Enhancing trust and authenticity with seamless workplace verification

Verifying employment status and credentials for new recruits and suppliers on LinkedIn posed a significant challenge leaving HR and Identity and Access Management teams to manually verify employment, causing increased costs, longer screening times, and onboarding delays. Discover how EY teams combined Microsoft Entra Verified ID with unique identity orchestration for authentic workplace verification.

▉ The challenge

Verifying employment status and credentials for new recruits and suppliers on LinkedIn posed a significant challenge. Many profiles contained self-reported and even fraudulent information, leaving HR and Identity and Access Management teams to manually verify employment resulting in increased costs, screening time and onboarding delays.

▉ The breakthrough

EY teams developed a unique solution that combines the trusted-empowering technology of Microsoft Entra Verified ID with an identity fabric created by identity orchestration. By establishing an orchestration- based integration with LinkedIn, they created an Entra Verified ID process that significantly streamlined the validation of both employment candidates and suppliers. This solution not only met EY verification requirements but also utilized an innovative identity fabric technology for orchestrating the process, which allows for the solution to expediently onboard other enterprises or include any verification requirements. While some companies may have the capacity to handle development internally, the EY solution offers significant reductions in deployment lead time through its flexible orchestration and interoperable processing. This extends beyond a direct integration between LinkedIn and Entra Verified ID, representing a sustainable, advanced solution that sets a new standard in the field.

▉ The result

Through building our NextGen trusted identity solution as part of LinkedIn’s select pilot program, EY teams helped enable a streamlined HR onboarding processes by significantly reducing the time needed to verify employment and the authenticity of credentials. Organizations utilizing verified credentials can automatically verify the authenticity and source of credentials on candidates’ LinkedIn profiles. This integration simplifies the verification process, fostering trust in connections, helping to enable more meaningful interactions.Building on the pilot’s success, EY teams are now working with clients across multiple industries on sector-specific solutions and have deployed multiple verifiable credential solutions. One solution focuses on streamlining the medical credentialing process and improving patient and provider journeys within the health sector while another aims to help optimize repeatable identity proofing processes in the financial services sector to help enable transactions with the highest level of confidence with the push of a button. 

▉ Microsoft data and AI technologies leveraged:

• Microsoft Entra Verified ID