The most wanted skills in SA

[Bradley Prior]

The most wanted skills in SA

CareerJunction’s latest research revealed that software development, middle and department management, and representative and sales consulting are the most sought-after skills in South Africa.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

if your dev, your no1 almost always,
shame there arent enough of them, or many of them left for greener pastures long ago.

 

[John Tempus]

Lets face it many of these jobs are sought after in SA by internationally bankrolled companies because the pay scale for the same amount of work in SA is a fraction of what they would have to pay for the same work in USD.

Take something like my industry where a similar 15year+ experienced IT manager might get R90-100k in SA, the same job requirements and responsibilities for even a smaller company designated in USD would be no less than $15k a month.

Ive noticed international companies more and more scalping SA talent this way even when they end up paying via international wire transfer they quote the salary in ZAR and then pay them via wire in USD and now with the notion of remote work being the in-thing this becomes even more practical to hire abroad.

 

[Robocop]

No artisans ?
In 10 - 20 years from now who will fix our lights, plumbing, etc...
Who will build actual physical infrastructure.
Society are fixated on IT skills as the way forward but someone needs to keep the power flowing.

 

[Yskasmetnstoof]

1. Hiding corruption. 2. Hiding corruption. 3. Advocate specialising in avoiding corruption sentence.

 

[cguy]

No artisans ?
In 10 - 20 years from now who will fix our lights, plumbing, etc...
Who will build actual physical infrastructure.
Society are fixated on IT skills as the way forward but someone needs to keep the power flowing.

More importantly, who will clean our telephones?

 

[ConfusedR]

No artisans ?
In 10 - 20 years from now who will fix our lights, plumbing, etc...
Who will build actual physical infrastructure.
Society are fixated on IT skills as the way forward but someone needs to keep the power flowing.

The building of actual physical infrastructure are getting more and more mechanised. Yes, there are people building but the numbers are coming down because they are being replaced by machines.

Even mining....
80% of Australian mines are mechanised. It is safer and the mining can go deeper.

IT skills are required more and more because of digital transformation.
People must up their skills very quickly or they will be left behind.

In South Africa, the majority do not understand this. They rather sit unemployed then getting skilled.

 

[Hamster]

CareeerJunction

 

[Uppem]

More importantly, who will clean our telephones?

More importantly who will answer our telephones

 

[Mystic Twilight]

More importantly who will answer our telephones

The automated ivr system that was programmed by a software developer, after you have decided the mobile app was useless in processing your original request.

 

[Dylan_G]

No artisans ?
In 10 - 20 years from now who will fix our lights, plumbing, etc...
Who will build actual physical infrastructure.
Society are fixated on IT skills as the way forward but someone needs to keep the power flowing.

The robots.

As Robocop, I thought you would know this.

 

[^^vampire^^]

No artisans ?
In 10 - 20 years from now who will fix our lights, plumbing, etc...
Who will build actual physical infrastructure.
Society are fixated on IT skills as the way forward but someone needs to keep the power flowing.

The low level stuff is already handled. Builders, electricians and plumbing is handled by one qualified and experienced "foreman" or "the bass" and all the lackeys do the work that is just inspected afterwards as is the South African way as there is little oversight on these matters.

The true need for artisans is in the higher tech areas such as power stations, water sanitation etc, and as the ANC has already shown time and again, they are not worried about this and so it will be left to crumble (what is left anyway).

True that someone needs to keep the power flowing but that will be subsidised by generators or mini plants provided by private companies to fill the gap. There will always be companies that will stay in SA no matter how hard it gets because it will still make economical sense compared to first world countries. Also, many skilled trades people and IT people alike will stay in SA because they will see increases in their value as the pool of qualified/skilled candidates move overseas.

 

[Solarion]

CareerJunction’s latest research revealed that software development, middle and department management, and representative and sales consulting are the most sought-after skills posted jobs by employment agencies in South Africa.

There is actually a very big difference. Many of the jobs on these career websites are not actually real but dummy jobs; recruiters fishing for CV's.

Give you an example. On JobMail there is a prominent recruitment agency that has bots running. On one day alone I counted 300 000 new IT jobs being posted for programmers/developers alone. 1 job roughly every 10 seconds. So I did a little investigating. Nearly all of the jobs were identical only the wording and title altered slightly.

Bottom line is, there just isn't enough work to go around many of these agencies are struggling to keep their heads above water.

 

[Mrlepen]

More importantly who will answer our telephones

Artificial intelligence