Trust
How a job gets verified
Every job board says its listings are real. Here is what that sentence actually means on MailerMen: which checks a listing has to pass, who signs it off, and what happens when the role closes. It is written this plainly so you can hold us to it — and so you can tell when another board is not doing any of it.
What a listing goes through
Found at the source
A listing enters our queue from an employer's own careers page or ATS, or from an employer posting it to us directly. Nothing is scraped off another job board.
Checked, and scored
It runs the eight checks below. They produce a trust score and a verdict — verified, likely verified, unverified, or suspicious — along with the evidence behind each one, so the decision can be reviewed rather than taken on faith.
Read by a person
This is the step that matters, and it is not optional. A machine-checked listing sits in a review queue that is not part of the public board — a separate table that nothing on this site ever reads. A role becomes visible only when an operator approves it, which is what stops an unreviewed listing reaching you by accident.
Written down honestly
At approval the operator records the salary in the currency AND the period that market actually quotes — per month in the Gulf, Singapore, Poland and the Philippines, per year in India, the US, the UK and the EU. Nothing is converted. An unpaid role is recorded as unpaid, which is a different thing from a salary we were not told.
Taken down when it closes
Every listing carries an expiry. When it passes, the role disappears from search, from the category and country pages, from the sitemap and from its own page — and we tell Google to drop the URL rather than waiting to be re-crawled.
The eight checks
Each one is recorded per listing along with the evidence for it, so a decision can be re-read later rather than remembered.
The company is real
We resolve the employer to a company that exists — a live domain, a real web presence — before the listing is allowed to name it. "Confidential client" postings from an employer we cannot identify do not go up.
The source is the employer, not a repost
The listing has to come from a place the employer controls: their own careers page, or their applicant tracking system — Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and the like. A job found only on another job board is a repost, and a repost is not a source.
The posting still exists
We fetch the original URL and confirm the role is still published there. A large share of what circulates on job boards fails at exactly this step: the listing is real, it is simply gone.
The role is still open
Existing is not the same as accepting applications. A posting the employer has marked closed or filled is rejected even though the page still loads.
The apply link goes where it says
We follow the application link and confirm it resolves — no dead form, no redirect chain ending somewhere unrelated.
The apply link is on the employer’s own domain
This is the check that catches the fee scam. A listing that looks like a real company but sends the application to an unrelated domain is the classic shape of a fake job, and it fails here regardless of how convincing the description is.
The ATS is a real ATS
When the application is hosted on an applicant tracking system, we confirm it is a genuine account on that system rather than a page dressed up to look like one.
It is not already on the board
The same role reaching us twice through two sources is collapsed into one listing. Seeing the same job four times is not more choice, it is a worse search.
What we do not claim
We can confirm that a role was published by the company it names, that it was open when we checked, and that the application goes to that company. We cannot confirm that the team is good to work for, that the salary range is what they will actually offer you, or that they will reply. No board can, and one that implies otherwise is selling you something.
We also do not verify a role continuously. A listing is checked when it is published and it is removed when it expires — but a company can close a role quietly in between. If you find one, tell us and it comes down.
How to spot a fake job anywhere
These are the checks we automate, and they are worth applying by hand on any board:
- Money moving towards the employer. A registration fee, a training fee, a security deposit, a “refundable” anything. No real employer charges a candidate to be hired.
- An apply link on the wrong domain. Check where the form actually lives. A listing for a large company whose application sits on an unrelated domain is the single most reliable warning sign there is.
- An offer with no interview. A job offer arriving over chat, from a free email address, without anyone having spoken to you.
- Your bank details before your contract. Payroll details come after a signed offer, from a company you have met.
Found something wrong?
A listing that has expired, misleads about the pay, or asks you for a fee — tell us and we will pull it. That is not a formality: a fake listing costs a job seeker far more than it costs us to take down.