About Us
About SA-SKILLS.CO.ZA
SA Skills is driven towards bringing the South African skills Development community and beneficiaries closer together and making opportunities more accessible for everyone.
Education is the basis of everybody’s development and continues throughout life, as more youths enter a highly competitive labour market looking for limited job opportunities, we aim to help make the journey easier with linking the needs of business, educators, learners and South African labour force.
Due to the increasing unemployment rate, it is critical to ensure Skills Development opportunities and strategies are constantly being identified and made available to allow for developing the South African economy and increasing the earning potential for all.
Another goal of SA Skills is to attempt to bring all relevant information and industry stakeholders together to form better partnerships, and gain access to information and resources to implement skills development in South Africa more effectively.
As SA Skills has a primary goal of providing an all-inclusive, accommodating platform for skills development to best address the requirements of the industry, but should not be a standalone platform for skills development only, as skills development is a priority to address the unemployment rate and competitiveness of business. SA Skills strives to address the post training need of employment and job creation by providing a space where the public sector, private sector, training bodies and training beneficiaries can interact.
Vision
- To actively participate in the skills development arena in South Africa
- Add valuable benefit to the South Africa economy by brining employable youth closer to employers
- Identify skills development initiatives to better service the industry
- Become the go to platform for all skills development needs and information
- Enable access to partnerships for emerging businesses
- Contribute to the professionalisation of the training industry
Stakeholders
- Authorities
- These are public institutions set up by government in order to address specific needs in the country. These are large role players in the offering initiatives such as funding for training and quality assurance. Various information and research is provided by these institutes as well as handle processes around compliance matters.
- Skills Development Providers
- Training institutes are organisations that offer training services and usually accredited by education authorities. These drive the learner development process and need to be fully accessible to the learners demanding their services. SA Skills aims to it easy for the Skills Development Providers to market their services and learners to easily access these services offered.
- Training Support Bodies
- This is a broad user group offers support and needs and services of the training industry and general business. This can be categories as individual free-lance agents, or registered companies that can provide the sought after services. These include services such as
- Facilitation
- Assessor / Moderator
- Skills Development Facilitation
- BB-BEE Agencies and Consultancies
- Accreditation assistance and Training material development
- Employers
- South African business needs to stay complaint and innovative in order to be competitive. SA Skills aims to allow organisations to address issues such as staff training, skills gap analysis and partnerships with other users to address skills requirements. Our goal is to make the process of planning, implementing and recruiting for learnerships, internships, entry level positions easier and more beneficial to all users.
- Learners
- Learners are beneficiaries of training. Finding training that best suits personal needs can be difficult and time consuming, SA Skills aims to make the process of linking learners to training providers as effortless as possible in order to gain access to post education opportunities sooner. Once the learning process has been completed via a training institute these newly acquired skills need to be utilised to gain economic benefit. Individuals generally require assistance with this step of the journey into their career. SA Skills aims to make it easier to find the opportunities and programmes that will drive them forward to achieve their goals.