How Rolespect reads a job, and where it stops.
Every call it makes comes with the rule behind it and the line it read. Here is what it checks, what it will never do, who pays for it, and where your data goes.
The short version. Rolespect checks that a posting is real and worth your evening before you spend the evening. It reads only what you bring it: a posting, a list, your resume. And it shows its work for every call.
Seven gates before any score.
A role has to clear these first. Each is a plain yes or no that you answer, with the reason printed beside it.
- It is live. Confirmed on the employer’s own site, not a job board copy that outlived the opening.
- The pay clears your floor. Your number, set once in your Career File.
- The place works. Your counties, your commute limit, or remote terms you can meet.
- The type is one you take. Full time, part time or contract, as you set it.
- The industry is not one you ruled out.
- The scope fits the level you want.
- You meet the hard requirements. The ones the posting says are required, not the ones it would like.
Then it scores two things separately. Fit is how well you match. Worth is whether the role earns the hour. It returns one call: Apply, Investigate First, or Pass.
Eight signs a posting is not a real opening.
Some postings stay up long after the seat is filled, or were never meant to be filled. Decide screens for eight signs and counts them into a ghost risk you can see.
- Open more than 30 days.
- Reposted with a refreshed date.
- Pay hidden with no legal reason.
- Reads as a job family template.
- A recruiter who will not name the client.
- The same text under different company names.
- No named hiring contact anywhere.
- A title and pay band that do not match.
The long version, with examples: How to spot a ghost job.
Warnings up front. Good news folded away.
Paste a posting and Decide reads it for you. A warning stays in view. Everything that looks fine folds behind Show all, so the screen holds only what needs you.
Seven of them: an interview on a chat app, paying for equipment or training, depositing a check, a contact on a free email address, a request for bank or Social Security details, gift cards or wired money, and a job promised with no interview. A hit is the first thing you see.
Many remote jobs hire only in certain states. Decide finds that line and holds it against the state in your Career File, so you learn it before you apply, not after.
Each benefit the posting names becomes a button. Press it to see the sentence it came from. A benefit the posting does not name is never assumed.
Each one quotes the line it read, so you can check it. Nothing is looked up, and none of it answers a gate for you. Pay, posting age, reposts and the link get the same treatment.
If it cannot show where a number came from, it does not print it.
- No ATS score and no match percentage. Neither can show its work, so neither is on the screen.
- A blank stays blank. A fact the posting does not state is left out, not guessed.
- A job site’s guess keeps its label. When a site estimates the pay, it is never filed as what the employer posted.
- Your words stay yours. It will not rewrite your resume, fill in a form for you, or put a claim in your mouth you cannot back in the room.
The reasoning behind each refusal: Who built this, and the four things it will not do.
No employer pays to reach you.
A job tool works for whoever pays it. So here is everyone who does, and what they get.
The free app is free and stays free. Rolespect Pro, coming soon, is an optional paid plan with an AI assistant. You never need it to use the six stations.
Workforce boards, career centers and outplacement firms can buy access for the people they serve. The job seeker still pays nothing, and the fee never buys a say in which roles Rolespect favors. How the pilot works.
A support link, nothing more. No perks for tipping, and no nagging if you do not.
What never pays: an employer, to rank a job higher or to reach you. Rolespect has no employer side to sell.
The free app keeps your search on your device.
Your Career File, your board and your notes live in the browser on your own phone or computer. There is no account and no server holding them. Text leaves only when you copy it into your own assistant yourself.
The site counts visits with Google Analytics, and nothing from your Career File goes with those counts. Rolespect Pro uses Google sign in and a server, because an assistant needs one. The privacy page lists exactly what each one sees.