Clive
Clive is free for graduates, permanently, which means employers will one day pay to promote roles. Fine. But a career agent only works if the graduate can trust every match, so here are the rules, in writing, in advance.
If an employer has paid for a role to reach you, it says so: clearly, on the match itself, not in grey text three taps away. You will never have to wonder whether a match is organic or paid.
Payment buys an employer the chance to be seen by graduates who genuinely match the role. It does not buy an exemption from matching. A sponsored role that fails your basics (location, salary floor, visa, discipline) doesn't reach you, whatever the invoice says.
Your organic matches are ranked by fit and nothing else. Sponsorship can't promote a weak match above a strong one, and no employer can pay to bury a competitor.
Employers pay to put roles in front of the right people. They do not receive your profile, your CV, or your conversations with Clive. They learn who you are when you apply: directly, on their site, because you chose to.
When Clive tells you a role fits, that judgement is his own. The sponsor gets no say in what he says about them. If a sponsored role is mediocre, Clive won't pretend otherwise.
Because nobody's paying yet, which makes this the one moment the policy is provably not marketing. These rules exist before the first invoice does, and they're the terms on which employer money will be accepted, not adjusted once it arrives.
If we ever change this policy, the change will be announced plainly and dated, not slipped in quietly.