Editorial & Sourcing Policy

How we source job listings

JobVault publishes job listings from three sources. Every listing on the site comes from one of these three pipelines, and each is reviewed before it goes live.

• Direct recruiter posts. Verified recruiters and employers register on JobVault and post their own roles through our recruiter dashboard. They confirm the role exists, set the apply URL, and take responsibility for accuracy. Recruiter accounts can be suspended for fraudulent or misleading posts.
• Curated public listings. Our editorial team selects publicly advertised vacancies from established South African job boards (such as CareerJunction and Pnet) and republishes them with the original employer name, the original "apply" link back to the source, a clear citation of the source URL, and our own categorisation and location tagging.
• Partnerships with recruiters. Some agencies give us authorised feeds of their roles. These are clearly attributed to the agency on each job page.

How we add value to listings

We don't simply mirror other job boards. Every listing on JobVault goes through the following editorial steps before publishing:

• Categorisation. We assign each role to one of our standardised categories (IT & Software, Finance, Engineering, Project Management, Sales, etc.) so seekers can filter consistently across sources.
• Location and province tagging. South African job ads use inconsistent location formats. We normalise locations to a recognised city and province so search and structured data work properly.
• Sanitisation. We strip tracking pixels, broken markup, recruiter-only metadata, and irrelevant boilerplate from descriptions.
• Source attribution. Every imported listing includes a clearly visible link to the original source and the original employer. We never claim third-party listings as our own.
• Schema.org markup. We publish each role with valid JobPosting structured data so it can appear correctly in Google for Jobs and other aggregators.

How we write career articles

The JobVault Blog is original content written for South African readers. Every article on the blog is written by our editorial team specifically for JobVault — we don't republish or syndicate articles from other sites. Our writing process:

1. SA-first scoping. Every topic is chosen because it matters to South African workers — UIF, BCEA rights, CCMA processes, province-specific salary realities, load shedding, ATS systems used by SA recruiters, POPIA-compliant CV practices.
2. Source-checking. When we cite figures (UIF caps, tax thresholds, leave entitlements), we link to or reference the underlying South African legislation or official source (Department of Employment and Labour, SARS, CCMA, Stats SA).
3. Practical examples. Articles include real-world examples relevant to SA — Johannesburg vs Cape Town vs Durban context, local employers, local salary bands.
4. Editorial review. Drafts are reviewed by a second team member before being published.
5. Updated, not abandoned. When laws or rates change (e.g. annual UIF or PAYE updates), we revise affected articles and update the "Last updated" date.

Who writes for JobVault

The JobVault editorial team is made up of South African writers, working recruiters, and HR specialists. We don't use anonymous freelancers or AI-generated filler content. Where a single named author writes an article, their name appears at the top of the post. Where the team writes collaboratively, the byline reads "JobVault Editorial Team".

Reporting an issue

If you spot a job listing that looks fraudulent, expired, duplicated, or that misrepresents an employer — or if you find a factual error in an article — please tell us. We act on every credible report within 48 hours.

• Use the Contact page and include the URL and a short description of the issue.
• Employers who believe their listing has been republished without permission can request removal via the same form. We remove on request.

Corrections policy

When we publish a correction, we update the article in place, note the correction at the bottom, and refresh the "Last updated" date. We do not silently change figures or quotations. For listing accuracy, expired roles are removed; corrected roles are updated with the change reflected in the page's "updated" timestamp.