Does Job Searching: Technical list sites that require registration?
A. It depends. If the site requires registration just to look around, then typically, no. Job Searching: Technical agrees with Web expert Jakob Nielsen’s opinion: “It’s like posting an armed guard at the door to a department store and only letting people in…after they show two forms of ID and suffer nosy questions about their family tree.” If the site requires registration only where necessary to contact job seekers about openings, then yes, as long as registration is not too invasive, and the site guarantees privacy and no spam. But I visit hundreds of sites, so it is impractical for me to register. If any feature of your site requires registration, please send a temporary or visitor’s user ID and password, so that I may fairly evaluate it without registering. I will not subvert your security by revealing or using them to deep link. Top of FAQs Q.
