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South Africa has thousands of funded learnership opportunities going unfilled every year, not because there are no capable learners, but because the right learner and the right opportunity have never been properly connected.
Sector Education & Training Authorities accessible through OVC²
Youth unemployment rate. The problem learnerships are meant to solve.
Skills Development Levy funding collected annually
Every opportunity matched to a learner's verified profile
Every year, billions of rands in Skills Development Levy funds go unspent or are misallocated because finding the right candidate for the right learnership has never been properly solved.
OVC² sits in that gap. We build verified learner profiles from Grade 8 onwards so that when an opportunity opens, the right candidate is already identified, profiled, and ready.
“The biggest barrier to learnership take-up is not funding; it’s matching. Employers don’t know who to recruit. Learners don’t know what’s available.”
Youth unemployment rate in South Africa
Skills Development Levy funding collected annually
Estimated learnership abandonment due to poor matching
SETA bodies administering sector-specific learnerships
A learnership that does not fit your strengths is not an opportunity. It is a detour.
Not randomly browsed. Not copied from a government website. Matched to your academic record, Strength Map, and verified achievements.
Academic results, competitions, and verified achievements become part of your OVC² profile automatically.
When a learnership opens, our engine compares it against your profile, interests, location, and strengths.
You and your parents receive the match percentage, deadline, and next steps.
Employers receive a verified record of your performance, strengths, and certificates.
OVC² is designed to work with all 21 SETA bodies and their registered learnerships.
Software development, networking, cybersecurity, digital skills, and ICT systems.
NQF Levels 2–6Boilermaking, welding, fitting and turning, electrical, and mechanical engineering.
NQF Levels 2–4Bookkeeping, accounting, financial management, tax, and payroll.
NQF Levels 3–6Plumbing, bricklaying, carpentry, civil construction, and project management.
NQF Levels 2–5Retail operations, customer service, supply chain, and store management.
NQF Levels 2–4Home-based care, ECD, auxiliary health care, and social development.
NQF Levels 2–4Educare, training facilitation, and education-sector learnerships.
NQF Levels 4–6Plant production, animal production, agribusiness, and food security.
NQF Levels 2–4Finding the right learnership candidate has historically meant months of outreach, piles of unverified CVs, and placement risk. OVC² handles the matching so you receive a shortlist you can trust.
Receive a shortlist of learners whose verified profiles, strengths, and academic records align with your learnership requirements.
Every placement generates the Workplace Skills Plan and Annual Training Report documentation your Skills Development Facilitator needs.
Learnership spend through OVC² is structured to support your Skills Development scorecard evidence requirements.
A partner account manager is assigned to guide you from listing to placement and outcome reporting.
No lengthy procurement process. No sorting through unqualified applicants. List once and let the platform do the work.
Whether you are a learner or an organisation, OVC² connects both sides of the process.
OVC² is designed to help employers document placements, track outcomes, and support Skills Development reporting with less admin friction.
Every learnership generates documentation for Workplace Skills Plan and Annual Training Report workflows.
Learnership spend through OVC² supports Skills Development evidence requirements.
Mandatory and discretionary grant claims can be tracked against placement records.
Generate learner outcome evidence reports for completed learnerships.
SETA sectors accessible through one platform
Of verified learner data before one application
Match accuracy on top-ranked candidates in pilot
Cost to register as a learner
Register your learnership on OVC² and we will do the matching for you.
Takes less than 5 minutes. We’ll follow up within 2 working days.
Whether you are a learner ready to find your path or an organisation ready to find the right person, the connection starts here.
Register your interest and OVC² will match you to learnerships across all 21 SETA sectors.
Register your learnership on OVC² and receive a shortlist of pre-verified matched candidates.
