For journalists, researchers and industry professionals covering online recruiting, job scams, employer impersonation, candidate experience, job distribution and application transparency.
About the Job Application Integrity Project
The Job Application Integrity Project, or JAIP, works to improve transparency, accountability and trust in the online employment marketplace. JAIP supports responsible job distribution and the important role played by authorized, reputable employers, recruiters, job boards, advertising partners, search engines, aggregators and recruiting technology providers.
JAIP's focus is on application integrity: whether job seekers can understand who is behind an opportunity, where their information is going, and whether an application represented as going to a particular employer actually reaches that employer or an authorized recruiting representative.
Founder
Paul Cornell
Paul Cornell founded JAIP after more than 35 years working in recruiting and interviewing thousands of job seekers. His experience has provided a firsthand view of the emotional and financial challenges people can face while looking for work and the growing challenges employers face protecting their brands, controlling application paths and ensuring qualified candidates actually reach them.
JAIP grew from his belief that reputable third-party recruiting and distribution partners can add substantial value, while authorization, transparency, accountability and verifiable application delivery should remain fundamental expectations.
Current JAIP initiatives
Verified Application Path Standard
A proposed framework for employer identity, application-recipient disclosure, verified delivery, accurate job status, source transparency and employer control.
Job seeker and employer guidance
Free educational resources designed to help applicants and employers better understand online application paths, warning signs and responsible job distribution.
Reporting resources
Government reporting guidance for job scams, employer impersonation, identity theft, discrimination, background-screening issues and related problems.
Founding Advisory Council
JAIP is forming a multidisciplinary advisory group to challenge assumptions, strengthen methodology and help ensure the Project remains balanced and useful.
Topics JAIP can discuss
Online job application transparency
Why job seekers may struggle to understand who posted a job, where Apply goes and who receives their information.
Employer impersonation and brand misuse
How fake recruiters, copied jobs and unauthorized third parties can affect candidates and employers.
Responsible third-party job distribution
The value reputable recruiters, job boards, advertising partners, search engines, aggregators and technology providers can create when authorization and transparency are clear.
Candidate trust and experience
The emotional, financial and practical consequences of confusing, misleading or exploitative application processes.
Application-path research
How online jobs can be traced from the authoritative employer posting through discovery channels to the final application destination.
Future verification standards
What an evidence-based Verified Application Path program could eventually measure, and why support must remain separate from verification decisions.
Press-ready background
Job Application Integrity Project boilerplate
The Job Application Integrity Project is a free public-service initiative working to improve transparency, accountability and trust in the online employment marketplace. JAIP supports responsible job distribution and the important role played by authorized, reputable employers, recruiters, job boards, advertising partners, search engines, aggregators and recruiting technology providers. The Project is developing standards, research, educational resources and reporting tools designed to help ensure that job seekers can understand who is behind an opportunity, where their information is going and whether their application reaches the employer or authorized recruiting representative they intended to reach.
Research, data and sources
JAIP's research approach distinguishes observable evidence from inference. Government sources are prioritized for fraud and loss data; platform policies document what major job marketplaces themselves require; and industry research is clearly attributed to its source and population.
Journalists and researchers can use JAIP's JAIP Facts and Research & Source Library as a starting point for source-traceable background.
JAIP Facts Source Library Governance & Independence
Media inquiries
Paul Cornell, Founder
JAIP is currently formalizing its external communications process. Dedicated public media contact information will be published here as that process is established.
For background on the Project in the meantime, see the About JAIP, Leadership & Advisory Council, and Governance & Independence pages.
Media assets
Approved JAIP media assets are available for journalists, researchers, conference organizers and other legitimate editorial or educational uses.
JAIP Media Kit
Includes approved JAIP logos, shield mark, founder headshot, founder bio, press boilerplate, media backgrounder and usage guidance.
Paul Cornell Headshot
Approved founder portrait for editorial and JAIP-related media use.
JAIP Media Backgrounder
Overview of the Project, Founder, key issues, current initiatives and press-ready boilerplate.
