Before a company can publish a job listing, its domain has to be verified. This is the gate people are most surprised by, so it is worth explaining what it checks and why.
What it proves
That whoever set the company up controls its domain. Nothing more.
It is not a background check, not a check that the business is solvent, and not an endorsement.
It is the cheapest available proof that a listing claiming to be from example.com was posted by
somebody who can receive mail at, or publish DNS for, example.com.
Three ways to prove it
Your sign-in email. If you signed up with an address at the company's own domain and opened the confirmation link we emailed to it, that is already the proof. The verification panel shows which address you are signed in with, so you can see before you click whether it will pass. Free-mail domains do not count — a Gmail address proves you control a Gmail account, not a company. Nor does an address we only have from Google or another sign-in provider: it tells us the address was once yours, not that you still read its mail. Setting a password under Workspace → Security fixes that, because the link we email you for it confirms the address.
Another work email at the domain. If you can read any mailbox at the company's domain — your
own work address, or a shared one such as hiring@ — type it in the verification panel and we
email it a link. Open the link while signed in to the account that asked for it, press the button,
and the company is verified. The address has to be at the domain itself, not a subdomain. The
link works once, only for your account, and for 24 hours; asking again replaces it. The email's
text names only the domain, not you or the company, so use an address whose reader expects it —
if a colleague reads it, they can pass the link back to you.
A DNS record. Add the TXT record we give you to the domain, and we look it up. Use this when your account address is not on the company domain, or when someone other than the domain owner set the company up.
Your account's own address, and how you sign in, are under Workspace → Email.
Why it gates publishing
Because the alternative is a job board where anyone can post as anyone. That fails in one specific way: a fake listing collects real applications, with real CVs, from real people. The cost of getting it wrong falls on the candidate, not on us.
It is one of three gates between a draft and a published listing — see Posting a job for the other two.
Inviting colleagues
Once the company is verified, its owners and company admins can invite colleagues: open the company under Workspace → Companies, and under Invitations type their email address and pick a role. An owner can offer any role; a company admin can offer company admin or recruiter.
We email that address a link that works for seven days. It works only for an account signed in with that address, once we have confirmed the address ourselves — an address we only have from Google or another sign-in provider has to set a password first, through the link we email for it. Accepting adds them to the company with the role you chose. Until then the invitation is listed under Invitations, where you can withdraw it, and inviting the same address again replaces the earlier link.
The badge on a profile
Some parts of the product refer to a verified profile. That is a separate signal about a person, and it is not shipped yet — no profile currently displays a verification badge. Company verification, described above, is what exists today.
We would rather say that than let a page imply a check nobody is running.