What "checked" and "verified" mean
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Fake hotel jobs are common in the Caribbean, so we check employers before their jobs appear, and we show you exactly what we checked.
Every employer is checked
Before an employer's first job goes live, we confirm that the business exists and that the person posting can hire for it. We do this by calling the property's published phone number or getting an email from the property's own email address. Jobs from employers we haven't checked yet wait, unpublished, until we have. That usually takes less than a working day.
The Verified badge goes further
Employers with the Verified badge have passed extra checks:
- Business registration: we've found the business in its island's company registry (in Saint Lucia, for example, the Registry of Companies and Intellectual Property).
- A real conversation: we've spoken to the manager or HR team on the property's published number.
- An official email address at the property's own domain.
Only verified employers can list staff housing or meals, and they must write out the terms in the job, including any deductions. Offers of free housing and meals are a common trick in fake job ads, so treat housing promised anywhere else with care.
Rules every listing follows
- The pay is shown. Every job shows the base pay set by the employer, and any service charge or tips arrangement.
- You never pay. No employer may charge you to apply, interview, train, buy a uniform, travel or get a work permit. On islands that need a work permit, the employer pays for it.
- Agencies say so. Recruitment agencies are labelled, and must show their licence where the law requires one.
- No visa schemes. We don't carry adverts for overseas visa or farm-work programmes. Those go through governments and registered recruiters only.
What checking can't promise
Checking tells you an employer is real. It can't promise you the job, or that everything an employer says is true. Use the safety tips, and if anything feels wrong, use Report this job on the listing. We look at every report within one working day, and pass fraud on to the police or labour ministry where it's needed.