Career And Career Choices Term4 Flashcards
Job market
is where people who are looking for employment and those who provide employment, such as companies and institutions, interact or communicate
If you do not follow the trends and demands of the job market, you may:
• spend years and a lot of money training for a career that is no longer in demand
• Find that your work suddenly moved to another country
• not have the marketable skills to get a job.
What are some drivers of change in the job market?
• the need to save money
• the need to save time and work faster
• the need to make things easier to use while also improving standards
• the need to reduce harm to the environment.
•globlisation
What are some current trends in the global career market?
• going smaller, or downsizing; this means making companies smaller by hiring fewer workers, or by retrenching, or firing, workers
• a more diverse workforce, with workers from different countries and cultures who have different skills
• outsourcing – getting people from outside the company to do an aspect of the work
• increased use of Internet and information technology (IT)
Scarce skills
mean careers where there are few or no qualified and experienced people to do the work.
Why do scarce skills occur
because of a difference between
labour demand and supply: there is a higher need for these careers than there are people to do the work.
Niche
A niche in the job market is an unusual place or position that usually needs
someone with specialised skills or a unique combination of skills
SETA
Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs) were established to identify the skill needs for every sector or career eld of the South African economy. SSETAs also ensure that training is available to provide for these skill needs.
SAQA
the dedicated national overseeing body of the National Qualications Framework (NQF). It makes and
implements policies and criteria for the registration of education and training
providers.
SAQA’s role
• advance the aims of the NQF
• oversee the further development of the NQF
• co-ordinate qualications for:
– General and Further Education and Training
– Higher Education
– trades and occupations
• register qualications and develop policy and criteria. This is for assessment,
recognition of prior learning (RPL), and credit accumulation and transfer.
• work closely with Quality Councils (QCs).
The three quality councils
• Council on Higher Education (CHE) (levels 5–10)
• Umalusi (levels 1–4)
Keep in touch with careers
in demand.
• Quality Council for Trade and Occupations (QCTO), which has authority over all workplace or work-related learning, at all levels of the NQF
NQF
is the set of guidelines which
register the records of learner achievement.
This enables national recognition, throughout all of South Africa, of the skills and
knowledge you gained
NQF objectives
• full personal development of each learner
• social and economic development of our nation
NQF aims
• create an integrated national framework for learning achievements
• promote access to, and mobility and progression within, education, training and career path
• improve the quality of education and training
• speed up the redress of past unfair discrimination in education, training and employment opportunities.
NQF higher education levels
10 postdoctoral research degrees; doctorates
9 master’s degrees
8 professional qualications
7 honours degrees
6 national first degrees
5 higher diplomas; national diplomas; national certicates
