Recruitment for South African junior and early-career roles

Hire great junior talent without sorting through hundreds of CVs.

Tell us who you’re hiring. We’ll send you 3–5 screened candidates within five working days. You only pay if you hire.

  • No upfront fees
  • Skills-screened talent
  • 60-day replacement guarantee
A young South African celebrating a career milestone

Your shortlist

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Junior Sales Consultant · Johannesburg

  • LMLerato M.Screened
  • SDSipho D.Screened
  • AKAyanda K.Screened

Screened for

  • Role-relevant skills
  • Communication
  • Availability & location

Illustrative example of a LaunchPath shortlist.

Training and university partners

  • Regent Business School
  • Richfield
  • Melsoft Academy
  • Umuzi
  • Code Girls Academy
  • Capacitia

Hiring partners

  • Checkers
  • Trenchless Technologies
  • Idilli
How it works

Three steps to your next junior hire.

Built for South African employers hiring for junior and early-career roles, typically 0–3 years’ experience. We do the searching and screening; you meet the people worth meeting.

  1. Step 1

    Tell us who you need

    Share the role in a short form. It’s free and you don’t need an account. We’ll call you to calibrate what good looks like for your team.

  2. Step 2

    Meet your shortlist

    Within five working days for serviceable roles, we send you 3–5 screened candidates who fit the brief. You choose who to interview.

  3. Step 3

    Hire

    Make your offer. You only pay a placement fee once someone starts, and every placement is backed by our replacement guarantee.

Screened by people, for your role.

Every candidate on your shortlist has been screened by the LaunchPath team against the brief we agreed with you, not just filtered by keywords.

  • Role-relevant skills
  • Communication
  • Attitude and readiness to work
  • Experience relevance
  • Location and commute
  • Salary expectations
  • Availability to start
  • Your must-haves
LaunchPath Hire

Hire the right junior talent, without the weekend of CVs.

A managed recruitment service for junior and early-career roles in Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, Technology and Finance. Hiring for something else? Tell us anyway and we’ll let you know if we can help.

  • A role calibrated with you

    We talk through the role, the must-haves and what would rule someone out, so the search starts from what you actually need.

  • 3–5 screened candidates

    A short, considered shortlist for serviceable roles within five working days, instead of hundreds of unfiltered CVs.

  • Nothing to pay upfront

    Submitting a vacancy and receiving your shortlist are free. A placement fee applies only when you hire.

  • Replacement guarantee

    If a hire doesn’t work out early on, we run a replacement search at no additional placement fee, subject to our terms.

Junior Marketing Coordinator

Johannesburg · Hybrid · 0–2 years

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  • TNThabo N.

    Screened

  • ZPZanele P.

    Screened

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  • LMLerato M.

    Thu 10:00

  • SDSipho D.

    Fri 14:00

Offer1

  • AKAyanda K.

    Offer made

Illustrative example of a hiring pipeline with LaunchPath.

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Pricing

You only pay if you hire.

There’s no charge to submit a vacancy or to receive your shortlist. A placement fee applies only when you make a successful hire.

LaunchPath Hire · for employers

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Then 7.5% of the hire’s annual cost to company, only when you hire. Minimum R7,500, maximum R18,000.

Example: hire someone on R180,000 a year and the placement fee is R13,500.

  • Free vacancy submission, no account needed
  • A call to calibrate the role with you
  • Candidates screened by the LaunchPath team
  • 3–5 screened candidates, targeted within five working days for serviceable roles
  • No charge if you don’t hire
  • 60-day replacement guarantee

For job seekers

Freealways

Candidates never pay to be considered or placed.

  • Profile built from your CV or LinkedIn
  • Considered for roles that fit your skills
  • Interview practice with feedback
  • Application tracking and updates

The 60-day replacement guarantee

If your hire leaves voluntarily, or is legitimately dismissed for performance, within 60 days of starting, we’ll run one replacement search at no additional placement fee. The guarantee is subject to our final employer terms, which we’ll share before you hire.

Hiring several people at once? Let’s talk

Why we exist

The hiring problem nobody is solving properly.

You post a role. Four hundred CVs land in your inbox by Friday. Most are not relevant. You spend the weekend filtering. You interview five people. None of them are quite right. The role stays open another month.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Soweto, a young job seeker has applied to her eighty-seventh job. She has heard back from three. She is starting to wonder if the problem is her.

It isn’t.

The talent exists. The hiring system is just broken in the middle. Companies cannot find the right people quickly. Candidates cannot get seen at all. Everyone loses.

For employers

Hundreds of CVs, hardly any fit.

Weekends lost to filtering, interviews that go nowhere, and roles that stay open for another month.

For job seekers

Eighty-seven applications, three replies.

Talented young people who never get seen, and start to believe the problem is them.

What LaunchPath does

Fix the middle.

Screen candidates properly against the real requirements, and put a short, relevant shortlist in front of the employer.

A group of young South Africans smiling together outdoors

Graduate Marketing Assistant

Cape Town · Hybrid

Your match92%
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Apply now

Illustrative preview of a job match in the candidate portal.

For job seekers

Get seen for what you can actually do.

Built for school leavers, graduates, bootcamp learners and junior professionals early in their careers. Free for job seekers, always.

  • One profile, done once

    Upload your CV or connect LinkedIn. We pull out your skills, education and experience for you.

  • Jobs ranked for you

    See how well you fit each role and the skills worth building next.

  • Practise your interview

    Record practice answers, get feedback and build a readiness score employers can see.

  • Know where you stand

    Track every application from applied to hired, with updates by email, SMS and WhatsApp.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Anything else? Our team is a message away.

  • Yes. Submitting a vacancy, calibrating the role with us and receiving your shortlist are all free. You don’t need to create an account or enter payment details.

  • Only when you make a successful hire. The placement fee is 7.5% of the hire’s annual cost to company, with a minimum of R7,500 and a maximum of R18,000. If you don’t hire, you don’t pay.

  • For serviceable roles, our target is a shortlist of 3–5 screened candidates within five working days of calibrating the role with you. If a role is harder to fill, we’ll tell you upfront and agree a realistic timeline.

  • The LaunchPath team screens every shortlisted candidate against the brief we agree with you, looking at role-relevant skills, communication, attitude, readiness to work, location and salary expectations.

  • If your hire leaves voluntarily, or is legitimately dismissed for performance, within 60 days of starting, we’ll run one replacement search at no additional placement fee. The guarantee is subject to our final employer terms.

  • Junior and early-career roles, typically 0–3 years’ experience, across Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, Technology and Finance in South Africa. If your role is outside these areas, submit it anyway and we’ll let you know whether we can help.

  • Yes. If you’re hiring for multiple seats, an intake or recurring roles, submit one vacancy or get in touch through the form below and we’ll plan the search with you.

  • No. Candidates never pay to create a profile, be considered for a role or be placed.