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An outdated phone number, location or qualification can make your SA Youth profile less useful when you search for opportunities. Knowing how to update your SA Youth profile helps ensure that SA Youth and potential employers are working with accurate information about you.
How to Update Your SA Youth Profile Step by Step
Start by signing in to the official SAYouth.mobi website with your existing account.
Then review your profile systematically:
- Open your profile information after logging in to your SA Youth account.
- Check your personal and contact details, including your cellphone number and email address.
- Review your address and location to make sure they reflect where you currently live.
- Check your education and qualifications, adding relevant studies or training that are missing.
- Review your work experience and add relevant experience that is not yet recorded.
- Check your employment status and make sure it reflects your current situation.
- Review the information for mistakes before you finish.
- Save or confirm your changes using the option presented by the platform.
📱 Take your time when reviewing each section. A profile that accurately reflects your current circumstances gives SA Youth better information to use when recommending opportunities.
You should also return to your profile whenever something important changes — for example, when you get a new cellphone number, move to a different area, complete a qualification or gain new work experience.
How to Update Your Contact Details and Address
Your cellphone number, email and location are not minor details. They can affect both the opportunities you see and whether an employer can reach you.
Cellphone number
If your number changes, update it on SA Youth as soon as possible.
Employers may contact candidates by phone or SMS. SA Youth also sends communications to users, so an old number could mean that important messages do not reach you.
SA Youth advises users to keep their phones on and watch for notifications. SMS messages sent by SA Youth start with #SAYouth.
📞 If you no longer have access to the cellphone number connected to your account and cannot change it yourself, contact SA Youth for help rather than creating another account.
Email address
Keep your email address current and use one that you can access.
Employers may use email to contact applicants, so check your inbox regularly when you are actively applying for opportunities.
Address and location
Your location helps SA Youth determine which opportunities may be relevant to you.
If you move, review your address and location details rather than leaving your old information on the profile.
📍 Accurate location information matters. An employer may need candidates who live near a particular workplace, and SA Youth uses profile information when recommending opportunities.
How to Update Your Education, Qualifications, and Work Experience
Education and experience help describe what types of opportunities may be suitable for you. When you update your SA Youth profile, check that these sections reflect what you have actually studied and done.
Add your education and training
Include your education even if you are still studying or did not complete a particular programme.
Relevant information can include:
- Grades 9, 10 and 11;
- Matric;
- non-accredited certificates, including certificates of completion, workshops and online courses;
- accredited certificates;
- trade certificates and short courses;
- diplomas; and
- degrees.
🎓 Do not leave out legitimate education or training simply because it is not a university degree. Different opportunities can have different qualification requirements.
Review your qualifications
Add qualifications you have completed since you last updated the profile. Check existing entries for errors as well.
The aim is straightforward: your profile should accurately represent your qualifications so that you and potential employers are not working with outdated information.
Add relevant work experience
Review your work history and add relevant experience that is missing.
If you have limited formal employment experience, other genuine experience may still help describe what you have done. This can include activities such as:
- casual work;
- tutoring or childcare;
- helping in a family business;
- community projects;
- event assistance; or
- volunteer work.
🤝 Relevant experience does not always come from a permanent job. Community activities, volunteering and informal work can demonstrate practical experience and skills.
Be accurate about what you did. Do not inflate job titles, responsibilities or periods of employment simply to make the profile appear stronger.
How to Update Your Employment Status
Your employment situation can change after you create your SA Youth account. Your profile should change with it.
When reviewing your profile, check that your employment status reflects your current situation. If you start working, stop working or your circumstances otherwise change, return to the profile and update the relevant information.
🔄 Do not treat your SA Youth profile as something you complete once and forget about.
It is useful to review your status periodically, particularly before beginning a new period of job searching.
Keeping this information current helps SA Youth work with a more accurate picture of your circumstances. It also prevents old information from remaining on your profile long after your situation has changed.
How SA Youth Matches Your Profile With Opportunities
SA Youth uses information in your profile to recommend opportunities that may be suitable for you. This is one reason accurate and complete information matters.
Several details can affect which opportunities are relevant.
Location: Your address and location can help connect you with opportunities in or near your area.
Education and qualifications: Different jobs, learnerships and programmes may require different levels of education or specific qualifications.
Skills and experience: Your profile can show the practical experience and abilities that may be relevant to an opportunity.
Opportunity requirements: Employers and programme providers can set their own criteria. Meeting the requirements for one opportunity does not mean you will meet those of another.
🎯 An updated profile does not guarantee a job, interview or selection. It helps ensure that recommendations and potential employers are working with accurate information.
SA Youth also displays opportunities from different sources. In some cases, employers themselves are responsible for contacting applicants and providing feedback.
If you have applied for an opportunity, keep your contact details current, keep your phone available and check your email regularly.
Common Profile Mistakes That Can Affect Your Job Search
Even small outdated details can cause practical problems. When you update your SA Youth profile, watch for these common mistakes.
📱 Keeping an old cellphone number: If an employer calls or sends an SMS to a number you no longer use, you could miss the communication.
📍 Leaving an old address or incorrect location: Location information is used when recommending opportunities and can matter when an employer needs people in a particular area.
🎓 Leaving education incomplete: Add relevant education and training, including qualifications or courses completed since your last update.
🔄 Forgetting your employment status: Review it when your circumstances change so that your profile continues to reflect your current situation.
💼 Leaving out relevant experience: Genuine formal, informal and volunteer experience can help provide a more complete picture of what you have done.
⚠️ Entering inconsistent personal information: Check names, contact details and other personal information carefully. Your profile should contain accurate information rather than conflicting or outdated details.
A good habit is to review your profile whenever an important part of your situation changes — and again when you return to SA Youth for a new period of job searching.
Keeping your profile current is about accuracy, not trying to manipulate job recommendations.
A complete profile can help SA Youth show opportunities suited to the information you provide, but employers and individual programmes still decide who meets their requirements and who is selected.
One opportunity many young people look for through the wider youth employment ecosystem is the PYEI School Assistant programme. Before applying, make sure your SA Youth account and profile are ready — the next step is understanding how to apply for PYEI School Assistant opportunities correctly, from start to finish.
