Korn Ferry RPO Selects Endorsed as Its Preferred Partner for Pre-Hire Fraud Detection

Following a review of the market, Korn Ferry RPO has selected Endorsed as its preferred partner for pre-hire fraud detection across its enterprise client base.

The selection gives Korn Ferry’s global RPO teams a direct path to introduce Endorsed into relevant enterprise client conversations. It also represents an important step toward establishing recruiting security as a defined enterprise discipline.

Why Korn Ferry RPO’s Selection Matters

Korn Ferry is a global consulting firm that works with organizations on talent, operations, and business transformation. Its Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) division designs and operates large-scale recruiting programs on behalf of enterprise clients.

Korn Ferry RPO supported more than 250 enterprise clients in fiscal 2026 and was named a Global Leader in Everest Group’s 2026 RPO Services assessment. Its teams operate inside the complex hiring environments Endorsed protects.

“After a thorough review of the market, Korn Ferry RPO has selected Endorsed as our preferred partner for identifying potential candidate fraud at the point it matters most: the application stage, before a recruiter ever sees a candidate.”

Kristy Steiner

VP Client Services, AI Strategy & Transformation, Korn Ferry

Recruiting Security Starts Before the Interview

Recruiting has become an enterprise security surface. In a single 2025 Department of Justice case, a laptop-farm scheme defrauded 309 U.S. businesses, including Fortune 500 companies, and generated more than $17 million through fraudulent remote employment.

Stolen and rented identities, proxy interviewers, location manipulation, fabricated work histories, automated applications, and coordinated attempts to enter organizations create risks that extend far beyond recruiter efficiency. Once hired, fraudulent workers can gain access to company systems, sensitive information, intellectual property, payroll, and customer data.

Enterprises must address these threats while operating under intense legal, regulatory, compliance, and employee-relations scrutiny. A process that is too weak can leave the organization exposed; one that is too aggressive can convert uncertain signals into unsupported employment decisions.

Recruiting security is the discipline of protecting recruiting systems and workflows from identity-based and coordinated threats through controlled, auditable investigation and response processes governed by the enterprise’s security, legal, and compliance policies.

Background Checks and Identity Verification Are Necessary but Not Sufficient

Background checks compile information about an individual’s history. Identity verification tests whether a presented identity or document is authentic. Recruiting security addresses a different question: whether activity within the hiring process shows signs of identity misuse, application manipulation, or coordinated security abuse.

Endorsed’s July 2026 Threat Brief identifies tactics that exploit these gaps, including stolen identities and dedicated local facilitators of candidate fraud known as “ID mules.”

These tactics show why no single background or identity check can secure the hiring journey. They need visibility across the technical and workflow activity surrounding an application.

Reviewable Enterprise Security Alerts

Endorsed uses a machine-learning model to passively estimate recruiting-security risk when an applicant applies. When elevated indicators are detected, the platform can recommend additional security review and surface the contributing context to authorized reviewers.

The result is probabilistic, not a definitive finding of fraud or a recommendation about employment eligibility. Recruiting, security, and compliance teams can review the alert under the enterprise’s own investigation and escalation policies.

Recruiters continue managing the normal hiring process, authorized personnel such as security teams investigate security alerts, and legal and compliance teams establish consistent policies for escalation.

Enterprise recruiting security requires reliable technology, transparent alerts, clear ownership, and auditable response procedures. Endorsed is built around those standards.

“Recruiting security should operate like other enterprise security disciplines: transparent alerts, defined escalation paths, and accountable human review. Korn Ferry’s selection is meaningful because it recognizes protecting the hiring pipeline as an enterprise security requirement, not simply another recruiting feature.”

David Head

Co-Founder & CEO, Endorsed

Korn Ferry and Endorsed Bring Recruiting Security to Enterprise Hiring

Korn Ferry RPO and Endorsed are bringing a dedicated recruiting security capability to complex enterprise hiring programs.

Korn Ferry’s global RPO teams now introduce Endorsed into client engagements where applicant fraud and identity-based threats require specialized detection. Endorsed integrates directly into client ATS platforms, detecting identity misuse and coordinated security indicators as applications enter the pipeline before recruiter review begins and routing reviewable context into existing recruiting and security workflows.

Together, the partnership gives enterprises a practical way to strengthen hiring-pipeline security without replacing their existing recruiting infrastructure or governance processes.

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