Data sources and editorial policy

Preferred source hierarchy

1. Official national statistical agencies and government labor-market datasets.
2. Primary occupational classifications and official documentation.
3. Recognized education and technology-provider documentation for tool-specific requirements.
4. Reputable secondary research only when primary data is unavailable or requires interpretation.

Salary and employment data

Salary data must be presented with its geography, occupation mapping, time period, currency, and source context when those fields are available. It should not be represented as a guaranteed offer, personal forecast, or universal market rate.

AI-assisted content

AI may assist with drafting, structuring, summarizing, taxonomy mapping, and consistency checks. AI-generated text is not itself a source. Claims that depend on external facts should remain traceable to an underlying publisher or dataset.

Updates and corrections

Time-sensitive career intelligence should be reviewed when its source changes or becomes outdated. Corrections should preserve the distinction between editorial guidance and official data rather than silently replacing one with the other.

Current limitation

Not every career section currently exposes complete source-level provenance. Source coverage will expand as career intelligence datasets and review workflows are published. Unsupported statistics, reviews, partnerships, and outcome claims are not added for marketing purposes.