To help reduce the risk of candidate fraud, employment verification will now be compared against the candidate's full name.

Zinc's employment verification pulls a candidate's work history and dates directly from HMRC and other global integrations, helping teams to hire with confidence and receive fast, accurate results. With this update, if employment verification details don't match the candidate's name on the background check request, this will now be flagged with a badge on the report. You'll see one of the following:

• Employment verification name match
• Employment verification name mismatch

The badge helps you confirm that the person who submitted the employment verification details is the same person the background check request is for. 

What this means for your team

This feature doesn’t change the status of the check, but you’ll now have visibility of potential mismatches so you can easily review and follow up where needed. For teams not yet using employment verification, a layered approach of both references and employment verification returns results instantly at no extra cost, with candidates' employment details sourced directly from government tax records and any discrepancies flagged.