The Promise
Most hiring advice asks employers to be considerate. This asks the software to be inflexible instead. Below is everything ClearPath enforces — not what we hope employers do, but what the product will not let them skip.
What the software enforces
A posting says what it pays and when you will hear back
A job cannot go live without both ends of a salary range, the currency it is in, and a promise of how soon applications get reviewed. Not guidance in the form — a posting missing any of them cannot be published at all.
That promise is copied onto your application
When you apply, the review deadline the employer set is written onto your application and stays there. Editing the posting afterwards does not move your date, because the promise you relied on is the one you applied under.
We chase employers who miss it
When the date an employer set passes and you are still waiting, they are emailed about it. The deadline is always theirs — this platform does not impose a limit of its own, because a threshold nobody agreed to is not a promise.
A posting cannot be closed while somebody is still waiting
An employer cannot mark a posting as filled, or close it, while applications sit unanswered. Everyone still waiting has to be told what happened first. This is the rule with the most teeth: the tidy-up at the end of hiring is exactly when people get forgotten.
A rejection carries a reason
Answers come from a fixed set of structured reasons rather than free text or silence, and none of them tells you why somebody else was preferred over you. An employer can add a note; what they cannot do is close you out with nothing.
An unanswered message counts too
A message you sent that has gone past the same promised date is counted separately from an unanswered application. Never being looked at and being talked to and then dropped are different failures, and folding them together would hide one of them.
The record is public
How an employer treats applicants is measured over a rolling 90 days and shown to you after you apply — the share of people who got an answer, how many were left past the promised date, and how long a reply took. The same measure ranks companies publicly.
What it does not cover
A promise worth making is one you can also say the edges of.
- This is not a promise of a job, or of an interview, or of feedback beyond the reason given. It is a promise that you find out.
- A company needs at least 5 applications in the window before it gets a tier at all. Below that a percentage describes noise rather than behaviour.
- The record covers the last 90 days and nothing before it. A company that was bad and has fixed it recovers; one coasting on an old good record does not.
- No record is not the same as a good record. A company nobody has applied to and a company that answers everybody look alike from outside, and this platform will say which it is rather than let silence flatter either.
See it yourself
Every posting on this platform states its pay and its review deadline before you spend a minute on it, and the leaderboard shows which employers keep to them.