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The statistics are shocking

33

%

2023 SA Unemployment Rate

16

%

2022 SA narrow rate of unemployment for SA Graduates

40

%

2030 Projected unemployment rate for SA – PWC Projection

And yet...

18

%

Increase in general recruitment demand in the last 12 months - Career Junction 2023

516

%

Increase in hiring activity for data engineers since first half 2019. - Career Junction

We need South Africa working

We need to address the skills gap to build the workforce of tomorrow in South Africa.

What is a Hosted Learnership Programme?

A hosted Learnership is a partnership between two companies, whereby one company (the sponsor) funds the Learnership programme, and the other company (the host) provides training and dedicated mentors to assist and guide learners.
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Why run a Learnership Programmes

  • Find future employees and test out the talent before hiring
  • Cost effective approach to closing the scarce skills gap
  • Enhance current employees’ experience and skills
  • Claim back some of your skills development costs
  • Avoid the overheating skills market
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Introducing the Sherpa Talent Development Schools

School of Assurance
  • Creating Assurance experts for the future.
  • Infusing skills required to keep assurance relevant, including using disruptive technology and data driven approaches.
  • Creating deep business understanding, even at foundational levels, to increase the value add of assurance
School of Data & Analytics
  • Creating data and analytics experts for the future.
  • Building and fusing a new cadre of strong data and analytics skills to use as a base for any function
  • Upskilling through practical experience in constructively disrupting business to create efficiency and value
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The Benefits

  • Contribution to social upliftment specifically employability
  • Transformation effort recognition in Sector Scorecard 
    (Skills & enterprise development)
  • Financial recoupment (mandatory and discretionary SETA grants)
  • Learners have sector specific supplemented capability for the sectors in which you operate
  • Fully customisable and expandable programme – Fusion of competencies across our various schools using experts
  • Focus on future fit skills
  • Can be linked to client’s learning programme recognition/rewards
  • No obligation to employ beyond the learnership
  • First choice to employ full time or to augment capacity temporarily
    from a pool of capabilities familiar with your organisation and that you had exposure to
  • Workplace exposure at client and/or Sherpa
  • Technical support solution centre to support learners

Example curriculum for data led digital assurance

Our curriculum is designed around your needs, technologies and way of work. We are able rationalize and develop new content.
Foundational Training
  • Close the gap
  • Trust is a pre-requisite for growth
  • Business ethics
  • Building constructive relationships & professional dialogue
  • Frameworks and standards
  • Industry focus
  • Understanding enterprise value and the elements that keep the “c-suite awake at night”
  • Team effectiveness
Further Training
  • Refresher on Finance, accounting & tax
  • Practical considerations when performing business cycle audits
  • Internal Financial controls
  • Fraud risk
  • Compliance masterclass
  • Technology topography
  • Data led digital assurance
  • Data governance & risk 101
  • Integrated risk and combined assurance (iGRC2)
  • IA of cyber risk
  • Emerging Technologies (RPA, AI.. Etc) for audit relevance
  • Promoting IA as a value-add
Certifications

Classroom training and/or exam support. Tailored to your maturity, technology stack and environment but sufficient exposure more broadly to allow for employability

Typical certifications

  • Occupational certificate in internal auditing (NQF7)
  • Admission and support for CIA exam

Example curriculum for data and analytics

Our curriculum is designed around your needs, technologies and way of work. We are able rationalize and develop new content.
Boot Camp
  • Professional Conduct
  • Technology crash course and intro to cloud
  • Data wrangling with SQL and/or Python (wrangling use case)
  • Excel for Analysts
  • Design Thinking
  • Presentation skills
  • PowerBI (Dashboards) and Viz principles (Viz use case)
  • Intro to data engineering
  • Use Case – designing, building and supporting a data warehouse
  • Intro to client industry
Further Training
  • Data governance 101
  • SDLC / Devops concepts
  • Data Privacy concepts
  • Cloud concepts for data
  • Data Engineering 2 (data lakes)
  • Emerging Technologies (RPA, AI.. Etc)
Certifications

Classroom training and/or exam support. Tailored to your technology stack

Typical Certifications (Azure example) pursued:

  • Azure Data Fundamentals
  • PowerBI Data Analyst Associate
  • Azure Data Engineer Associate
  • Azure AI Fundamental
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