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Candidate Verification Services

Candidate Identity Verification

Assessment, consulting, and remediation that gets your verification program ready for enterprise scrutiny.

We do not just find the gaps. We help you close them.

Why This Matters Now

Verification Is Moving From a Back Office Task to a Contract Requirement for Staffing Firms

Enterprise clients are writing identity verification standards directly into vendor contracts, often requiring an independent assessment every year and after any material change.

Firms that cannot demonstrate a defensible, auditable program risk losing preferred vendor status with their best clients.

Fraud tactics are keeping pace. Synthetic identities, AI assisted impersonation, location spoofing, and dual employment are active risks in healthcare and IT staffing, where remote screening outruns manual controls.

What is Candidate ID Verification?

Confirming That the Person Who Was Screened Is the Person Who Shows Up for the Job

Candidate identity verification is the set of controls that confirm a candidate’s identity from first contact through placement, then keep confirming it on assignment. It spans sourcing, interviewing, credentialing, onboarding, and ongoing monitoring, not one background check filed away.

The Risk

What Staffing Firms Are Exposed to Without a Documented Program

Placement fraud

A candidate interviews and screens successfully. A different person shows up to do the work, undetected without identity checks through onboarding.

Compliance exposure

A client audit finds no documented chain of custody for identity checks. The vendor relationship is at risk whether or not fraud actually occurred.

Client attrition

A firm that fails an assessment, or cannot produce evidence of a program on request, loses standing with the client and sometimes loses the account.

Reputational damage

Fraud that surfaces on assignment reflects on the staffing firm, not just the candidate, and travels fast among enterprise buyers comparing vendors.

What Enterprise Clients Increasingly Expect

The Standards Now Showing Up in Vendor Contracts

Who Is This For?

Built for Staffing Leaders Under the Most Pressure to Prove Their Process

Healthcare staffing firms

Firms placing clinical and allied health talent, where health systems are formalizing identity verification as a condition of preferred vendor status.

IT recruiting and staffing firms

Firms placing remote and contract technical talent, where identity and interview fraud is a growing concern given remote screening and onboarding.

Built for risk, compliance, operations, and client relationship leaders, the people who own the answer when a client asks the question.

What We Assess

Six Areas, Evaluated Against Industry Benchmarks and Your Own Contractual Obligations

End to end process mapping

Sourcing through day one confirmation, across recruiting, account management, compliance, and onboarding handoffs.

Multi layered verification chain

Sequential, multi touchpoint verification with documented, reconstructable artifacts at each stage.

AI and human review

Automated signals reviewed by a qualified human before a candidate advances, never AI alone.

Governance and auditability

A full artifact chain in a system of record, with clear ownership, accountability, and defensible documentation.

Fraud detection and monitoring

Biometric cross checks, duplicate identity and behavioral analytics, and post hire employment monitoring.

Consent and legal compliance

Proper consent for biometric data, video, and ongoing monitoring, documented and defensible.

Choose Your Engagement Path

Two Ways to Work With Newbury Partners

Path 1. Assessment & Report

The independent evaluation Newbury Partners assesses your full process against industry benchmarks and your own contractual obligations, then delivers a formal, client ready report with a prioritized gap analysis. Built for firms that need an objective read on where they stand.

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Path 2. Assess, Build & Pass

The path to a confident assessment Newbury Partners assesses, then builds alongside your team, designing controls, documentation, and system configuration to close every gap before the formal assessment. The result is a program built to withstand scrutiny.

How the Process Works

A Durable Cadence, Not a One Time Exercise

Initial Assessment

Your current process is scored against industry benchmarks and any client specific requirements.

Build and Remediation

Gaps are closed through workflow design, ATS configuration, and governance work, for clients on the Assess, Build & Pass path.

Reassessment on Material Change

Any meaningful change to the verification process triggers a fresh review, keeping the program current.

Annual Recurring Assessment

A scheduled review keeps the program aligned as client requirements and fraud tactics evolve.

A cadence built to keep pace with both.
What You Receive

A Deliverable Built to Stand Up to Your Client, Not Just Your Team

From Assessment & Report

From Assess, Build & Pass

Why an Independent Third Party

The Credibility of an Outside Assessor, With the Depth of a Staffing Insider

As an independent third party assessor trusted across the staffing industry, Newbury Partners pairs assessment credibility with deep staffing and recruiting expertise.

Ready to Pass with Flying Colors

See Where Your Program Stands

Talk with Newbury Partners about which engagement path fits your firm today, and what your enterprise clients are asking for.
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