Employment Environment
• 6,841,000 Unemployed (4,526,000 official,
rest discouraged work seekers)
• 13,422,000 employed
• 34% unemployment rate (expanded definition)
• 3-4 million employed in entry level positions
• If 20% turnover rate, 800,000 entry level jobs
available per year
• If 80% of unemployed can only fill entry level
positions, 5,5 mil contending for 800,000 jobs
Two Primary Solutions
• Reduce wages
• Difficult sell to unions, employees and
unemployed
• Increase productivity, including
• Innovation
• Less red tape
• More enabling business environment
• MORE PRODUCTIVE WORKFORCE
Need for Mindset Change
• Unemployed – more initiatiave,
productive mindset
• Employees – Upward mobility
• Business managers/owners –
capacity/skills development of workforce,
willing to release good people
• Government – Change from welfare to
development priorities
Jumpstart
Jobs Fund Expansion Project
Jumpstart History
• Redcap started Jumpstart in 2007
• Work experience for unemployed who
have gone through life skills training
• Started partnering with various NGOs in
2009 in KZN
• Expanded this nationally in 2010
• Jobs Fund project 2012
Motivation for Jobs Fund
Project
• Funding for NGOs to scale up work
• Help NGOs to add key components required
for entry in Mr Price (e.g maths, literacy,
customer service)
• Better coordination of project with help of
systems like Joblinx
• Better collaboration of stakeholders (e.g.
network, curriculum development)
Partner Criteria
1. Already running soft skills programmes (with
possible exceptions)
2. Operating in areas where there is demand for labour
with Mr. Price
3. Have capacity to expand
4. Have appropriate organisational systems in place
(reporting, financial, HR, etc.)
5. Willing to comply with minimum requirements for
training (see upcoming slide)
Mr Price Candidate Criteria
1. Matric certificate
2. 30 years old or younger
3. No criminal record
4. No bad credit history
5. Ability to pass Mr. Price tests (math
literacy, bar code recognition and customer
service assessment test)
Jumpstart Training Criteria
Core Purpose
• Attitude/Behaviour/Character
Development and Basic Skills
Course/Topic Hours
• Course Minimum Hours: 40
• Topic Minimum Hours: 1 (unless
otherwise specified)
Required Life Skills Topics (1)
(with required hours if different from standard of 1 hour)
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Career guidance (2)
Communication/Presentation Skills (3)
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Conflict resolution
Customer Service (2)
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Finances
Goal setting/Planning
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Healing of the Past (2)
Sexual health/Romantic relationships/HIV/AIDS (3)
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Job preparation skills (2)
Physical health (healthy living)
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Rights and responsibilities (e.g. Basic conditions of employment)
Time management
•
Vision/Purpose
Required Life Skills Topics (2)
The following topics may be covered within the above
topics or separately and thus don’t have 1 hour
minimum requirements:
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Life-long learning
Motivation/Self-esteem
Personal Development/Character
Work ethics
Emotional maturity
Problem solving/Decision making
Substance abuse
Business Calculations/Literacy
• Students need to be equipped to pass Mr.
Price Test
• No training requirements will be set, as it is up
to the organisations how much they want to
screen people. Two options are below:
1. These skills can be taught by organization
and/or
2. Students can be prescreened based on ability
to pass
Distribution Strategy
•
Payment only after people have been successfully
placed into employment with Mr Price.
•
Training done for first placements will be
“frontloaded” by NGOs, meaning that first
disbursement will be done on people trained through
other funding.
•
Funding not intended to replace existing funding, but
rather to scale up training capacity (with possible
exceptions)
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Joblinx
Online system developed for linking employers with
candidates of training providers
System has been functional since the beginning of last
year
New developments are being done to enable it to have
additional functionality for Jumpstart specific needs
•
Automated linkage between base stores, head
office and NGOs
•
More fields specific to Jumpstart
•
Better searching and reporting processes
Employer Partnerships
• Spar – Estimated 5000-1000 vacancies
annually
• Smollan – 4000 vacancies annually
• Mr Price Supply Chain
NGO Partnerships
• Harambee – 10,000 placements, 3 years
• Project Literacy – Tapping NSF
• Dell Foundation: 100 computers, 5 NGOs
Current Project Status
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Communication sent to 80+ organisations
•
35 Interviews completed
•
30 organisations likely to participate in 2012
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Gauteng, W Cape, KZN - initial focus
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E Cape, Free State – next priority
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Other provinces to follow
MISSION
To change and develop the minds, hearts
and spirits of people for life success.
World Changers Academy (WCA) offers
two main types of programmes:
Life Skills – Focusing on
“changing the world within”
Leadership Skills –
Focusing on “changing the
world around us”
Note: Both courses have element of each
form of “change”, but life skills focuses on
internal change, while the leadership course
focuses on change externally.
TARGET GROUPS
•Young Adults/Unemployed
•Life Skills - 4 Week courses run in
local communities from 9-1pm daily
•Leadership Courses- 11 Weeks, (5
weeks residential, 6 weeks outreach,
often assisting with life skills)
•High School Students
•Life Skills – 1 hour session per week
for school year (about 30 sessions)
•Leadership – 7 days (residential)
•Workers
•Life Skills - 12 Week course for
employees, run 1-2 hours per week at
the place of work, with a 2 day
residential programme at beginning
an end of the course
•Leadership Courses - 2 day, 5 day,
7 day (flexible) (residential)
In the Future…
•Organisational Leaders
•Tertiary Students
•Prisoners
TWO MAIN APPROACHES TO
IMPACTING OUR STUDENTS:
Education – Giving people
skills and knowledge on various
topics. (People who have certain
skills and knowledge pass these on
to students, who generally don’t
have them.)
Impartation – Passing on one’s
passion, values, heart and attitudes
to others. (This goes beyond just
learning a skill or gaining
knowledge, but involves “catching”
the heart of what the facilitator /
speaker shares)
WCA’s Model
EXIT
STRATEGY
FOLLOW-UP
PROGRAM
(Volunteer,
study,
employment,
job creation
opportunities)
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LIFE SKILLS STUDENTS
100% (e.g. 300 from 10 courses)
Courses run in local communities where people live
LEADERSHIP STUDENTS
10% (e.g. 30 from 300)
Courses run at WCA’s residential leadership centre
Course includes practical (outreach) back in home
communities where students live (mostly involves assisting
running further life skills courses).
VOLUNTEER
STAFF
1-2
year
s
1% (e.g. 3
from 300)
MANAGEMENT
0.3%
(1)
X
Year
s
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The lower the layer, the
higher the preference given
in follow-up opportunities
(mostly due to ability to
give better references as
there is a stronger
relationship built)
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