1. Source of truth
The SponsorHire TablePress table is the operational source of truth. It currently provides the company description, company name, market sector, city, official website and company size. The plugin synchronises those records into private WordPress database tables optimised for filtering and aggregate statistics.
2. What inclusion means
Inclusion means that an employer appears in SponsorHire’s research covering recent sponsorship history. It is not a claim that the employer is hiring now, that every listed occupation is eligible, or that an applicant will receive sponsorship.
3. Public privacy boundary
Public database queries are deliberately restricted. They do not retrieve the company name, website, original description, source key or private company identifier. Public summaries are generated from fixed templates using only:
- a canonical public industry;
- a coarse city, metropolitan area or state;
- a normalised employer-size category.
The original Description column is private because it may include brands, trading names or identifying operational details.
4. Industry normalisation
Hundreds of raw sector labels can describe the same market. The plugin consolidates them into a controlled set of canonical industries such as Healthcare & Aged Care, Hospitality & Tourism, Construction & Engineering and Information Technology.
Broad labels such as General Services remain available to members but are excluded from the public sitemap because they do not provide a sufficiently precise search intent.
5. Location normalisation and privacy
Major cities and recognised regional centres are normalised to consistent public labels. Suburbs and highly specific source locations may be rolled up to their metropolitan area or state. Generic values such as “Australia”, “Not available” and “Multiple locations” do not generate indexable location pages.
6. Employer-size normalisation
Company-size values are grouped into Small, Medium, Large and Enterprise categories. The category is determined first from an explicit label and then, when necessary, from the employee range. Size pages remain useful browse filters but are intentionally excluded from the SEO sitemap.
7. Indexation quality controls
The plugin indexes the main hub, this methodology page and canonical industry or location pages that meet configurable minimum record counts. It intentionally applies noindex, follow to:
- pagination after page one;
- public search-result URLs;
- employer-size filters;
- low-volume or broad data clusters;
- profession pages without sufficient direct occupation data.
8. Profession-specific claims
A profession page is only eligible for indexing when the source table contains direct occupation information. Without direct data, the URL redirects to the most relevant canonical industry page rather than presenting a sector-level assumption as occupation-specific evidence.
9. Member-only access
Authorised members access a separate protected directory. Private pages use authentication, noindex, nofollow, no-archive instructions and no-store cache headers. Private company URLs never appear in the public sitemap or public structured data.
10. Updates and limitations
The table can be synchronised manually or through a daily WordPress task. SponsorHire may correct classifications, deactivate outdated records and improve source fields over time. Users should always verify current roles, sponsorship availability, work-right requirements and visa rules directly with the employer and appropriate professional advisers.
11. Current database snapshot
The active private index currently contains 1,764 employer records. The last recorded synchronisation was 2026-07-18 18:07:59.