Employers and job-seekers heed the call to reduce joblessness during the Department of Labour’s work-seeker registration drive
Scores of work seekers and employers attended the Department of Labour’s four-day long series of work seeker registration drives and employer advocacy campaigns in the northern part of the Free State province.
This series of events, aimed at cementing ties between the Department and employers, as well as registering work seekers on the system called Employment Services of South Africa (ESSA), yielded positive results as many work-seekers headed the call to register their CVs on the Labour Department’s (DoL) database. Similarly, a number of employers also supported this innovative system and indicated that they would consider it for future recruitment of workers.
Speaking to employers during the local advocacy campaign in Kroonstad, Mapula Mamburu, DoL’s Assistant Director for Public Employment Services, said: “we are humbly appealing to all employers present here today to join hands with us in trying to remedy this unbecoming scourge of joblessness. We need your support as much as you need ours, thus we request of you to furnish us with your job opportunities.”
The work seeker registration campaign was well supported by communities as no less than 250 work seekers were registered on ESSA, many of them being young people.
Samuel Segoto and Ntombezotwa Nteso, both from Kwakwatsi, Koppies, unanimously expressed their happiness with ESSA system. The 23 year old Segoto said, “This is my very first attempt to try and get a job, we are very grateful for what the Department is doing. With the high rate of unemployment the country continues to experience, initiatives such as this are absolutely necessary to change the status quo for the better.”
Public Employment Services (PES) provides the employment services free of charge to members of the public and employers alike.
Coupled with the registration drive was a career exhibition targeting the unemployed as well as a local advocacy campaign for employers. The advocacy campaign provided employers and other key stakeholders with a platform to interact and deliberate upon the services of the Department of Labour; those offered by the Public Employment Services unit in particular.
The event paid special attention on finding ways to facilitate the relationship between work-seekers and various companies with job opportunities. This four-day event also focused on the following:
- Employment Counseling
- Career Information
- Employment Services (Recruitment, Selection & Placement)
- Marketing Public Employment Services to Employers and
- Registration of work-seekers
This series of events took place as follows:
- 27 October 2015, Steynsrus, Community outreach (PES Bus) Matlwangtlwang Community Hall
- 28 October 2015, Kroonstad, main event (Career exhibition & Employer Campaign), Constantia Hall (Maokeng)
- 29 October 2015, Koppies Community outreach (PES Bus) Kwakwatsi Hall
- 30 October 2015, Viljoenskroon, Community outreach (PES Bus) Tshepahalo Community Hall
Enquiries:
Josial Ramokoena
Cell: 083 292 4018
E-mail: josial.ramokoena@labour.gov.za
