Standards

The register is a record of employers who have said, on the record, that they hire people with records. Every published record appears in the directory.

It is not a promise that anyone gets hired. It is a record of who has said yes, dated, verified where marked, and corrected when it needs to be.

A listing requires three things: a real website, a named submitter authorized to represent the company, and at least one concrete hiring practice, a conviction-free application, an individualized assessment policy, active recruiting from reentry programs, or similar. A company that just says "we're open-minded" does not get in.

Listings are US-only. Staffing agencies and temp firms are accepted and flagged as a distinct category.

If your company meets the bar, add it. There is no charge.

Every listing is reviewed by a person before it publishes. Where we have confirmed the employer's identity, a DNS record at the company's domain, or a confirmation click from an email at that domain, the record shows a verification date. A listing we have not been able to confirm says "Not re-confirmed" and names the source it still rests on, so you can judge it yourself.

Verification decays on a schedule. At 11 months we email the submitter to re-confirm. At 12 months the record is marked as not verified within the year. At 15 months it is unpublished. An unpublished record keeps its URL and record number, and comes back when re-confirmed.

Never. No featured placement, no sponsored listings, no advertising, no paid tier of any kind. No one can pay to be listed, to rank higher, or to be described differently.

Sort order in the directory is verification first, then most recently verified, then alphabetical, never payment. The register is funded by The Discoverability Company as a public resource. There is no charge to be listed.

Every record carries a "Report a problem" link. Reports go to our reviewers, not to the employer. When an employer's practices change, the record changes. Corrections are reviewed by a person before they publish.

Employers can propose edits to their own records at any time. Proposed changes are reviewed before they touch the live record.

A record can be corrected or unpublished when an employer's practices change.

Reports of serious misconduct go to human review under a written standard, not to an algorithm, and not straight to the employer. The register reserves the right to unpublish any listing.

Being listed is not an endorsement of an employer generally. Appearing in the register does not mean any particular applicant will be hired.

Records state what employers have said about their own practices and what we have verified. Nothing more.