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Offering practitioners the tools, resources and conversations necessary to advance and scale their work-readiness interventions. It is a community supported by an online platform designed to share global best-practices and emerging solutions with like-minded practical visionaries.
Course Outline
A practical short course to analyse, improve and scale your youth employability programme using global research in best practices.
Course Format
Customisable, self-directed learning journey supported by specialist mentors, extensive online resource library and community of practice.
Course Duration
Approximately three months.
This duration will depend on the complexity of your challenge and will be determined by what you want to achieve.
Course Benefits
The main aim of WorkFit Campus is to add value to you and your organisation, by:
- Improving your youth work placement rates
- Improving your programme success rates
- Optimising your programme systems and processes to reduce costs
- Helping you access new partnerships
- Providing you with access to industry experts to discover and develop effective practices for your youth employability programmes
- Helping you stay up-to-date with the accelerated pace of developments
- Growing your stakeholder network
- Recognising the successes you have achieved
Course Structure
- Introduction to Youth Unemployment and Demand-Driven Training
- The Skills Value Chain for Employability
- The Role-players
- Diagnostic Assessment of your Skills Value Chain
- Solving Programme Challenges
Course Outcomes
Understanding local and international approaches to addressing youth employability
- Understanding the global context
- Understanding the local context
Understanding Demand Driven Training
- Understanding the spectrum of Demand Driven Training
- Understanding the Youth Employability Value Chain
Describing a specific youth employability programme
- Applying youth employment models and terminology to your programme
- Applying theories of change and business models to a programme
Analysing the selected programme
- Identifying gaps and opportunities in the programme
- Identifying improvements in the selected programme
- Applying tools and techniques for analysing programmes
Designing and planning the improvement process for the selected programme
- Applying tools techniques for designing improvement programmes
Implementing the improvement process for the selected programme
- Applying tools and techniques for implementing programmes
Monitoring and Evaluating the improvement process for the selected programme
- Applying tools techniques for monitoring evaluating programmes
Target Audience
BBBEE Managers
Career Guidance Practitioners
CSI/CSR/CSV Managers
Human Resources
Partnership Managers
Project Manager
Researchers
Skills Development Facilitators
SSS practitioners
Training Managers
Bursary Managers
Community/Employer liaison
Fundraisers
Lecturer
Policy Makers
Recruitment Practitioners
SETA staff
Skills Development Providers
Training Consultants
WIL Co-Ordinators
Course Requirements
You are required to have experience of (or be involved in some aspect of) a youth employability programme.