How FirstRung verifies that a job is genuinely entry-level

Every role we send has been read in full and checked against a single question: does this description ask for prior professional experience anywhere in it?

What the pipeline does

• Harvests fresh postings directly from company applicant tracking systems, not from aggregators.
• Fetches the complete job description for each one, not the search-results summary.
• Scans for an experience floor: years required, seniority markers in the title, and phrasing that implies a prior role.
• Keeps only postings with no floor, and records the sentence that justified the verdict.
• Never sends the same role to the same person twice.

What gets rejected

Anything asking for a number of years, anything with a seniority marker in the title, and anything whose requirements imply a previous professional role. Most postings labelled entry-level do not survive this.

Why the verdict is shown

Each role carries the reason it passed, so the judgement can be checked rather than trusted. If a description changes after we read it, the reason lets you spot that immediately.