What's Trending: Hiring Fraud
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You’ve most likely heard of hiring fraud from a company’s perspective: leading candidates on with fake open positions to scope the market of job seekers better. However, with developments in AI, hiring authorities are now noticing an influx of candidates using AI services to exaggerate experience on resumes, manipulate interviews, and take advantage of hiring processes.
Here are some points made by leading publications on the matter:
Onward Path
It may be difficult to judge from a perfectly tailored resume whether a candidate is authentically portraying themselves. This is why the interview process is essential for evaluating and verifying a job seeker’s potential and genuineness.
“A good interview process should have checks and balances to eliminate both Proxy and Fake candidates.”
Some tricks candidates have up their sleeves for dishonest interviewing include earpieces, facial overlays, and even referring to fabricated resumes for assisted responses. Maria Velankanni, with Onward Path, writes that in virtual interviews there are some ques that hiring authorities should be looking out for to ensure that they’re not getting scammed by a proxy or fake candidate.
The key points Maria lists for identifying sketchy interview behavior have to do with
- Asking the right questions for deeper answers on specific experience areas
- Carefully analyzing the facial expressions and lip movements of the on-screen candidate
- Double-checking external professional profiles on platforms such as LinkedIn
Inc
Entrepreneurs’ Organization with Inc.com took an interview approach to touch on the issue with the founder and CEO of Creative Alignments, Peggy Shell. She begins by explaining the increase of fake candidates and emplores those in charge of hiring and recruitment to remain meticulous in their process.
“Recruiters and hiring teams must stay on their toes, pay close attention to subtle discrepancies, listen to intuition, and be intentional about due diligence.”
Inc warns that though deep fakes are a threatening possibility, the most common scenarios include faking skills or experience, placeholders in interviews so someone else can gain employment, and joining an organization for access to company data. Even more than wasted time during the interview process, allowing a poorly vetted job seeker into your workforce could be incredibly damaging.
ERE
After first exploring the difference between “cheating” and fraudulent candidates, Dan Finnigan writes that the key difference is intentionally acting on false information vs. misrepresenting oneself. Both present a huge problem for companies.
“Hiring is a fundamental exercise in trust, and if one party is misrepresenting itself, it’s impossible to build a truly solid working relationship.”
Technical tests have been a go-to for verifying the skills of a potential candidate, but with the increased use of AI, they’re much more difficult for gauging an individual’s true abilities. Dan’s piece suggests job simulations for candidates to better review live demonstrations of task performance that allow more effective assessments of their skills.
The takeaway
Tackling hiring fraud requires diligence and dedication. For long-term quality hires, hiring managers and recruiters must perform proper vetting practices for resume review, interview processes, background checks, and reference screenings.
From top to bottom of the hiring process, giving each stage the attention required for evaluating candidates pays off for companies. Not only is the cost of a new hire taxing on an organization, the cost of a bad hire could result in greater losses.
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