Pre-publish: real employer, real role, real pay
Before a listing ever appears on the site, three things have to be true:
- Real employer. The hiring company exists, is operating in Northwest Ohio, and has someone authorized to hire for the role. We confirm via the employer's career page, LinkedIn, or a direct contact.
- Real opening. The role is currently active. We cross-check the employer's own ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, iCIMS, BambooHR, JazzHR, etc.) when one is publicly accessible. For employers using internal systems, we email a single confirmation question to the hiring contact and wait for a yes.
- Real pay range. Every listing has a published pay range. No "competitive salary." No DOE. If the employer won't share a range, the listing doesn't run.
Re-verify: every 7 days, automatically
After a listing goes live, it enters a re-verification cycle. Every seven days, our system re-checks the ATS or re-confirms with the employer.
- Still active — the listing stays live with an updated "Verified [date]" stamp.
- Filled or pulled — the listing is archived with a "Position Filled" label. It doesn't disappear; it shows that the process worked.
- No response from employer — after a 48-hour grace period, the listing is paused pending manual review.
Why this matters
National job boards have a ghost-job problem because their incentives reward listings volume, not listing quality. We picked the opposite incentive: every listing on this site is one we'd be embarrassed to find out wasn't real. That's why the verification is in the brand name.
For the technically curious
The verification pipeline is a Cloudflare Worker-based job queue that runs the ATS checks and re-checks on a schedule. ATS connectors use the public job-board APIs employers already publish for syndication (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby). For employers without a public ATS, we use a templated outreach email with a single confirmation question. All verification events are logged with timestamps and form an audit trail on every listing.