Trust charter
These are constraints on how Qarera is allowed to make money. We wrote them down before the first paid placement existed, so that they cannot be quietly relaxed later to fit a deal.
The standing rule
Job seekers do not pay. No paywall, no subscription, no credits, no usage limit sold back to you as an upgrade. Qarera earns from employers, from partners, and from aggregate labour-market data - not from the person looking for work. That is not a launch promise with an expiry date on it.
What we will not do
Sponsored placements are always labelled
A paid slot carries a visible "Sponsored" label and a sponsored link attribute. The label is rendered by the same code that records the click, so a placement cannot be monetised without also being labelled.
The match score is never for sale
No employer, advertiser or partner can pay to raise a score, reorder results, or appear above where the model puts them. Paid inventory may occupy a slot that is clearly marked as paid. It may never contaminate a ranking presented as merit.
Resume data is never sold
Not to anyone, and not under an "anonymised and shared" label either. Aggregate statistics computed across the whole corpus - skill frequencies, salary ranges, demand trends - are publishable. Individual resumes and per-user records are not.
Employer contact is opt-in only
No employer can contact you unless you have actively turned that on. It is off by default, we will not nag you to switch it on, and nothing is withheld from you if you leave it off.
No fake-door paid features
No "Upgrade to Pro" button that leads to a waitlist. No price shown for something that does not exist. If we want to know whether you would pay for something, we will ask.
No display ads
Ad-network revenue is not worth the trust cost or the page-speed cost, and it is the fastest way to become the kind of site we are trying to be better than.
We never resell raw job postings
Aggregate statistics derived from postings are defensible facts and we publish them. Reselling the scraped postings themselves is not something we do.
Anything here can be tightened. Loosening any of it would require an explicit, written decision that replaces this page - not a quiet edit. If you are hiring and want to know what employer access will look like under these rules, see Hire on Qarera.