# Submit Employment History Verification

{% hint style="warning" %}
Please note that you are required to have a webhook set for employment verification requests to be successful. If they are not set, you will not get notified when the verification has been completed.
{% endhint %}

## Submit Employment History for Verification

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `https://vapi.verifyme.ng/v1/verifications/employments`

This endpoint allows you to create employment verification requests

#### Headers

| Name           | Type   | Description          |
| -------------- | ------ | -------------------- |
| Authentication | string | Authentication Token |

#### Request Body

| Name                | Type   | Description                                                |
| ------------------- | ------ | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| jobTitle            | string | Job title held by the applicant                            |
| contactPersonName   | string | Company's Contact person name                              |
| currentlyEmployed   | array  | Boolean that represents if the applicant still works there |
| employerName        | string | Name of company/employer                                   |
| employerEmail       | string | Email of company/employer                                  |
| employerPhone       | string | Phone Number of company/employer                           |
| startDate           | string | Employment start date                                      |
| endDate             | string | Employment end date                                        |
| applicant.firstname | string | Applicants first name                                      |
| applicant.lastname  | string | Applicants last name                                       |
| applicant.dob       | string | Applicants date of birth ( DD-MM-YYYY )                    |
| applicants.phone    | string | Applicants phone number                                    |
| applicant.idType    | string | Applicants Id type ( "BVN" ,"NIN", "KYC" )                 |
| applicant.idNumber  | string | Applicants Identity Number ("BVN", "NIN", "Phone No")      |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="201 Guarantor verification created." %}

```
{
    "status": "success",
    "data": {
        "id": 2455,
        "employerName": "verifyme",
        "employerPhone": "08128730170",
        "employerEmail": "deolu.asenuga@gmail.com",
        "startDate": "5/6/2020",
        "endDate": "10/12/2020",
        "title": "software engineer",
        "applicant": {
            "firstname": "John",
            "lastname": "Doe",
            "middlename": " ",
            "phone": "+234812345678",
            "gender": "Male",
            "photo": "<base64 image>"
        },
        "status": {
            "status": "PENDING",
            "subStatus": "PENDING",
            "state": "PENDING"
        },
        "currentlyEmployed": true
    }
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="401 Unauthorized" %}

```
{
    "status": "error",
    "message": "string",
    "code": "ACCESS_DENIED"
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

#### Sample Request

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="JSON" %}

```
{
    "applicant": {
        "idType": "NIN",
        "idNumber": "10000000001",
        "firstname": "john",
        "lastname": "doe",
        "dob":"04-04-1944",
        "phone": "08121234567"
    },
    "employerName":"verifyme",
    "employerEmail":"johndoe@gmail.com",
    "employerPhone":"0812345678",
    "startDate":"5/6/2020",
    "endDate":"10/12/2020",
    "jobTitle":"plumber",
    "currentlyEmployed":true,
    "contactPersonName":"james bay"
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="CURL" %}

```
curl --location --request POST 'https://vapi.verifyme.ng/v1/verifications/employment' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <live or test key>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "applicant": {
        "idType": "NIN",
        "idNumber": "10000000001",
        "firstname": "john",
        "lastname": "doe",
        "dob":"04-04-1944",
        "phone": "08121234567"
    },
    "employerName":"verifyme",
    "employerEmail":"johndoe@gmail.com",
    "employerPhone":"0812345678",
    "startDate":"5/6/2020",
    "endDate":"10/12/2020",
    "jobTitle":"plumber",
    "currentlyEmployed":true,
    "contactPersonName":"james bay"
}'
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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