Jobs For South African Youth's

According to a data from Statistics South Africa the rate of unemployment in South Africa is 25.6%, which is quarter than the economically active participants in our country. The youth rate lies in between 45% to 60% depending on the source consulted.  

Considerably lower skills and lack of opportunities are highly affecting our youth people. Important heads says that starting or running a business with an considerable initiative is a possible way of facing this situation among the youth’s. But before moving further with this initiative we need to think deeply regarding the reality as there are lesser chances of success.

However the most important need in this business start up is to have the working knowledge and experience in a particular area in which he/she wants to start the project and deal further. Currently our youth is lacking the proper experience required to start a business, they often lack the proper organisations for secure deals and if they do so, they fail in delivering according to the contract.

In a business deal at every step there are one or the other structural issues. We need to forget the American business scenario with numerous stories of the youth’s who turned from rags to riches by starting companies which turned them into paper billionaires.

As Africans, we always dream of having some hero or some legendary person like a president, a leader etc. who will come and make everything perfect. This thinking is truly dream as no one will come and offer us some help in our economic crisis.

The South African youth disrupt and damaged by the system itself that is supposed to help it. To succeed in a business at least you need to maintain a 75% average.

Proper efforts must be made to ensure that the people are sufficiently skilled. The youth’s are needed

to be guided and instructed properly from a senior who has already passed from this situation.

Since last 10 years I am having a great pleasure of working with some of the fresher graduates and unemployed youths I ever met at an age of 28, means I am not much older than them. These youths taught me great things on humbleness and opened my eyes for the things which are possible. We had a dream of changing the world when we started this business “Developer Factory” in November 2011. Though we have not yet fulfilled our dream but we are daily changing the world systematically. We are currently having 60 youngsters undergoing the skills enhancement program.  

As a part of our process at the “Developer Factory” we have successfully developed important technical and soft skills in these unemployed youths.

We have achieved a placement at a rate of 85% along with surety that each youth is able to enter the career within the software development arena. One day each youth will start their own business with an ability to generate quality jobs.  

We always aimed of making South Africa competitive on international level by strengthening the software development skills which will lead the youths to play an important role in turning medium to large companies into innovative business with good people working hand in hand to grow the economy of the nation.

In 2014 we expect to have 100 unemployed youths who desire to join the IT space to undergo our program and get the benefits of the opportunities available.