Before making a job offer to any prospective employee, you want to be sure that you’re dealing with a candidate who is exactly who they say they are.
It sounds like a notion that shouldn’t even need to be verified, but with remote hiring on the rise, it is an important consideration to ensure confidence in your talent. Remote hiring has led employers to be more concerned than ever about instances of identity fraud.
Identify verification may be the first check completed once candidates have been shortlisted. If an applicant’s identity is incorrect, then any subsequent checks such as Education Verification, Employment Verification and Police Checks may be rendered inaccurate.
An Identity Verification Check is a pre-screening process that helps to determine the true identity of a candidate by confirming their personal details and identification documents.
Identity verification is implemented to prevent an unauthorised person or dishonest candidate from acquiring a job, carrying out a process, creating a false identity, or committing fraud.
In Australia, to complete an Identity Verification Check, your candidate needs to make sure they have at least two forms of photo identification such as a passport and driver’s licence.
Identity verification services like RapidID can help complete your identity verification on a mobile device. As the candidate, this makes it easy to take and send a photo of yourself alongside your identity documents.
RapidID uses biometric facial recognition to compare documents with a live photo and then verifies that with Government records. It can do this in seconds.
Xref Enterprise customers can access RapidID Identity Checks through the Trust Marketplace.
As a growing community of global checking vendors, Trust Marketplace is an aggregator for enhanced due diligence in the online trust environment.
With access to top-tier vendors from around the world, the Trust Marketplace offers a large number of check providers on a single platform, making it API agnostic and exclusively available from Xref.
RapidID connects organisations with a check provider and then delivers an unbiased report. Using the information provided in the report, the organisation can verify the person’s identity or deny it.
By using documents such as those in the list below, an Identity Verification Check reveals if the person submitting the documents matches the photograph taken at the time of the check. The photograph cannot be uploaded - it must be taken live.
The documents that can be used to verify identity vary from country to country, but may include:
Other providers may choose a video to confirm the identity of the person completing the verification check.
As most Identity Verification Checks utilise a biometric check to match a face to submitted identity documents, verification is typically immediate.
In the current environment, where remote hiring is becoming increasingly common, it pays to know who you are hiring. Verifying identity can give you the peace of mind and confidence that your candidate is who they say they are.
All employers should consider Identity Verification of Checks before bringing a new person onto the team.
With identity fraud on the rise and more and more business being conducted remotely or online, ensuring the identity of employees is essential. You need to know that those with access to privileged information or cash flow are who they claim to be.
Yes. To carry out an Identity Verification Check, a candidate must be willing to do so as they must provide the personal information and relevant documentation to be cross-checked and analysed.
If the Identity Verification Check is biometric, such as the checks performed by RapidID, the candidate must take a photo to match against online data and prove liveness.
If they are unwilling to do so, they won’t get the job.
In terms of good practice and transparency, it is advisable that companies inform their candidates early in the hiring process that they will be carrying out an Identity Verification Check, along with other verification checks, as part of their pre-screening and onboarding process.
An employer may wish to conduct an Identity Verification Check before conducting any other check during the pre-screening process to ensure that subsequent checks are accurate. If you choose to verify identity, it should be the very first check performed.
The amount of personal data being stored in the cloud and the frequency of data breaches releasing identifying information online has increased cases of identity fraud worldwide. The increasing prevalence of remote hiring has increased the worry of fraudulent hires. Identity Verification Checks allow organisations to be confident that candidates are who they say they are.
To verify the background of your candidate and the validity of their identity documents in a secure and seamless way, use RapidID via Xref’s Trust Marketplace. Your background checks can be completed securely, all in one place.
