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The platform should be a good "gatekeeper" for recruitment information

2026-01-21   

Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and five other departments jointly issued the "Notice on Standardizing the Release of Recruitment Information on Online Platforms" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), which puts forward clear requirements for the management of online recruitment service licenses, account qualification review, and recruitment information format standards, aiming to rectify various problems in the release of information on online recruitment platforms. Against the backdrop of the booming development of flexible employment, platform employment, and online recruitment, recruitment information has long surpassed the scope of one-way communication between enterprises and job seekers, and has become an important form of information that profoundly affects the order of the labor market, social employment expectations, and even public governance. However, some current online recruitment platforms do not strictly review the qualifications of recruitment entities and the authenticity of job information, providing space for various chaos to breed. Some recruitment information dissemination entities attract traffic by publishing false recruitment information, impersonating expert authorities, and exaggerating propaganda, resulting in frequent problems such as high salary induction and job descriptions that do not match reality. Moreover, some even deceive and mislead job seekers into signing "recruitment transfer training" and "training loan" agreements, and even lure them into participating in illegal and criminal activities such as pyramid schemes, online gambling, and telecommunications fraud. It is worth noting that some platforms also use technical means such as algorithm recommendation and traffic bias to further amplify the spread of false or non-standard recruitment information. These chaos not only seriously infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of job seekers, but also disrupt the healthy ecology of the online recruitment industry and disrupt the normal order of the job market. In response to these prominent issues in recruitment and job seeking scenarios, the Notice adheres to a problem oriented approach, focusing on the special type of information content related to recruitment, further clarifying the boundaries of rights and responsibilities between platforms, employers, and job seekers, and promoting the transformation of recruitment information governance from passive correction to active regulation. For the core pain point of insufficient authenticity of recruitment information, the "Notice" focuses on strengthening the platform's responsibility for reviewing the posting of recruitment information on accounts. Among them, it is explicitly required that the platform strengthen the investigation of recruitment information release, conduct real identity verification and account qualification classification verification of recruitment information release subjects, and follow the principle of "re examining existing accounts and strictly managing new ones" to urge unverified accounts to complete qualification certification within a specified period of time, clearly state qualifications and certification information, and take legal measures to dispose of obviously illegal and irregular information. This requirement essentially regards recruitment information as an important type of information with public attributes, and requires platforms to take on the basic responsibility of being the "gatekeepers" of information, compressing the survival space of false recruitment information from the source. In response to the issue of non-standard format and content of recruitment information, the Notice emphasizes the need to improve relevant standards. For example, the online platform is required not to publish recruitment information containing discriminatory content such as nationality, race, gender, religious belief, etc., not to set conditions restricting human resource flow in terms of registered residence, region, identity, etc., not to publish recruitment information in disguised form in the name of human resource evaluation, employment guidance and consultation, etc., in violation of national regulations. This means that information such as "fake recruitment" and "random recruitment" will be "rejected", and the rights of job seekers will be further protected. This is not only a reiteration and refinement of the existing labor legal system, but also a means of information governance to move the protection of workers' rights and interests forward to the recruitment process, thereby reducing labor disputes and social risks. In response to the issue of platform responsibility virtualization, the Notice further strengthens the platform's main responsibility in recruitment information management. In the past, some platforms often used the excuse of being "information intermediaries" and "technology neutral" to ignore their own management responsibilities, and often took passive measures to remove and rectify illegal recruitment information afterwards. In this regard, the Notice clearly requires the platform to strengthen account registration management, implement user real identity information authentication and account login real name verification, improve risk identification models, strengthen dynamic monitoring of recruitment information release, and regularly verify and register through pre -, mid -, and post process management. In addition, the platform needs to establish a complaint and report rapid handling mechanism and an abnormal directory system, promptly handle and rectify those found to be non compliant, and report those suspected of illegal and irregular activities to the relevant competent authorities. This means that platforms are no longer just technology neutral information service providers, but are explicitly included in the employment information governance system and must assume continuous and dynamic management obligations. In the context of the sustained development of the digital economy, how to achieve a balance between promoting the orderly development of the labor market and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of workers is a topic that requires long-term attention and research. The Notice regulates the management of recruitment information accounts and information dissemination behavior, essentially maintaining the basic order of the job market and promoting the formation of a more transparent and trustworthy employment information environment. At the same time, the significance of the "Notice" is not only to respond to specific chaos, but also to the transformation of governance concepts reflected behind it - through information sharing, multi departmental law enforcement cooperation, and effective rule connection, it breaks the dilemma of fragmented regulation, enhances overall governance efficiency, and lays a good foundation for the refinement, improvement, and implementation of related systems in the future. (New Press) (Author Wang Lei, Researcher at the Intelligent Technology Law Research Center of Beijing Institute of Technology)

Edit:Yingying Responsible editor:Chenjie

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