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LinkedIn fights fraud with recruitment-related verification requirements

By Rachel Noto posted 09-22-2025 01:49 PM

  

by Sharon Hill

Asserting that “trust is the foundation of everything we do,” LinkedIn VP product Oscar Rodriguez announced on Sept. 4 the expansion of the LinkedIn business verification features.

Calling it a “major step forward in building a more trusted professional community,” he outlined the new verifications that will be required when a current LinkedIn member updates or adds any recruiter-related or leadership role.

“These updates help ensure that the people and organizations you engage with on LinkedIn are who they say they are — strengthening trust across every interaction, whether you’re a business building credibility, a recruiter interacting with job-seekers, or an executive representing your company,” he posted on LinkedIn Pulse.

The three expanded verification options:

1. Premium Company Page Verification. Until now, only offered to a small number of organizations by request, this is now available to all companies that have a premium company page. This is not required, however.

2. Recruiter Verification. If someone adds or updates any recruiter-related title to their profile, such as “talent acquisition specialist” or “recruiter,” they must now verify their workplace on their profile. One verification method is now the requirement to provide LinkedIn with a company-related email address.

“This change helps job-seekers identify legitimate recruiters and avoid scams, while enabling recruiters to build trust in potential candidates from the first interaction,” Rodriguez posted. Verified recruiter labels have already been available to anyone with a LinkedIn Recruiter license, though their use is still optional.

3. Executive job title verification. Top-tier title holders, such as CEO, VP, executive director and managing director, are now required to verify their workplace, to guard against “executive impersonation.”

“We are continuing to work on new ways to expand access, and reach our goal for every member, company and job on LinkedIn to have supporting verifications in the future,” the post concluded.

We’re hoping that alongside this profile verification, LinkedIn will also search out job-offer comments or LinkedIn messages that are fraudulent.

Clearly, LinkedIn is getting the message being posted by numerous LinkedIn job-seekers and genuine recruitment and tech professionals, such as Ganga Prasad Srivastava, senior designer at R-Angle Innovations, who posts tips on avoiding prevalent fake job postings; Alison McKinnon, principal owner of HR consulting firm Summit Performance Partners, who warns about fake recruiters trying to sell resume optimization tools to those “open to work”, and Jennifer Robinson, VP of people and culture at ZenWave, who pleads, “please stop sending me fake job opportunities.”

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