When you set up an opportunity on the SA Youth, you create what is called an 'opportunity advert'. Each opportunity advert becomes available to all young work seeker's that are part of the SA Youth network. Our young work seeker's access opportunity adverts on SAYouth.mobi.
Before you create an opportunity advert you will need to specify the type of opportunity you have available for work seekers, you are able to create a paid opportunity advert and an unpaid opportunity advert.
The following information is a how-to-guide to setting up an "Unpaid opportunity advert" on the SA Youth Partner Network
Steps to creating a Grow-your-skills opportunity advert
In your home page, you'll see the "Create new opportunity" button, click on it and you'll be redirected to capture opportunity detail and there you can select 'An unpaid "Grow your skills" opportunity' and click on 'Start new opportunity' to proceed.
You will then need to complete the following fields before the opportunity advert is live on SA Youth:
- The opportunity details
- Opportunity requirements
- Custom Questions
- Interview
Details:
This section allows you to specify the details about your opportunity. You will be asked the following fields:
Who is offering the opportunity?
- This field requires you to provide the work seekers with detail of the opportunity holder (the company name) and a sponsoring partner if necessary.
What is the opportunity?
A view of the type of opportunity:
- Opportunity title
- Opportunity description
- Will the work-seeker receive any certification on completing this opportunity
- How long will it take to complete this opportunity?
- Opportunity closing date
Where is the opportunity?
Is this opportunity an in-person or online opportunity?
- If the opportunity is in-person you will be asked to add the opportunity location
- If the opportunity in online you will be asked to provide a link to the opportunity
Requirements:
This section allows you to specify additional requirements for the opportunity. These are the requirements that you need applicants to meet in order to be successful for your opportunity:
Some of the questions may include the following:
Tell us what applicants you're looking for?
These are the requirements for the opportunity that you would like to be made visible to work seekers when they apply. At this point list those requirements such as:
- Education needed
- Skills needed
- Language/s needed
- Can applicants have a disability for this opportunity?
- Gender
- Race
- Age
Questions:
You are able to ask questions as part of a job application process as well as request a voice note from applicants. The following fields are displayed in this section:
- Pre-set questions
- Ask custom questions
If you would like to ask any of the pre-defined questions you can select from the list provided. You are also able to create your own custom questions under this field
- Voice Notes
- If you would like to assess the applicant's English, you can ask them to record a 60 second voice note, you will need to specify the question the applicant should answer with voice note. E.g.: Tell us a bit about the place where you were born? or Why do you think education is important?
Note that you do not have to ask any additional questions, these are optional
Confirm and Submit
Once you have completed capturing all the opportunity details this section allows you to review the opportunity information.
if you are satisfied with the vacancy details you can then submit the opportunity advert and it will become available on SA Youth immediately for work seekers to apply.
You can view all your opportunity adverts under 'Current Opportunities' or 'Manage Opportunities'
