POPUP – the People Upliftment Program – a non-profit organization based in Pretoria, has gained the support of Placement Partner recruitment software to assist with the charitable work that they do.

POPUP is a ministry of the Doxa Deo Group that focus holistically on the restoration of unemployed people’s lives by providing education and skills training to the unemployed with no tertiary education, who are English literate and between 18 and 45 years of age.

POPUP helps underprivileged communities through a holistic approach by addressing their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs. This approach has received acclaim from government, welfare organisations, businesses and church groups. Irrespective of race, culture, gender or religion, POPUP helps the unemployed by offering 10 Seta Accredited Skills Programmes such as Computer/Office Administration, Home-based Care, Hospitality and Sewing.

POPUP trained 3 185 learners and placed 77% of them in employment over the past six and a half years and also invests in learners who want to start with their own business ventures. Together with the corporate world, learners develop during a year-long incubation phase taking place under the watchful eye of a facilitator who monitors quality and standards.

We are thrilled to welcome Careers24, another of South Africa’s leading job portals now integrated with Placement Partner!  Clients can look forward to even more advertising exposure by integrating with Careers24 through the Placement Partner system. This integration is quick and easy to set up and is as simple as dropping us an email on support@parallel.co.za to get the ball rolling.

This service is available to clients of Careers24.  If you are not already a client of Careers24, the first step would be to speak to a sales representative of Careers 24.  Once you’ve signed up as a client or if you are already an existing client, you will be asked to sign a consent form. After the technical procedures have been completed, Careers24 will then be able to pick up the vacancy adverts which are live on your website and publish them to their job portal.  When candidates apply for any of your advertised positions they will be directed to your own Placement Partner candidate submission form which, once completed, can be found in your Post Box.

Access to the Careers24 job portal through Placement Partner forms part of the web integration service and is available at no additional charge from Parallel Software.

Happy recruiting!
Kind regards
Your Placement Partner Team

The Placement Partner Team would like to wish you a very happy new year!  We trust 2012 will be a year filled with success and growth, new opportunities, higher highs and very few lows!

As we continue to partner with you in this new year in the south african recruitment industry,  may we remember the words of our president in his new year message: “Let us make a concerted effort to recognize and highlight what is good and great about our country in 2012, and play our part, to make South Africa succeed.”

We trust that your experience of Placement Partner will exceed your expectations in 2012 and that we will contribute to that which “is good and great”!

Best wishes,

The Placement Partner Team