Creating opportunities through South Africa's high unemployment

Tackling unemployment in SA with innovative job platforms—explore with us!
Podcasts
April 20, 2024

With some of the worst unemployment stats in the world, South Africa is in desperate need of getting people to work.

In this week's episode of How Would You Build It, we discussed the sad reality of the general  South African mindset about getting jobs vs applying for government grants. Renier Kriel released some interesting stats in his open letter this week.

So we thought let us look at where the opportunities were to build companies on the back of these major issues.

Watch as we chat about how platforms like @SweepsouthSA , @JOBJACK_ , Jobox, Strove, @Digemycom&@RecruitMyMomStaffing  that are helping solve these problems.

If you have a business that is helping, please let us know, we would love to hear about it.

00:34 Setting the scene - talking opportunities in a high unemployment environment

01:49 Government grants

03:30 South African Google search terms

05:58 "State of the Nation"

09:03 Job-seeking pundits creating opportunities

11:53 Phil Knight - Shoe Dog

15:00 Understanding market segments

17:26 The JobJack case study

20:39 Staff Retention - Digemy

23:36 Opportunities in the Gig Economy

25:21 Opportunities for corporates to give employees outside exposure

27:23 The gig economy

29:25 Allowing foreigners to work in SA wthat will great jobs