What we will and will not list.
A job board is only as good as what it turns away. Every submission to Your Choice is read by a person and measured against this list before it reaches a single sales professional.
Every listing must have
- A clear statement of how it pays — base + commission, or commission only — shown on the card before anyone clicks
- Compensation as a range in a named currency. Never 'competitive', never 'OTE dependent on experience'
- An OTE range that reconciles with the quota and the commission rate — we do the arithmetic
- The written commission plan, supplied as a document, not summarised in a sentence
- An attainment report showing what percentage of the team actually hit quota last year
- A named, verifiable company — not an agency posting on behalf of an unnamed client
- Territory, average deal size and sales cycle described honestly
We reject, every time
- ✕A commission-only role dressed up as a salaried one, or a token base designed to look like a salary
- ✕A commission-only role that will not disclose what people in the seat actually earned
- ✕Listings that hide compensation or say 'competitive' instead of a number
- ✕Ghost jobs — pipeline-building posts for roles that are not funded
- ✕Agency reposts, or the same role listed under multiple company names
- ✕Roles requiring the candidate to pay for training, leads, equipment or certification
- ✕Anything that misrepresents the product, the funding position or the state of the team
We list them. We do not let them hide.
Plenty of good salespeople choose commission-only work on purpose, and refusing to list it did not make those roles disappear — it just sent them somewhere with no standards at all. So they list here, labelled in red on the card, in the filters and at the top of the page. What changes is the burden of proof. A salaried role can be judged on its base, because that money arrives whatever happens. A commission-only role has no floor, so the only honest thing to publish is what actually happened to the last people who took it — and every one of these figures is free to read, before anyone pays us a penny.
- The median amount people in this seat actually earned over the last 12 months, evidenced by payroll or self-billing invoices
- How many people started in the role over that period, and how many are still selling it
- Whether there is a draw or guarantee, for how long, and whether it is clawed back
- Where the pipeline comes from — company-provided, mixed, or the salesperson's own
- Whether the role is employed or self-employed, stated in those words
- Nothing for the salesperson to pay. No kit, no licence, no stock, no training, no lead fees
The one absolute: a salesperson never pays to work. Any listing that asks them to buy equipment, licences, stock, training or leads is rejected, whatever else it has going for it, and no fee gets it published.
What a sales professional has to prove.
The standard cuts both ways. An employer who pays to post here is entitled to a directory where the numbers mean something, so no profile appears and no application is sent until the claims on it have been checked against documents.
- A quota letter or signed comp plan showing the number you were actually given
- Commission statements, a CRM export or payslips covering the period you are claiming
- Figures that reconcile with each other — revenue closed against quota × attainment
- Cash collected, not just revenue signed, if you are claiming a closing record
- The right metrics for your seat: pipeline sourced for an SDR, NRR for a CSM, reps at quota for a leader
- A period stated precisely, with evidence that covers it
Evidence is stored privately and is only ever seen by the Your Choice review team. Employers browsing the directory see the verified badge, never the documents behind it.
How review works
Every submission arrives with its documents attached, and an automated pass has already reconciled the numbers against each other — an OTE against the commission plan that is meant to produce it, a claimed revenue figure against the claimed quota and attainment. A person then reads the evidence, starting with whatever the arithmetic flagged.
If a listing is rejected, the employer gets a written note explaining exactly what failed and can correct and resubmit at no extra cost. Rejection does not cost a posting — there is no such thing as a posting credit here.
A company that repeatedly submits listings which breach these standards has its account suspended, with no refund of the licence fee.