In most industries a bad hire costs you money. In regulated industries it can cost you the business.
Hiring an unlicensed electrician, an expired-CDL driver, or a caregiver without the right clearance isn't a performance problem — it's a liability problem. One audit, one incident, one lapsed credential and you're not fixing a hire, you're defending a license.
And here's the part that bugged me enough to build around it: generic job boards treat all of this as fine print. You post the job, you get a stack of resumes, and verifying the credential — the single thing that decides whether this person can legally do the work — is your problem, after the fact.
That's backwards. In regulated industries, the credential IS the candidate. Everything else is a tiebreaker.
So RegHire flips the order: a job board for regulated industries where licenses, certs, and clearances are front and center from the first look — not a surprise in week two.
If you hire in a regulated field — what's your credential-check process actually look like? Before the offer, or scrambling after?
Update: the replies so far confirm the split — nobody defends checking credentials after the offer, but plenty admit that's how it actually happens when a seat is empty and the season is ramping. The gap between "we know better" and "we were desperate" is exactly where the liability lives.