“Beck to the Future (of Hiring)” – Jon Beck Talks about Candidate Fraud in IT Staffing and How to Stop It

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Jon Beck knows what’s up.

A longtime advocate for quality in hiring, Jon does more than talk about this stuff. He lives it. And he uses RefAssured’s automated reference checking solution to ensure that every single candidate he submits to his Fortune 500 tech clients meets an undeniable standard of quality, and is truly vetted as an A-player. Now, with Jon’s use of RefAssured’s fraud prevention solution, powered by ID.me, he’s seen a complete dropoff of fraudulent IT applicants that used to be a standard, and growing, problem for remote assignments. Forget about a reduction in fraud; now he just doesn’t see it.

This is an important conversation because Jon is an expert on what it means to be a strategic partner to some of the most celebrated tech companies in the world. People turn to Ursus because they’re innovative, thoughtful, and deeply talented at presenting truly qualified talent. They are committed to elite partnership, not people pushing. And Jon has the results to show for it – continually lauded as a best place to work, and growing 29% year over year in a down market, Ursus, under Jon’s leadership, is doing all the right things.

This conversation with Jon covers:

  • Why candidate fraud is increasing in IT, the forms and shapes it’s taking, how AI contributes to its proliferation, and how to stop it in its tracks
  • The obligations that staffing agencies have to their clients and candidates, both obvious and implicit, in this new world of work
  • Why Ursus has grown by double-digit percentages when so many traditional IT staffing firms have been struggling to remain flat over the past several years
  • What Jon sees as the future of hiring: a social contract in which quality and fraud prevention will be table stakes, and anyone who was late to the game in understanding the importance of this will simply have to take a back seat
  • How staffing is a lot like championship rugby (which Jon played, by the way), and why hard work and earning every deal is a privilege, not a right

Check out the full episode below or on Apple Podcasts.

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