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A growing number of candidates are misrepresenting experience on CVs. AI-powered verification platforms are changing how organisations fight back.
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India's hiring landscape is facing a crisis. With 78% of CVs containing at least one misrepresentation, employers need better tools than phone calls and PDF reports.
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Traditional background verification agencies take 3 to 4 weeks and charge thousands of rupees per candidate. Here is what the comparison looks like in 2026.
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These five types of CV misrepresentation are the most common, the most damaging, and the ones AscentPassport detects before they reach the interview stage.
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NASSCOM data shows 11.15% of IT employment records contain significant discrepancies. Traditional BGV catches fewer than half. Here is what actually works.
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IDfy and AuthBridge are the dominant BGV agencies in India. But both share a fatal flaw: they verify reactively, after the hiring decision is nearly made. AscentPassport verifies proactively.
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Ghost employers and inflated tenure are among the hardest frauds to catch with traditional tools. Here is why AscentPassport's multi-source approach detects them systematically.
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Three converging forces are driving resume fraud to record levels in 2026. The HR Credit System creates the only incentive structure that addresses all three simultaneously.
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OnGrid's API-based verification is fast and well-integrated. But it shares the reactive, employer-pays model that AscentPassport's proactive candidate-owned approach fundamentally supersedes.
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Dual employment, holding two full-time jobs simultaneously and misrepresenting this to both employers, surged in the remote work era. Here is how AscentPassport detects it.
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Most resume fraud goes undetected not because it is sophisticated but because no one builds a system to catch it. The AP Score changes that.
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MPloyChek offers database checks. iCrederity offers credentialing seals. Neither offers what AscentPassport does: a free, lifetime, candidate-owned verified career identity.