Fama makes hiring great people easy. Our modern candidate screening solutions use online signals to identify candidate fit. We highlight professional attributes such as creativity, innovation, and problem solving while also surfacing costly misconduct such as violence, harassment, and fraud.
We help organizations answer the big question: how might a candidate act around coworkers or customers when they join?
Talent teams use Fama to improve candidate quality and employee retention, create safe and inclusive workplaces, and place the right leadership for their organizations. Fama is compliant with the FCRA, GDPR, and integrates into a wide range of HRIS, ATS and background screening solutions.
Founded in 2015, Fama is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, and have raised more than $30M. Learn why over 3,600 companies trust Fama at www.fama.io.
- We make hiring great people easy. Talent teams use Fama to improve candidate quality, create safe and inclusive workplaces and place the right leadership for their organizations.
- Fama filters through 10,000 online sources to tell you who the best candidates are for a role. Gone are the days when you don’t know which candidate is a risk for fraud, harassment, threats and violence.
- We’re FCRA, EEOC, and SOC2 compliant, and integrate with major HRIS, ATS, and background check solutions.
Products:
- Essential – a lightweight but effective online screening solution searches over 10,000 online sources including X (Twitter). For companies needing a fast yet comprehensive screen. Designed for high volume hiring, retail and staffing.
- Plus – our flagship online screening solution searches 10,000 online sources plus X (Twitter), Meta properties and more identifying workplace misconduct. Plus is used by HR departments around the globe. Designed for corporate HR users across sectors.
- 360 – is a highly comprehensive online screening solution 360 includes everything in Plus along with litigation, adverse media and more. A dedicated trained investigator evaluates findings and provides a custom summary. 360 is designed specifically for executive and investment due diligence.
- Instant Fit – currently in beta, this candidate screening solution revolutionizes how talent teams can screen for the Big 5 personality traits by simply and frictionlessly using a candidate’s online content. Candidates no longer need to take lengthy assessments, reducing candidate drop off. Instant Fit also generates personalized interview questions based on the candidate’s traits to support interview personalization at scale and improved candidate insights.
Benefits
- Increase Candidate Quality
- Our modern candidate screening solutions use online signals to identify candidate fit. We highlight professional attributes such as creativity, innovation, and problem solving while also surfacing costly misconduct such as violence, harassment, and fraud. This helps our clients increase quality and identify ideal candidates earlier in the hiring process.
- Reduce Time to Hire
- No more waiting for your team to complete a manual review of a person's web presence or asking a candidate to complete a lengthy assessment. Forward-thinking talent executives use Fama to accelerate the hiring process and reduce roadblocks.
- Automate with AI
- Fama leverages AI to search over 10,000 publicly available online sources in a fast and compliant way. With human review of the final results Fama ensures employers only view the misconduct that aligns with their code of conduct.
Features
- Fama Plus screens over 10,000 online sources and social media channels to identify misconduct where it happens the most.
- 8 Types of Misconduct
- Our out-of-the-box solution screens for 8 types of misconduct including violence, fraud, and harassment. Clients can also add custom keywords to screen for additional types of misconduct.
- Results in as little as 24 Hours
- Background checks can take several days, which slows down the hiring process and hinders the candidate experience.
- 99%+ Accurate
- Audits show our reports are over 99.95% accurate. Our combined approach to automate with AI and review with human-oversight makes our solution extremely accurate.
- FCRA, EEOC, GDPR Compliant
- Over 70% of employers conduct non-compliant searches on candidates. This can reveal protected class information. Fama removes protected class information and keeps employers compliant.