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Organizations share confidential information and valuable data with employees based on the trust established during the onboarding process. The trust is built on the candidate’s past employment, educational, criminal, credit, and behavioral claims. If the relationship is built on false pretext or with forged documents submitted by the candidate to improve their chances of being recruited, it can prove detrimental to the organization. All frauds are breaches of trust. Occupational fraud—asset misappropriation, corruption, and financial statement fraud—is the costliest such and, yet, also the most common form of deception that takes place within organizations. The Report to the Nations 2022, which covered 2,110 cases of occupational fraud in 133 countries, reported losses of more than US$3.6 billion incurred by affected companies. Candidates who use fraudulent ways to get hired and submit inauthentic documents during pre-employment background checks are likely to operate with the same mindset during their employment, resulting in increased incidences of occupational fraud.
Failing to onboard employees with verified credentials also necessitates the implementation of enhanced security measures, internal controls, and employee verification and monitoring systems that can increase operational costs. Apart from the monetary toll, organizations also pay heavily to hire resources to investigate claims of fraud, gather evidence against fraudulent employees, and then in legal costs to resolve the issue and pursue action against the miscreants. In addition, they also must expend time and resources to replace talent.