Editorial Policy

1. The notification is the source

Dates, vacancy counts, fees, age limits and eligibility come from one place: the document the recruiting body published. Not from another exam site, not from a news report about the notice, and not from an earlier cycle of the same exam.

Which documents a given page was read from is listed at the foot of that page, with the day each one was read and a link to it. If a page carries a fact, the document it came from is on that list.

2. Copy, never compute

Numbers are transcribed, then verified: every figure produced for a page is checked to appear in the source document's own text before that page is allowed to publish. A number that cannot be found there fails the check and nothing goes out.

3. The document has to belong to this exam

A genuine notice on a board's own website can still be about a different recruitment. Before a document is used, the recruitment name read out of it is matched against the one the page is for — ignoring the board's own name, since every exam a board runs shares it.

This exists because of a real failure: a page for one commission's Assistant Audit Officer recruitment once came back carrying a different exam's postponement notice, because both PDFs were authentic and both sat on the same host. A homepage or a listing index is refused as a source outright.

4. Silence is not a fact

Where a notice does not state something, the page does not fill the gap. An empty negative-marking field means the source did not say — it is never rendered as “no negative marking”. A date given as a range or a month is printed in the notice's own words rather than pinned to a specific day it never named.

Nothing here is predicted. No expected date, likely cut-off or anticipated vacancy count appears on a page as though a board had announced it.

5. Where secondary sources are allowed, and where they are not

How an exam works — its pattern, its syllabus, the stages of selection — barely changes between cycles and is not always reprinted in a given notification. Those three fields, and only those three, may be compiled from other published references when the official notice is silent, and the page names the references it used.

Dates, vacancies, fees and eligibility are never filled this way. Being wrong there costs somebody a deadline, and stale dates are precisely what circulates between sites in this category for months at a time.

6. Updates amend the page, they do not re-date it

A recruitment is one page that gets updated, never a second page for the same exam. When a board extends a date, revises a vacancy count or declares a result, the page is amended and an entry is added to its update history — dated by the notice that caused the change, not by the day we happened to read it.

The publication date on a page is set once and never moved. A page that has only been re-laid-out does not claim to have been updated: the “last checked” date shown is the day the recruitment itself last moved.

7. Links are checked, and failures are shown

Only official links are published — a board's own portal, notice or PDF, never a mirror or a third-party copy. Those links are re-checked, and one that has stopped resolving is marked rather than quietly left in place. Each page states how many of its official links were checked, when, and how many are still working.

8. Graphics are drawn, not generated

The cards on these pages are rendered from the audited figures by a browser, not produced by an image model. Every card carries a fee or a date somebody will act on, and a model that garbles a digit produces a wrong fact in a form nobody proofreads.

9. How pages are produced, and who checks them

Extraction, verification and drafting are done by software: the figures are read from the official notice, checked back against it, and assembled into a draft. No page goes live on that alone.

Every draft then passes through two people before it is published — the part a machine does not do:

• An editoropens the draft, reads it against the official notice, and writes the page's editor's notes by hand — the short take at the top and the longer one at the foot. That is a person deciding what actually matters about this recruitment, in their own words, not a generated summary.
• A reviewer then reads the same page independently, adds their own assessment, and only after that is it published. Two people have read a page before a candidate does.

The person who signs a page off is named at the foot of it — their name, their role and the date they read it — linking to their profile. Our editor and reviewers are real, named people with public pages and working contact addresses, listed on the team page.

Where a notice changes later and the page is amended unattended before a person has re-read it, the page says exactly that, and carries no reviewer's name, until someone does. The editor is responsible for every page on the site either way, including this policy.

10. Independence

FresherHub is not affiliated with any government department, board or examination authority. No page placement, ranking or wording here is sold, and no recruitment is covered or omitted in exchange for payment. Where the site earns anything, it does not change what a notification says.

When we get it wrong

These rules reduce mistakes; they do not eliminate them. A misread table, a notice superseded within hours, a portal that changes a URL — all of them happen. When a page is wrong, it gets fixed against the official document and the fix is recorded in that page's update history. See corrections, or write to [email protected].