Terms of use

• Searching and applying is free for job seekers, and always will be. We never charge a person for applying to work.
• Employers buy each posting. A purchase buys one listing for a set number of days. Credits do not expire.
• Employers must advertise real, currently open vacancies, must not charge applicants anything, and must follow Canadian human rights and employment standards law.
• Reviews are moderated before they appear. We check them for civility and for the rules below, not for truth.
• Using this site is not a promise of an interview, a reply, or a job. Hiring decisions are the employer's alone.
• Be straight with people. Misrepresenting who you are, scraping the site, or using it to scam or harass someone ends your account.
• Ontario law governs this agreement.

You can read every job on this site without an account. You need one to apply, to save a job, to keep a CV here, to write a review, or to post a job.

When you make an account you agree to give real information and keep it current, to keep your password to yourself, and to be responsible for what happens under your account. One person, one account. An employer account must be opened by someone with the authority to advertise on that company's behalf.

You must be old enough to legally work in Canada to use this site as a job seeker.

We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, and we will say why. You can close yours at any time by asking us to. See the privacy policy for how that works today.

• Pretending to be someone else, or to represent a company you do not represent.
• Posting anything false, misleading, abusive, discriminatory, obscene, or unlawful.
• Using the site to sell something to job seekers, to recruit for a pyramid scheme or "business opportunity", or to advertise anything that is not an actual job.
• Asking an applicant for money, banking details, government identification, or a fee of any kind through this site.
• Harvesting, scraping or bulk-copying listings, company pages, reviews or anything about the people using the site, by hand or by machine.
• Trying to reach data that is not yours: other people's applications, other people's CVs, the admin tools, or anything behind a permission check.
• Interfering with the site: load attacks, probing for holes with intent to use them, uploading malware, or getting around a rate limit.
• Uploading a file you do not have the right to share.

Found a security hole? Tell us. Reporting one in good faith is welcome and is not a breach of these terms.

Applying is free, and there is no plan or upgrade you can buy. If any page ever asks a job seeker for payment, it is not us. Close it and report it.

When you apply, your application goes to that employer: your name, your email address, the phone number you gave, your answers to their screening questions, your note, and the CV you attached. That is the point of applying, and it cannot be undone by us after the fact, because the employer has received it. Who else can open your CV is set out in the privacy policy, and the answer is a short list.

Some listings send you to the employer's own website to apply. From that moment you are on their site under their rules, and what happens to what you type there is between you and them.

Tell the truth on an application. Employers make decisions on what you write, and a fabricated qualification is a problem you inherit later.

The reply record shown on a posting is a fact about that employer's past behaviour on this site: the share of applicants they answered, and how quickly. It is not a prediction and not a promise that they will answer you.

• Advertise a real vacancy. The role must actually be open and you must actually intend to fill it. No CV-collecting listings, no evergreen adverts for jobs that do not exist, no bait for a different role.
• Be accurate. The title, the location, the hours, the pay, the employment type and the requirements must describe the job you are hiring for. If the pay shown on a listing is our own estimate rather than yours, the listing says so Do not present an estimate as your offer.
• Never charge an applicant. No fees for applying, for training, for equipment, for a uniform, for a background check, or for "processing". Do not ask an applicant for banking details or government identification through this site.
• Follow the law. Your listing and your process must comply with the human rights legislation of the province you are hiring in and with the federal Canadian Human Rights Act where it applies. No preference or exclusion based on a protected ground such as race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital or family status, or disability, unless it is a genuine, defensible requirement of the job. You must also meet the employment standards of that province: minimum wage, hours, overtime, breaks, leave and termination.
• Be who you say you are. Post under the real operating name of the employer. If you are an agency posting on a client's behalf, say so in the listing.
• Handle applicants' information properly. What you receive through this site is given to you to consider someone for that job. Use it for that. Do not sell it, do not add it to a marketing list, and keep it securely.
• Answer people. Not a legal obligation, and not enforced, but the reply record on your postings is public and it is counted from what you actually do.

We can decline, edit or remove any listing, and we can close an employer account, where a listing breaks these rules or the law. If we take down a listing you paid for, the credit goes back to you. See below.

How buying and spending works

• Buying gives your account posting credits. A credit is spent when you publish a listing, and it sets how long that listing runs and whether it is pinned above the others.
• Credits never expire. Buy five now, use the last one next year.
• A person reads every listing before it goes live, usually within 24 hours, to confirm the employer is real and actually hiring. Paying does not skip that check, because it is what the board is for. The run you paid for starts when the listing is approved, not when you press publish, so the wait costs you nothing.
• When the run you bought ends, the listing closes on its own. It stays in your dashboard as your own record.
• Prices are in Canadian dollars and do not include any taxes that may apply.
• Payment is taken by Stripe. Your card details go to Stripe and never reach us. See the privacy policy.

