Employ Adds ID.me Identity Checks to Its Hiring Platforms to Counter AI Candidate Fraud

Hiring software company Employ is embedding ID.me’s identity verification into its applicant tracking systems, giving employers a way to confirm that the person applying for a job, or turning up to a video interview, is really who they claim to be.

The verification will be available to customers of Employ’s three platforms, JazzHR, Lever, and Jobvite, in the second half of 2026. Rather than checking every applicant, employers will be able to trigger a check at the point in the hiring process that matches their risk tolerance, an approach Employ describes as matching the level of verification to the level of risk. Candidates explicitly consent to verify through ID.me, and Employ says none of the underlying identity data is shared with it; ID.me simply confirms that the candidate’s identity was verified, leaving the employer to make the hiring decision.

The companies are pitching the integration against a category of fraud that generative AI has made cheap. Fabricated resumes and credentials, stolen identities, proxy candidates sitting interviews for someone else, and deepfaked video calls have moved the problem into the later and costlier stages of hiring, and the most sophisticated cases involve sanctioned or state-linked actors. Employ’s Recruiter Nation research found that 23 percent of recruiters have already encountered candidate fraud, while the companies cite a Gartner forecast that one in four job applicants will be fake by 2028.

ID.me has been pushing into recruitment from more than one direction, working with RefAssured to move checks to the front of staffing placement pipelines. Others are chasing the same problem, and Glider AI has launched a biometric ID Verify product for hiring fraud. ID.me offers self-service, live video chat, and in-person verification routes, and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 and AAL2 credential service provider.

“A resume or application are no longer the trusted signals they once were. And with the rise in AI, neither is a live interview,” said Dara Brenner, chief product officer at Employ. Taylor Liggett, chief growth officer at ID.me, said embedding a verified identity layer into Employ’s platforms gives employers assurance they can apply wherever risk demands it.

Sources: Employ

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By the ID Tech Editorial Team