Job Hunting and Avoiding Job Scams

Finding your first job in South Africa takes effort, a plan and a lot of patience. It also takes care, because criminals know that young people are desperate for work. Every year, job seekers lose money, personal information and sometimes their safety to fake adverts that promise jobs, learnerships or bursaries in return for a "small fee". This course shows school leavers where real opportunities are advertised, how to use free public services such as SAYouth.mobi and ESSA, how learnerships, internships, apprenticeships and bursaries work, how to recognise the warning signs of a job scam, how to check whether an opportunity is real, and what to do and where to report it if you or someone you know is targeted. The course is fully online and self-paced. Each lesson has a short activity in your workbook. You finish with a practical task in which you check real-looking adverts and build your own job-search plan, and a final assessment, and you receive a MetaCo Certificate of Completion that you can add to your CV.