How to build candidate verification into your Honeit workflow

Honeit does not determine whether a candidate is fraudulent or automatically reject anyone. Instead, it captures verifiable touchpoints throughout the hiring process, from the moment someone books through every follow-up round, so you can confirm that the person you screened is the person you submit.

Here are some practical, low-friction ways to verify candidates before and during your calls.

Scheduling links can do much more than just collect a name and phone number. By adding pre-qualification questions and required acknowledgments at the time of booking, you can streamline your screening process and set clear expectations before the interview even begins.

Use the booking form to collect essential information upfront. For example, you might ask candidates to clarify their citizenship or current visa status, saving both you and the candidate valuable time if there are strict hiring requirements.

You can also use this step to establish ground rules. As remote interviews become the standard, it is helpful to ask candidates to acknowledge that they will personally participate in the interview without unauthorized assistance. Requiring candidates to agree not to use AI tools for generating answers or real-time coaching creates accountability from day one.

Here are a few ways to phrase the AI and participation acknowledgment, depending on how formal you want to be:

This is the foundation for everything else. Without a phone number, you can't cross-check time zones, you can't send a verification text, and you have no second channel to reach the candidate. Make phone number a required field on every scheduling link so it's captured before the call ever happens.

Honeit captures IP-based location activity at key points throughout the interview process, including when a candidate schedules a call, opens an interview link, and joins an interview. You can review activity across multiple touchpoints and decide whether anything is worth a closer look.

For example, if someone booked a call from a European time zone but their phone number is a US area code (or vice versa), it could be worth a closer look.

***A mismatch isn't proof of anything on its own. Candidates may be traveling, working remotely, or using a network that routes through another location. The goal is to give you another verifiable touchpoint, not to score candidates for fraud or automatically reject anyone.

📍 Learn more about verifying candidate location with IP activity.

Use Honeit's in-call text feature to send a short code or text to the candidate's number mid-interview. Ask them to read it back. It takes ten seconds and confirms the phone number on file actually belongs to the person on the call.

Require candidates to join with video on when appropriate for your interview process. Once the interview begins, you can capture a screenshot and pasted it into the notepad as a reference for later interview stages.

Share audio highlights from your call with the hiring manager before their interview with the candidate. A quick listen to the screening call gives them a reference point they can compare with the candidate in later interviews.

For technical interviews or skills-based assessments, ask candidates to share their screen. This lets you see how they approach the work in real time and provides additional context around how they complete the task.

The goal isn't to interrogate candidates or treat them with suspicion. The vast majority of people you talk to are exactly who they say they are. These checks work best when they feel like a normal part of the interview process, not an accusation.

Set clear expectations upfront; such as joining with video on or being ready to share their screen during a skills assessment. When candidates know what to expect, verification steps feel routine instead of awkward.

Got a fraud detection tip we missed? Let us know. We're always looking to learn from how you're using Honeit in the field.