier, since a screen removes several of the physical cues that used to make cheating obvious in person. Understanding the specific tactics […]
Candidate Identity Checks: Why They Are No Longer Optional Candidate identity checks used to be treated as an extra step reserved for high security roles, government contracts, financial services, healthcare, while most employers relied on a resume, an interview, and a standard background check. That assumption is breaking down quickly, for reasons that have nothing […]
Biometric verification confirms a candidate’s identity using a physical characteristic, almost always the face in a hiring context, rather than a document or a password that can be handed to someone else. It is the layer that answers a very specific question: is the live person in front of the camera right now the same […]
