Virtual / Simulated Training
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Introduction
Graduates often take up
employment but do not make it due to inadequate
skills/experience. We have
created an innovative concept of fast tracking graduates
to the point that they have actual work
experience. This we call Virtual /
Simulated Training. The Virtual / Simulated
Training is part of all our
work-readiness programs.The program addresses this very real weakness and gives our graduates the confidence and support together with the space to make mistakes with real information. This is a luxury that you cannot afford in the pressured office and market environment.
Our graduates are more valuable to their employers than those selected from traditional sources, as more time is spent on training that covers productive, income earning activities.
This results in the firms being able to get productive work done by these graduates straight away.
Innovation
This innovation was a first in this field as far
as we know. We are not aware of any other program of this nature.
NASA and the pilot training field have simulation
training but there was no such training in the corporate environment.We started the Virtual / Simulated Training for our accounting program early in 2007, called the Virtual Office. In 2009 we implemented this for our banking program, called the Virtual Bank. These are now slick well-functioning programs.
Our graduates who complete this training are well ahead of graduates directly out of universities as attested to by our clients.
All the people who have been toured through our facilities have unequivocally endorsed and praised the program and process. Most firms who have come through to see the Virtual / Simulated Training are taking graduates now or booking them to start once they are complete. There is a buzz of excitement about our achievements.
The Method
The
VO provides each trainee with source documents for real businesses, whose
books have already been done. The trainees use the check sheet (click
to view) to guide themselves through each step of the
process. Each business is dealt with one at a time, VAT period by VAT
period. Books are coded and processed and VAT returns completed per period.
The checksheet shows the progressive process. Source materials for the next
task are fed to the trainees only when they have completed the current task
fully.The last two columns of the checksheet show where the trainee signs off to indicate they have completed the task. The monitor, an experienced practicing accountant, then checks the work and if found to be correct, signs off in the last column.
This process continues until all pages of the checksheet are completed and all businesses have trial balances for the year in question.
Competence
SAIPA
have evaluated our program and, besides accrediting the program, have agreed
to assess each VO trainee to establish their competence level with the view
to offering a reduction to the three year learnership through RPL
(Recognition of Prior Learning).We have delivered our work-readiness program since 2003 and at the end of this year we will have completed over 2500 trainees. 90% of them have been offered learnerships, most in the FASSET sector. The advent of the VO has created a new level of competence in each of our trainees and we now offer them to you.
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