Our Verified, No-Fees Policy
Every vacancy on JobsInKenya.ke is checked against one rule before it appears: no legitimate job charges an applicant money, at any stage, under any name. A listing that fails that check is never published, never sent to alerts, and never promoted — and that rule is enforced by our database, not by anyone remembering to apply it. This page explains exactly what we check, how we check it, and just as importantly, what our checks do not cover.
What does “verified” mean on this site?
Verified means a listing has passed seven specific checks. It does not mean we have inspected the employer’s business or guaranteed the job.
Every listing must satisfy all seven:
- No applicant-paid fee of any amount, under any label. Not “registration”, not “processing”, not “medical”, not “training”, not “uniform”.
- No M-Pesa till, paybill, buy-goods or send-money instruction aimed at applicants.
- No ID, KRA PIN, certificates or ID photograph requested before a formal interview.
- No overseas placement without a verifiable accreditation number from the National Employment Authority.
- No impersonation — a named employer advertising from a personal free-mail address, or an application link on a domain unrelated to the employer.
- An identifiable hiring entity — a real, traceable organisation, not a bare “agent” with no company behind it.
- Not commission-only, multi-level marketing, or deposit-to-earn recruitment.
Fail any one and the advert does not go up.
How are listings checked?
Most listings are checked automatically, and we think you should know that. Being straightforward about the method is the only thing that makes the word “verified” worth anything.
Vacancies reach us three ways: we collect them from employers’ own career pages, government portals, NGO and UN sites; employers post directly through Post a Job; and readers send us tips. Everything that arrives goes through the same path:
- We read the advert into structured fields — role, employer, county, contract type, experience, pay, deadline, and the official application link. Anything the system cannot read confidently is left empty rather than guessed.
- We score it. Every advert is scored on how complete it is, whether any of the seven checks trip, how reliable that source has been in the past, whether the employer is identifiable, and whether the deadline is real and current.
- Strong scores publish automatically. Everything else goes to a person. Adverts that trip a fee signal, an impersonation signal, or an overseas-placement signal are never published automatically, however good the rest of the advert looks.
- Anything an employer submits to us directly is read by a person, every time, without exception.
Applications never come to us. Every listing sends you to the employer’s own application route, and we publish the original source link on the page so you can check the advert at its source yourself.
What does the VERIFIED · NO FEES stamp mean?
The stamp means that listing passed all seven checks. It is not a graphic we add for decoration — a listing cannot be published at all without passing, so the stamp and the listing appear together or not at all.
The same stamp appears whether a person or our automated checks cleared the advert. The seven checks are identical either way.
What does verification not cover?
This is the part most job boards leave out, so we will be direct. Passing our checks does not mean:
- That the job is definitely still open. Employers fill roles without telling anyone. We remove expired listings daily and show every deadline, but an advert can go stale between our check and your application.
- That we have audited the employer’s business. We check that the employer is identifiable and is not asking you for money. We are not a licensing body and we do not inspect workplaces, contracts or pay practices.
- That the advertised salary is accurate. Where an employer states pay, we publish what they stated. We do not independently confirm it.
- That you will be treated fairly. Verification is about the advert, not about what happens after you apply.
- That we caught everything. Automated checks miss things. That is why the next section exists.
If a listing on this site ever asks you for money, it should not be here. Report it and we will review it the same day.
How do we know the checks actually work?
Every week we take a sample of listings that published automatically and check them by hand, and we record how many were wrong. A check nobody measures is not a check, it is a hope — so we measure it, and we publish what we find.
If the error rate rises, the automatic bar goes up and more listings go to a person until it comes back down. We would rather publish fewer jobs than publish a scam.
What happens when we get it wrong?
Every listing page has a report link. A reported listing is reviewed the same day. If it is confirmed, we take it down, and if the problem came from a source that supplies us regularly, we stop taking listings from that source until it is resolved.
Employers who ask applicants for money are warned once and blocked on a second attempt. Anyone impersonating a real company is blocked immediately, and where we can reach the company being impersonated, we tell them.
We keep a permanent record of every listing we have ever published, including the ones we removed. That record is how we can tell you honestly how often we get it wrong.
Why don’t you charge job seekers?
Because charging job seekers is the exact behaviour this site exists to keep out, and a job board cannot credibly ban a practice it profits from.
Browsing, searching, and applying through the employer’s own route are free, and they stay free. Our costs are met by employers who post vacancies and by advertising. If you are ever asked to pay us to see or apply for a job, you are not on our site.
Frequently asked questions
Does JobsInKenya.ke ever charge job seekers anything?
No. Browsing every listing, searching, filtering and reaching the employer’s official application route are free and always will be. We make money from employers who post vacancies and from advertising, never from job seekers. If a page claiming to be us asks you for money to view or apply for a job, it is not us — check the address bar for jobsinkenya.ke and tell us.
Is a job legitimate just because it is listed here?
It has passed our seven checks, which is a meaningful filter, but it is not a guarantee. We confirm the advert asks nothing of you financially and comes from an identifiable employer. We do not audit the employer’s business, verify the salary, or guarantee the role is still open. Always apply through the official link we publish, and read our guide to spotting fake job adverts in Kenya before you send anything to anyone.
Are listings checked by a person or by a computer?
Both, depending on the listing. Vacancies we collect from employer career pages and public portals are checked automatically against all seven rules, and anything that scores poorly or trips a fee, impersonation or overseas-placement signal goes to a person instead. Every vacancy an employer submits to us directly is read by a person before it publishes. We sample the automatic checks by hand every week to confirm they are working.
What should I do if a listing asks me for money?
Do not pay, and report it using the link on the listing page. We review reports the same day and remove confirmed cases. Keep any messages or payment requests you received — they help us block the sender and warn others. No legitimate Kenyan employer asks applicants to pay for registration, medical checks, training, uniforms or “processing” at any stage of recruitment.
Why do you link to the employer’s own website instead of taking applications?
Because sending you to the source is both safer and more honest. You can confirm the vacancy exists on the employer’s own page, your application goes directly to the people hiring, and nothing sits between you and them. It also means we never hold your CV or personal details unless you choose to give them to us.
JobsInKenya.ke is a free job board that aggregates verified job vacancies in Kenya, updated daily.