Recruitment Programmes

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 QUESTION 1101 / NW1223E

DATE OF PUBLICATION: Friday, 01 April 2011

INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 10 of 2011
Mr M Mnqasela (DA) to ask the Minister of Home Affairs:



Whether her Department intended integrating its recruitment programmes with Sector Education and Training Authorities; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

NW1223E



REPLY:



Yes. The Department of Home Affairs has aligned its recruitment processes with the requirements of the Sector Education and Training Authorities.



The Department has developed a Human Resource Development Strategy, in line with the Public Service Human Resource Development Strategic Framework Vision 2015, in terms of which the Department has committed to implement Internship and Learnership Programmes.



The purpose of these programmes is to address the high youth unemployment rate, in order to alleviate poverty, as well as, to create a pool of suitable qualified, and experienced people, from which the Department can draw from, for the filling of entry level positions.



The Deparment keeps a database of the participants of these programmes, and when filling entry level positions, preference is given to individuals who have served the Department before, either, as Interns, National Youth Service Programme participants, or contract workers.