CandidateShield
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Automated fraud detection and identity verification system that flags suspicious candidates before offers are made, protecting hiring teams from fabricated resumes, stolen identities, and bad-faith applicants.
Straight from Reddit
“speed kills. not in the fast and furious way, in the "you waited 9 days to review 3 resumes and now the best one accepted somewhere else" way.”
“the best hiring manager I ever partnered with would review resumes same day. phone screens got scheduled within 48 hours. debrief happened before the candidate even made it home. we closed something like 85% of our offers with her.”
“The new hires in the DMV region seem to have this pattern of backing out the day before they start or midway through onboarding”
“The majority of applicants for our remote tech roles currently seem scammy and a massive waste of time.”
“It is extremely hard to get a job.”
“you are calling these entry-level roles, but what you actually want are people who already have hands-on experience across networking, systems, cloud, scripting, enterprise environments”
“the drop in applicant quality is making it brutal to project any accurate ROI”
“My team is dealing with a massive influx of fake profiles, out-of-state applicants without local licenses, or completely unqualified responses—which is just killing our recruiter and sourcing productivity metrics.”
“I have applications with outdated email addresses, bunk LinkedIn links, etc”
“I've applied through Seek and company websites and mostly receive either automatic rejections or no response at all. I rarely get to the interview stage”
From r/smallbusiness, r/SaaS and r/startups
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What a useful automation would help with
It could help you work out:
- Fraud risk score (0 100)
- Specific red flags identified
- Verification status per data point
- Recommended action (approve/investigate/reject)
Based on resume/cv data, candidate email and contact info, linkedin profile url, reference contact information.
Source threads
- How I imagine job market · r/smallbusiness
- I analyzed why I kept losing Upwork bids to ChatGPT spam. Here is the 4-step proposal framework that actually wins clients · r/SaaS
- 23M, one year after graduating college and I still have no idea what I'm doing with my life. “I will not promote” · r/startups
- Quit my project manager job for a startup that failed. Now I'm more lost than ever · r/Entrepreneur
- Why is hiring for "character" more vital than a perfect degree when the economy hits a wall? · r/Entrepreneur
- Built a job application tracker as a browser extension - vanilla JS, no build step, MV3 · r/SideProject
- I don't even know what to do anymore · r/sysadmin
- Is this just the state of the IT/admin job market now? · r/sysadmin
- am I wasting my time · r/sysadmin
- Should I take this job? · r/Accounting
- Laid off due to cost-cutting, hitting a wall with applications. What am I missing? · r/Accounting
- It’s starting to feel like I need my CPA to get anywhere · r/Accounting
- 40 years old, accountant, 30+ jobs… should I keep pushing or change careers? · r/Accounting
- Are my job standards unreasonable? · r/Accounting
- 6 months post grad, still no job · r/Accounting
- Frustrated with finding tax job · r/Accounting
- Should I take a pay cut for SaaS industry as a staff accountant · r/Accounting
- Does putting self employed hurt a resume (entry level)? · r/Accounting
- My hiring process changed and I'm not sure why it worked better · r/smallbusiness
- 23M, one year after graduating college and I still have no idea what I'm doing with my life. · r/smallbusiness
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