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Free Checklist

# Verify Candidates Thoroughly and Consistently

This checklist helps to guide employers to do what independent steps in a background screen can't: tie identity to the candidate, source references through the employer's own channels, and confirm employers at the source.

Created for hiring teams running onboarding, trust and safety, or workforce screening at volume, the seven checkpoints help:

- Verify identity before screening
- Validate references independently
- Reconfirm identity at onboarding
- Reverify identity when risk changes

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## Turn FBI Insight Into Practical Action

In the first episode of *Know Your People*, former FBI counterintelligence operative Eric O'Neill explains how stolen or synthetic identities can appear legitimate and why trust must be reassessed over time. This checklist turns Eric’s insights into seven practical steps for pre-hire, onboarding, and ongoing worker verification.

**"Make sure that when you're vetting prospective employees, they are who they say they are."**

 Eric O'Neill

 Security Strategist and Former FBI Counterintelligence Operative

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