Definition
What is resume integrity screening?
How is resume integrity screening different from keyword matching or a background check?
Direct answer
Resume integrity screening is a structured first pass on the resume file before interviews or client submittal. It asks two questions: do the career facts hold together (fabrication), and how was the document produced (polish)? It is not keyword matching, not a fit-ranking model, and not a background check. ResumeGuard runs that process in the browser or via POST /api/analyses.
Fabrication vs polish
Fabrication is whether employers, dates, titles, and credentials check out. Polish is how the document was produced. An edited resume can be a real career; a clean file can still list invented facts. Score them separately so you do not treat polish as fraud, or a tidy PDF as proof. For what invented or unverifiable career fact looks like, see resume fraud detection.
Where it sits in the funnel
Integrity screening belongs at application or before a phone screen — seconds, not days. Staffing desks run it before client submittal; in-house TA runs it before interviewer time is booked; an ATS can call the same API at upload (POST /api/analyses, then poll GET or ?wait=1). Later employment verification and background checks stay where they are today. A flagged report is a review queue, not an automatic reject.
Longer read: Longer essay: what resume integrity screening means in practice