Editorial Policy

Purpose and scope

StarterJobs organises South African entry-level jobs, internships, learnerships, bursaries, apprenticeships, graduate programmes, and related career guidance. We are an aggregator, not the employer or application decision-maker.

Sources and source-derived text

Listings are compiled from identifiable public sources such as employer career pages, government or programme portals, training and bursary providers, and job boards. Titles, organisations, locations, requirements, closing dates, and application instructions should remain traceable to source material.

We may reformat, shorten, categorise, or summarise source wording for readability. The official source remains authoritative. Where a source does not provide a fact, we leave it unknown or omit it; we do not invent a missing salary, location, qualification, deadline, contact, employer claim, or application route.

Automation and imports

Automated systems may discover, import, deduplicate, structure, categorise, publish, update, or expire listing data. Publication can therefore occur without a bespoke manual rewrite of every field. Automation does not mean an employer submitted, endorsed, or verified the StarterJobs version.

Automated output must preserve the source meaning, identify the source where available, avoid filling factual gaps, and route uncertain or conflicting data for correction or omission.

AI assistance standard

AI may assist with drafts, summaries, headings, formatting, classification, or contextual career guidance. AI-assisted editorial text must not fabricate employers, statistics, testimonials, people, outcomes, requirements, or missing listing facts. Material listing details should be checked against the available source where practical, and uncertainty must be stated rather than hidden.

Separate user-facing CV Tools also use AI. Their generated CVs, letters, scores, and feedback are personal guidance—not StarterJobs editorial verification and not a guarantee of ATS or hiring outcomes.

Freshness, closing dates, and expiry

Listings can change or close without notice. We use known closing dates, an explicit source-check timestamp, status rules, and reader reports to remove or mark stale entries. Ordinary wording or category edits do not renew freshness. When no reliable closing date is available, an opportunity leaves current archives 30 days after its last recorded source check unless the source is checked again; we do not invent a deadline.

Organisational authorship

Listings, summaries, and platform guidance may be attributed to StarterJobs or the StarterJobs Editorial Team as organisational authorship. That byline does not imply a named individual personally witnessed, authored, or verified every source fact. Where a named external contributor is used, the attribution should be genuine and distinguishable from the source organisation.

Corrections and safety reports

Send factual corrections, changed deadlines, broken links, source conflicts, expired listings, or scam concerns to hello@starterjobs.co.za. Include the StarterJobs page, original source, and evidence for the requested correction. We may update, annotate, unpublish, or remove content after review.

Commercial disclosure and separation

StarterJobs may display clearly distinguishable advertising and may sell optional CV Tools output or Premium access. Advertising, affiliate or commercial relationships, and paid tools must not be presented as employer endorsement or as a condition of seeing or applying for a job.

Browsing, viewing, and following application instructions are free. Optional CV Tools purchases are separate digital services, never job or application fees. Commercial status does not permit invented editorial claims or preferential changes to source facts.

Job-seeker responsibility

Always verify the employer, source domain, closing date, eligibility, and application method. Never pay someone to secure a job or submit an application, and report suspicious requests.