Trust & Safety

How we keep Joboru trustworthy.

Joboru is a job aggregator. Most listings reach us through XML feeds from established job board partners; a growing share come from employers who post with us directly. Both routes go through review. Here's exactly what that looks like.

What we promise

Zero ads, ever.
Zero promoted or paid-for top listings.
Every feed partner vetted before they go live.
Automated filters on every listing.
Manual review for every direct-post employer.
Every user report read and acted on.

What we won't pretend

Every one of hundreds of thousands of listings has been personally read.
Zero dodgy listings will ever slip through.
Every employer has been individually interviewed.
We can make an employer reply to your application.

How we vet our feed partners

The majority of roles on Joboru come through XML feeds from established job board partners and aggregators that work directly with recruiters and employers. We do not plug every feed that offers us a deal into the site. Before any partner goes live, we review them.

Company background

We check who the partner is, who they work with, and how long they’ve been operating. New operators with no paper trail do not get added.

Feed sample review

Before a feed goes live we pull a sample and read through it. If the sample is padded with duplicates, scammy titles, or expired roles, we do not accept the feed.

Source transparency

We require partners to tell us where their listings originate. Feeds that bundle unknown or rescraped sources get declined.

Ongoing review

Partner feeds are monitored after launch. Quality issues, volume spikes, or complaints can trigger a pause or removal.

Automated filters applied to every listing

Every listing, from every source, passes through our import filters before it appears on the site. These catch the known-bad patterns and clean up the duplicates.

Spam-title pattern blocking

Survey scams, pyramid schemes, surrogacy solicitations, "earn $500/day from home" pitches, fake training programmes, paid panelist recruitment — all blocked at import.

Deduplication

The same role, same company, posted multiple times gets consolidated into a single listing. No duplicate padding.

Company-name normalisation

Feeds often spell the same employer six different ways. We normalise names so duplicates get caught and company pages don’t fragment.

Salary sanity checks

A junior admin role paying £2M a year, or a senior engineer role at £3/hour, gets flagged for manual review rather than auto-published.

Taxonomy mapping

Raw feed categories are mapped to our curated taxonomy of 36 categories. Roles that can’t be categorised sensibly are flagged instead of dumped into "Other".

Stale listing removal

Expired roles are dropped from search promptly after the employer expires them, so you’re not clicking Apply on something that no longer exists.

Direct-employer verification

When a new employer signs up to post directly on Joboru, we manually review their account before their first listing goes live. This is a small volume, so we can do it properly.

Company legitimacy

Live website, matching email domain, verifiable business address. No real presence, no account.

Contact details match

The name, email, and phone on the account need to tie back to the employer, not to a generic Gmail with no paper trail.

First listing review

The first job posted by any new employer gets read manually before it goes live. If the role looks off, we ask for clarification before publishing.

Ongoing trust

Once an employer is established with a track record of real listings, subsequent posts are usually fast-tracked, unless something unusual flags up.

Monitoring for irregularities

Filters catch known patterns. Monitoring is how we try to catch new ones.

Volume anomalies

If a feed triples its job count overnight, or a new employer posts 50 roles in an hour, we take a look before those listings propagate.

Title–description mismatch

Listings where the title and the body describe fundamentally different jobs are a common scam pattern. We screen for this.

Duplicate-across-employers

The same description posted by three different companies often means one underlying scam source. We investigate.

Known scam templates

We maintain a growing list of scam-listing templates and block matches automatically.

Your feedback

No filter catches everything, and the best spot-check is the person actually looking at the listing. If something on Joboru looks off — salary wildly implausible, employer asking for money upfront, the apply link going somewhere shady — we want to hear about it.

We’re building a per-listing feedback mechanism on every job page. Mark a role as helpful or flag it as off; flagged listings go into a review queue, and multiple flags pull a listing from search while we investigate. Until that ships, use the contact form to report anything suspicious and we’ll look into it.

Mark listings as helpful or off (coming soon)

A simple thumbs up / thumbs down on every job page. Thumbs down opens a short "what’s wrong?" picker — scam, expired, duplicate, wrong category, or free text.

Reports go to a review queue

Each flagged listing lands in an internal queue. We read every report, verify or dismiss, and remove the listing if it fails the check.

Multiple flags = auto-pause

If several people flag the same listing as a scam, we pull it from search immediately while we verify. Better a minute offline than another misled applicant.

Report a listing now

Until the in-page widget ships, the fastest route is the contact form — tell us the job URL and what looked wrong.

What we won’t pretend

We won’t claim to have personally interviewed every one of the hundreds of thousands of listings on the site. We are an aggregator. That’s honest.

What we will promise is that we don’t run ads, don’t sell promoted placements, and don’t let anyone pay to jump the queue. The ranking you see is based on relevance, recency, and job quality signals — not on who paid the most.

We’d rather undersell what we do and deliver it, than oversell and disappoint.

Seen something off?

Report a dodgy listing.

Until the in-page feedback widget ships, the fastest route is the contact form — include the job URL and tell us what looked wrong. We investigate every report.