YES | Journey Milestones

2.1. Register your details on the Company Portal to create your unique profile.

Before proceeding with any contracting actions, please ensure that your youth meet the following criteria. Only individuals who meet the below criteria are eligible for participation under the Y.E.S Initiative:

-are between the ages of 18 and 35; and
-meet the definition of “Black People” as defined in the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act 53 of 2003 as amended by Act 46 of 2013
- must be unemployed at the time of contracting - may not have previously participated in the YES programme

2.2. Pay your registration fee once you’ve registered your programme.

Register your 12-month programme, which consists of your target number of quality work experiences you need to create in order to receive your level up(s).
Ensure you check and understand our Ts & Cs. Upon registration, the YES system will generate a registration invoice for your entity/business. If your entity/business pays the amount stipulated, the YES Youth placement menu and options will open. It will also generate an official Registration Certificate.

2.3. Wait for the payment to reflect.

Wait 48 hours for the payment to reflect.

3.1 Decide whether you want to place your YES Youth internally or externally.

Youth can be placed in one of the below options:

Inside your firm and on your payroll
Outside your firm (on or off your payroll)

If you do not have the capacity to place youth within your own organisation, the YES turnkey solution is for you! YES has 35 vetted Implementation Partners across ten sectors ranging from digital to healthcare, conservation to education and more! Click here to find out more about the YES turnkey solution.

3.2 Pay monitoring and evaluation (M&E) fee for placement and wait 48 hours.

Each placement attracts a per youth once-off fee of R 1,600, R3,000, R5,000, or R9,700. This fee covers the YES Digital Generation model which includes:
- Data free access to the YES One App for youth on their own device across all networks paid for by YES.

- Rewards to drive learning/skills development.

- Extensive learning incorporating digital skills (Digital literacy + AI).

- Continuous R&D.
- Important surveys and material for youth and employers.

3.3 Check youth IDs.

Ensure that your youth are South African and that youth have not yet participated in and completed more than eight months of a YES programme before. Determine whether youth are unemployed, and provide the youth affidavit which can be accessed on the YES website.

Internal placement:

Youth

Allow your company time to recruit the right youth for the roles you’ll be filling.
Once you’ve found your youth, contract them.

Supervisors

Ensure you have allocated enough supervisors for the youth, so that you can get accurate reporting, and the youths’ experiences, CVs and reference letters are robust.
YES recommends that one supervisor oversees no more than ten youth in order to ensure best mentoring practices.
Make sure your allocated supervisors understand what is expected of them in terms of training, and what the YES programme and its goals are.
External placement:
If you are placing youth externally through our sponsored host placement model (the turnkey solution), think of the kinds of jobs that would benefit your company’s overall social/environmental strategy, and place youth in a fitting YES-vetted IP.

Contract with your YES-vetted IP(s).

Your YES Youth begin working.

1. A Supervisor induction will be scheduled with the supervisors to explain the role, access to the supervisor app, and the importance of completing the supervisor surveys.
2. Your supervisors should have also completed the first supervisor survey.

You should expect quite a lot to happen in Month 2 of your YES programme.

Youth induction

Once phones have been delivered and RICAed, a digital or face-to-face youth induction will be scheduled with the YES team.
The YES induction session takes place with your YES Youth to ensure that youth make the most of their one-year YES work experience! This session aims to get your youth to engage with their work-readiness modules on the YES4Youth app, and with the monitoring and evaluation app (YESLife).

In order to receive a robust first company report from YES in your second month, ensure the following:

App engagement – youth

Baseline survey to be completed by youth.
App engagement will aid in the achievement of a CV and reference letter for the youth, as well as the ability for your business to claim up to 50% of its skills development spend back (Category F and G).
Baseline survey to be completed by youth.
By the end of month 2, youth should be 20% of the way through their modules.
Ensure youth are submitting data through both the YES4Youth and YESLife mobile applications for the optimisation of your programme.
App engagement – supervisors
Ensure supervisors are submitting data through the Supervisor mobile application surveys for the optimisation of your programme.

