Software companies and a specialist placement organisation based in Denmark are pioneering a new approach to recruiting people with autism.
Social media adds a new dimension to the recruitment process, allowing companies to showcase themselves, and helping them to pick suitable candidates.
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/ 6 September 2013
Positioning the actual destination of a company as a drawcard may be the new way to attract the attention of recruits.
Young people need access to services, irrespective of where they are from, forum hears.
Amid the struggling manufacturing sector one business owner is standing out.
Worker-run clothing factories have the potential to compete with regular companies.
greenABLE is the winner of the Non-Profit Organisations Award, sponsored by Nedbank.
Unemployment has been up by 95 000 in April and, if the trend continues, an unenviable milestone will be reached by Christmas.
Premier Nomvula Mokonyane has pledged the Gauteng government will offer 300 unemployed graduates work experience in its offices.
The national treasury has denied the government’s Jobs Fund had created only 745 jobs, at a cost of R4-million each.
South Africa’s unemployment rate rose in the third quarter, with more than one in four out of work.
With the publication of the Democratic Alliance’s growth and jobs plan, the recalibration of SA politics continues apace, writes Richard Calland.
Unlike the ANC, the Democratic Alliance’s jobs and growth plan is a unified vision offered with one voice, writes Lynley Donnelly.
The latest Adcorp figures shows job losses in June have amounted to 31 781, bringing the total job losses for the past two months to 85 520.
Employment in South Africa’s formal sector has edged up 0.1% in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the previous quarter, says Stats SA.
A global wage agreement and a healthy, educated workforce are necessary to produce long-lasting jobs, writes Doron Isaacs and Ilan Strauss.
Although opposition parties criticised President Jacob Zuma’s acceptance of education and employment statistics, they were less scathing this year.
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/ 24 November 2011
The ANC is seeking ways to finance efforts to boost jobs in the agriculture and mining sectors, which could include pension funds buying more bonds.
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/ 10 November 2011
An Adcorp index has shown while no significant changes in jobs were seen for October, SA’s labour productivity fell to its lowest level in 40 years.
Swaziland’s King Mswati III has called for his male subjects to get circumcised as he endorsed a campaign aimed at tackling the world’s highest HIV.
Malusi Gigaba has said efficient state-owned enterprises must be efficient to create jobs and unlock growth in South Africa.
Almost one-in-four South Africans use social media as a tool to look for work, but are concerned about the potential career fallout from personal cont
Job ads put government in the top 30 spenders.
Employment grew at its highest level in two years in March, although many of the jobs created are temporary, according to figures released on Monday.
Online recruitment unit CareerJunction said on Wednesday that its online labour supply and demand index continued to drop in February.
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/ 22 February 2011
Research charging that coloureds in the Western Cape and Indians in KwaZulu-Natal stood to lose thousands of jobs was rejected by the ANC on Tuesday.
As President Jacob Zuma readies for his third State of the Nation address, there is no shortage of advice as to what he should say.
Cosatu is to seek clarification from the ANC on reports that it was backtracking on its stated intention to create "decent work".
The government says it intends to create five million jobs over the next decade with a "New Growth Path" plan.
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/ 27 October 2009
Government is considering establishing a fund to support business, aimed at increasing employment.
South Africa will have to wait for an increase in job creation, because of the economic situation, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
The demand for professionals in key African countries has increased in spite of general trends, said Jack Hammer of Executive Headhunters on Monday.