- The report states that AI helps candidates deceive employers faster than outdated hiring systems can detect
- Managers inform great losses of hiring and growing concerns about the fraud of applicants promoted by AI
- Employers respond with training, updated protocols and multi -layer protections
A new report suggests that AI is transforming hiring practices so that it can expose companies to risks that are more difficult to detect.
The study of the Checkr background verification platform surveyed managers in a variety of industries to better understand the increase in candidate’s deception.
The findings suggest that hiring is becoming increasingly susceptible to fraud, and that technology is providing to employment applicants who are often more advanced than systems used by employers to detect them.
Better to pretend your identities
Only 19% of the surveyed managers said they trusted that their hiring process could catch a fraudulent applicant.
Almost two thirds believed that candidates are now better to pretend their identities with which employers to detect them.
Of the tactics that most concern managers, 59% said they had suspected candidates to use AI to misrepresent themselves, while 31% reported that interviewing someone later revealed that they were using a false identity.
More than a third said that another person had appeared instead of a candidate during an interview.
The concerns extend beyond the hiring of errors. 60% of the managers said they had caught the applicants misrepresenting their experience or qualifications.
Almost one in four managers estimated that their companies had lost more than $ 50,000 in the last year due to fraudulent hiring, with one in ten report losses greater than $ 100,000.
In some good news, despite all the risks, the report shows that many employers are beginning to adapt to the various problems.
Almost two thirds of respondents said their organizations had updated the hiring protocols in the last year to address the identity and fraud promoted by AI, and more than 60% said that human resources teams had received training to detect red flags during the hiring process.
Regarding the strengthening of the defenses, 36% favored verification in person, 31% pointed to the AI fraud detection software and 24% opted for stronger background verifications.
The survey says that employers are moving towards the protection of multiple layers instead of depending on a single safeguard.
However, they will need to balance recruitment speed with the need to verify authenticity, and that will be far from being easy.
