CESA and their Young Professionals Forum (CESA YPF) invite all consulting engineering firms, their clients – government & private sector -, and schools to participate in the Annual Job Shadowing Initiative. The goal of the CESA YPF Job Shadowing Initiative is to expose and entice School Learners to the Engineering and Built-Environment fields, but more so to Consulting Engineering. By giving them an experience like no other: learners get a chance to imagine, live, work and play Engineering – opening their minds to a world of possibilities and opportunities.

School Talk

The CESA Job Shadowing Initiative has been expanded to include School Talks by individuals or organisations which are not participating in the main Job Shadowing (which includes office and site visits).

The School Talks is necessitated by the fact that majority of learners continue to struggle with Mathematics during the transitions – from grade 3 to 4, grade 7 to 8, and end up not choosing Maths in Grade 10 (those who chose maths, only one in five of them in matric achieves a pass of more than 50 percent in their Maths and Science exams). An ‘engineering intervention’ is necessary to stop and reverse the ‘Mathematics meltdown’ at schools by conducting motivational talks during the Job Shadowing Months. South African Engineering will not survive if the standard of mathematics at schools does not improve.

As for the Job Shadowing Initiative, Young Professionals/Member Firms are requested to submit a one A4 page report on the school talk and/or copy of their presentation to learners. The purpose of the submission is to record the effort by industry and to share the experience with other interested parties.

Visit https://www.cesa.co.za/ypf/young-professionals-forum/ypf-events/job-shadow-initiative/ for more information.