Preparing for verification for programmes

Programme 1: Ensure the collection and storage of relevant records required for financial year-end by B-BBEE verification agencies. This includes:

1. The YES registration certificate (provided by YES)
2. IDs of placed youth
3. Payslips
4. 12-month contracts
5. Youth Unemployment Affidavit
6. Youth Confirmation Letter (provided by YES)

1. Remember, you will not be able to access the documents provided by YES without uploading a signed CEO pledge.
2. For more information on what is needed for verification, please read the Gazette here.
3. Ensure that at least 8 months before your next verification, you’ve registered for YES programme 2.

App engagement – youth

By month 4, youth should have completed 40% of their online modules.
Ensure youth are submitting data through both the YES4Youth and YESLife mobile applications for the optimisation of your programme.

App engagement – supervisors

- 1. At month 4, all supervisors must complete the second supervisor survey.
  2. Ensure supervisors are submitting data through the Supervisor mobile application surveys for the optimisation of your programme.

App engagement – youth

1. Youth should be 60% of the way through their online modules by month 6.
2. Ensure youth are submitting data through both the YES4Youth and YESLife mobile applications for the optimisation of your programme.

Keep up-to-date with how your programme is performing

Keep checking your youth data on the Company Portal to keep abreast of your youth, their progress, and any drop-offs (drop-offs need to be replaced within a month).

Drop-offs

1. It is a possibility that during the course of your programme, some youth may drop out. This can happen for various reasons. If more than 5% of your registered YES Youth drop out, the difference will need to be replaced. For example, if your commitment number is 50 youth, and four drop off, you will need to replace one (50 x 5% = 2.5=3).
2. If any of your youth drop off after month 8, there is no need to find replacements.

The offboarding process begins in Month 8.

App engagement – youth

Ensure youth complete the endline survey.
Youth should have completed 80% of their online modules by month 8.
Ensure youth are submitting data through both the YES4Youth and YESLife mobile applications for the optimisation of your programme.

Offboarding your youth

1. A template of the CV and reference letter for the youth will be generated and sent to supervisors at month 8.
2. Ensure all youth documents and contact details are up to date for tracking and verification purposes.
3. Identify and begin informing youth and YES of absorption on the Company Portal.

App engagement – supervisors

1. At month 10, all supervisors must complete the fourth (and final) supervisor survey.
2. Ensure supervisors are submitting data through the Supervisor mobile application surveys for the optimisation of your programme.

Supervisors

In month 11, the CVs and reference letters should be complete and reviewed by supervisors.

Verification

Ensure the collection and storage of relevant records required for financial year-end by B-BBEE verification agencies. This includes:

1. 1. The YES registration certificate (provided by YES)
  2. IDs of placed youth
  3. Payslips
  4. 12-month contracts
  5. Youth Unemployment Affidavit
  6. Youth Confirmation Letter (provided by YES)

Congratulations! Your first YES programme is complete!

App engagement – youth

1. Youth should have completed all their modules.
2. In month 12, the CVs, completion certificates and reference letters are sent to youth.

Absorption

Absorb your selected youth and inform YES of your decision on the Company Portal.

YES & B-BBEE

Inform YES of B-BBEE Level Up and upload certificate onto Company Portal.

JOURNEY MILESTONES

Step 1: CALCULATE YOUR TARGET

Step 2: SIGN UP & REGISTER PROGRAMME

Step 3: SELECT YOUR PLACEMENT MODEL

Step 4: UPLOAD YOUR YOUTH INFORMATION

Step 1

CALCULATE YOUR TARGET

1.1 Calculate your YES Target.

Step 2

SIGN UP & REGISTER PROGRAMME

Step 3

SELECT YOUR PLACEMENT MODEL

Step 4

UPLOAD YOUR YOUTH INFORMATION

MILESTONES: PROGRAMME JOURNEY

Timeline of the coming year:

USEFUL LINKS

LEGISLATION & USER GUIDE

MANAGING ONBOARDING

BROCHURES & INFO