
How to Spot a Lying Candidate in an Interview and Steps to Prevent Cheating
80% of candidates admit to lying in interviews. Here are the tells to watch for and the steps that make dishonesty harder to get away with.

The Vervoe Team brings together writers, researchers, and practitioners across product, talent acquisition, and people science. Together we cover hiring, skills assessment, and how organizations build a workforce ready for what's next, drawn from work with global organizations including Lumen Technologies, Kroll, the NHL, and Australia Post. Vervoe is a skills assessment platform on a mission to make hiring about merit, not background.

80% of candidates admit to lying in interviews. Here are the tells to watch for and the steps that make dishonesty harder to get away with.

Vervoe, HireVue, JobVite, and four other AI recruitment tools compared, plus how to choose the right one for your hiring needs.

How AI moved skill-based hiring from manual, paper-based assessments to standardized, scalable evaluation across three distinct phases.

Seven BPO recruitment strategies, from AI-powered screening to remote onboarding, for hiring flexible, high-volume customer service talent.

Why skill-based hiring pays for itself: the ROI case, the skill gaps traditional hiring misses, and what it takes to make the switch.

Ten persistent myths about skills-based hiring, debunked with data on what it actually does to bias, hiring quality, and candidate experience.

Resumes with 'Western' names get 50% more callbacks than identical resumes with ethnic-sounding names. Here's where that bias hides in CV screening.

Five trends reshaping recruitment right now, from AI and automation to candidate-first hiring, and how to act on each one.

What pre-employment testing is, the five main test types, and how it replaces subjective screening with objective, job-relevant evidence.

Unique interview questions are a must if you want to visualize candidate potential and hire effectively. While standard, everyday questions may seem more straightforward, they’re also easily anticipated by candidates.

What skills-based hiring actually requires beyond dropping degree requirements, and where in your funnel skills assessments have the most impact.

Fifteen internal interview questions that reveal whether an existing employee is ready for a new role, without letting familiarity introduce bias.