Telkom Announces Its Partnership With Youth Employment Service (YES)
Telkom Announces Its Partnership With Youth Employment Service (YES). The telecommunications group Telkom has announced that it has partnered with business-driven initiative Youth Employment Service (YES) to provide 499 South African youth access to job opportunities, learn future-fit skills in the ever-growing information and communications technology (ICT) sector and contribute to their communities.
“Telkom is committed to addressing inequalities and the socio-development challenges of our country. The partnership with YES is critical to supporting community-led programmes and advancing their impact. Because youth are placed within their own communities, they do not have to travel far for work, and can rather contribute to building their hometowns’ economies,” Telkom’s Chief Human Resources Officer Melody Lekota said in a statement.
YES’ mission is to create, by connecting with companies, work opportunities for South African youth at scale. To increase youth employability through the provision of CVs, reference letters and transition South African youth to earning future incomes. To achieve this by leveraging B-BBEE policy for better, and more meaningful company impact and performance. It works with business to invest in, and catalyse community work opportunities by encouraging an inclusive growth mindset . YES is a business-led collaboration with government, labour and civil society to create one million first-time work experiences, over three years, for South Africa’s unemployed black youth. Productive young people are given an opportunity to uplift themselves and contribute to shaping the country’s social and economic future.
“Telkom’s partnership with YES will contribute to building an equipped workforce in South Africa, and indeed the rest of Africa, that will have the right skills to deal with the growing ICT demands of the world,” YES CEO Ravi Naidoo said in a statement.
