Webinar | Candidate Misrepresentation: How Identity + Behavior Background Checks Improve Hiring

Discover how combining identity verification with online behavior screening can uncover candidate fraud, surface digital conduct risks, and protect your organization from costly bad hires.

Candidates have never had more tools to look like someone they’re not. AI can write the resume, script the interview answers, and even fake their face on the video call. So how do you know the person you hired is the person who actually showed up?

Hiring has a trust problem. In First Advantage’s 2026 Global Workforce Trends Report, 76% of hiring professionals said they encountered falsified employment details and 45% dealt directly with candidate identity fraud. Gartner projects that by 2028, 1 in 4 candidate profiles worldwide could be fake. Generative AI is what’s driving it: polishing resumes, coaching answers in real time, and generating synthetic identities that pass traditional checks. The candidate on paper, and on screen, isn’t always the person you’re hiring.

Identity verification answers half the question. It confirms who someone is. It can’t tell you how they’ll treat your people, your customers, and your brand once they’re on the payroll. That second question is where fraud, safety, and reputation risk live, and it’s the one legacy background checks were never built to answer.

In this session, Ben Mones and Matt Schneider break down what screening looks like when identity and behavior are checked together: confirming who a candidate is, then surfacing the documented conduct history a standard check never sees.

You’ll learn:

• How candidates are using AI to misrepresent themselves at each stage of the hiring funnel
• What identity verification confirms, and what it leaves unchecked
• What a behavior check actually pulls, and how to keep it defensible
• What leading organizations are doing to reduce candidate fraud, protect their brand, and improve quality of hire

Built for Talent Acquisition, HR, and Risk and Compliance leaders who own the cost of a bad hire.

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About the speakers

Ben Mones

CEO and Founder

Fama

Ben Mones is the CEO and Founder of Fama, an award winning AI-based software company trusted by thousands of talent acquisition teams from around the globe. He regularly appears in major media outlets and on podcasts, and is an expert on how technology is shaping society - particularly in the workplace. In addition to leading Fama, Ben serves on boards for a handful of high-growth startups and mentors entrepreneurs just starting out on their journey. Outside of work, you can find Ben on the basketball court or huddled over his smoker, cooking up a BBQ for his family of 4. He is based in Los Angeles, CA.

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Matt Schneider

Head of Strategic Partnerships

Universal Background Screening

Matt Schneider is Head of Strategic Partnerships at Universal Background Screening, where he leads the technology and channel partnerships that bring innovative screening capabilities to Universal's clients. He's spent his career in background screening and HR technology, progressing from account representative to enterprise account executive before moving into partnerships, and holds an FCRA Core Certificate. Matt is focused on pairing traditional background checks with tools like online identity and behavior insights to give hiring teams a fuller picture of candidate risk and fit.