• Agenda
  • Initiatives
  • Reports
  • Events
  • About
    • Our Mission
    • Leadership and Governance
    • Our Members and Partners
    • Communities
    • History
    • Klaus Schwab
    • Media
    • Contact Us
    • Careers
    • World Economic Forum USA
    • Privacy and Terms of Use
  • EN ES FR 日本語 中文
  • Login to TopLink

We use cookies to improve your experience on our website. By using our website you consent to all cookies in accordance with our updated Cookie Notice.

I accept
    Hamburger
  • World Economic Forum Logo
  • Agenda
  • Initiatives
  • Reports
  • Events
  • About
  • TopLink
  • Search Cancel

Disrupting Unemployment

  • Preface
  • Case Studies
    • 2020 Legacy of Good Plan
    • 5by20
    • A-B
      • Activate
      • Apprenticeship Programme
      • Apprenticeship Programme
      • Automotive Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative (AMTEC)
      • Born to Be
      • Bridge Academy London
      • Buen Trabajo (“Good Job”)
    • C-E
      • Centum Learning
      • Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
      • Coletivo
      • Dangote Academy of Learning and Development
      • Digital Jobs Africa
      • Dual Vocational Education and Training Programme
      • Enterprise Gardens
      • Entrepreneurship Mindset Index
      • Escola Escritório Programme
      • [email protected]
    • F-I
      • facealemploi.tv
      • Fast Start
      • Foundation Programme
      • Future Leaders Programme
      • Generation (Social Initiative)
      • Global Education Initiative – STEM Brazil Learning Programme
      • Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project
      • Global Internship Programme for Unemployed Youth
      • Google for Entrepreneurs
      • Helping Women Get Online
      • Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Skills Development Corporation
      • Internship Programme
      • It’s TYME and Unlocking Youth Potential (UYP)
    • J-L
      • JOBLINGE
      • Junior Achievement and Marsh & McLennan Companies
      • Junior Power
      • Juntos por el Empleo de los Mas Vulnerable (“Together for Employment for the Most Vulnerable”)
      • LEAP Mentorship and Coaching Development Programme
      • Leveraging Unique Talents of People with Autism
      • Lifelong Learning Apprenticeship
      • Linking Postgraduate Students with Job Opportunities
      • Localizing a Business Process Outsourcing Industry
    • M-P
      • Made in Italy
      • Management Trainee Programme
      • Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA)
      • National Industrial Training Institute
      • National Youth Policy 2014
      • Nayee Disha (“New Direction”)
      • Nestlé needs YOUth
      • Networking Academy
      • Pan African Graduate Development Programme
      • Partnership for Economic Opportunities through Technology in the Americas (POETA)
      • PepsiCo México Foundation
      • Project Business
      • Prominp
    • R-T
      • REACH Project
      • Satya Bharti School Programme
      • Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center
      • Save the Children and Accenture
      • Sino-German Automotive Vocational Education Project
      • Skills to Succeed Academy
      • Solutions for Youth Employment Coalition (S4YE)
      • StartUp Europe
      • StreetWise Partners Career Ventures Programme
      • Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise Programme (STRYDE)
      • Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards
      • TEACH Ambassadors
      • Teacher Support Programme
      • Think Forward
      • Tshepo 10 000 (“Hope”)
    • U-Z
      • Udaan Programme
      • Upstream Professional Development Center
      • Vocational Training Cooperation
      • Women Development Programme
      • Women Employment Organization
