Greenhouse Real Talent™ Launches to Fix Overwhelming Candidate Pipelines while Combatting Fraud and Spam in Hiring

New AI-driven Solution Helps Recruiters Navigate the Chaos of Candidate Pipelines, Identify the Best Candidates, While Securing Organizations Against Fraud and Spam

NEW YORK, June 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenhouse, trusted HR tech leader and hiring platform, today announced the launch of Real Talent, a groundbreaking solution designed to address the high costs and growing risks of spam, fraud and cheating in hiring. This solution provides recruiting teams with tools to quickly sort and filter job candidates into a tiered inbox based on their application quality and the likelihood of fraudulent or spam activities.

Today's recruiting teams are drowning in applications. Economic uncertainty, AI-powered mass applications, and remote work have led to flooded hiring pipelines with sometimes thousands of candidates per role. The use of AI has also increased levels of spam and fraud. These problems also hurt qualified candidates, who get lost in the noise, leading to slower response rates to their applications and even ghosting by overwhelmed recruiters.

Spam is caused by individuals applying for roles in bulk using automated tools, often without high interest or affinity to any specific role. Applicants are also showing up to job interviews with AI co-pilot tools to help them pass interviews, giving them an unfair advantage. Sophisticated fraud schemes have become more common with the rise of AI. According to Gartner, by 2028, 25% of job applicants will be fake, with the rise of AI-generated deepfakes and voice clones. The U.S. Justice Department reported that over 300 U.S. firms, including Fortune 500 companies, have already fallen victim to scams perpetrated by foreign operatives. These trends raise risks for companies and slow recruiters down by forcing them to identify spam and fraudulent applications manually. The Greenhouse Real Talent solution provides essential tools to tackle these challenges, allowing recruiting teams to filter spam and fraud while prioritizing applicants with skills that align with job descriptions.

"Greenhouse is committed to addressing the world's most important hiring problems, so being the first in our industry to tackle spam, fraud and cheating in hiring is a priority," said Daniel Chait, CEO of Greenhouse. "With Real Talent, we are moving fast to give recruiters a competitive edge in identifying best-fit candidates, while enhancing security against new and growing threats. This innovative solution will enable our customers to deal with the deluge in their pipeline and trust they can efficiently focus on the right candidates, directly in Greenhouse."

Real Talent features:

• AI-Driven talent filtering: Real Talent analyzes applicant data against job requirements, evaluating skills, experience, and other key indicators to enable recruiting teams to quickly filter for candidates best suited for the role based on their application.
• Spam & Fraud Detection: Sophisticated algorithms proactively identify and flag spam, bot submissions, and applications with patterns indicative of fraud, keeping cyber attackers out of organizations, and ensuring a higher quality, more reliable applicant pool.
• Cheating & Misrepresentation Detection: Ensure that candidates are who they claim to be at key points throughout the interview process, while also reducing the likelihood of cheating.

Key benefits:

• Easy to manage candidate pipelines: By filtering applicants that do not meet the basic requirements of the role, Real Talent frees up recruiter time to focus on engaging only with eligible candidates, and filling roles quickly.
• Reduced risk: Mitigate the opportunity for bad actors to steal confidential or sensitive data.
• Improved quality of hire: Focusing on qualified and relevant candidates enables companies to make more confident and successful hiring decisions.

While the responsibility for reviewing and selecting applicants will always rest in the hands of the hiring team, with Greenhouse Real Talent, they'll be able to sort their talent pool, saving time and helping to putting the right hire in the right role.

How Real Talent works: Real Talent integrates directly into the existing Greenhouse application workflow. As applications are received, the AI engine assesses application fit against the specific job criteria, categorizes the applicant pool and enables recruiters to filter their review more efficiently. Simultaneously, it analyzes applications for spam and fraud indicators, leaving customers with a tiered applicant inbox in accordance with their customized preferences.

Availability: Greenhouse Real Talent features will phase in availability for Greenhouse customers starting in Q3 2025. Further details on package availability and early access programs will be announced in the coming weeks. Stay updated on the latest Greenhouse product news here.

About Greenhouse
Greenhouse is the leading hiring platform to help companies get measurably better at hiring.

With Greenhouse, organizations can ensure every hire is the right hire, taking candidates from talented prospects to top performers. Our industry-leading software brings a structured hiring approach to any company's process, helping to define the role, requirements and attributes a successful candidate should have before a job is posted, enabling internal alignment and confident decision-making. The result is more fair and equitable hiring practices combined with data-driven decisions.

We've helped over 7,500 companies across diverse industry verticals and scaling goals turn talent into a strategic advantage, so they can be ready to hire for what's next. Some of the smartest and most successful companies like HubSpot, Duolingo, Gong, J.D. Power and Scout24 use Greenhouse for data and guidance on the behaviors and capabilities they need to improve their overall hiring performance as they move up the Hiring Maturity curve.

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