{"id":416491,"date":"2020-07-15T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=416491"},"modified":"2020-07-15T11:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T09:00:45","slug":"how-you-can-contribute-to-the-success-of-our-south-african-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/416491\/how-you-can-contribute-to-the-success-of-our-south-african-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"How you can contribute to the success of our South African youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s increasing unemployment levels are a huge threat to future economic growth and the overall prosperity of its citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics South Africa\u2019s most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/publications\/P0211\/Presentation%20QLFS%20Q1_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Quarterly Labour Force Survey<\/strong><\/a> shows the country\u2019s unemployment rate climbed to 30.1% in the first quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 23.5 million people in the country that form part of the labour force, 7.1 million didn\u2019t have a job even before South Africa entered the national COVID-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/atvance-academy.co.za\/corporate-partnerships\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_campaign=Atvance%20Academy&amp;utm_term=July_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to visit the ATVANCE ACADEMY website to see how you can be part of the change.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Multiple companies have also had to resort to pay cuts or retrenchments in order to stay afloat.<\/p>\n<p>This has likely worsened the chances of job seekers securing employment in South Africa.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Skills shortages<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The survey went on to highlight the value of skills development in getting a job. Many job openings require or favour candidates with qualifications in fields related to the duties of the job.<\/p>\n<p>Over 65% of unemployed persons in the labour force either had only a matric qualification or did not finish school.<\/p>\n<p>This is compared to under 30% of graduates and people with other tertiary qualifications who were unemployed.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the unemployment rate for persons aged between 15 and 24 years stood at a shockingly high figure of 59%.<\/p>\n<p>Educating and creating opportunities for training of the youth is therefore essential to avoiding an impending social and economic disaster.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Tertiary education is expensive<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Even if affordability was not an issue, graduates have to look for jobs without possessing the necessary practical experience needed to get a job.<\/p>\n<p>Internship and learnership programmes therefore provide invaluable education and training experiences which increases a job seeker\u2019s marketability and chances of getting a job.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>The ATVANCE ACADEMY advantage<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Since 2011, ATVANCE ACADEMY has been working together with its partners in business to implement compliant and cost-effective initiatives to increase B-BBEE levels, reduce financial impact on organisations and drive government\u2019s initiatives in terms of youth education and youth development.<\/p>\n<p>Its 172 rapidly-growing campuses and 30,000 lives changed in the young black South African community thanks to their skills development training partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>ATVANCE ACADEMY focuses its efforts on bringing employers solutions within the Skills Development, Preferential Procurement and Socio-Economic Development elements of the B-BBEE Codes through the application and funding of various Government Tax Initiatives and subsidies, therefore reducing the expenditure and cost impact for our partners.<\/p>\n<p>ATVANCE ACADEMY learners can acquire National Certificate (NQF2,3 &amp; 4) qualifications in the following disciplines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Occupational Health, Safety and the Environment<\/li>\n<li>Project Support Service<\/li>\n<li>Wholesale and Retail Operations<\/li>\n<li>Information Technology<\/li>\n<li>New Venture Creations<\/li>\n<li>Contact Centre Support<\/li>\n<li>Business Administration Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ATVANCE ACADEMY and its partners help upskill South Africa\u2019s young job seekers, increasing their likelihood of getting a job, and lowering the prevalence of unemployment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atvance-academy.co.za\/corporate-partnerships\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_campaign=Atvance%20Academy&amp;utm_term=July_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to visit the Atvance Academy website to see how you can be part of the change.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your valuable skills development training partnerships assist us with changing the lives of thousands of young South Africans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":416507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[14953],"class_list":["post-416491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-atvance-academy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416491","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416509,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416491\/revisions\/416509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}