Salesian Annual Report 2018

Job placement services
The YES programme offered students assistance with job placement services once they had successfully completed their
vocational courses. The Job Placement Officer focused on building and maintaining partnerships with a range of diverse
employers in the greater Cape Town area to help our students find gainful employment. Our approach to sustainable
employment is outlined in the diagram below.
Youth could contact SIYP if they required employment advice or if their work contract was due to expire. Of the 204
graduates placed into employment over the reporting period, 13% of employers reported positive workplace behaviours.
Follow-up with the employers to collect feedback was not in effect due to the vacant Job Placement Officer post. Once this
position was filled in May 2018, SIYP successfully built and maintained approximately 48 strategic partnerships within various
sectors such as: construction, retail, hospitality, customer service, HR, clothing and textiles, as well as local government
institutions.
Job placement 2018:
SALESIAN INSTITUTE YOUTH PROJECTS ANNUAL REPORT 2018
PROGRAMMES
PLACED IN
EMPLOYMENT /
FURTHER STUDIES
PERCENTAGE
ACHIEVED
Bricklaying
& Plastering
11
44%
Computer
Literacy & Office
Management
78
55%
Food
Preparation
43
90%
PC Repairs
& Mobile App
Development
42
49%
Sewing
30
73%
TOTAL
204
TOTAL
62%
For the reporting period, the job placement rate averaged out at 60%. Of the 341 youth trained, 204 of them were placed
into jobs or learnerships. A further 23 participants were continuing their education. However, this is not a true reflection of
job placement as the placement rate will continue to increase into 2019. Employment can take anywhere up to 12 months
after completion of a course. These figures evolve daily and are continuously updated as students are employed.
Post-placement follow-up and support were provided up to nine months after graduation.
Success
Story
Yoneia Macquaza
Making her building dreams
come true
Yoneia is a 21-year-old woman. As
a child growing up in the Eastern
Cape, she was intrigued by building
things and playing with mortar. She
wanted to become a builder. There
was no doubt in her mind what she
wanted to do.
In 2018, Yoneia came across a
Facebook post by the Salesian
Institute Youth Projects (SIYP) and
discovered that they offered a
three-month Bricklaying & Plastering
course. This course formed part
of an offering of five programmes
offered by the Salesians through
their YES (Youth Employment Skills
Programme). She found out where
the Salesian Institute was in Cape
Town by using the information
provided on their website.
In May 2018 Yoneia came to
the Salesian Institute and chose
from the various courses on offer
– not surprisingly, she chose the
Bricklaying & Plastering course.
“I enjoyed it so much and the guys
in my group accepted me as part
of the team”, she said. Yoneia even
came to assist her course facilitator,
Mr. Alec, to set up and prepare for
the new intake last year.
She proudly told us how her
mother, who works in Khayelitsha,
saw that a local school was
extending their school buildings.
Yonea’s mother bravely approached
the foreman at the school and
handed him her daughter’s CV and
certificate of course completion.
“He offered me a job! My family is
so proud of me and I am enjoying
this job very much.” Yoneia said with
a big smile. “One day I will build my
own house...”
The SIYP assisted youth at risk by
providing them with much-needed
vocational skills training and job
placement assistance. Yoneia, who
originally did not have an idea of
how she could realise her dreams of
becoming a builder, has now taken
her first step towards doing so.
In the process, she has improved
both her financial independence
and her future. •
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