Creating paid job adverts

November 19, 2025

Summary

A step by step guide on creating paid job adverts

There are a few steps that you can follow to create an opportunity advert. These opportunity adverts will be seen by work seekers who will apply for these opportunities.

How to create Paid opportunity advert  (job vacancy)

On your 'Home' page, click 'Create new opportunity advert'  and you'll be redirected to capture opportunity details.

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Click on 'Job vacancy' and click on 'Start new opportunity'.

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Your advert will only go live after you have completed opportunity Details, opportunity Requirements, custom Questions, Confirm & Submit.

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Details section:

This section allows you to specify the details about your opportunity. You will be asked the following fields:

Who is offering the opportunity?

  • This field requires you to provide the work seekers with detail of the opportunity holder (the company name) and a sponsoring partner if necessary.

What is the opportunity?

A view of the type of opportunity:

  1. Opportunity title
  2. Job Family
  3. Sector
  4. What will the work-seeker's role be?
  5. Contract type
  6. How long is this contract for? (if applicable)
  7. Number of vacancies available
  8. Number of applicants that can apply (remember your 1:20 ratio as per above)
  9. Opportunity closing date

Where is the opportunity?

  • Location of the opportunity

Salary and benefits of this position

  • The type of salary the work seekers will be offered and any additional benefits.

Manage Applicants on Partner Network or redirect to your own site

  • You can opt to manage applicants on Partner Network - this option is highly recommended because you'll have access to all of the features offered on Partner Network and it makes it easier for work seekers to only apply once in a data free environment. Or you can opt to redirect work seekers to your own site, please note that work seekers will need mobile data to access your site:



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Requirements

This section allows you to specify additional requirements for the opportunity. These are the requirements that you need applicants to meet in order to be successful for your opportunity:

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Tell us what applicants you're looking for?

  • These are the requirements for the opportunity that you would like to be made visible to work seekers when they apply.
  • At this point list those requirements such as education, age, language etc.
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What are the opportunity requirements? (We will use these to recommend work seekers to apply to your opportunity - note that this list of recommendations are not made visible on the opportunity advert)

  1. Education needed
  2. Language/s needed
  3. Can applicants have a disability for this opportunity?
  4. Gender
  5. Race
  6. Age

Questions

You are able to ask questions as part of a job application process as well as request a voice note from applicants. The following fields are displayed in this section:

  • Pre-set questions
  • Ask custom questions
  • If you would like to ask any of the pre-defined questions you can select from the list provided. You are also able to create your own custom questions under this field
  • Voice Notes
  • If you would like to assess the applicant's English, you can ask them to record a 60 second voice note, you will need to specify the question the applicant should answer with voice note. E.g. tell us a bit about the place where you were born? Who is your favorite super hero and why?

Note that you do not have to ask any additional questions, these are optional

Confirm and Submit

Once you have completed capturing all the opportunity details this section allows you to review the opportunity information.

If you are satisfied with the vacancy details you can then submit the opportunity advert and it will become available on the SA Youth site immediately for work seekers to apply.

You can view all your opportunity adverts under 'Current Opportunities' or 'Manage Opportunities'

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