We reserve the right to refuse to link to any site (employer or other).

Employer Website Inclusion Criteria:

Included in the more than 18,000 unique links on Job-Hunt.org are links to over 8,000 employers by state. We prefer to link to the employment section of the employer's Website. However, if the Website is reorganized often and the URL of the employment section changes frequently, we may just link to the home page. Or, the site may be removed (as a maintenance problem/nuisance).

Legitimate employers may advertise on Job-Hunt. See our Sponsors page for more information.

Job Boards and other Non-Employer Website Inclusion Criteria:

Criteria for non-employer sites being added to Job-Hunt.Org -  

• Site purpose is specifically in support of job hunters or recruiters, with content related to finding jobs and/or developing careers. Note that the employment section of a company or organization Web site may qualify.
  
  
• ORIGINAL CONTENT of value to job seekers or recruiters is provided.
  
  
• EXCLUDED:
  • Sites with no real, verifiable contact information.
  • Sites which have private domain registrations.
  • Sites which charge job seekers for access to job postings.
  • Lists of links (particularly, lists of affiliate and/ or advertiser links).
  • "Borrowed" content (articles which were originally published elsewhere and are being used without permission of the author).
  • Sites/blogs containing a few articles serving as search engine "bait" for the ads which usually dominate the top and sides of the pages.
  • Sites which are just windows into larger, well-known job posting sources like SimplyHired or Indeed, with no added value for the job seeker.
    
    
• Ownership must be obvious.
  Anonymous sites are not accepted, and concrete, verifiable contact information must be available for job seekers to reach someone if they wish.
  

  NOTE: A contact form and/or email link do not qualify as providing contact information. Phone number and street address qualify as concrete contact information.

• Site is well-organized, well-designed, functional (search works as described, nothing is "under construction," etc.), and easy for visitors to use.
  
  
• Substance is preferred over style. A flashy site will not automatically be included, and a plain site will not automatically be excluded.
  
  
• If the site has job listings, it should have a large number of them, preferably from a variety of employers, and the jobs should be appropriate for the site (e.g. programmer jobs in an IT job board).
  
  
• If the site has a specialty (like IT/IS jobs or opportunities in a specific location like Los Angeles), the specialty should be obvious to visitors. It should also be accurate.

Protecting job seeker privacy is required:

We have long felt that privacy protection is a critical issue for job seekers!

• An accurate Privacy Policy should be posted that specifically indicates practices that protect the privacy of job seeker and do not subject job seekers to e-mail spam or other forms of electronic harassment.
  
  
• If job-seeker resumes or profiles are collected by the site, there should be at least one stated, functional, obvious, effective, and easy method for the job seeker to protect his or her contact information from being viewed by potential employers and others.
  
  
• Job seekers should not be required to register or complete a profile before they receive access to the job opportunities.
  
  
• Job site anonymity is NOT acceptable.
  An accurate representation of the ownership and management of the job site must be available to job seekers and employers on an About Us or Contact Us page of the Website. The domain name must not be "private" - full and accurate contact information must be available via a standard Whois lookup, and should be available to casual site visitors. We reserve the right to check and to attempt contact. If "no one is home," the site will not be listed.
  

Automatically excluded are sites:

• Unrelated to careers, jobs, recruiting, or HR.
  
  
• Pornographic or otherwise illegal.
  
  
• Appearing to be get-rich quick schemes, scams, or multi-level marketing.
  
  
• Requiring job seekers to register before they can see the jobs available or get access to the employer contact information on job postings.
  
  
• Requiring job seekers to pay before they can see the jobs available or get access to the employer contact information on job postings.
  
  
• Annonymous sites, appearing to be owned by no one in particular, displaying no contact information and/or a blind/private domain name registration.
  
  
• That do not "work" as advertised (search engine doesn't return relevant responses, etc.).
  
  
• Not original or well-executed, providing no real value to job seekers or recruiters.
  
  
• Not on-line when reviewed.
  
  
• Comprised solely of lists of affiliate or advertiser links with no original content.
  
  
• Blocking a visitor's ability to easily click "Back" to Job-Hunt.Org.
  
  
• Requiring visitors to download a non-standard browser plugin.

NOTE: If your site does not have a Privacy Policy and clear, concrete, verifiable contact information, including a public domain registration, it has a very limited chance of being listed on Job-Hunt.

Submission

The Job-Hunt add-a-link form has been removed because it has been abused so much by sites which clearly have none of the qualifications for being included (jewelry store sites, gambling sites, mortgate loan sites, etc.).

If your site meets the criteria listed above, send a description and URL to submissions [at] job-hunt.org.

Please note that Job-Hunt does NOT participate in link exchanges.

21 January 2011

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