Authenticity confidence helps you identify candidates who may need additional review. It highlights signals in a candidate’s resume, LinkedIn profile, phone number, and email address that may indicate inconsistent, misleading, or unverifiable information.

Key information

  1. Authenticity confidence is meant to support, not determine hiring decisions.
  2. Candidates with low, limited, or mixed authenticity confidence are indicated by a flag icon.
  3. Candidates can be filtered by authenticity confidence and individual signals.
  4. To learn more about filtering candidates, click here.

View a candidate’s authenticity confidence

A candidate’s authenticity confidence can be viewed:

  1. From any candidate list, hover over a red, yellow, or gray authenticity confidence indicator (i.e., flag icon) next to a candidates name.
  2. From a candidate’s profile, in the authenticity confidence section.

How authenticity confidence is determined

Authenticity confidence is determined by analyzing data from a candidate’s LinkedIn profile, phone number, email address, and resume to generate risk signals.

Risk Signals

  1. LinkedIn Validation - The LinkedIn URL provided by the candidate is not found in SquarePeg’s person database or online through a live search. Note: SquarePeg’s person database contains 400+ million profiles and is updated monthly.
  2. LinkedIn Connection Count - The candidate’s LinkedIn profile contains less than 100 connections.
  3. LinkedIn Photo - The candidate’s LinkedIn profile does not have a photo.
  4. Unusual Phone Number - The candidate’s phone number type is voicemail only, toll-free, or NonFixedVoIP.
  5. Limited Phone Activity - The phone number provided by the candidate has limited call activity in the past 12 months.
  6. Invalid Phone Number - The phone number provided by the candidate is incorrectly formatted, not linked to an active line, or is unable to receive calls.
  7. Phone Name Mismatch - The name registered with the phone number provided by the candidate does not match the name on the candidate’s application.