- Report Requirements AI helps candidates deceive employers faster than outdated employment systems can detect
- Leaders report major employment losses and growing concerns over AI-driven applicant fraud
- Employers respond with education, updated protocols and multi -layer protection
A new report suggests that AI is transforming employment practices in ways that can expose companies to risks that are more difficult to spot.
The study of the Background Control Platform Checkkr examined leaders across a number of industries to better understand the increase in the candidate’s deception.
The results suggest that hiring is becoming more and more susceptible to fraud and that technology provides job -seeking tools that are often more advanced than the systems used by employers to discover them.
Better to fake their identities
Only 19% of the researchers surveyed said they were sure that their employment process could capture a fraudulent applicant.
Nearly two -thirds felt that candidates are now better at false their identity with AI than employers are seeing them.
Of the tactics that are most concerned leaders, 59% said they suspected candidates to use AI to wrongly represent themselves, while 31% reported that they interviewed someone later revealed to use a false identity.
More than a third said that another person had completely appeared in a candidate’s place during an interview.
Concerns extend beyond hiring errors. 60% of the leaders said they had caught applicants who mistakenly represented their experience or qualifications.
Almost one in four managers estimated that their businesses had lost more than $ 50,000 in the past year due to false hires, with one in ten reporting losses over $ 100,000.
In some good news, despite all the risks, the report shows that many employers are starting to adapt to the different problems.
Nearly two-thirds of respondents said their organizations had updated the employment protocols in the past year to tackle identity and AI-driven fraud, and more than 60% said HR teams had received training to spot red flags during the hiring process.
With regard to strengthening defense, 36% personalized verification, 31% pointed to AI-Writ Detection Software, and 24% chose stronger background control.
The study says employers are moving towards multilayer protection rather than relying on a single protection.
They will have to balance the recruitment speed with the need to verify authenticity and it will be far from easy.
