October Product Updates: Stop fraud, target companies faster, and send authentic outreach

These product updates highlight the latest features, enhancements, and integrations designed to help you and your team work smarter, move faster, and get more value from Findem.

In today’s market, recruiting teams are juggling more volume, more noise, and more risk — from fraudulent applications to disconnected research and limited bandwidth for personalization. This month’s updates focus on strengthening trust, improving visibility, and scaling the parts of your workflow that typically drain time: verification, market mapping, and candidate outreach.

Defend your time — and your pipeline — from fraudulent applications with the Authenticity Suite

Recruiters are now dealing with an uncomfortable reality: fraudulent applications are rising, and the consequences are real. Gartner projects that one in four candidate profiles could be fraudulent by 2028.

Some teams now spend up to 30% of their week manually verifying resumes or tightening filters so much that even qualified candidates get turned away. Either way, hiring slows and confidence drops. Recruiting teams shouldn’t have to choose between speed and trust.

The Authenticity Suite changes that, giving you the confidence and control to handle this at scale without slowing down your hiring process.

What’s new

• Profile verification insights: Unified 3D candidate profiles combine application data with 100,000+ verified sources to confirm identity, employment history, and skills.
• Suspicious application flags: Automatically surface inconsistencies — mismatched timelines, missing employers, conflicting details — before they reach the interview stage.
• Scalable recruiter controls: Review flagged applications in bulk, override or customize flags, and suppress unqualified or fraudulent candidates from appearing in future searches.

Why it matters

Candidate fraud isn’t just a compliance concern — it slows down decision-making, drains recruiter bandwidth, and introduces unnecessary risk. Manual verification can consume too much of a recruiter’s week, while over-filtering can cost teams strong talent.

With the Authenticity Suite, every application is verified against the same standardized data foundation. You get speed and accuracy without compromising trust, and you reduce risk long before it enters the interview process.

How to get started

The Authenticity Suite is now available in the Inbound Applicants tab to all Findem customers. Log in today to protect your pipeline and ensure every hire is grounded in verified data. For more details on how the Authenticity Suite works — including flags, controls, and ways to verify candidate information — refer to this Zendesk article.

Discover and organize target markets faster with the new Company Research App

For executive search and research teams, market definition is the first step toward a successful search — and typically one of the most manual. Building a complete picture of target companies often requires switching between Crunchbase, spreadsheets, analyst reports, and handwritten notes.

The new Company Research App streamlines all of that into one integrated workspace inside Findem.

What’s new

• Company-level discovery: Search across a live company database and filter by industry, company stage, funding status, organization type, or investor.
• Enriched profiles: View detailed company pages, including funding rounds, investor lists, company size, and verified domain links.
• Smart shortlisting: Bookmark or bulk-add companies to structured research lists, and use AI to identify related companies or fill coverage gaps.
• Dynamic research lists: Build flexible market maps that behave like ICPs, then convert them into company lists for downstream search and outreach.
• Integrated workspace: Work within a familiar table view that supports sorting, pagination, and bulk actions.

Why it matters

Company context shapes every executive search strategy. Knowing which companies are growing, stabilizing, restructuring, or attracting key investors gives you a head start and builds a stronger narrative for clients.

The Company Research App eliminates browser sprawl and centralizes your entire market research workflow. These lists can then be used directly in talent mapping and candidate search, connecting research and sourcing into one continuous workflow. Use it to:

• Build target company lists for retained searches
• Identify comparable organizations for calibration
• Map investor-backed companies for new business development

With one unified workspace, research moves faster, insights stay consistent, and your team can start every search on solid ground.

How to get started

• Open Company Research in the Executive Search workspace.
• Click “Create New” and name your research list.
• Apply filters such as industry, stage, or investor to generate a target set.
• Bookmark or bulk-add companies to refine your market map.
• Select “Use in Other Apps” to convert your list into a reusable company list.

This feature is now available to all Executive Search customers.

Multiply your response rate with Auto-Personalization

Personalized outreach consistently outperforms generic messaging, but writing thoughtful, role-specific notes for every candidate is time-consuming. Auto-Personalization delivers the same high-quality communication with a fraction of the manual effort.

It blends verified career insights with customizable messaging to create outreach that feels personal, timely, and aligned with your team’s voice.

What’s new

• Personalization at scale: Automatically generate unique, context-rich outreach based on 3D candidate data — including skills, career milestones, and experience patterns.
• Intelligent timing: Optimize send windows and campaign cadence so messages land when candidates are most likely to engage.
• Automation with control: Customize tone, urgency, and calls-to-action, and preview every message before sending to ensure quality and consistency.

Why it matters

Authentic outreach drives stronger results — often 2–8x higher reply rates — but most teams don’t have the bandwidth to personalize every message. Auto-Personalization bridges that gap.

You get the impact of tailored messaging at scale, clearer and more consistent communication, and a workflow that fits seamlessly into your existing campaigns.

It helps teams: 

• Scale targeted outreach with less manual writing
• Improve reply and interest rates
• Maintain sender consistency across large teams

How to get started

Auto-Personalization is now available to all Findem customers. Start a new project, add candidates to your shortlist, and send outreach that feels authentic, informed, and effortless. For more details on enabling this feature and setting up your campaigns, please refer to our Zendesk article.