A strong hiring process starts with knowing who is on the other side of the application. From fabricated credentials to stolen identities and proxy interviewers, hiring fraud can expose organizations to risks that extend well beyond a bad hire. In this session, you’ll learn how to recognize suspicious applicants early, strengthen identity verification and screening practices, and evaluate vendors that support your hiring goals. Discover how HR, IT, Legal, and screening partners can work together to protect your organization while creating a transparent, efficient experience for legitimate candidates. Walk away with practical strategies to strengthen your hiring defenses while supporting compliance and keeping qualified talent moving toward day one.
Learning Objectives:
Spot the Warning Signs
Catch fake resumes, false credentials, synthetic or stolen identities, AI-generated documents, and proxy interviewers early in your hiring process—whether hiring in person or remotely.
Understand the Real Cost of Hiring Fraud
Recognize how fake applicants threaten your company's security, legal compliance, team trust, and bottom line.
Improve Screening Protocols and Vendor Selection
Verify identity first, then use background checks to confirm work history, while evaluating what key capabilities to look for when selecting identity verification and screening vendors.
Build Stronger Internal Defenses
Establish clear HR policies and collaborate with IT, Legal, and screening partners to create a secure, fraud-resistant onboarding pipeline. Designing mobile-first, transparent screening workflows that speed up time-to-hire for legitimate talent while upholding FCRA and fair-chance compliance.
Meet the Presenter
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Meric Bloch
Meric Bloch is the Principal of Winter Investigations, a consulting firm specializing in workplace investigations design and implementation.
Meric has designed, implemented, and managed workplace-investigations processes for multinational public companies. He has trained thousands of HR professionals to conduct workplace investigations.
Meric has personally conducted over eight hundred internal investigations of fraud and serious workplace misconduct globally.
Meric is the author of four books on investigations: The Art of Investigations; In the Arena; Workplace Investigations: Techniques and Strategies for Investigators and Compliance Officers; Investigative Interviewing, and The First Information Is Wrong. He also wrote chapters in the Bribery and Corruption Casebook and The Complete Compliance and Ethics Manual.
SHRM certification has approved this webinar for 1 PDC toward SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP recertification. A program code will be provided at the end of the webinar.