Internships. The Department has established internship programmes that are funded through Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs).

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2 Internships The Department of Labour brought in new laws to develop the skills of the citizens of our country. These are the Skills Development Act, 1998 and Skills Development Levies Act, Employers are for example obliged to contribute money in the form of a skills levy, to ensure funding is available for skills development. New skills development and work experience programmes were also developed by the Department to raise the employability of the citizens of South Africa. One of these work experience programmes is called internships. The Department has established internship programmes that are funded through Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs). Graduates often find themselves in a dead-end street because they do not have work experience. The graduates have not learnt to apply their theoretical knowledge in practice and have not learnt the necessary work behaviours. Work experience is important, because it assists the work-seeker to build up the necessary set of work behaviours, such as 2

3 Internships could be from six months to a year. responsibility, honesty, productivity, having good relationships with other people and setting up an organised work environment. Work experience is also very valuable in helping work-seekers to build occupational skills and knowledge and assisting them to apply their theoretical knowledge in real world situations. In internships, work-seekers are exposed to situations where they will learn on-the-job, but they may also be sent on skills courses during work. The Department has established internship programmes that are funded through Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs). SETAs are organisations that ensure training of good quality happens in a specific sector of the economy, e.g. the construction sector and health sector. The SETA receives money that was gathered from employers to upskill the nation and then pays the money in the form of a grant to employers, to employ unemployed people for internships. 3

4 Work-seekers will notice that the Department encourages the unemployed to further their studies in scarce skills, by making more funds available for these occupations. Internships could be from six months to a year. A mentor will be appointed for work-seekers, to help them learn how to do the work and to track their progress, so that they can learn the job skills. Sometimes the vacancies will be for people with a degree in a scarce skill only. A scarce skill is an occupation that is in short supply and needed in the labour market to make the country move ahead, e.g. certain occupations in health, such as doctors. Work-seekers will notice that the Department encourages the unemployed to further their studies in scarce skills, by making more funds available for these occupations. The reason is to help them find a job and to help the country meet its human resources needs. Unemployed people can apply for an internship to employers, if there is an employer calling for applications of unemployed people. Employers advertise in newspapers, or place adverts in the community, city or town. Work-seekers should therefore watch these advertisements for 4

5 posts. Unemployed people can also apply at the nearest Labour Centre for such an internship opportunity. The internship opportunities will be available on a computerized job-matching system, the Employment Services System of South Africa, (ESSA). By providing their details to the staff at Labour Centres, work-seekers can be matched to the opportunities, when these arise. The Labour Centre staff can then inform them about the opportunities. The Department therefore calls on all employers to assist our country to make these internship programmes available. Employers are encouraged to offer internships. They are excellent ways of contributing to corporate social investment programmes. Internships also assist the company with extra workforce in an area where this is needed for a shorter period. The Department therefore calls on all employers to assist our country to make these internship programmes available. Contact the SETA in your economic sector to investigate possibilities and assist the Department. Please also register your opportunities on the ESSA, so that filling of these vacancies can be assisted through screening of candidates. This service is free of charge. 5

6 You can speak to a career counsellor of the Department to assist you in this regard. Please also register your opportunities on the ESSA, so that filling of these vacancies can be assisted through screening of candidates. Contact details Provincial Offices of the Department of Labour Eastern Cape East London Tel: (043) Limpopo Polokwane Tel: (015) Free State Bloemfontein Tel: (051) Mpumalanga Witbank Tel: (013) Tel: (012) North West Mmabatho Tel: (018) Gauteng South Johannesburg Tel: (011) Northern Cape Kimberley Tel: (053) KwaZulu-Natal Durban Western Cape Cape Town Tel: (021) Gauteng North Pretoria Tel: (031)

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