Work-Readiness Program Process

There are 3 very exact and defined steps to the success of our programs; Selection, Training & Placement

Selection

Selection is done to establish the applicants’ suitability for the profession including motivation and organizational sense. The latter is critical to a graduate making it in the detailed environment of the profession.

Each 6-month period, GTCSS finds graduates for its various work-readiness programs.

A typical intake is as follows:

·        Ads placed in suitable media including mining databases and use of word-of-mouth plus PR usage

·   3500 telephone responses looking for graduates with degrees or diplomas with accounting or financial majors screens

·   2500 appointments made to see graduates, by GTCSS staff

·   1750 graduates assessed for suitability, by GTCSS staff

·   500 interviews conducted by GTCSS staff

·   250 per 6-month period selected onto the programs, by GTCSS staff

·   Selection tools include CV, Performance Check, Literacy, Numeracy, Accounting skill, organizational sense, interviews themselves.

Pre-selected graduates are a huge benefit to those firms taking on our graduates as this would be a very expensive and time-consuming action for a firm to embark upon by itself.

Training

Depending on the program the training is conducted over a 3 to 5-month period in one half of the year and repeated with the second group in the second half of the year.

The training covers researched areas that actually prepare our graduates for the environment they are going to work in. Subjects covered are basic skills that break down ‘learning for exams’ and build skills in learning for actual work environment application. Actual communication skills are taught with the accent on operating skill as opposed to technical skill.

For all our programs we have developed a virtual office environment where the trainees get to actual work in a real company environment.

For the Bonani Program there is an accounting virtual office where the basic accounting functions are brushed up with graduates taking a set of transactions through a manual process and later repeating this exercise on Excel and then finally on Pastel

For the Virtual Bank Program similar virtual training occurs relating to the banking environment.

The training regime includes a set of courses on rules of professional conduct, full office orientation (which adds to filing skills), work-place manners, etiquette, work habits, performance techniques and much more.

Read more about the innovation of our Virtual / Simulated Training

Placement

Once the training in completed we then place the graduates into relevant employment.

On the Bonani Program the graduates are offered to practices on a one-month free ‘internship’ to see if the person is suitable for the practice in question. Thereafter the practice is encouraged, but not obliged, to employ the graduate on a Fasset Learnership.

The primary reason that firms continue to use our services and take on our graduates is the quality of our trainees. On the Bonani Program we place, on average, 80% of our trainees onto 3-year Learnerships and a further 10% into positions in commerce and industry. For various life-related reasons the balance of 10% do not make it through the final placement process.

A 90% success rate is nevertheless unheard of and a strong recommendation of our process and methodology.