      • Young Entrepreneurs Incubation Programme and Business Skills Development Programme
      • Youth Business International
      • Youth Employment Accelerator
      • Youth Unemployment Initiative
      • YouthActionNet
Disrupting Unemployment   Pan African Graduate Development Programme
Home
Disrupting Unemployment   Pan African Graduate Development Programme
Home
Disrupting Unemployment Home
  • Report Home
  • Preface
  • Case Studies
    • 2020 Legacy of Good Plan
    • 5by20
    • A-B
      • Activate
      • Apprenticeship Programme
      • Apprenticeship Programme
      • Automotive Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative (AMTEC)
      • Born to Be
      • Bridge Academy London
      • Buen Trabajo (“Good Job”)
    • C-E
      • Centum Learning
      • Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
      • Coletivo
      • Dangote Academy of Learning and Development
      • Digital Jobs Africa
      • Dual Vocational Education and Training Programme
      • Enterprise Gardens
      • Entrepreneurship Mindset Index
      • Escola Escritório Programme
      • [email protected]
    • F-I
      • facealemploi.tv
      • Fast Start
      • Foundation Programme
      • Future Leaders Programme
      • Generation (Social Initiative)
      • Global Education Initiative – STEM Brazil Learning Programme
      • Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project
      • Global Internship Programme for Unemployed Youth
      • Google for Entrepreneurs
      • Helping Women Get Online
      • Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Skills Development Corporation
      • Internship Programme
      • It’s TYME and Unlocking Youth Potential (UYP)
    • J-L
      • JOBLINGE
      • Junior Achievement and Marsh & McLennan Companies
      • Junior Power
      • Juntos por el Empleo de los Mas Vulnerable (“Together for Employment for the Most Vulnerable”)
      • LEAP Mentorship and Coaching Development Programme
      • Leveraging Unique Talents of People with Autism
      • Lifelong Learning Apprenticeship
      • Linking Postgraduate Students with Job Opportunities
      • Localizing a Business Process Outsourcing Industry
    • M-P
      • Made in Italy
      • Management Trainee Programme
      • Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA)
      • National Industrial Training Institute
      • National Youth Policy 2014
      • Nayee Disha (“New Direction”)
      • Nestlé needs YOUth
      • Networking Academy
      • Pan African Graduate Development Programme
      • Partnership for Economic Opportunities through Technology in the Americas (POETA)
      • PepsiCo México Foundation
      • Project Business
      • Prominp
    • R-T
      • REACH Project
      • Satya Bharti School Programme
      • Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center
      • Save the Children and Accenture
      • Sino-German Automotive Vocational Education Project
      • Skills to Succeed Academy
      • Solutions for Youth Employment Coalition (S4YE)
      • StartUp Europe
      • StreetWise Partners Career Ventures Programme
      • Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise Programme (STRYDE)
      • Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards
      • TEACH Ambassadors
      • Teacher Support Programme
      • Think Forward
      • Tshepo 10 000 (“Hope”)
    • U-Z
      • Udaan Programme
      • Upstream Professional Development Center
      • Vocational Training Cooperation
      • Women Development Programme
      • Women Employment Organization
      • Young Entrepreneurs Incubation Programme and Business Skills Development Programme
      • Youth Business International
      • Youth Employment Accelerator
      • Youth Unemployment Initiative
      • YouthActionNet

