How a career page gets decided
Education lead-gen earned its reputation from for-profit schools that bought their way to the top of comparison pages. This page states the rules we hold ourselves to, so you can hold us to them too.
The rule
Placement on a career page is not for sale. We don't accept payment to add a program, remove a competitor, or move the free path further down the page. That's a policy, not a law of physics: if it changes, this page changes first, and in public.
Free and cheap paths come first
Career pages show community college, apprenticeship, employer-sponsored training, and grant programs like WIOA in the same comparison table as private schools, with the same visual weight. A reader who can get a CDL for free through a trucking company's sponsored program should see that option as clearly as the $6,000 private school, not three scrolls below it.
What "vetted" means before we route to a program
- The school or program is currently operating and, where the career requires it, holds the relevant state or national accreditation.
- It isn't the subject of an open state consumer-protection or attorney-general action at the time we link to it.
- Its published cost and time-to-complete roughly match what we show on the page. If a partner's real cost runs far outside our published range, we fix the range or drop the partner.
Where the cost numbers come from
Tuition and program costs are checked against school pricing pages, state licensing board fee schedules, and workforce-training aggregators. Salary figures come from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. Rather than promise you a review cadence, each career page carries the month its costs were last checked and lists its sources at the bottom, so you can see for yourself how fresh it is and judge accordingly.
When a figure can't be verified against a primary source, we say so on the page rather than publish a guess dressed up as a fact.
How we make money without compromising the above
At the moment, Certwright earns nothing at all: no affiliate links, no paid placements, no referral network. When that changes it will be through education-program referrals, financing partners, and Amazon affiliate revenue on study materials. The full breakdown is on the disclosure page. The rule we hold to is that revenue doesn't decide ranking, ordering, or which paths get shown.
Financing is presented soberly, not sold
When a page mentions loans or in-house financing, it states the real cost of borrowing, and it sits below the grant, scholarship and employer-sponsored options rather than above them. The for-profit-college era ran the other way, and the highest-paying lead won the placement regardless of what it did to the student.
Corrections
Report a wrong number, a stale program, or a career we're missing at hello@certwright.com. Corrections are made directly on the page, with the lastReviewed date updated.