{"id":122365,"date":"2025-09-08T07:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/122365\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T07:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:17:14","slug":"linkedin-takes-on-hiring-scams-with-recruiter-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/122365\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn takes on hiring scams with recruiter verification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">LinkedIn is trying to help put a stop to recruitment scams by requiring anyone with a recruitment-related job title to verify their place of employment. Executives will have to go through the same process, while company page verification is now rolling out more widely too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Existing recruiters won\u2019t need to go through verification immediately, but anyone who adds or updates their job title to something related to recruitment, such as \u201cRecruiter\u201d or \u201cTalent Acquisition Specialist,\u201d will need to verify themselves. Expect to see scammers adopting off-beat job titles that aren\u2019t on LinkedIn\u2019s list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Verification is free, and the simplest form only involves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/4\/12\/23679998\/linkedin-verification-badge-system-clear-microsoft-entra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proving that you have a company email address<\/a>. Oscar Rodriguez, LinkedIn\u2019s vice-president of trust, wrote that the change \u201chelps job-seekers identify legitimate recruiters and avoid scams.\u201d LinkedIn already offers Verified recruiter labels, available to anyone with a paid LinkedIn recruiter license.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Executives will have to undergo the same process, with mandatory verification for job titles including \u201cExecutive Director\u201d and \u201cVice President.\u201d LinkedIn is also allowing more companies to verify their official pages on the platform. Previously limited access and only available by request, the verification badge is now open to any company with a Premium company page subscription.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">LinkedIn introduced verification in 2023, and the company says that more than 80 million users have verified themselves since then. Earlier this year it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/655233\/linkedin-verification-external-platforms-adobe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expanded verification beyond its network<\/a>, allowing Adobe and other platforms to display \u201cVerified on LinkedIn\u201d badges on user profiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LinkedIn is trying to help put a stop to recruitment scams by requiring anyone with a recruitment-related job&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[84,1371,4234,50,224,227,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-122365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-linkedin","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-social-media","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}