The Learning Resource: The Architect

The Learning Resource: The Architect

Plan, design, create and shape the skyline of tomorrow, today. An architect is defined as a person who can design buildings. They also supervise their construction, manage teams of varied sizes, and play a vital role in urban and rural developments. It’s a rich and...

The Learning Resource: The Software Developer

This is one job that will put you in high demand no matter where you live, or want to live, in the world. If you were a trained software developer right now, in South Africa, you’d find your job prospects to be more than a little awesome. In fact, you’d probably be...

Women’s award for Hands on Treatment

South Africa’s Martina Laurie has been named as CEO Africa’s Most Influential Women in Business and Government for her 13 years of work dedicated to the empowerment of urban black women through skills transfer and employment.Laurie is the CEO of Hands On Treatment, a...

No skills, but are there jobs anyway?

South Africa needs more than 49 000 scalable SMEs, growing at a rate of 20% per annum, to create 11-million jobs by 2030 and meet the National Development Plan (NDP) target. This is according to Sean Jones, a co-founder and director of Artisan Training Institute...

Finance professionals are hard to find

Over the past nine years, accounting and finance positions have been among the most difficult for South African companies to fill. This is one of the findings form an analysis of data from Manpower South Africa’s annual Talent Shortage Survey (TSS) since its inception...