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Mokka, the AI recruiting platform, today announced that candidate fraud detection is now a standard layer of its platform, formalizing anti-fraud as the third pillar of its product alongside AI sourcing and AI screening.
Gartner projects that 1 in 4 candidate profiles globally will be fake by 2028, and 6% of candidates in a recent Gartner survey admitted to interview fraud. Most screening tools were built for a world where the resume was written by the person who sent it.
Mokka’s approach treats verification as part of screening, not a separate step. The platform’s AI agents cross-check every candidate’s resume, LinkedIn profile and live pre-interview answers against each other, and flag fake profiles, AI-generated responses and signs of proxy participation. Suspicious answers are flagged for human review, never auto-rejected, and recruiters always make the final decision.
New data from BambooHR, based on a decade of deduplicated job postings (2016 to 2025), shows the median job description has grown roughly 17%, from 2,656 characters to 3,110. The growth isn’t limited to outliers either.Â
And it’s not just length for length’s sake. A few findings that stood out:
- Postings are packing in more substance, with the average number of distinct hiring signals per posting (salary transparency, remote work, AI-related language, benefits, and more) up 39% since 2016
- The median posting now contains a full additional category of hiring information compared to a decade ago
- Growth accelerated sharply after 2021, right as remote work expanded, salary transparency grew, and AI started showing up in job responsibilities
The result is a hiring market where today’s job seekers are processing considerably more information per posting than applicants were ten years ago.
Indeed now reports 31 hires every minute. The milestone reflects Indeed’s broader shift from a search-based marketplace toward an AI-powered matching platform focused on completed hires, stronger candidate-employer connections and better hiring outcomes. Recruit’s latest earnings report shows US average revenue per job grew 25% even as job postings fell 5%, demonstrating employers are prioritizing outcomes over reach.
