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Setting Up Polyguard PreScreen

This guide walks recruiting admins through turning on Polyguard PreScreen for your team. The setup differs slightly depending on which applicant tracking system you use — select the tab that matches yours.

Before you begin, make sure you have admin access to your applicant tracking system and to the Polyguard Console.

Connect Your Applicant Tracking System

Greenhouse setup is a one-time process: you create API keys in the Greenhouse Dev Center, add a verification stage to your jobs, and connect a submission web hook, pasting each value into the Polyguard admin console (/admin) as you go.

Follow the Greenhouse Setup guide for the full walkthrough. It takes about 20 minutes and configures both Hosted Apply and the Inbound Backstop.

Lever setup takes one API key with a fixed set of permissions, a Human Verification stage in your pipeline, and an Application created webhook, all entered in the Polyguard Console.

Follow the Lever Setup guide for the full walkthrough. It takes about 20 minutes and covers both the hosted job board and direct applies.

Workable needs no API key, web hook, or pipeline stage: the careers site reads your live roles from Workable's public SmartApply API and gates each application before it is submitted.

Follow the Workable Setup guide. It takes about 10 minutes.

1. Connect Rippling to Polyguard

  1. In the Polyguard Console, open Integrations and choose Rippling.
  2. Enter your job board slug (the identifier in your public Rippling careers URL). Rippling's public job board does not require a customer API key for reading and submitting applications.

2. Publish a protected careers page (Hosted Apply)

  1. Polyguard mirrors your live Rippling postings onto a Polyguard-hosted careers page.
  2. Share that link wherever you advertise roles. Candidates apply there, complete a Trust Check, and only verified applications are submitted to Rippling.

Inbound Backstop for Rippling

The Inbound Backstop for Rippling is enabled through Rippling's partner integration. Talk to your Polyguard contact to turn it on for your account.

1. Connect Workday to Polyguard

  1. In the Polyguard Console, open Integrations and choose Workday.
  2. Provide the Workday integration details requested by the Console so Polyguard can read your published requisitions and write verified applications and Trust Check results back onto the candidate record.

2. Publish a protected careers page (Hosted Apply)

  1. Polyguard mirrors your live Workday requisitions onto a Customer-branded careers page hosted by Polyguard.
  2. Share that link wherever you advertise roles. Candidates apply there, complete a Trust Check, and only verified applications are submitted to Workday.

Inbound Backstop for Workday

The Inbound Backstop for Workday is enabled as part of your Workday integration. Talk to your Polyguard contact to turn it on for your account.

What the Trust Check Verifies

The Trust Check is a presence verification: it confirms that a real, present person completed it on a genuine device, using real-time facial recognition. It does not verify identity. Candidates are not asked for a government ID, and their name is not checked against any records.

On iPhone, candidates complete the Trust Check in the Polyguard App Clip, which the phone opens automatically from the link, so there is nothing to install. On Android, candidates install the free Polyguard Mobile app.

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