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Empower Your Future: Connecting Disabled Youth with Job Opportunities

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How do candidates benefit from JOB-ABLED?

Candidates with disabilities seeking jobs benefit from JOB-ABLED in several key ways:

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Tailored Job Matching

The platform allows candidates to create personalised profiles that highlight their skills, experience, and abilities. JOB-ABLED then matches them with suitable job opportunities, helping them find meaningful, long-term employment. For youth with disabilities who have not completed Grade 10, JOB-ABLED offers job opportunities in recycling and vegetable gardens.

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Skills & Enterprise Development

JOB-ABLED provides access to learnerships and skills development programs, equipping candidates with the necessary skills and training for the job market. This includes an 8-month job shadowing initiative, aimed at mastering skills before securing employment.

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Transport Assistance

Candidates can apply for transport assistance during the first month of employment to help ease the transition. This initiative is also a mean to support the parent/guardian of PWD's (People With Disabilities).

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Ongoing Support

JOB-ABLED offers continuous support throughout the employment journey, ensuring candidates have the resources they need to succeed, from application to long-term job retention, including transport assistance in the first month.

Features JOB-ABLED has for its Candidates

Electronic Platform Features

  • Accessibility: The platform is designed to be user-friendly and accessible, ensuring ease of use for candidates with disabilities.
  • Create a profile: Candidates can create personalised profiles, showcasing their skills, qualifications, and abilities.
  • View available jobs: The platform allows candidates to view job opportunities across the country and apply for them with the press of a button.
  • Apply for jobs: Candidates can apply directly to jobs that match their skills and interests.
  • Transport assistance: Candidates can apply for transport assistance during their first month of employment to help with the transition.

Inclusion & EXIT
Plans

  • Exit plans for youth in special schools:
    JOB-ABLED provides tailored exit plans to help youth in special schools transition to the workforce, focusing on building independence and self-sufficiency.
  • Inclusive opportunities: The platform promotes inclusion, helping youth with disabilities become productive members of society.

Projects for Income Generation

  • Recycling and food garden projects: JOB-ABLED offers involvement in recycling and food garden projects, providing candidates with opportunities to earn an income while contributing to their communities. These features aim to create a supportive environment where candidates with disabilities can thrive in the workforce and beyond.

How to sign-up as a Candidate:

Step 1:

Click here to sign up, then click “Create AccountOR search app.jobabled.co.za/sign-up.

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Step 2:

Select Job Seeker. It should already be selected.

Enter your Name, Surname, Email, Password, and confirm your password. Indicate if you have a disability.

Please note that this platform is only for people who have disabilities.

Click “Register as a Job Seeker.

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Step 3:

Check your email for a verification link. If you don’t receive one, click “Send the link again.”

• Click the verification link in your email.

If you don’t have an email, create one using a suggested email provider listed on the site.

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Step 4:

Log in at Job-Abled using your email and password and complete your profile with accurate information.

Please note: if you have not verified your email you cannot complete your profile. please make sure you verify your profile
• Incorrect details may delay approval.

Click “Complete Profile” and wait for one of our JOB-ABLED admin's to approve your account. This could take up to 2 working days. You’ll receive an email once approved.

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Step 5:

We will send you an email once you have been approved. 



Login to your account after approval, and start browsing jobs immediately!

How to use the Platform
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