[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listin...
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Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified?
Online job scams seem increasingly common. I'm curious whether
people would actually use a job board where every job listing is
verified before being published. Would something like this make you
more likely to search for jobs there?
Author : BelVisgarra
Score : 9 points
Date : 2026-03-07 21:37 UTC (1 hours ago)
| antonymoose wrote:
| What makes a job verified in this case? You can easily verify a
| firm exists, but that's not really the critical part. The
| question "is this a ghost job with no intention to be filled" is
| the real struggle.
| BelVisgarra wrote:
| Good point. Verifying that a company exists is relatively easy,
| but confirming that the role is actually open and actively
| being hired for is definitely harder. I was thinking
| verification could include confirming the recruiter's identity
| and requiring employers to periodically confirm that the
| position is still active. Ghost jobs are definitely an
| important challenge.
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| > _confirming the recruiter's identity and requiring
| employers to periodically confirm that the position is still
| active._
|
| If a position is only listed due to a requirement, and is
| already basically guaranteed to someone making an internal
| transfer, knowing the recruiter's identity and having a
| manager pinky-swear the job offer is real does nothing.
| fogzen wrote:
| I want a job board that can filter companies like ATS filters
| candidates. I want to know salary, benefits, equity comp, tech
| stack, and workflow practices like CI, test suite time, test
| coverage, meetings per week, etc.
| BelVisgarra wrote:
| That's an interesting point. Transparency about things like
| salary, tech stack, and engineering practices would probably
| make job boards much more useful. It sounds like verification
| alone might not be enough without better information about the
| role.
| hwhshs wrote:
| It exists. Linkedin seems to have such jobs.
| BelVisgarra wrote:
| That's true, platforms like LinkedIn try to verify companies.
| What I'm more curious about is whether people would value
| deeper verification of the actual job posting itself, not just
| the company.
| raw_anon_1111 wrote:
| No.
|
| A job being "verified" doesn't solve the main problem post around
| 2023. Every single job opening gets hundreds of openings within
| the first day of it being opened.
|
| If you are looking for a job as any type of generic developer -
| full stack, front end, mobile, back end, it's almost impossible
| to stand out from the crowd. No, "I reversed a btree on the
| whiteboard to get into big tech as a mid level developer" doesn't
| make you special.
|
| If you do have a specialized set of skills that allows you to
| stand out from the crowd, you still shouldn't be randomly
| spamming job boards and you should be able to sell yourself to
| someone at the company.
|
| My personal anecdote. In my specialty - AWS + app dev + leading
| strategic initiatives, I'm very well credentialed (trust me on
| this) and in a certain niche of AWS, I was considered one of the
| industry experts at the time (again trust me).
|
| But when randomly spamming job boards on a lark in 2023, I heard
| nothing.
|
| That was always a plan B while I was waiting for what ended up
| being three offers via my network and one by reaching out to a
| company who specialized in my niche of AWS.
|
| I'm not bragging, _I am old_. I should have a network and
| credentials.
| 1123581321 wrote:
| Probably not, as you'd essentially be performing the function of
| a recruiter, but not providing the ability for applicants to skip
| the initial steps of the hiring process by talking to you.
| Recruiters already list their open jobs in board-like software.
| brudgers wrote:
| To a large degree, the problem with job boards is job boards are
| a two sided market for lemons
|
| On the one hand, applicants are applicant who cannot find a job
| through people they know and the companies are companies who
| cannot find candidates through people they know Good jobs and
| good employees come through relationships and you cannot automate
| relationships.
|
| Relationships are hard. Good luck.
| dzonga wrote:
| what's the value add ?
|
| what are you offering to candidates - a better interview
| experience (been tried before etc, those companies closed)
|
| you want to solve a problem, however you are trying solve the
| problem at a wrong abstraction level -
|
| the problem with the tech market hiring is a coordination problem
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