Your information, handled with care.

Who we are

Steady Path Careers is a job search service in Monmouth County, New Jersey, operated by Sherif Mehanni. In this policy, "we" and "us" mean Steady Path Careers and its operator. You can reach us at hello@steadypathcareers.com.

What we collect

• What you tell us on the intake form: your name, phone, email, city, the work you want and don't want, pay you'd accept, whether you are authorized to work in the US and whether you need visa sponsorship, your work history, education, licenses, software you've used, and anything else you choose to share.
• Your resume, if you upload one. On the main intake form, your browser first reads a PDF, Word or text resume on your device to suggest answers for you to check. The file itself is sent to us only when you submit the form.
• Your activity in your portal: your Yes, No and Question answers on jobs, document approvals and change requests, application updates, your weekly "How are your matches?" check-ins (your rating and any note; each one sends us an alert with your rating so we can read it and follow up), and any feedback you send.
• Emails and messages you send us, including questions you ask in your portal.
• Intro call bookings: if you book a call, the name, email, phone and answer you enter on the booking form.
• Answers you save to finish later: if you ask us to email you a link to finish the intake form later, we receive your email address and your answers so far, so the link can open them again. Your signature, the agreement boxes and your resume file are not included, but the file's name is.
• Which screen of the intake form you reach: as you move through the main intake form, it sends us a short note with a random ID made for that browser tab, the name of the screen, a step number and, once you pick one, the kind of work you chose. It does not include your name, contact details or other answers. This shows us where people get stuck.
• Find Your Fit, if you take it in your portal: your 30 answers, or your 60 answers if you take the full version (the O*NET® Interest Profiler Short Form), are sent to our Google Apps Script, which works out your six interest scores and up to five job title ideas. We keep the scores, which version you took (30 or 60 questions), the date and the title ideas, not your answers, and use the scores to show how well each of your job matches fits your interests. If you mark a suggested title Yes or No, we keep that too, and a Yes sends us a note so we can talk about it with you.
• What matters to you at work, if you answer it in your portal: your answers to those ten questions (such as pay type, schedule, travel and anything you won't do) are stored in our records and used to pick and rank your job matches. Your pay type, schedule and travel limits, and anything you won't do, can rule a job out. You can change them anytime.
• Payments, if you buy a paid plan or add-on in your portal: before the payment page opens, we record what you agreed to buy, the time, and the date of the terms you were shown. From Stripe we receive your Stripe customer ID, your plan status, the date your plan is paid through and which add-ons you bought. If you tell us in your portal that you were hired, we record that date and get a note, so your plan can end.
• Paid plans are not available to every client yet.

Why we use it

Only to run your job search: finding, checking and matching jobs that fit you, writing and tailoring your resume and cover letters, preparing you for interviews, answering your questions, keeping your portal up to date, and contacting you about your search. We also read feedback to improve the service.

Who can see it

On our end, only the person who runs Steady Path Careers. There are no employees or partners who access client files. We never sell, rent or trade your information, and we don't share it with employers or recruiters. When you apply for a job, you send your own documents.

Your tailored documents are shared with you by private link, so you can open them without a Google sign-in. Anyone who has the link can open them (and comment on drafts), so please keep your portal emails and links to yourself.

To run the service, your information is stored with or passes through a few companies that provide the tools we use:

We'd only disclose your information otherwise if the law required it.

On your device

This site doesn't use advertising or tracking cookies. To work, it keeps these items in your browser's storage on your device:

• Your light or dark choice, if you pick one with the sun and moon button.
• An unfinished intake form, so you don't lose your answers if you leave. It is cleared when you submit.
• A random ID for the intake form, used for the screen notes described above, until you close the tab. If a finish-later link does not open, the tab also keeps a short count of tries for that link.
• Your portal sign-in, which keeps you signed in for 90 days, and, for up to 30 minutes, the one-time key from a sign-in link while you finish signing in.
• Small portal settings and notes: your interview practice notes (kept only on this device and never sent to us), which steps of an apply checklist you ticked, which replies you've seen, how you sort your jobs, and whether you've seen a tip or the add-to-home-screen prompt.
• Your Job Search Tracker, if you use that free tool. The jobs you add stay on this device.
• Saved copies of pages and files you've opened, plus the portal's page and code files, so the site loads faster and can show an offline note without a connection. Your portal information and sign-in links are never saved this way.

Signing out of your portal removes your sign-in and the portal items. Clearing your browser data for this site removes everything above.

How long we keep it

We keep your information while you're using the service. If you stop, we delete your resume, intake answers and portal data within 12 months of our last contact, unless you ask us to keep them so you can pick up where you left off. You can ask us to delete everything sooner at any time.

Your choices

• See or correct your information: most of it is in your portal. For anything else, just email us.
• Delete your information: email hello@steadypathcareers.com from the address you signed up with. We'll delete it within 30 days and confirm by email.
• Stop emails: reply and tell us. We only email you about your own job search.

Keeping it safe

Your files are kept in our password-protected accounts. Your documents are shared with you by private link, so anyone who has the link can open them. Keep portal emails to yourself. Portal sign-in uses one-time links sent to your email, not passwords. No system is perfectly secure, but we take care to limit who and what can reach your information.

Who this service is for

Steady Path Careers is for adults 18 and older. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone younger.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle your information, we'll update this page and the date at the top. If it's a significant change, we'll tell current clients by email first.

Questions

Email hello@steadypathcareers.com. We're happy to answer anything.