Editorial policy
Career advice is unusually easy to write badly — confident, unsourced, and copied between sites until it sounds like fact. These are the rules our own guides have to pass.
No article is published under a house name, a pen name, or “admin”. The byline links to an author profile stating who that person is and what they have actually done that is relevant to the topic. Contributors recruited through Write for us are held to the same rule.
Articles that make claims about screening, shortlisting or compensation are reviewed before publication by someone with direct experience of that process — a recruiter, hiring manager or placement lead. When an article has been reviewed, the reviewer is named on the page. When it has not, no reviewer is claimed.
Numbers, survey findings and policy claims are linked to their primary source — the report, the platform’s own documentation, or the government notification — not to another blog quoting it. Sources are listed at the foot of the article so you can check them without trusting us. Where a claim comes from our own product data, we say so and say how it was measured.
Applicant tracking systems do not publish their ranking internals, and vendors change parsing behaviour without notice. So we do not publish “the exact score Workday gives you”, invented rejection percentages, or the widely-copied statistic that a fixed share of resumes are auto-rejected before a human sees them — that figure has no traceable source. What we do publish is parsing behaviour that can be demonstrated: how a two-column layout, an image-based header or a scanned PDF survives text extraction, and what a job description actually asks for.
AI assists with drafting outlines and summarising job-description patterns. It does not publish. Every article is edited and fact-checked by the named author, who is responsible for it. Product features that use AI are labelled as AI features in the product itself.
Hiring platforms and their formats change, so guides are reviewed on a rolling basis and re-checked whenever a platform they describe changes materially. Each article shows its publication date and, when it has genuinely been revised, a last-updated date and a one-line note saying what changed. We do not refresh the date on an unedited page to make it look current.
If something here is wrong, email contact@reachrole.app with the URL and the problem. Factual errors are fixed and noted on the page rather than quietly deleted. A correction that changes the meaning of an article is stated in the update note.
ReachRole is funded by its own users — free tools plus paid Pro. We do not run affiliate links, sponsored posts, or paid guest placements, and we do not take payment to recommend a job board, course or recruiter. When we mention our own product in an article, it is because the article is about a problem the product solves; you can act on every guide here without paying us.
Editorial responsibility sits with Shivani S, co-founder of ReachRole. Related pages: About, Contact, Write for us, Privacy Policy.
