Veref for recruitment agencies
Verified candidates close placements faster.
Built for agency owners who get paid on placements, not interviews. Verified identity and verified work history before you submit, so fees survive the guarantee period and the next call from the client is about more roles, not clawbacks.
Where agency margin leaks
The fraud problem in agency P&L language.
In-house teams measure time-to-hire and quality of hire. Agencies measure fees, clawbacks, and retainers. Here is the same fraud problem, in the numbers that matter to your desk.
Fees clawed back inside the guarantee period.
A candidate who lied on their CV, ghosted the role, or failed BGC after start triggers a clawback that wipes out the placement margin and a chunk of the next one too.
CVs you can no longer trust at submission.
AI-written CVs and inflated work history are now the norm. Sending a polished CV to a client and finding out at offer stage that none of it was true costs you the relationship.
Time bled to candidates who do not show.
Deepfake screens, ghosted interviews, and no-show first days are concentrated in remote pipelines. Every one of them is a billable hour you cannot bill.
Clients asking what makes your shortlist different.
When two agencies submit a similar CV at a similar fee, the one that ships verified candidates wins the retainer and the next role on the desk.
The economics
Why verification pays for itself on the first saved fee.
Verification is priced per action. Placement fees and clawbacks are priced in thousands. The maths only goes one way.
$10k to $30k
Average permanent placement fee
One clawback wipes out 1 to 2 placements of margin. A single verified screen costs less than a coffee.
8 to 12 wks
Guarantee period exposure
Most agency contracts repay or replace if the candidate leaves inside the guarantee. Verified work history materially shifts the odds.
−30%
Time-to-shortlist with verified pipeline
Clients spend less time second-guessing your CVs when the candidate ships with a Veref Passport attached.
Built around the agency workflow
A verified CV, not a hopeful one.
The candidate writes structured claims about their last 2-3 roles. Veref sources verified former colleagues via LinkedIn and employer records, and asks them to confirm or contradict each claim. You submit a CV with evidence behind every line.
- Verifiers picked by Veref, not by the candidate
- Per-claim confirm or contradict from each verifier
- Identity verification before any answer is recorded
- Verified Passport travels with the candidate to every client
Work history report
A. Okafor · Senior Backend Engineer, Parallax
Led the payments platform migration to event-driven architecture.
Confirmed by 3 verified colleagues
Owned reliability for the checkout service (99.98% SLA).
Confirmed by 2 verified colleagues
Managed 4 engineers across two time zones.
Confirmed by 2 verified colleagues
Reduced p95 API latency by 40% in 2023.
Confirmed by 2 verified colleagues
How it slots into your desk
From candidate intake to surviving the guarantee.
Candidate lands on your desk
Sourced via job board, LinkedIn, referral, or your database. Same intake as today.
You send them a Veref link
Forty-five seconds for ID + liveness. Two minutes for structured work-history claims on the last 2 to 3 roles.
Veref verifies in the background
Identity confirmed. Former colleagues sourced via LinkedIn and employer records. Each claim confirmed or contradicted.
You submit a verified CV
The shortlist goes out with a Veref Passport link. Your client sees evidence, not a self-written story.
Placement survives the guarantee
Fewer post-offer surprises, fewer ghosted starts, fewer clawbacks. The fee stays on your P&L.
Commercials that make sense
Priced for agencies, not enterprises.
Per-action pricing, no platform fee
Pay only for what you verify. From $7.50 per interview, $9 per role of work history verified, $7 per ID check. Volume discounts kick in automatically.
Cost per placement, in context
A full verification stack (ID + interview + 2 roles of work history) is in the tens of dollars. Set against a $10k to $30k fee, the question is not whether it pays back, but how many times.
Pass-through or absorb
Some agencies bill verification through to the client as a premium tier. Some absorb it as the cost of being the credible shop. Either works.
Candidate-owned Passport
Once a candidate is verified, the Passport travels with them. Reuse the same verified record across every client you submit them to.
The BD angle
Verified pipeline is now a sales line, not a back-office line.
Clients are asking every agency the same question this year: how do you know the candidate is real? Most agencies answer with reassurance. The agencies that answer with a Veref Passport and a verified work history report keep the retainer and win the next exclusive.
Run a verified placement on your next role.
Twenty-five minutes, your real workflow, your fee model. We will walk through ID, interview, and work history end-to-end.