Stop Fake Job Applicants With Persona’s Workday Integration

Imagine spending weeks moving a strong job candidate through a rigorous interview process. The hiring manager is excited for their new hire and collaborates with multiple teams to prepare for a smooth onboarding.

But on day one, a completely different person shows up for the job.

For too many companies, scenarios like this have become disturbingly common. Besides introducing serious security risks, fake job candidates waste valuable talent team resources. Even if the recruiter did everything right, it only takes one fraudulent hire to undermine the recruiter’s credibility and put the entire talent team's reputation on the line.

The problems facing talent teams are twofold: GenAI has made fake candidates harder to catch, while remote hiring removed the in-person checks that would have caught them. Today’s fake candidates are equipped with AI-generated resumes, deepfake video filters, and real-time interview cheating tools. None of these are easy to spot at a glance. As these tactics become more convincing, companies need a better way to establish trust.

To help organizations confirm candidates are who they claim to be, Persona now integrates with Workday Recruiting. With Workday, Persona brings candidate verification directly into recruiting workflows, helping talent teams reduce hiring fraud and stay focused on hiring.

How to verify candidate identity with Persona and Workday Recruiting

Persona’s integration with Workday Recruiting lets you trigger identity verification at any point in your hiring pipeline. You choose when Persona sends a verification request through Workday, whether that’s before the recruiter screening or initial assessment, at the interview stage, or when extending an offer.

Once the candidate completes the verification flow, their completion status syncs back to their Workday profile, helping you advance real candidates while flagging potentially risky ones. Here's how it works:

Know who's actually applying

You can only learn so much from an applicant’s resume and LinkedIn profile. Persona goes further by verifying candidate identity using government-issued ID and liveness checks to ensure there's a real person in front of the camera.

In the background, Persona also gathers key risk signals, like inconsistent GPS data or IP address locations, to detect fraud patterns that are invisible to the candidate-facing verification flow. These steps are critical for remote roles where you might never meet a candidate in person.

Help legitimate candidates verify themselves easily

Implementing higher identity assurance shouldn’t also create a bad user experience for candidates. That’s why Persona’s verification flows are mobile-friendly and intuitive: they’re designed to enable real people to verify in moments while preventing bad actors from moving forward.

Stay focused on real candidates

A single fake candidate can consume weeks of recruiter time across screening, interviews, reference checks, and offer negotiations. Early verification helps cut down on resources lost to evaluating false applicants.

Talent acquisition and HR teams shouldn’t be responsible for proving whether a candidate is real while also trying to fill critical roles. With Persona’s Workday integration, they don’t have to.

Detect fake candidates faster with Persona and Workday Recruiting

Built for recruiting teams and designed for security, Persona’s candidate verification solution helps companies seamlessly detect fake candidates before they reach the workforce. Leading companies like Twilio, Figma, and Linktree trust Persona to verify workforce identity, securely and compliantly. Persona was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Identity Verification.

If you’re seeing an influx of fake candidates, Persona is here to help. Request a demo to see Persona’s candidate verification solution with Workday Recruiting in action.