Lebo Leseillane born and raised in Limpopo, sees herself as a spiritual person who values family and religion. Lebo moved to Gauteng to further her studies in Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Johannesburg after completing her matric.
Nicola Maboko is a 30 years old Medical Sales Rep, born and bred in Kempton Park, Johannesburg. She describes herself as motivated and ambitious, and is someone who is very passionate about people. She is a firm believer that when one door closes another door opens, and understands the importance of being self-aware about her strengths and what her passions are to better apply herself.
Webster, a boy from orange farm, Joburg South, successfully completed his matric in 2012 as one of the top 3 students in science and in the school. After the matric results were released, Webster was called by the teacher and informed that there was a government programme where the top 3 students were offered a bursary to further their studies from the department of Gauteng.
As part of one of the first groups of the Diverse Conversations in association with Sandoz learnership programmes in 2014, we are proud to celebrate Tshepiso Nkamoheleng Leballo, now a Sandoz brand manager.
Having been an academic in the field of Science, Kofi found starting his first corporate job rather daunting. However, he soon learnt that a great way of getting into corporate life was through a learnership program.
Learning truly leads to results for the individual as well as for the company offering workplace experience. Especially if we are consistent in our actions and persevere with following the learnership requirements. In Saien’s experience, learnerships bridge the gap between academic knowledge and workplace skills. ‘I’ve learned so many things throughout the learnership! Even how to behave in a big company & how to greet’ he says smiling.
It can indeed be a challenge to implement learnerships in such a way that the learnerships create sustainable business and personal transformation. Once the learnership is complete learners should ideally not only be employed and increase company absorption rate they also need to become so good at what they do that your company cannot go without these young entrepreneurs.