Hirevue Launches Advanced Fraud Detection to Help Employers Validate Candidate Identity and Skills

New capabilities connect identity, location, and behavioral signals across interviews and assessments, giving hiring teams evidence to detect potential cheating and fraud

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Hirevue, a global leader in skills validation, today announced advanced fraud detection capabilities designed to help employers identify potential cheating and identity misrepresentation throughout the hiring process. Built into the Hirevue platform, the capabilities bring verification signals and supporting evidence together so hiring teams can make more confident, informed decisions.

AI has made it easier to polish an application, generate convincing answers, or misrepresent who is completing an interview or assessment. For employers, a strong application alone can no longer establish that a candidate has the skills they claim—or that the person evaluated is the person ultimately hired. Hirevue's approach combines skills validation with identity and integrity checks across interviews and assessments, giving teams a fuller picture without treating every candidate as a suspected bad actor.

"It's not about catching cheaters to improve hiring quality. It's about refining the job description and understanding the role, so that we are accessing the right talent with the right skills," said Stella Ioannidou, Senior Research Director at The Josh Bersin Company. "And if bad actors try to hijack that, we still have tools in place to be aware and stop them when they are trying to influence the decision."

Hirevue's existing cheating mitigation tools help hiring teams see if candidates are switching browsers, copying and pasting from LLMs, or attempting to craft answers with an LLM live during an interview. The advanced capabilities build on that foundation with:

• Identity verification: Document checks and face liveness detection signals help confirm candidate identity.
• Location signals: IP address, VPN, and proxy activity provide additional context when a candidate's location needs review.
• Interview validation: A checklist guides interviewers through verification checks during the interview.
• Unified signal reporting: Flagged signals and supporting evidence are brought together for human review and an auditable record.

"Hiring teams need to know whether the skills they're seeing are real and whether the person demonstrating them is the person they'll hire," said Jeremy Friedman, Chief Executive Officer at Hirevue. "We check multiple signals during the hiring workflow, with clear expectations for candidates and notifications that prompt recruiters to ask for more information. The goal is to protect authentic candidates and help employers make decisions they can stand behind."

Protecting hiring integrity in today's processes also means protecting the experience of candidates who are participating honestly. Organizations can tailor checks to each role's risks and explain what candidates can expect before the process begins, helping reduce unnecessary friction and giving candidates a clear path to demonstrate their skills. Hiring teams can adjust which signals are active and how much weight each carries based on the job's requirements and patterns in their applicant pool. A flagged signal prompts human review—it does not, by itself, establish fraud or determine a hiring outcome.

Learn more about Hirevue Advanced Fraud Detection here.

About Hirevue

Hirevue is redefining how organizations make hiring decisions. As the leader in skills validation, Hirevue helps employers move beyond resumes and interviews alone to understand what candidates can actually do. Combining decades of selection science with intelligent interviewing technology, science-backed assessments, agentic AI, and workflow automation, Hirevue delivers the evidence organizations need to hire with greater speed, confidence, and fairness. Global organizations worldwide—including over 40% of the Fortune 100—trust Hirevue to improve quality of hire, reduce turnover, and create exceptional candidate experiences. Hirevue has powered more than 180 million assessments, 80 million video interviews, and over 200 million candidate engagements.

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