DirectEmployers Association is owned and managed by leading U.S. employers through a nonprofit association.

DirectEmployers’ annual membership fee is each employers’ “fair share” for supporting a solution they own, manage, control costs and call their own. Is there a better alternative? Despite what some might think, it defies logic to think any organization, whether government, commercial or nonprofit, can or will offer these services for free. The federal government did not provide AJB for free. Companies have paid up to $27 million tax dollars per year for the government to operate AJB — it is not an inexpensive proposition!

Although most states accept job postings on their web sites and welcome listings from in-state employers, many states have neither the manpower nor fiscal resources to accept multiple job feeds or large amounts of data from all employers. Our approach is to work through proper channels in cooperation with state workforce agencies to ease their burden while helping member companies reach our nation’s workforce and remain OFCCP compliant. In fairness to the states, we have not requested, or required, an exclusive agreement to do this. While we are very pleased that states have chosen to work with DirectEmployers Association (and JobCentral), each state is free to accept jobs from any other source they deem appropriate.

Through the support of its member companies, DirectEmployers Association provides all services previously provided by AJB at no cost to member and non-member employers, job seekers, states, and veterans. In addition, all federal contractors can meet OFCCP job posting requirements by posting single jobs to VetCentral at no cost.

Membership fees allow the Association to provide these services and many other services and conveniences, available to member companies only, that are over and above those previously provided by AJB. In addition to research, networking, Affirmative Action, and advocacy, these services include indexing jobs from member-company corporate web sites, distribution of jobs to over one thousand JobCentral network sites including Google, other Internet search engines, diversity, military and alumni sites, distribution of jobs as currently required (or as may be required in the future) by VEVRAA and the Jobs for Veterans Act and, through VetCentral, extensive recordkeeping, audit trails, and on-demand reports for OFCCP compliance.