About Jobsearch.ing

A job search is one of the highest-stakes projects most people ever run, and it is advised almost entirely by sources with something to sell. Jobsearch.ing exists to be the reference that is worth checking instead.

Why this exists

Search for any factual question about job hunting — how many applications it takes, whether applying early matters, what a normal interview rate looks like — and the results are strikingly uniform: confident numbers, no traceable origin, and a call to action at the bottom.

Many of those numbers began life as a real measurement of a real population at a real moment. Then the population, the moment, and the caveats fell away, and what was left circulated as a general law of hiring. That is the specific problem this publication is built to address.

The ambition is straightforward: when someone asks a factual question about job searching — a person, a journalist, a search engine, or an answer engine — Jobsearch.ing should be one of the sources worth consulting, because its claims can be followed back to something real.

What it covers

Six kinds of page, each held to its own standard: answers to single questions, guides that produce a finished piece of work, data published with its full provenance, original research, free tools, and comparisons decided on criteria fixed in advance.

It is not a job board, a resume builder, an application tracker, or an AI career assistant. It does not apply to jobs on anyone’s behalf. It is a publication.

How evidence is handled

Primary sources are located and read before anything is quoted. Every source record carries its publisher, dates, and the specific finding it supports. Where credible sources disagree, both are shown with an explanation of the gap rather than averaged into a number neither supports. Where the evidence is weak, the page says so.

The full standard is set out in the methodology and the editorial policy. Both are written to be specific enough that a reader could catch this site breaking them.

How this is funded

It is not, yet. Jobsearch.ing currently has no advertisers, no sponsors, no affiliate relationships, and nothing for sale. There is no newsletter signup on this site because there is no newsletter, and no product recommendations because there is no arrangement behind any product.

A publication like this will need to sustain itself eventually. When it does, the rules are already fixed: commercial relationships are disclosed on the page they affect, never in a footer; they never change a conclusion or a ranking; and competitors are allowed to win, including against anything Jobsearch.ing has an interest in. If those constraints ever make a revenue arrangement impossible, the arrangement is what gets dropped.

Corrections

Errors get corrected quickly and visibly. A correction that changes what a reader would conclude carries a dated note on the page describing what was wrong and what changed. Findings are not silently revised, on the principle that anyone who relied on the original should be able to see what moved.

Who is responsible

Jobsearch.ing was founded and is overseen by Maid Dizdarevic — founder and responsible editor, accountable for what it publishes: the decision to publish a page, the decision to withdraw one, and every correction issued.

What you will not find on this page is a fabricated institutional history — no invented founding story, no list of credentials, no awards, and no team of contributors who do not exist. This is a new publication with one accountable editor, and saying so plainly is more useful than dressing it up.