It seems this service does provide good leads to "work-from-home" & telecommuting jobs. The kicker, once again, is that they charge a fairly steep fee to "join the club". I'm NEVER OK with "pay to work". Don't care where they get leads from. It's SMARMY!

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One should not have to pay for a decent job.

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I say stay clear...especially after reading what FlexJobs is willing to do with personal information collected: sell to third parties. It's lengthy, i apologize, but scan they are prepared to do to you & your precious personal data:

FlexJobs Privacy Policy


Important Reminder - Please protect your personal information by never providing credit card, bank account, or social security numbers numbers to prospective employers. Although we do our best to remove any suspicious job postings or employer accounts, for more information on avoiding scams, please read the MSNBC article "Online job seeker says she was duped into scam."

FlexJobs is committed to respecting the privacy of our users. We strive to provide a safe, secure user experience. This Privacy Statement sets forth the online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply to the FlexJobs website.

This site provides access to third party content and links. You understand and agree that we're only acting as a conduit and that we have no liability related to the third-party, whether arising under the laws of copyright, libel, privacy or obscenity.
Collection and Use of Information by FlexJobs

In some areas of FlexJobs, we request or may request that you provide personal information, including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, contact information, and any other information from which your identity is discernible. In other areas, we may collect demographic information that is not unique to you such as your ZIP code, preferences, gender, interests. Sometimes we collect or may collect a combination of the two types of information.

We also gather or may gather certain information about your use of FlexJobs, such as what areas you visit and what services you access. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected by us. This information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses, but is not linked to your personal information.

Your data will be stored and processed in the United States. The information we gather on the FlexJobs site may be shared within the FlexJobs-affiliated companies on a worldwide basis in order to deliver the products and services we offer or in order to undertake analysis of our database.

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about the FlexJobs site or refer a job posting to a friend, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the FlexJobs site to view the job posting. We do not store this information.
Our Use of Your Information

We use the information we gather on FlexJobs, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, for the purpose of operating and improving our service, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering the products and services that we offer.

If you have provided consent for us to do so, we may also use the information we gather to inform you of other products or services available from us or our affiliated companies.

*****We may use your contact information in order to send you e-mail or other communications regarding updates at the FlexJobs site, to contact you about your opinion of current products and services or *****potential new products and services that may be offered. We may also provide additional communications, promotions and information on new FlexJobs opportunities and additional job postings which may be of interest to you. The nature and frequency of these messages will vary depending upon the information we have about you.

In addition, you may receive free informational newsletters from us relating to topics that may be of special interest to you, such as career management advice.

We have areas on the FlexJobs site where you can submit feedback. Any feedback you submit in these areas becomes our property, and we can use such feedback (such as success stories) for marketing purposes or to contact you for further information.
Choices Regarding the Disclosure of Personal Information to Others

We do not disclose your personal information to third parties, or your combined personal and demographic information or information about your use of FlexJobs, except as set forth below.

***** 1. We disclose information to third parties if you consent to such disclosure. We use data we have about you (such as the interests and preferences you have expressed) to determine whether you might be interested in the opportunities, products or services of a particular affiliate.
2. We disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include hosting our Web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing customer service. These companies and individuals will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party.
3. We disclose information if legally required to do so, if requested to do so by a governmental entity or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (b) protect our rights or property or our affiliated companies; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public.
***** 4. We disclose and transfer information to a third party who acquires all or a substantial portion of our business, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our assets. In addition, in the event we become the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, we or our trustee in bankruptcy may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a transaction approved by the bankruptcy court.

Personal Information on Resumes, Profiles, Cover Letters, and Work Samples

Since FlexJobs is a career site, you can store your profiles, resumes, cover letters, and/or work samples in our database. In doing so, we give you two options regarding the accessibility of your information:

1. You can make your information available only to users registered with FlexJobs.
2. You can make your information available to any visitors to our site, including search engines. In doing so, your information is considered part of the public domain.

We attempt to limit access to our searchable resume database (or copies thereof) only to paying employers, recruiters, hiring managers, headhunters, and human resource professionals, but cannot guarantee that other parties will not gain access to this database. We are not responsible for the use made of resumes by third parties who access such resumes while they are in our searchable database. However, the portions of your searchable resume (not your contact information) that are automatically made public in your FlexJobs profile are accessible to anyone who uses the FlexJobs service. You may remove your resume on FlexJobs or delete your profile on FlexJobs at anytime, but, employers, recruiters and others who have paid for access to the FlexJobs resume database or to obtain a copy of that database or have paid for access to the FlexJobs services, as well as parties who have otherwise gained access may have retained a copy of your resume or FlexJobs profile in their own files or databases. We are not responsible for the retention, use or privacy of resumes or profiles in these instances.
Posting to Public Areas of FlexJobs

Please remember that if you post any of your personal information in public areas of FlexJobs or FlexJobs Networking, such as in online forums, blogs or chat rooms, or in the FlexJobs searchable resume database, such information may be collected and used by others over whom we have no control. We are not responsible for the use made by third parties of information you post or otherwise make available in public areas of FlexJobs.

*****UPDATE October 21st, 2010.
Hi again.
I received mail from FlexJobs.com's CEO, Sara Fell. She had seen my commentary and wanted to clarify what her company does. Here's Her response to my original review here:
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Sara F.
Sara F. says:
41 minutes ago
Hi Ron,

As CEO of FlexJobs, I responded last month about your review in the Conversations section. Again, while I wholeheartedly agree with your intentions of your anti "pay to work" comments, I think it's really critical to clarify that there is a HUGE difference between "pay to work" and "pay for service". FlexJobs has nothing -- nothing! -- to do with "pay to work" smarminess.

FlexJobs is a service to help job-seekers delegate the painstaking process of "pounding the pavement" to find legitimate, professional job leads. We have a team of researchers who scours the internet daily to find the best job leads, research the companies, and then compiles only the legitimate and approved ones on our site (along with hand-written descriptions on the job, the company, as well as other unique and valuable research for the job-seeker). FlexJobs ultimately saves our users an average of 40-60 hours a month (based on an active job search of about 15-20 hours a week) by not having to weed through ads, scams, and too-good-to-be-true biz opps.

I would be more than happy to provide you a free month on our service to evaluate us for yourself, and to see if you'd reconsider your poor rating after actually seeing what we provide and the kind of integrity with which we run our business. If you're interested in following up, please send me an email to sara at flexjobs dot com.

(I am in touch with Sara at FlexJobs, will be trying the service for 30 days, and will report back here on how it all unfolds, and eventual results. I assure all my summary will be fair and unbiased. Let's see what happens to my original rating. I am not above eating crow to be fair...smile. Ron)

Thank you for your time and consideration. Best regards,

Sara Fell
CEO, FlexJobs.com