Have a matric, now what?

While we wait for the outcome of the NEC vote later today, life in South Africa carries on uninterrupted. For those young people who wrote matric this year – and are also waiting for their outcome – it’s an uncertain time too.

Why not provide them with some insights into finding work in 2018 by chatting to one of the experts from Harambee during this waiting period or when the results are released in early January?

Currently 46% of matriculants are unemployed. What does this mean for the close-to 800,000 young people who wrote matric in 2017?

Unfortunately, at 46%, the youth unemployment rate is double that of adults. While youth in general struggle to find their first job because of a high premium on work experience and other challenges like high transport costs and poor social networks, those who battle most are matriculants from township or disadvantaged schools.

Working with both matriculants and tertiary graduates, Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator (Harambee), a not-for-profit social enterprise, works to tackle youth unemployment and has successfully helped over 45,000 first-time work-seekers, who would otherwise have been locked out of the formal economy, find employment. Since inception in 2011, Harambee has established a proven track record of connecting more than 400 employers looking for entry-level talent to young, high-potential matriculants. Harambee has a screening and assessment methodology that scientifically matches candidates to suitable work opportunities in companies across the retail, hospitality, financial services, insurance, business process outsourcing, technical and industrial sectors.

When the 2017 matric results are released during the first week of January 2018, Harambee’s experts will be available nationally to discuss “you have a matric, now what?” on the day or anytime thereafter.

With 1.1 million young people entering the job market annually – either through education or migration – you would be offering great value to your audience by providing insights about how young matriculants can go about finding work, preparing for work, or even applying to Harambee to potentially become part of their work-readiness bridging programmes, please contact one of our regional representatives who can talk about these and many other factors that affect young people in being able to get long-term, real work in South Africa.

Please feel free to contact their experts directly.

Nationwide: Mosuoe Sekonyela 081 010 9433, mosuoe@harambee.co.za

Nationwide: Robyn Folkard 082 866 5262, robyn@harambee.co.za

Nationwide: Lee-Ann Shepherd 076 796 5569, lee-ann@harambee.co.za