When a posting credit comes back

A posting credit is used up when you press publish. If we do not approve the listing, the credit returns to your account. That is what it buys. Two things bring it back, and they are both cases where we ended the run rather than you:

• We do not approve it at review. Every listing is read by a person before it goes live. If we do not approve yours it never reaches the board, so the credit returns to your account automatically, usually within 24 hours, and we tell you why.
• We take a live listing down for a rules or policy breach. We ended the run, so you keep the posting and can spend it on a listing that follows the rules.

It does not come back in these cases, because the listing was on the board and doing its job:

• You close the listing early. Filled the role, cancelled the hire, changed your mind: the posting ran. Hiring quickly is the listing succeeding, and we are not going to charge you for one hire and hand back a posting for the next one.
• The run ends on its own. You bought thirty or sixty days and you had thirty or sixty days.
• You edit a live listing. Editing is not republishing; the same posting stays up on the same credit. You can change it as often as you like for as long as it runs, without spending another posting.

A draft you never published has not used a credit at all. A credit is spent when you press publish, not when you start writing.

• There is no cash refund process today. We are one operator and there is no self-serve refund button, so we are not going to advertise one. If something went wrong with a purchase, such as a double charge or a payment for a posting you could not publish, write to us and we will sort it out with you. This does not take away any right you have under the consumer protection law of your province.

The rules for writing one, shown on the review form itself, and the same list a moderator judges it against:

• Write about the work: the hours, the pay, the training, how you were treated.
• Do not name individuals.
• No abuse, slurs, or discriminatory content about anyone.
• No confidential information.
• This is not the place to allege illegality.

One review per person per company. A review is held for a moderator and appears only if it is approved; a rejected review is not published and you are told why. A pending review does not count towards a company's star rating.

Employer replies. The owner of a company page may post one public reply to each approved review. Replies are moderated the same way and must follow the same rules. A reply that identifies the reviewer, or that threatens them, will not be published. Replying is not a route to finding out who wrote something: a reviewer's name is never sent to the company page.

We can remove any review or reply, at any time, without being asked.

Using this site is not a promise of an interview, a reply, or a job. Creating an account, uploading a CV, applying to a listing, or paying for a posting buys you none of those things. We are a place where employers advertise and people apply; we are not part of the hiring.

We are not responsible for a hiring decision an employer makes. Who gets shortlisted, who gets interviewed, who gets hired, who gets told nothing at all: all of it belongs to the employer. If you believe an employer has broken the law, the right route is the human rights tribunal or employment standards office of that province, not us. Tell us as well, and we will look at the listing.

We do not vet employers, and we do not verify listings. We remove what we find or what is reported to us, but a listing appearing here is not our endorsement of the employer, the pay, or the conditions. Judge for yourself, and never send money or identification to get a job.

Pay estimates are estimates. Where a posting shows no pay, the site may show a figure worked out from similar live postings, and it is labelled as an estimate. It is not an offer and not a prediction of what you will be paid.

The site is provided as it is. We do not guarantee it will be available, uninterrupted, or free of errors, and we can change or withdraw any part of it.

Your CV, your profile, your listings, your reviews and your messages stay yours. By putting them on the site you give us permission to store them and to show them to the people the site is designed to show them to: a listing to the public, an application to that employer, an approved review on that company's page. That permission exists so the site can work, and for nothing else.

You confirm you have the right to post what you post, and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights.

The site itself, meaning the design, the code, the wording and the name, is ours. Using the site does not transfer any of it to you.

If something here infringes your copyright, tell us with enough detail to find it and we will take it down while we look into it.

To the extent the law allows, secondjob.ca is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of the site, including lost earnings, a job you did not get, a candidate you did not hire, or a listing that did not perform as you hoped.

Where we are liable, our total liability to an employer is limited to what that employer paid us in the twelve months before the claim. For a job seeker, who pays us nothing, the site is provided free of charge and on that basis.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for fraud, or for anything your provincial consumer protection legislation says cannot be excluded. If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still stands.

This agreement is governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply in it. The courts of Ontario have jurisdiction, and both of us agree to that, except that nothing stops a consumer from bringing a claim where their own provincial law entitles them to.

We may change these terms. The date at the top changes when we do. If a change materially affects you, we will say so on the site rather than editing quietly. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it.

Questions about any of this: contact us. Related: Privacy policy.