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Sponsor a guide page

One slot, at the bottom of one guide, labelled as an advertisement. You are buying space and nothing else, and this page is the whole of what that means.

What we are not selling

There is no strip of client logos on this site and there is not going to be one.

Every recruitment site has a row of badges under a heading like who we work with. When those are bought, the heading is a lie: it says relationship and means invoice. Paragraph 25 of Schedule 20 to the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 puts creating a false impression like that among the practices banned in all circumstances, which means there is no argument available afterwards about whether anybody was actually misled.

A sponsored slot claims nothing. It says one true thing, that somebody paid for the space, and it says it in a box that looks like an advertisement because it is one.

What it looks like on the page

That wording is not written into the page. It is assembled in the software and attached to every slot, and the software refuses to draw a slot at all if any part of it is missing. It cannot be turned off for a customer who asks nicely, because the version without it is the version that is against the law.

The price

5p for every time the page was opened in the last 30 days. That is the whole formula. The count beside each page below is the real one, from the same counter our own statistics come from, and it is the only thing the price depends on.

Below 800 views in 30 days a page is not for sale at any price. A page nobody reads is not worth money, and taking it anyway is the kind of small dishonesty that ends up being the whole character of a business. Quiet pages stay on the list below with their real number showing, because hiding them would make this board look busier than it is.

The pages, and what they cost today

The figures move. If a page gets busier the price goes up at the next renewal, and if it goes quiet the price comes down without anybody having to ask for it.

What the money never buys

A word of the page

Not a sentence added, not a sentence removed, not a phrase softened. If a guide says a practice is a problem and the sponsor does that practice, the guide still says it.

An early look

Sponsors see the page when everybody else does. A page shown to a payer first is a page they can lean on, even if nobody intends to lean.

A mention in the text

Their name appears in the labelled box and nowhere else on the page. A name worked into a paragraph is the exact thing paragraph 12 of Schedule 20 bans, and it is banned however true the sentence is.

A place in any list we publish

Not the employer directory, not a search result, not a ranking, not an order. What is on this board is decided by what is real, and money does not move a row up a page.

Anything a candidate touches

No sponsored slot on an application, a CV page or an alert. Regulation 5 of the Conduct Regulations 2003 says we may not make a service to a work-seeker conditional on another service, and the cleanest way to obey that is to keep the money away from the candidate's route entirely.

Our silence

If a sponsor turns out to be doing something we warn people about, we take the slot down, say so, and refund the unused part. We are not holding a secret for anybody at forty pounds a month.

The pages that are never for sale

A page that exists to protect somebody, or to be held against us, cannot have a paying advertiser standing next to it. Nobody reading about forced labour, or about how to complain about us, should have to wonder who paid for the page.

That list is in the software, not just in this paragraph. The slot is refused on those pages twice over, once because they are not on the sold list and once because they are on this one.

Who we will not take money from

Anybody who charges a work-seeker to find work

A fee for finding somebody a job is unlawful under regulation 26 of the Conduct Regulations 2003 for almost every kind of work. We are not taking advertising money from a business built on it.

Umbrella payroll

We do not use umbrellas, we tell candidates what they cost them, and we are not going to be paid by one while we do it.

Pay-to-start work of any shape

Paying for a uniform before a first shift, paying for a CRB or DBS check, paying a deposit for kit. If the worker pays to begin, we do not want the advertising money.

CV writing or job guarantees sold to candidates

Nobody can guarantee a job, and anybody charging a person out of work for the promise of one is selling hope by the hour.

Immigration advice from anybody not regulated to give it

Section 84 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 lets only a qualified person give immigration advice or services, meaning somebody registered with the Immigration Advice Authority (until recently the OISC) or authorised by a designated professional body. Doing it without that is an offence under section 91 of the same Act, and it carries a prison sentence. We check the register before we take a penny.

High cost credit, wage advances and claims firms

Aimed at people between wages, on a site read by people between wages. No.

Anybody with an open complaint against them on this board

While we are looking into something, their money is not welcome. After we have looked, it depends on what we found.

What we check first, and what we do not

  • That the company is registered at Companies House and the name they gave us is the registered one.
  • That they hold any licence the work needs: a gangmaster's licence, now issued by the Fair Work Agency, for the sectors that require one, and an Immigration Advice Authority registration where advice is given.
  • That nothing they have published contradicts the guide they want to sit next to.
  • That they are not on the list above.

That is the whole of it. We are not auditing anybody, we have not visited their sites, and a sponsored slot is not a recommendation from us. If it ever starts to look like one, we have written the box wrong and we want to be told.

The terms

One month at a time

Paid monthly, ending at the end of a month, no notice required from either side. Nobody is locked into a board this new and we are not locked into a sponsor.

The price is the published one

Five pence for each time the page was opened in the last thirty days. The count is printed beside the offer, the same number the stats come from. There is no different figure for the customer who pushes.

It moves with the traffic, both ways

If the page gets busier the price goes up at the next renewal, and if it goes quiet the price comes down without anybody having to ask.

Below eight hundred views a month it is not for sale

At any price. The slot simply does not appear on the list.

We can end it, and pay back the rest

If the sponsor turns out to break one of the rules above, the slot comes down that day and the unused part of the month is refunded.

The law this is written against

We would rather show the working than ask anybody to take our word for it.

  • DMCC Act 2024, Schedule 20 paragraph 12. Using editorial content to promote a product where a trader has paid for the promotion, without making that clear, is banned in all circumstances. That is why the label exists and why it is in the software rather than in a page.
  • DMCC Act 2024, Schedule 20 paragraph 25. Falsely creating the impression that a trader is not acting for business purposes is banned in all circumstances. That is why there is no bought logo strip here.
  • CAP Code rules 2.1 and 2.4. Advertising must be obviously identifiable, and rule 2.4 puts that duty on the publisher as well as the advertiser. The publisher is us.
  • Conduct Regulations 2003, regulation 5. We may not make a service to a work-seeker conditional on another service, so no sponsored slot ever appears on an application, a CV page or a job alert.
  • Paid links. Every sponsor link carries rel="sponsored". An unqualified paid link is a link scheme whether or not anybody meant it that way.

Interested

Write to hello@hiringuk.co.uk with the page you want and the line you would like in the box. If the page is under the floor we will say so rather than take the money, and we will tell you what it is running at so you can decide whether to wait.

No invoice is raised before the slot goes up, and nothing renews automatically.