{"id":219729,"date":"2018-01-17T13:08:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T11:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=219729"},"modified":"2018-02-22T15:17:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T13:17:42","slug":"3-in-demand-jobs-and-skills-in-south-africa-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/219729\/3-in-demand-jobs-and-skills-in-south-africa-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"3 in-demand jobs and skills in South Africa right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professionals in the fields of sales, marketing, ICT and admin, office &amp; support face positive employment prospects following an increase in hiring activity towards the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to jobs site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.careerjunction.co.za\/\">CareerJunction<\/a>, which provided a detailed analysis of the relative ratio of supply and demand in the online job market.<\/p>\n<p>The CareerJunction Index (CJI) directly monitors the online labour market in South Africa by examining supply and demand trends. The information is based on professions across all industries.<\/p>\n<p>CareerJunction said that the finance, construction and manufacturing sectors, on the other hand, saw a notable decrease in demand in recent months. Trending jobs for December include client\/customer support, civil\/structural engineering and IT project administration\/management roles.<\/p>\n<p>The recruitment specialist underlined three &#8216;hot&#8217; trending jobs in South Africa right now.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Client\/Customer Support<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Average monthly salary offerings for an intermediate level position:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GP: R12,741 to R16,995<\/li>\n<li>WC: R11,933 to R14,140<\/li>\n<li>KZN: R10,025 to R12,925<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Civil\/Structural Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GP: R34,461 to R47,325<\/li>\n<li>WC: R25,720 to R36,477<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>IT Project Administration\/Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GP: R42,464 to R51,692<\/li>\n<li>WC: R43,704 to R48,400<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Most wanted skills<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CareerJunction said that more than 4 vacancies get activated every 10 minutes. &#8220;The constant stream of new opportunities begs the question: Which skill sets are most sought after?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s latest research showed that the following occupational fields are by far the most in demand skill sets in the job market currently:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Software Development: <\/strong>While recruitment activity slowed for most software developers during November and December, vacancies for .Net developers increased by 24% since October 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Representatives\/Sales Consulting<\/strong>: Hiring activity for sales professionals increased considerably during 2017. Year-on-year, demand strengthened by 24%. However, despite the abundance of jobs, the job market remains competitive for job seekers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Middle\/Department Management<\/strong>: Professionals in management face\u00a0 positive employment prospects. Financial managers are particularly well sought after. During the third quarter of 2017, every third managerial vacancy was allocated to financial managers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/CareerJunction.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-219733\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/CareerJunction.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/CareerJunction.png 760w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/CareerJunction-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/214497\/south-african-salaries-in-2017-what-people-earn-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South African salaries in 2017: what people earn right now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professionals in the fields of sales, marketing, ICT and admin, office &#038; support face positive employment prospects following an increase in hiring activity towards the end of 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[9405,26],"class_list":["post-219729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-career-junction","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227277,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219729\/revisions\/227277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}