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Tracking Artisan Progression: Insights from National Skills Conference 2017

This conference highlighted the significance of Graduate Destination Surveys in tracking newly qualified artisans, addressing issues in artisan development, and matching industry needs. Insights from the conference emphasized the importance of regular data collection, consolidation, and analysis to inform policy decisions. The event shed light on challenges such as weak administration in SETAs and a lack of capacity at NADSC, stressing the need for ongoing support. The focus was on improving systems to track and trace artisan learners from registration to employment, enabling a better understanding of employment trends and typical trajectories for newly certified artisans in the labor market.

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Tracking Artisan Progression: Insights from National Skills Conference 2017

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  1. Tracking of Newly Qualified Artisans National Skills Conference 2017 23 -24 March 2017

  2. Introduction • Graduate destination surveys (GDS) used to track graduates into the labour market • Evidence based planning and policy development • Not many GDS conducted in South Africa and developing countries

  3. Role of NADSC • Collect, collate, validate and report Artisan data from all 16 SETA’s and Indlela, for record keeping and database management • Recording and reporting on all artisan related data to remove the first HRDC artisan development blockage • Track and trace artisan learners from registration, certification and employment • Matching of supply and demand of artisan learners to industry needs • Weak admin in SETAS, lack of capacity at NADSC

  4. SSACI support to NADSC • Tracking the progression through their training and development programmes to determine typical rates of progress within different programmes and identify blockages, detours and loops within those programmes. • Tracer study of newly-certified artisans, to establish their whereabouts in the labour market and typical employment trajectories. • Analysis of data on the NADSC system to identify and explore patterns and trends in artisan development and employment.

  5. Sample and Methodology • Completed apprenticeship between April 2011-March 2015 • SETAs and INDLELA • Sample of 4151 • Telephonic interviews conducted at NADSC as per script • 1628 individuals interviewed (1023 INDLELA) • High number of voicemail/wrong number

  6. Biographical Information • 87% male, 13% female • 76% black, 18% white • 11% with disability • 50% from Gauteng with rest from other provinces • 84% from the top 15 trades • Average age of 21 when they start apprenticeship • Around 50% pass the trade test first time

  7. Employment status

  8. Employed by Company • 40% work at same company where they did their apprenticeship • Main reasons for moving- company did not offer a job; got better paying job • How did they go about finding a job:

  9. Employed by Company cont. • 76% hold a permanent contract • Employer type:

  10. Gross Earnings/month

  11. Unemployed

  12. Self- Employed • 102 self employed; 24 interviewed further • Why self-employment:

  13. Capital Amount

  14. Difficulties of running a Business

  15. No of people Employed

  16. Gross Monthly Income

  17. Lessons Learnt

  18. Conclusion • Regular GDS important in understanding employment trends for policy making decisions • Systems, capacity and funding for collection, consolidation and analysis of data is required.

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