Eskom launches online tool for "crowdsourcing" engineers

[Jan]

Eskom launches online database for skilled experts who can help fight load-shedding

Eskom officially launched a skills crowdsourcing platform on its website on Tuesday, calling on qualified and experienced power generation individuals to make themselves available to help rebuild the organisation's skills.

The launch follows Eskom's call for submissions from suitable candidates who wanted to help the utility resolve its "urgent business needs", including addressing operational deficiencies that have exacerbated load-shedding.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Getting the skills is one thing. Getting rid of the bloat is another. Until they do, they'll forever be a financial burden...

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

Eskom launches online tool for "crowdsourcing" engineers​

As opposed to this offline tool

 

[mpdjhb]

Immediately ask for race, gender, disability statuses.
Priorities!

 

[Username:]

No thank you

 

[borro]

 

[Temujin]

I was going to identify as some sort of engineer or techie to work on the nuclear stuffs, but seeing as there are only 2 genders to select from on the site, they are clearly transphobes... their lose

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

No thank you

Business as usual....

 

[_TrXtR_]

Yeah so a white skilled person joins the company to help them but has no job security anyways?
Nah. F these okes. They wanted to be racist. Let them suffer the concenquences of their own people

 

[Kosmik]

Love how they make up new terminology.

Crowdsourcing differs from recruitment in that it is triggered by specific technical challenges, is not linked to job adverts and it targets a talent pool that consists of specific skills

 

[TelkomUseless]

Getting the skills is one thing. Getting rid of the bloat is another. Until they do, they'll forever be a financial burden...

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

No thank you

Race is even sorted by order of preference...

 

[j4ck455]

Immediately ask for race, gender, disability statuses.
Priorities!

I suspected that would be the case, what other reason would there be to move from dedicated email addresses to forms on webpages?

The only reason I can think of, is that eSkommel wants an easier way to sort through all the applicants it doesn't want to employ, and instead accept more dead wood.

Experienced people would do better to take on solar installation jobs (either with existing companies, or start their own).

The only way to solve the eSkommel problem, is to increasingly not rely on eSkommel.

 

[SilverCode]

Race is even sorted by order of preference...

So, uh, are Indian people not allowed to apply, or do they just get lumped in with Asians or Coloureds?

 

[lkswan747]

Love how they make up new terminology.

At least they are not looking in an nkandla fire pool

 

[lkswan747]

So, uh, are Indian people not allowed to apply, or do they just get lumped in with Asians or Coloureds?

Geography 101 - India is in South Asia

 

[mpdjhb]

Geography 101 - India is in South Asia

The problem is "Indian" is used to group a whole range of people together that are often NOT Indian (or Asian).
If you are from the Middle East what do you tick?

 

[Mystic Twilight]

I thought solidarity or whoever gave them a list of available engineers already.

 

[KikzAzz]

I thought solidarity or whoever gave them a list of available engineers already.

Because you can have it in any color except White.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Eskom launches online database for skilled experts who can help fight load-shedding blackouts

Eskom officially launched a skills crowdsourcing platform on its website on Tuesday, calling on qualified and experienced power generation individuals to make themselves available to help rebuild the organisation's skills.

The launch follows Eskom's call for submissions from suitable candidates who wanted to help the utility resolve its "urgent business needs", including addressing operational deficiencies that have exacerbated load-shedding blackouts.

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