Endorsed Presents at RecOpsCon 2025
Endorsed was a featured sponsor at RecOpsCon 2025 in Chicago, bringing the applicant-fraud conversation to one of the industry's leading communities for recruiting operations.
David Head, Endorsed co-founder and CEO, presented “Beating Candidate Fraud: Insights from Millions of Applications.” The session examined how remote work and generative AI have expanded both access to opportunity and the tactics available to bad actors.
What Recruiting Operations Teams Need to Know
Applicant fraud rarely arrives as one obvious signal. A convincing application may combine a fabricated work history, a rented identity, a proxy interviewer, a manipulated location, and familiar tools used in unexpected ways.
Drawing on Endorsed's analysis of millions of applications, the session covered:
- Where modern candidate fraud originates
- The variants recruiting teams are encountering
- The identity, document, contact, device, network, and behavioral signals that can reveal risk
- Why layered defenses work better than a single identity or interview check
- How teams can preserve a fair candidate experience while investigating credible concerns
Recruiting operations leaders are central to this work. They understand where applicant data enters the organization, how decisions move through the funnel, and where new controls can protect the business without slowing every legitimate candidate.
The goal is not to turn recruiters into investigators. It is to give them clear evidence early enough to make a thoughtful decision and a path to involve Security or Compliance when the situation warrants it.
Endorsed joined a broad group of recruiting-operations technology companies supporting the event, including Gem, Greenhouse, Ashby, BrightHire, CodeSignal, Metaview, and others.
Watch the official RecOpsCon session for the full discussion.
Thank you to OneReq and the RecOpsCon community for making room for this urgent conversation, and to everyone who shared what their teams are seeing. Genuine applicants deserve to be reviewed, and recruiting teams deserve the tools to keep fraud from consuming the process.