- An internship offers someone an “earn-while-they-learn” opportunity to get hands-on experience in your own company, and be an asset in a short space of time.
- Interns can learn all about an SMEs business, giving them a better all-round knowledge of how a business works, while becoming a useful resource in your business.
- South Africa’s Learnership Allowance provides a tax incentive for registered learnerships. This encourages job creation and negates the cost of hiring and training new employees.
- SMEs improve their reputation and standing within the communities they serve by noting their efforts to upskill our youth with first-hand experience they wouldn’t get from textbooks.
- Financial incentives for SMEs if they are a SARS company: Click here for South Africa’s S12H Learnership Allowance.
Learnerships play a key role in the country’s overall objectives to increase skills within the workforce, reduce unemployment and poverty, and improve economic growth.
