The Programme
A twelve-month working interview.
An accredited learnership, fully managed by us — with candidates who arrive already proven, and a first claim for you on everyone it produces.
What it is
Accredited training, a paid placement, and someone else doing the admin.
A registered qualification
Training sits on a registered QCTO occupational qualification, delivered by an accredited skills development provider — so it counts where it needs to count.
Learning inside real work
Classroom learning paired with a paid workplace placement in your business, so capability is built where it will actually be used.
End to end, by us
Vetting, procurement, agreements, performance management, monthly reporting and every compliance document. Your team sets the profile and runs payroll.
First right of refusal
Three months before the end you choose who to interview, with 30 days to opt in. Nobody you want is placed elsewhere.
Step by step
From first conversation to first hire.
Nothing here is a surprise later. This is the whole sequence, including the points where the decision is yours.
Do your due diligence
Before anything is signed, inspect our model for yourself — book a tour of our development offices in Sandton City and meet the people running it.
The agreement
We agree to move forward and you decide your scale. We recommend a small proof of concept — 2 to 10 learnership packages. Paperwork is completed.
Invoice and procurement
Invoices are issued, and learner procurement begins within five days of payment received.
Reporting from day one
Monthly reports and full compliance documentation — B-BBEE, CSI, ETI, SARS and Employment Equity — from the start, not assembled in a panic at year end.
Learners vetted
Candidates are vetted against the profile you set and procured for your programme.
Agreements signed
Learnership agreements are ready within 30 days of project start. You have 10 days to sign.
The learnership begins
Once all agreements are signed, training and the workplace placement commence.
Fully managed throughout
We run the learnership end-to-end, with monthly reports and compliance documents issued as they occur — including performance management and, where needed, replacement.
First right of refusal
Three months before the end, you choose who to interview for employment. You have 30 days to opt in.
Employment and onboarding
At close, your chosen graduates come across to you for contracting and onboarding — people you have already worked with for a year.
Beyond your company
Other graduates join partner employers — or, for sales talent, an incubation programme that can offer your company leads, sales support or a negotiated partnership, at your discretion.
Why This Works
It doesn't start with a classroom. It starts with service.
We partner with strong volunteer organisations that develop life skills and values, mobilising young people who make real social impact — purely from the heart, with no compensation.
That is the mindset shift: from idle entitlement to self-driven social impact. Volunteers move from demanding solutions to becoming the solution. Only the top performers are talent-scouted into this next step, and our industry partners provide the long-term career opportunity that follows. This programme rewards those who are deserving on measurable, valuable performance.
hours of volunteer social-impact work, minimum, in areas of real need — before anyone is invited in.
What those hours actually look like
This is the work they did before you ever met them.
Not a certificate. Not a workshop. Hundreds of hours of showing up for people who could not pay them — which is the closest thing to a reference that exists.
Learner support
Working directly with students to help them succeed at school, where falling behind quietly decides the rest of a life.
Conflict resolution
Work that can literally save lives — defusing violence, helping end gender-based violence, and mending relationships and families.
Substance recovery support
Helping people coping with substance and alcohol abuse reach the point where they decide, for themselves, to rehabilitate.
Youth mobilisation
Bringing other young people into major volunteer programmes that build confidence, resilience and a reason to keep going.
Disaster response
Joining local and national disaster efforts to help repair and rebuild — the kind of work that shows exactly who someone is under pressure.
Community resilience
Helping people be stronger and succeed rather than give up, in a world that has become steadily more difficult to survive in.
“A Volunteer Minister does not shut his eyes to the pain, evil and injustice of existence. Rather, he is trained to handle these things and help others achieve relief from them and new personal strength as well.”
The mandate these candidates have already taken on themselves.
Stronger together is not a slogan. It is a requirement for prosperity.Growing people, building communities
Beyond your scorecard
Significant socio-economic impact, either way.
You can build a business development pipeline for your business, for your industry, or for the benefit of the country — while significantly strengthening the socio-economic fabric of our communities.
Partner with us to build genuine social impact and genuine prosperity. The two have never actually been in conflict.
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Start with a tour and a presentation. Up to 77% of the cost of building your sales force can be covered by tax incentives — we'll show your team exactly how.