Every international recruitment agency knows the scene: the perfect candidate, the impatient client — and three weeks of waiting to confirm the degree is real and that the destination country's regulator will accept it. Meanwhile, the candidate gets another offer. Manual credential verification is the silent brake on time-to-hire.

The problem in numbers

  • A manual verification against origin universities and boards can exceed 3 weeks per candidate.
  • In the Gulf, the official Primary Source Verification (PSV) takes 15 to 45 days — and every inconsistency caught late restarts it.
  • A healthcare candidate who fails PSV after the offer is an entire process lost: for the agency, for the client, and for the candidate.

The solution is not to verify faster by hand: it is to verify earlier and via API, at the screening stage.

What Booka's verification API does

From the candidate's degree and file, the Verifier Agent answers three questions:

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