Editorial standards

Short, and meant to be held against us. If an article on this site breaks one of these, it is a defect and we would like to know.

Sourcing and numbers

• Statistics carry their source in the text. If we cannot trace a widely repeated figure to a study with a stated method, we say we could not, and we do not print the figure.
• Where we describe what hiring managers do, we say how we know — whether that is board experience, people we have asked, or published research.
• We do not present a single anecdote as a pattern.

Jurisdiction

Employment standards, human rights grounds, pay transparency and privacy are set provincially and territorially in Canada, and several of them have changed in the last three years. We name the jurisdiction or we say the rule varies. We do not publish a table of provinces that will be wrong within a year and read as authoritative for five.

Review and dating

Every article names the board member who reviewed it and carries the date it was published. Where an article is materially revised, the date changes and the revision is noted in the text. We do not quietly refresh a date to make old material look current.

What we will not publish

• Reviews, rankings or recommendations of resume services, coaches or job boards.
• Lists of interview questions with model answers.
• Anything that suggests misrepresenting your history, including keyword stuffing in invisible text.
• Advice about a specific person’s legal position. That is what a lawyer in your province is for, and we say so where it comes up.

Funding and conflicts

No advertising, no affiliate arrangements, no sponsored articles, and no payment from employers, recruiters or vendors. Board members disclose their current employment on the board page and recuse themselves from reviewing anything touching an employer they have worked with in the previous two years.

Corrections

Errors of fact are corrected in place, with a line in the article saying what changed and when. We do not delete an article to deal with a mistake in it, except where the whole premise was wrong, in which case the article is replaced with a note saying that.