NewG App

Description

A ground breaking innovation and the first of its kind in South Africa, the New G app will revolutionize the job placement industry in South Africa. This much need-ed change is brought about by the rise in the unemployment rate of our youth, with a particular focus on college and university graduates.

While strides are being made to curb unemployment, many have sought to take ad-vantage of the situation and invented job placement sites with falsified information, thus breeding fraud, extortion, and in extreme cases, lives were lost due to appli-cations using bogus websites to apply for placements. It is this injustice that created a need for a legitimate app where employers will be screened before their vacancies are posted, applicants' qualifications verified, and personalized job placements se-cured through the App.

This will not only cut costs for employers, but will ensure maximum efficiency and increase the likelihood of employers attracting the most appropriate appli-cants.Graduates will also receive vacancies most appropriate to their qualifications, this reducing the frustration of filtering through sites and pages looking for their ca-reer field of choice.

Problem Identification : Graduates

"Young people who are unable to find work in their first year after school earn 21 percent less over the course of their lifetime than peers who get jobs in that first year.”-This Is Africa Online

• Unemployment rate currently sits at 27.7%, over 55 percent of those unem-ployed are the youth
• Research reveals that labour demand is shifting towards higher skilled work-ers
• Institutions of higher learning are turning more graduates year on year, how-ever graduate unemployment continues to rise with the increasing unemployment rate.
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• Reports indicate that the South African economy continues to experience a skills shortage
• Graduates need to find work
• Graduates need to know of existing employment opportunities

Problem Identification : Employer

• Employers need skilled workers to include into the workforce
• Employers do not want to go through the tedious process of sifting through employment applications of candidates who do not meet the minimum basic qualifications and requirements.
• Employers need an effective way of simplifying the recruitment process with-out the bureaucracy of going through recruitment agents
• Employers need to identify qualified graduates to fill vacant positions
• Skills mismatches are the second largest driver of youth unemployment in Afri-ca,(Dalberg Global Youth Unemployment)
• Employers require a better sense of available talent to help them identify po-tential employees more efficiently


The New G App solution: Graduates

• Countries with the lowest youth unemployment rates are argued to have a closer relationship between education and work
• Easy to use Application which is able to link the graduate to existing sector specific employment opportunities
• A tool which allows the student to identify vacation work as well as internship opportunities
• Consistent on the go information about hiring sectors of industry, available on any android powered device.
• Online platforms allow young job seekers to broaden their networks

The New G App solution : Employers

• Global trends reveal that labour demands are towards candidates with softer skills with certifications to back up the skills
• Employers need a way to assess quality of skilled labourers, the New G App provides a platform from where to select the pool of appropriate candidates
• Employer may not be looking to hire candidates as yet, but willing to give in-ternship and apprenticeship opportunities, HIRE-ME App is a platform which ex-poses the employer to that ecosystem
• The HIRE-ME App reduces high staff turnover as it is able to identify quali-fied candidates which may be better suited for a particular job