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Candidates then wait to be called for an interview when one of the businesses Harambee partners with - from Nando's restaurants to Microsoft and Standard Bank - come looking for chicken-grillers or a front-desk clerk, Nke said. Matches depend not just on an applicant's aptitude and skills but how far they live from the job.
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In some cases, transport costs will put a worker into debt, he added. Employers pay a share of Harambee's spending to prepare a candidate if they hire one.
A big pool of well-coached applicants has helped them increase the diversity of their workforce and find staff who stick around, they say. Cathy Kalamaras, managing executive for people at Webhelp SA, the Johannesburg call centre where Ngwato works, said on average more than 60 percent of call-centre staff quit before two years.
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Some are the main breadwinners of the family," she said. Tailored training also means Webhelp hires one in two Harambee applicants interviewed, compared to one in six generally, Kalamaras said. That brings major cost and time savings - one reason the company has expanded from workers five years ago to 4, today, she said. Oratile Phekoayane, 29, a Webhelp worker hired via Harambee, said she previously had no idea call-centre jobs even existed.
And before Harambee's training, she was nervous in interviews, she said, fiddling and not making eye contact. Efforts to bootstrap more young people into jobs have gotten a boost from South Africa's new president, Cyril Ramaphosa. The businessman has pushed sometimes reluctant companies to put 1. The Youth Employment Service scheme aims to give a million jobless young people work experience over the next three years. Nke said this will likely increase demand for job-matching efforts like Harambee, which operates in Cape Town and Durban as well as Johannesburg, and receives much of its funding from businesses and international donors.
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Ngwato, meanwhile, said the skills he learned at Harambee and at work are filtering back into his township neighbourhood. He now advises his peers on how to find work, and has started a soccer team which leads to chances to talk with other young people. How did you do that? This article is published in collaboration with Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.
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We need your answers to 6 of the most important questions on our shared future. More on the agenda. Read more about this project. Explore the latest strategic trends, research and analysis. A few years ago, Thabo Ngwato's job prospects looked bleak.