Resume fraud
IndustryRelated to candidate fraud, which is broader and also covers misrepresenting identity, for example having someone else take an interview.
Resume fraud ranges from small embellishment (a stretched date range, an upgraded title) to outright invention (a degree never earned, an employer that never existed). Generative AI has made polished, tailored résumés effortless, which makes claims easier to produce and harder to tell apart from real experience.
Employers usually respond with verification: employment checks, education checks and background screening. These work, but they add cost and time, and they mostly confirm where someone was rather than what they did there.
The structural issue is that a résumé is a self-reported document. Any fix that works has to replace assertion with evidence a third party can check.
On Ewance
A verifiable credential is signed and anchored so it cannot be quietly edited after the fact, and it points to the actual work behind it. That does not solve fraud across a whole career — a credential only covers work done on the platform — but it turns one part of a candidate's story from a claim into something a recruiter can check in seconds.
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