About & sources
The Career Brief is an automated brief on personal finance. A scheduled job reads the feeds listed below, merges any stories that several outlets are covering into a single entry, and writes a short summary in our own words. We never reproduce the publisher's article text — every entry links straight to the original reporting, and headlines remain the property of the publisher.
Editorial rules
- Short original summaries only (target 45 words), plus a one-line "why it matters".
- Automatic check that no twelve-word span is shared with the source text.
- New stories can be held for review before they appear.
- Corrections, removals and takedown requests: see the contact below — we act on them promptly.
Advertising
Sponsored placements are labelled "Sponsored" and are never styled to look like editorial. They are limited to one unit per five feed items, one per story and one sidebar unit, and no pop-ups or interstitials are used. Ads link to CrowdfundShowcase listings and are marked as such.
How this site works, and what it is not
This site reports the labour market as news: employment data, hiring and firing, pay, skills, employment law, policy and workplace research.
- This is not a jobs board. We do not list, advertise or recommend a vacancy, an employer, a course or a training provider. A job advert is out of date within days and it is the source's own product, so it is filtered out.
- This is not careers advice. We never tell a reader to apply, quit, negotiate, relocate, retrain or claim anything, and we give no legal, employment-law, immigration, visa, benefits, tax or financial advice.
- We never publish a get-rich-quick, work-from-home, passive-income or multi-level-marketing scheme. That material is fraud or paid placement and it is blocked, not filtered.
- Every figure — an employment rate, a pay rise, a redundancy count, a fine — comes from the sources and is attributed to the body that published it. A tribunal or court outcome is reported as that tribunal’s finding, and an allegation is never written as a proven fact.
- We do not name private individuals — claimants, whistleblowers, sacked workers — unless an official source or a tribunal named them.
Where the reporting comes from, and an honest limitation
Our sources are employment and HR trade titles, government statistics and research bodies. The working RSS set in this beat is employer- and HR-side, and largely UK and US — every union and worker-side source we screened (the TUC, Unison, Unite, the AFL-CIO, ACAS) had no working feed, and so did the official US statistics feeds. We say that rather than implying the coverage is balanced, because a labour-market site that only carries the employer side is a real limitation and not a neutral position.
Tools from the same publisher
- ResumeForged — CV and cover-letter packs.
- ScholarHaven — scholarships and funding for study.
These are our own products. We link them because they are ours, not because a story was about them, and they are never recommended inside a story.
Feeds we read
| Source | Section | Last successful read |
|---|---|---|
| DWP (gov.uk) | Policy | 2026-10-11 04:11:02 |
| Employee Benefits | Benefits | 2026-10-11 04:11:23 |
| HR Dive | Employment Law | 2026-10-11 04:11:07 |
| HR News | Workplace | 2026-10-11 04:11:27 |
| Indeed Hiring Lab | Market | 2026-10-11 04:11:01 |
| Low Pay Commission | Policy | 2026-10-11 04:11:03 |
| Personnel Today | Employment | 2026-10-11 04:11:20 |
| Resolution Foundation | Economics | 2026-10-11 04:11:06 |
| Wonkhe | Education | 2026-10-11 04:11:26 |
| WorkLife | Workplace | 2026-10-11 04:11:23 |
Feeds whose terms restrict commercial reuse are not read and are not listed here.
Contact
We do not publish an email address (it is a magnet for spam). Use the contact form for corrections, removals, takedown requests or anything else — it reaches us directly and we reply to the address you give.