Transcript Scarce and Top Up Skills

Scarce and Top Up skills
Presented by: Wilson Sangweni and Kabelo Masilo
Skills Development & Administration Department
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Scarce and Top Up Skills
Definitions:
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Top up Skills refer to skills that are required by employed
people who could not perform at the required level of
competence because of skills gaps.
Scarce Skills refer to occupations that have a current or
anticipated shortage of qualified and experienced people.
Scarce Skills are
absolute scarcity.
further
divided
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relative
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Scarce and Top Up Skills
Relative Scarcity
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This happens when required people are available somewhere
in the country to fill the skills shortage, but do not meet other
employment criteria such as:
 Geographic location - experienced mostly in rural areas because
many qualified people are not willing to relocate to.
 Equity criteria - people are available but do not meet equity
criteria.
 High level work experience - qualified people exist but do not
have high level of previous experience needed.
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Scarce Skills
Absolute scarcity
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This happens when there are no people to meet skills
shortage because of the following reasons:
 It is a new occupation and training providers have not yet
developed a learning programme for it.
 Learning programmes do exist for skills shortage but not
enough learners have enrolled for it.
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Scarce Skills
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The scarce and top up skills are derived from WSPs submitted
by organizations.
Scarce skills do not reflect individual organisation’s skills
needs, but does list the sectoral skills needs
aggregated from all WSP’s.
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Scarce Skills
OFO Code
Occupation
Sub-sector
441301
Detectives
Policing
442201
Security Guards
Security
442101
Prison Officer
Corrections
452301/
452499
Divers/Rescue/
Instructors
Defence
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Scarce Skills
OFO Code
Occupation
Sub-sector
271311
Special Attorneys
Legal
271311
Candidate Attorneys
Legal
272402
Court Interpreters
Legal
272501
Social Workers
Corrections
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Top up Skills
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Attorneys
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Business management
Legislative drafting
Conflict resolution
Foreign languages
Computer skills
Conveyancing
Court procedures
New areas of practice i.e.
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Environmental Law
Maritime law
Company law
Financial Intelligence
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Top up Skills
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Security
Personnel
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Fire Arm Control Act
Private investigation
CCTV
Crowd control
VIP protection
Advance driving skills
Maritime security
Criminal law
Criminal justice system
Electronic security systems
Alarm technicians
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Contact details
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Find more detail in the SDF Guide
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Contact details:
 Call centre: 086 110 2477
 Website: www.sasseta.org.za
 Fax no: 011 805 6630
 Email: [email protected]
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