Leaders In HR, Peer-To-Peer Industries Partner With Virtrue For ID Verification

(PRWEB) - Virtrue, an online ID verification provider, today announced strategic partnerships with Ascendify, nowHIRE, i9 Advantage, VoteNet and Diggerslist. These strategic partnerships will leverage Virtrue’s innovative technology to provide greater trust and accountability in hiring and emerging online marketplaces via fast, frictionless verifications of identity attributes, such as an individual’s education and work history.

Ascendify, a social talent acquisition platform and winner of Human Resource Executive’s 2012 Top HR Product of The Year, will integrate Virtrue’s verification technology to provide hiring managers and recruiters with enhanced candidate pre-screening capabilities. Ascendify’s enterprise clients will be able to easily verify a candidate’s background and employment history, even before they apply to a job.

“In today’s war for talent, the risks associated with hiring a fraudulent candidate can be severe,” said Lauren Smith, co-founder & VP Marketing of Ascendify. “With Virtrue we can deliver immediate verification results to our clients and help companies find top talent faster and with greater levels of confidence.”

“Traditional candidate verification tools, due to their high cost and slow processing times, are not scalable pre-screening solutions for the broader hiring market,” said Virtrue CEO Adam Spector. “We’re excited to democratize these vetting capabilities so that employers can quickly and affordably access an integrity check on any applicant at any point in the hiring process.”

Virtrue’s partnership with nowHIRE will integrate Virtrue’s verification technology with the company’s applicant tracking system, providing a fast, cost-effective way for employers to pre-screen applicants while managing them from beginning to end of the hiring cycle. Additionally, Virtrue has struck a re-seller partnership with i9 Advantage, a leading provider of employment eligibility verifications and electronic I-9 compliance.

“We’re impressed with Virtrue’s innovation in this space as it advances current ID verification and employment screening capabilities,” said Don Archer, Senior Director of Business Development and Solution Consultant for nowHIRE. “We look forward to bringing Virtrue’s solution to market – it’s a strong addition to our suite of employment verification services.”

Virtrue will also partner with Votenet, a leading provider of secure on-demand voting software for private organizations, providing the company with a fast and scalable way to verify the identities of participants in online votes, in particular as it relates to their affiliation with cities, universities, and workplaces.

“Virtrue’s identity verification technology will allow VoteNet to more efficiently validate and qualify individuals in our voting panels,” said Mike Tuteur, CEO of VoteNet. “We believe this partnership will raise the bar for online voting.”

Additionally, Virtrue’s partnership with Diggerslist, an online home improvement marketplace, will enable buyers and sellers on the website to verify their identities, creating more trusted and accountable transactions.

“Security and trust is critical in online, peer-to-peer commerce and Virtrue’s technology is faster and more useful than a traditional background check,” said Matt Knox, founder of Diggerslist. “When buyers and sellers have greater trust in each other they’re more likely to transact – we believe this partnership will ultimately accelerate activity and engagement in our marketplace.”

Virtrue’s innovative ID verification technology can produce verification results in near real time, based on a proprietary algorithmic analysis of user-authorized data, including online social data. Virtrue employs end-to-end encryption on its platform and never asks individuals to share their login credentials to personal accounts with any outside party (including Virtrue).

Virtrue’s technology can be seamlessly integrated into third party platforms to enhance trust and efficiency in both hiring processes and online marketplaces.