NOTICE 380 OF 2014 - INSETA

1 department OF higher education AND TRAININGCALL FOR COMMENTS ON THE national scarce skills LIST:TOP 100 OCCUPATIONS IN DEMANDI, Bonginkosi Emmanuel Nzimande, MP, Minister of higher education andTraining, hereby publish the national scarce skills List: Top 100 Occupations inDemand for interested persons and organisations are invited to comment on the NationalScarce skills List: Top 100 Occupations in Demand, in writing, to:The Director-General, Private Bag X 174, Pretoria, 0001, for attention:Ms Mmaphake Ramasodi, Telephone: 012 312 5345, Email 012 323 provide the name, address, telephone number, fax number and emailaddress of the person or organisation submitting must be submitted not later than 20 June BE NZIMANDE, MPMINISTER OF higher education AND TRAININGDATE:4/0 fpcSTAATSKOERANT, 23 MEI 2014No.

2 376783 This gazette is also available free online at 380 OF 2014 national scarce skills L1ST: TOP 100 OCCUPATIONS IN DEMANDD raft for public education & trainingDepartment: higher education and TrainingREPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICAN ational scarce skills List - Version 20 May 201411 Page4No. 37678 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23 MAY 2014 This gazette is also available free online at of Home AffairsDHETD epartment of higher education and TrainingDPRUD evelopment Policy Research UnitDoLDepartment of LabourEDDD epartment of Economic DevelopmentHRDH uman Resource DevelopmentHRDCSAH uman Resource Development Council of South AfricaHSRCH uman Sciences Research CouncilIPAPI ndustrial Policy Action PlanJIPSAJ oint Initiative on Priority skills AcquisitionJOURJob Opportunities and Unemployment ReportNDPN ational Development PlanNGPNew Growth PathNSDSN ational skills Development StrategySETAS ector education and training

3 AuthoritySIPsStrategic Integrated ProjectsSSPS ector skills PlanTTTT echnical Task TeamOFOO rganising Framework of OccupationsNational scarce skills List - Version 20 May 201421 PageSTAATSKOERANT, 23 MEI 2014No. 376785 This gazette is also available free online at OF OF national scarce skills FOLLOWED IN COMPILING THE national LIST OFSCARCE FINDINGS910. RANKING SCORECARD FOR national scarce skills LIST ( 2014 )1311. national scarce skills LIST ( 2014 )14 REFERENCES17 ANNEXURE A: CLUSTER OF OCCUPATIONS18 national scarce skills List - Version 20 May 20143 IP a g e6No. 37678 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23 MAY 2014 This gazette is also available free online at White Paper for Post-School education and training (DHET, November 2013)asserts that "if the provision of education and training is to be better coordinated withthe needs of society and the economy, central information about skills needs isrequired".

4 Therefore "identifying current and future skills demand as accurately aspossible is extremely important if the goals of the national Development Plan, theNew Growth Path and the Industrial Policy Action Plan are to be achieved". White Paper (DHET, November 2013) notes further that the identification ofskills needs can be used to inform human resource planning, funding allocations,programme development, and immigration Human Resource Development Strategy of South Africa (HRDSA) 2010 - 2030(RSA, 2009), emphasises the need for a national " scarce skills list" which is aligned toSouth Africa's social and economic priority Immigration Amendment Act of 2011 (RSA, 2011) compels the Minister of HomeAffairs to compile a "critical skills list" to facilitate the issuing of work visas.

5 TheDepartment of Home Affairs could draw on the national " scarce skills list" to compileits own critical skills reports have drawn attention to the problems experienced by Government,as well as the private sector, in implementing planned growth strategies, fast-trackingservice delivery and producing high quality products and services owing to a lack ofskilled is evident from the above that information about scarce skills is of vital importancefor a variety of reasons. These imperatives have necessitated the Minister of HigherEducation and training to produce this national scarce skills document provides a list of the top 100 occupations in the country that areconsidered to be in short supply, accompanied by an explanation of the methods andprocesses followed in compiling the purpose of the lististo inform, inter alia: human resource planning anddevelopment; resource allocation and prioritisation; the development of relevantqualifications, programmes and curricula.

6 And international recruitment scarce skills List - Version 20 May 20144 IP a g eSTAATSKOERANT, 23 MEI 2014No. 376787 This gazette is also available free online at OF national scarce skills List will be reviewed every 2 years, unless the Minister ofHigher education and training deems it necessary to review the list formulation of the national scarce skills List should be viewed as a dynamicprocessthatissubjecttofurther continuous iterationsand methodologicalimprovements based on substantive proposals from the CONCEPTSThe following concepts are used in this skills refer to those occupations in which there are a scarcity of qualifiedand experienced people, currently or anticipated in the future.

7 Either (a) because suchskilled people are not available or (b) they are available but do not meet employmentcriteria. This scarcity can arise from one or a combination of the following, groupedas relative or absolute:a)Absolute scarcity: suitably skilled people are not available, for example:A new or emerging occupation, where there are few, if any, people in the country withthe requisite skills (qualification and experience) and where education and trainingproviders have yet to develop learning programmes to meet the skills requirements. Inthis instance, firms, sectors and even the country are unable to implement plannedgrowth strategies and are experiencing productivity, service delivery and qualityproblems directly attributable to a lack of skilled demand would reflect an absolute scarcity where there are no peopleenrolled or engaged in the process of acquiring the skills that need to be )Relative scarcity:suitably skilled people are available but do not meet otheremployment criteria, such as.

8 Geographical location, where there are qualified people, but they are unwilling towork outside of urban considerations, where there are few, if any, candidates with the requisite skills (qualifications and experience) from specific groups available to meet the skillsrequirements of firms and scarce skills List - Version 20 Ma 20145 Pae8No. 37678 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23 MAY 2014 This gazette is also available free online at demand would reflect a relative scarcity if there are people in educationand training (formal and work-place) who are in the process of acquiring the necessaryskills (qualification and experience)

9 But where the lead time will mean that they arenot available in the short term to meet replacement refers to a set of jobs or specialisations whose main tasks arecharacterised by such a high degree of similarity that they can be grouped together forthe purposes of occupationsidentifiedinthe OrganisingFramework of Occupations (0F0) therefore represent a category that couldencompass a number of jobs or specialisations, occupation "GeneralAccountant" would also cover the specialisations "Financial Analyst" and "InsolvencyPractitioner". Occupations are classified according to two main criteria: (a) skill leveland (b) skill specialisation, where skill is used in the context of competency ratherthan a description of tasks or is defined as "the necessary competencies that can be expertly applied in aparticular context for a defined purpose" and "competence" has three elements:a)Practical competence - the ability to perform a set of tasks;b)Foundational competence - the ability to understand what we ourselves or others aredoing and why.

10 Andc)Reflexive competence - the ability to integrate or connect our performance with anunderstanding of the performance of others, so that we can learn from our actions andare able to adapt to changes and unforeseen FRAMEWORK OF OCCUPATIONS is a skill-based codedclassification system, which encompasses all occupations in the South African classification of occupations is based on a combination of skill level and skillspecialisation which makes it easy to locate a specific occupation within refers to a set of tasks and duties carried out or meant to be carried out, by oneperson for a particular employer, including OF national scarce skills LISTThe national scarce skills List can be used to support decision-making with respectto:supply-side planning undertaken by public and private education and traininginstitutions (Universities, Further education and training Colleges and AdultEducation and training Centres); national scarce skills List - Version 20 May 20146 IP a g eSTAATSKOERANT, 23 MEI 2014No.