| So much unemployment; so few decent staff |
| Submitted by Leila Beltramo | |
| Thursday, 25 June 2009 | |
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[Pressportal.co.za] Top South African training company targets previously ignored mid-level employees and newly employed graduates. Nearly 180 000 jobs were lost to the economy between January and March this year yet businesses say they battle to find appropriate staff to fulfill their needs. Liza van Wyk, CEO of BizTech, offer training solutions to provide bridging for graduates who are battling to apply university theory to workday practice, and or mid-level employees who want to progress in their career. She says, “we have experienced this problem in our own fast growing business, we’d grow faster if we could find the right people but recruitment is a real problem.” Van Wyk says that it is better to employ someone who meets most, even if not all needs, and to train them. “People are more likely to stay with a company that they know is interested in their development. “The world is progressing so fast with globalisation that ongoing learning is essential just to keep up. If you take Ireland, which has grown from being a severely in debt nation 20 years ago to the world’s second richest country- and it is a country of just 4,5m people – they have to double their skills in the next five years for that country to remain competitive. “If a country that is doing that well places such a high demand on top level skills, then we cannot lag behind.” Van Wyk says that a failure to train staff and boost efficiencies “affects overall resource costing – if staff are not doing things efficiently you need more staff to do the job. “We began researching the market and realized that mid-level employees are the heart of an organisation, if you send an executive to training but he is not backed by highly skilled support staff, his or her best efforts are reduced. “We also realized that there is often poor appreciation by bosses of the high level skills needed for tasks they often give to people which impact on the image of the company. Staff with little or no training battle to make the grade, or money is wasted by bringing in high-priced consultants.” She says that events planning, designing invitations and ads were some of the skills that were poorly appreciated by executives but had high impact on the company image. “At present too, many PAs and office administrators are helping their managers put together budgets for projects, it is they who handle expense accounts, the petty cash and credit cards, it is an area fraught with risk if there is fraud or someone who does not know how to balance the books and so one of our courses is on “Finance and Budgeting for PA’s. “We are living in the knowledge era and in a highly competitive world, life long learning is essential to the individual and any corporate that wants to stay ahead.” Biz Tech Fast Facts: Biz Tech is an equal opportunity company. Biz Tech courses include:
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