How we make money

The rules, first

• Rankings, orderings, and tier classifications are never for sale. They are computed from registry data and daily data collection from publicly available sources.
• Every ownership and status claim links to an independent source, regardless of any commercial relationship.
• Anything paid is labeled where it appears — a sponsored slot is marked as sponsored, a referral link is disclosed on this page.
• No provider can pay to be listed, and no provider can pay to have a fact changed or removed.

Ways the site can earn

• Referral links. Some outbound "visit" links may be referral links: if you sign up with a provider through them, HumanSourcer can earn a commission at no cost to you. These links are marked sponsored in the page markup. Referral availability never affects listing, classification, or ranking.
• Featured slots. A provider may pay for a clearly labeled "Featured" placement — a separate, marked slot, never a change to an organic ranking position.
• Newsletter sponsorship. The roles digest may carry a labeled sponsor slot. Sponsors get the slot, not the editorial content around it.
• Advertising. The site may carry standard display advertising in the future. Ads are served as ads — never dressed up as recommendations.

If a revenue source isn't described on this page, the site doesn't use it.

What we measure

Outbound clicks to providers are counted first-party (which provider, which role, when, and the page on this site the click came from) to understand what readers find useful. Page views are counted the same way, so we can tell whether a page actually helps people rather than just how many clicks it produced. No advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking, and no personal profile is attached to any of those counts.

Those counts also record the browser identifier (the “user agent”) your browser sends with every request, for one reason: automated crawlers follow the apply links on thousands of role pages, and without separating them out the numbers describe robots rather than people. It is used to mark a click as automated or not, and nothing else. No IP address is stored, and the identifier is not combined with anything else to recognise you.

Apply links on role pages pass through a redirect on this domain before sending you to the provider. That redirect exists to count the click and, where a referral relationship is disclosed above, to add the referral tag — it never changes which company you land on.