The career meme: a friend has requested that people stop posting it.

Apparently there's a career meme making the rounds that, it turns out, isn't just a free, fun quiz like the memes we usually see around here. It comes from a pay site. My friend wendymr has--nicely--asked everyone she knows not to post the Career Cruising meme, and I'm spreading the word. I've posted excerpts from her post about it here.

. . . What most of you who are spreading the meme probably don't realise is that not-for-profit employment advice agencies like mine (which provide free employment counselling and career directions services to people out of work) and school and university career guidance services, pay a licence to use Career Cruising and provide it free for our clients. . . .

Under our terms of use, we have to use our site login details responsibly. 'Responsibly' means we can use it, for ourselves and with clients, on our organisation's premises, in workshops and so on. We can let clients have the password info to use it at home. 'Responsible use' does not include posting login information all over LiveJournal. Yes, most people I've seen doing this meme have done it under a flock - but not all.

. . . The agency in question whose login details are currently being splashed all over LJ - easily identifiable from those details; I already know who they are - would be in a lot of trouble if this got back to Career Cruising.

Career Cruising is a wonderful resource for Canadian and American jobseekers. Agencies like mine pay a licence so that we can make it available free to our clients, who really do benefit from it. I want to keep it that way. So please stop spreading this meme? Thank you :)

Just FYI. I would never have known about it, personally.

ETA: A Google search of "career cruising" meme returns... 408 results. *facepalm* I think it's time to pull in the cleolinda and dhio audiences.