ID Checking Your Candidates
Empower applicants with everlasting proof of right to work data
First, I’ll explain our ID checking philosophy and how it can provide value to your hiring process. Or skip straight to the instructions by clicking here.
Recently I was fortunate enough to travel in Africa. Over the week, I had more than 10 copies of my passport taken by the various hotels and the border authorities. For anyone whose privacy conscious, this is hard to accept. Copies of my passport sitting on invariably insecure networks and IT systems - likely, forever. That’s a concentrated version of the exposure your ID docs have over the course of your career…
Problem 1: A tech professional who works as permanent member of staff, may face their passport being copied 10x over the course of their career. These are probably more trustworthy systems you have a higher level of tolerance for. However if you work in the gig economy as a contractor or freelancer, this might be 5 or even 10x higher. Likely by less well known intermediaries, agencies, consultancies and everyone else in between who has a checkbox to tick.
Problem 2: Employers are looking for ‘proof of right to work’. For this, most roles just require your name + nationality and know your identity document is valid. Employers don’t in fact need the passport number, date or place of birth. Yet this information is copied regardless and again, these copies will usually sit on the IT systems of the intermediary for as long as they exist.
Applicants prove their right to work over and over throughout their careers, exposing their identities to the same check repeatedly. Secondly, we overshare all our ID doc data, more than is necessary or even useful to have. These are the two problems we’re solving with blockchain anchored national ID proofs. Here’s a recruiters guide to using our proof of right to work tool.
- Find the right candidate (the difficult bit).
- Sign-up or sign-in: https://zincwork.com/ with LinkedIn, email/password or MetaMask. Use a company email for validation where possible.
3. Request ID Check: navigate to the recruit tab on the left menu bar. Click the ‘request ID’ button on the top right of your page. Complete the form, entering the candidates name, email, the number of references you’d like back. Clicking submit will cost you 10 credits per ID check.
No further work is required. You’ll be notified of the results by email. You’ll be delivered back: “Name, Nationality & ID Validity”. This removes any GDPR risk. Behind the UI we pass the image file to an API to read only the relevant fields of the ID doc. Our API can scan and identify any nationality passport globally using two techniques:
1. MRZ verification performs analysis checks on the Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) values specified by the user.
2. Image verification performs image, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and MRZ analysis on the attachments associated with the supplied document.
Your request triggers an email to go out to your candidate. They will go through this process…
- The applicant gets an email asking them to complete the proof of right to work ~ ID check. They’ll be informed that unlike other ID check providers, they get to keep this immutable ID proof afterwards. It may save them going through this process again and again throughout their career.
2. Click the email link taking them to zinc.work to upload their ID securely on a webpage. Their ID is checked privately by an API, taking on average 3 seconds.
The results are delivered back to the applicant and the recruiter within a few seconds. The passport or identity document details always remain completely private and are only read by the API. The proof of ID check results of are recorded on the Ethereum blockchain. The applicant can then use their Zinc identity to prove their proof of right to work in the future. The applicant can share this proof in a zero knowledge fashion by only revealing proof of the data they wish to.
Please get in touch if you have any questions or need support: hello@zinc.work
Website: https://zincwork.com
