A faked identity or an impersonated profile costs your team hours — and the same person often moves straight on to the next company. Now you can shut that down in one step: report a candidate, and Get on Board discards the application, clears them from your database, and acts on the report across the platform.
These changes sit on the recruiter side of moderation — how you discard and report applicants, and what happens to a reported candidate everywhere on Get on Board. One change is candidate-facing: professionals now verify GitHub ownership when they add it to their profile.
Report a candidate, not just discard
You already discard applications with a reason. When the problem is serious, choose Report candidate instead — it discards the application and sends it to Get on Board for analysis in the same step.
A new reason, Identity fraud, joins spam and offensive as the serious reasons you can report. Use it when an applicant misrepresents who they are: impersonating another professional, or applying under a fabricated identity.
Reporting stays quiet on the candidate’s side — they aren’t notified and never see the reason. On ours, Get on Board reviews the report and may warn other companies, so a pattern of abuse doesn’t stay hidden.
What happens after you report
Inside your account:
- The candidate drops out of your Candidates database — no more surfacing in your searches or suggestions.
- If they apply to you again, that application is clearly flagged, so your team sees the history.
Across the platform:
- Reported for identity fraud by any company, a candidate can face extra identity verification — and repeated reports may lead to permanent removal of their account.
- Past a minimum number of reports for spam, fraud, or misconduct, the candidate is delisted from Talent Database, Suggested Invitations, and Boost everywhere on Get on Board — not just in your account.
Verified GitHub ownership
A profile is only as good as its links. Professionals now add GitHub by connecting through GitHub itself, instead of typing a username — so the handle is proven to be theirs. No more profiles pointing at someone else’s GitHub, or at an account that doesn’t exist.
Verified profiles show as confirmed, and for jobs that require a code repository, only a verified GitHub counts. Professionals with an older, hand-typed handle connect once to keep it.
Stronger signals in matching
We’re also feeding fraud signals into the Match analyzer, so profiles showing fraud indicators are less likely to surface as strong matches. That keeps the candidates we recommend trustworthy — and keeps your team’s time on real applicants.
Availability
Identity fraud and Report candidate are live in your selection processes now. Platform-wide delisting and cross-company handling apply automatically as reports come in. GitHub ownership verification is live for professionals editing their profiles.
Paired with the protections candidates already have against scam jobs, trust now runs both ways across the marketplace.
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