The Career Cruising meme - please stop!
ETA: I've been away on holiday with no internet access for a week, so just now seeing these responses. First of all, thank you to everyone who's been kind enough to take down/remove password information, and who's spread the word elsewhere. I really appreciate it.
Yes, the cat's pretty much out of the bag and I suspected that would be the case - but I did feel that it was worth at least alerting my own flist to what the site is and why the meme concerned me. I have also emailed the agency whose login info this is - I don't believe it's a non-profit judging by their website, so my sympathy (probably unfairly) is a little less than it would be were it an agency like mine whose services are all free to unemployed people.
Anyway, thank you :)
I know it's a great site. Of course I know it's a great site - I recommend it to my clients all the time! But what most of you who are spreading the meme probably don't realise is that not-for-profit employment advice agencies like mine (which provide free employment counselling and career directions services to people out of work) and school and university career guidance services, pay a licence to use Career Cruising and provide it free for our clients. And it's well worth the money - information that's up to date and links that are all valid and relevant and appropriate, and information that's distinct for the US and Canada, does cost money because it has to be researched and compiled and updated and then continuous support provided by employees who, naturally, deserve to be paid.
Under our terms of use, we have to use our site login details responsibly. 'Responsibly' means we can use it, for ourselves and with clients, on our organisation's premises, in workshops and so on. We can let clients have the password info to use it at home. 'Responsible use' does not include posting login information all over LiveJournal. Yes, most people I've seen doing this meme have done it under a flock - but not all.
The last thing I'd want is to see Career Cruising changing their TOS, or cracking down on agencies for their use of the resource. The agency in question whose login details are currently being splashed all over LJ - easily identifiable from those details; I already know who they are - would be in a lot of trouble if this got back to Career Cruising.
Career Cruising is a wonderful resource for Canadian and American jobseekers. Agencies like mine pay a licence so that we can make it available free to our clients, who really do benefit from it. I want to keep it that way. So please stop spreading this meme? Thank you :)
Yes, the cat's pretty much out of the bag and I suspected that would be the case - but I did feel that it was worth at least alerting my own flist to what the site is and why the meme concerned me. I have also emailed the agency whose login info this is - I don't believe it's a non-profit judging by their website, so my sympathy (probably unfairly) is a little less than it would be were it an agency like mine whose services are all free to unemployed people.
Anyway, thank you :)
I know it's a great site. Of course I know it's a great site - I recommend it to my clients all the time! But what most of you who are spreading the meme probably don't realise is that not-for-profit employment advice agencies like mine (which provide free employment counselling and career directions services to people out of work) and school and university career guidance services, pay a licence to use Career Cruising and provide it free for our clients. And it's well worth the money - information that's up to date and links that are all valid and relevant and appropriate, and information that's distinct for the US and Canada, does cost money because it has to be researched and compiled and updated and then continuous support provided by employees who, naturally, deserve to be paid.
Under our terms of use, we have to use our site login details responsibly. 'Responsibly' means we can use it, for ourselves and with clients, on our organisation's premises, in workshops and so on. We can let clients have the password info to use it at home. 'Responsible use' does not include posting login information all over LiveJournal. Yes, most people I've seen doing this meme have done it under a flock - but not all.
The last thing I'd want is to see Career Cruising changing their TOS, or cracking down on agencies for their use of the resource. The agency in question whose login details are currently being splashed all over LJ - easily identifiable from those details; I already know who they are - would be in a lot of trouble if this got back to Career Cruising.
Career Cruising is a wonderful resource for Canadian and American jobseekers. Agencies like mine pay a licence so that we can make it available free to our clients, who really do benefit from it. I want to keep it that way. So please stop spreading this meme? Thank you :)