Fair Board Standard

How we do transparency

Most job boards show whatever the employer's marketing wrote. We hold every listing to one standard: state the pay, the contract, the hours and what “remote” actually means, and where something isn't stated, say so out loud instead of leaving a flattering blank. Here is exactly how we do it, in full.

Where these roles come from

Sourced

Pulled from a company's public careers page or applicant tracking system. They never asked to be here, so we never score them or imply they chose to hide anything. Anything a posting doesn't state reads “Not stated” (a fact about the posting, not a charge), and we invite the employer to claim the listing and complete it.

Employer-verified

The employer posted the role here, or claimed a sourced one and confirmed the details. Only these carry a disclosure score and can earn the “Fully transparent” badge, because only these opted into being held to the standard.

What we show

For every role we surface pay, contract, weekly hours and, for remote roles, remote scope. Each is one of three things, never hidden:

Disclosed: stated, shown as-is. Not disclosed / Not stated: shown honestly. Not applicable: for example, remote scope on an on-site role.

Whether you can hold a second job shows only when a role positively states it. Its absence is never counted against a role, because almost no advert addresses it. Presence is a plus; absence is nothing.

What we infer, and how

We read what a public posting states, conservatively. Where we go beyond the literal words, here is exactly how, and why:

Full-time comes from the structured job type

It's the applicant tracking system's own field, the same one the role's header shows. We never invent an hours number from it.

Permanent is inferred from employee benefits

Only when a role is full-time, lists real employee benefits (equity, 401(k), pension, parental leave, insurance) and states no fixed term. Benefits are employee-only: contractors and short fixed-terms don't get them, and a fixed-term role has to state its term. It's flagged internally as inferred, and only ever applied to sourced roles, never to employer-verified ones.

Remote scope and in-office days come from the posting

One country, a region or timezone band, or worldwide, and how many days a week in the office, read straight from what the role states.

Pay, contract length, hours are read only when unambiguous

A wrong disclosed value is worse than an honest blank, so we err toward “not stated” whenever the posting is unclear.

What we won't claim

Restraint is the point. We only put something on the board if we can hold an employer to it.

No “crunch-free” claims. A company can say it and crunch anyway, and we can't hold it to account, so it isn't a dimension. We don't score sourced roles, because they never opted in. We never invent numbers, and we never read a company's benefits blurb as a promise it didn't make.

Hiring? Get your listing verified.

Post a role, or claim one we've sourced, and confirm the pay, contract and hours. Once we've checked it's you, the role shows as employer-verified, with a disclosure score and, at full disclosure, the “Fully transparent” badge.