While the Workforce article focused on the OFCCP issue, the group actually has several larger goals:
1) to provide the other side of the story for some media commentary about the online employment industry–for example, the brouhaha around vertical search as the “death knell for job boards;”
(2) to set real and useful standards for site operation so that consumers can make more informed choices–these will include privacy protection for individuals who submit data to a site and the reports site provide employers and recruiters about their traffic and other features; and
(3) to promote the use of best practices among our members so that the logo of the associaton is seen as a kind of a “Good Housekeeping seal of approval” for the individuals and organizations who use them.

Our members currently include stand alone enterprises, the employment sections of newspaper Web-sites, the job boards operated by associations, radio stations and affinity groups, and vendors that serve our industry, including platform providers and recruitment advertising companies.

Far from being “a good ol’ boy network,” these organizations include start-ups and niche or specialty sites as well as the largest and best known boards in the industry and are based in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Asia.

RE:”as a reliable source of timely and accurate information about the services, practices, and status of the global online employment industry
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Who set’s the rules? Who establishes the benchmark. In most cases the loudest voice, the creeky wheel the one with to much time on their hands.

To many chiefs and a lot like a favored good ol’ boy network.