Use Government ESSA system to recruit - Employment and Labour Deputy Minister Moloi

Employment and Labour Deputy Minister Boitumelo Moloi encourages employers to use the Department’s Employment Services of South Africa system (ESSA) to recruit workers, to maintain stability in the labour market.

Moloi said the Department’s ESSA system was credible and user-friendly in allowing employers to recruit. She was speaking today during the Department of Employment and Labour’s breakfast advocacy session with stakeholders held at Lagoon Beach Hotel in the Western Cape on compliance with the EE Act.

“Employers could further be assisted as the Department also offers counselling to job seekers. We need employers to be friends with us”; she said.

ESSA is an online recruitment service of the Department of Employment and Labour, available to all South African citizens. All you have to do is register as a job seeker on the Public Employment Services (PES) branch system.

The online portal is created for prospective job applicants to register and create their profiles (CV/resume), view vacancies, and review their CV.

Turning to workplace transformation, Moloi said South Africa’s workplaces yearn for transformation. She said legislation was in place not to punish, but ensure compliance.

“EE self-regulation has not delivered results. That is why we are coming up with EE Act amendments. If we continue with the status quo it will take us a century to transform workplaces. Workplace transformation is moving at a slow pace and we need to do something,” she said.

Source: Government of South Africa