The Verified mark is a promise, not decoration. This page is exactly what we check before an employer gets it, how listings reach WildWork, what gets a listing refused, and what happens when something slips through.
What We Check Before a Listing Is Marked Verified
- The business is real. A working website or social presence, a phone number that rings, and a physical location that matches the listing. For outfitters and guide services we look up the state outfitter or guide license where the state issues one (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and others).
- The person posting can hire. The email on the listing belongs to the business, or the poster confirms by phone or a reply from a business address. We do not publish listings from third-party recruiters or staffing agencies.
- The pay is stated and legal. Employers who post on WildWork state a pay range, a day rate or a monthly figure. Listings that pay below the applicable minimum wage, describe pay as “tips only”, or hide pay behind “DOE” with no range are sent back for a number.
- Housing and meals are described honestly. If housing is included, the listing says what it is. If rent or a food deduction comes out of pay, that is stated up front.
- Nobody pays to apply. Any listing that asks a worker for a fee, a deposit, a training purchase, an equipment purchase or money for housing before the first day is refused, no exceptions.
- The listing is current. Season dates are in the future or in progress, and the employer confirms the position is still open on the day we publish.
What Gets a Listing Refused
- Application fees, deposits or required purchases of any kind.
- Recruiters, staffing agencies and lead-generation forms that resell applicants.
- Multi-level marketing, commission-only “adventure sales” and unpaid “internships” that are labor.
- Listings copied from other job boards. We gather listings only from employers’ own career pages and applicant systems, and from government boards such as USAJOBS. We do not take listings from competing job boards, college or member-only boards, LinkedIn or Indeed, and the apply link always goes back to the employer’s own posting.
- Employers we cannot reach by phone or a business email within five business days.
Listings We Summarize, and How to Get One Removed
Not every listing is posted by the employer. Some are short summaries we write of jobs already posted publicly on an employer’s careers page, applicant system or a government board. Those say so on the page, they are not marked Verified, and they link to the employer’s original posting to apply. We write our own summary of the facts rather than copying the advertisement, and we never publish a personal email address collected from another site.
If a summarized listing is yours and you want it gone, ask us to remove it. We take it down without asking for proof, usually the same day. Every listing page carries that link.
What the Verified Mark Means
Listings reach WildWork two ways. Employers post them directly, and those are checked before they go live. We also gather open positions from employers’ own career pages, USAJOBS and public association boards so more of the real work is in one place. Those show “Not yet verified by WildWork” until we have completed the checklist for that employer, and their apply link goes to the original posting. Confirm the details with the employer before you travel.
The Verified mark on a listing means a person on our team completed the checklist above for that employer. It does not mean we have worked for them, and it is not a guarantee of how the season will go. Read the listing, ask the employer direct questions about hours, days off and what the housing actually is, and talk to someone who worked there last year if you can.
When a Listing Is Wrong
If a listing misrepresents pay, housing or the work, email hello@wildwork.io with the listing link and what you found. We contact the employer the same day. Listings with a confirmed problem come down immediately, and employers who mislead applicants are not allowed to post again. Listings also come down automatically when the employer marks them filled or after 45 days, whichever is first.
For Employers
Verification usually takes less than one business day. The fastest way through it is to post from a business email address, list a phone number we can call, and state pay, season dates and housing plainly. If you hold a state outfitter or guide license, include the number in the listing notes. Post a job when you are ready.