Share

Key Partners

 

Status

Start year of the initiative:
2008 – still ongoing.

Next steps of initiative:
A strategic review will be undertaken for 2015-2017 to improve the programme.

Impact

Country(ies) of impact: 
Botswana, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe

   

 

Number of people impacted annually: 
200 (more than 500 participants in two years)

  

 

Time to intended impact:

2 to 5 years

 

Metrics:

  • Employee engagement (e.g. engagement scores, employee turnover)
  • Mobility of employees
  • Reputation (e.g. brand-image)
  • Performance evaluation/grades of participants
  • Graduation rates of participants
  • Job placement rates of participants
  • Content of training/modules and trainings offered

Benefit to organization: 

  • Direct benefit to organization
  • Indirect benefit to organization

Key Partners

 

Status

Start year of the initiative:
2008 – still ongoing.

Next steps of initiative:
A strategic review will be undertaken for 2015-2017 to improve the programme.

Impact

Country(ies) of impact: 
Botswana, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe

   

 

Number of people impacted annually: 
200 (more than 500 participants in two years)

  

 

Time to intended impact:

2 to 5 years

 

Metrics:

  • Employee engagement (e.g. engagement scores, employee turnover)
  • Mobility of employees
  • Reputation (e.g. brand-image)
  • Performance evaluation/grades of participants
  • Graduation rates of participants
  • Job placement rates of participants
  • Content of training/modules and trainings offered

Benefit to organization: 

  • Direct benefit to organization
  • Indirect benefit to organization

Pan African Graduate Development Programme

Submitted by Barclays Africa Group

Objective

To equip youth with technical, business and financial skills to bridge the gap between education and work, while developing future African business leaders in the financial services industry.

Overview and Main Activities

The Pan-African Graduate Development Programme (PAGDP) came out of a programme run across Barclay’s operations in South Africa (Absa), which was extensively revised to operate across all of Barclay’s businesses on the African continent.

PAGDP provides graduates with a meaningful role within the business, a formal mentorship programme and an additional formal training programme. It balances on-the-job learning, self-paced assignments and formal summits where graduates are brought together to learn. PAGDP bridges the gap between graduation and actual employment by linking business vacancies to suitably qualified graduates with scarce skills relevant to all Barclay’s areas. Graduates participate in an integrated programme that develops behavioural and technical skills for the financial services sector, and is designed in collaboration with Duke Corporate Education. Throughout, participants receive mentorship from Barclay’s employee volunteers or alumni of previous year’s programmes.

The programme runs for 12 months and targets graduates in their first formal working experience after graduation. It is directly linked to skill needs in the business and allows for flexibility as to what skills each country or business area requires and which graduates are employed. The programme is open to all functions, from direct client-facing businesses through to middle and back office functions.

Graduates are required to create a portfolio of evidence that balances their on-the-job performance with their performance in self-paced learning, group assignments, PAGDP summits and their contribution to Barclay’s Citizenship initiatives. The balanced portfolio approach ensures that graduates are well-rounded and able to perform in all aspects of the professional environment. Technical aspects of the programme are addressed through on-the-job learning while assignments and summits focus on behavioural aspects. The programme aims to develop self-insight, communication, networking and leadership competencies.

At the end of the programme, most graduates continue their careers within the group. For those looking for new opportunities, the Early Careers team and mentors proactively direct candidates to the Barclays internal recruitment process and refers graduates to external recruitment agencies, other partners and clients. The intention is to retain as many graduates as possible, so the external referral process is dealt with as an exception and not the norm.

Success Factors and Challenges

Most critical success factors:

  • Direct involvement of the business, both in terms of setting priorities and supporting graduates in their on-the-job learning, mentoring as well as freeing them up to attend the formal sections of the programme
  • Strategic aligning programme with organization’s priorities for developing scarce skills and future leaders

Main challenges:

  • Designing an appropriate programme that was equally relevant across all geographies in Africa and all areas of the business
  • Balancing the demands of bringing the graduates into one central location while allowing parts of the programme to run in-country

Recommendations for Others

Involve all stakeholders as early as possible. Designing a programme merely for the sake of having a programme will have negative consequences for the business and create negative employer brand with graduates and academic institutions. Resistance from line managers and prospective candidates is more difficult to overcome after the fact. In addition, partnering with organizations with competence and track records with graduate programmes is likely to reduce lead times. Finally, be sure to design a programme that balances content consistency with flexibility.

Replicability and Scalability

How easily could other organizations implement this initiative?
Difficult: The challenge is developing content that is relevant, flexible and can be delivered in multiple formats across geographies, businesses and functions.

How easily can this initiative be expanded to include a larger number of participants?
Difficult: Costs are high – for the programme, travel, accommodation and opportunity cost of participant’s time. It is best to replicate across other organizations.

About the Organization

Website: www.barclaysafrica.com
Sector: Banking and Capital Markets
Size (number of employees): 50,000+
Headquarters: Johannesburg, South Africa

For Further Engagement

Contact name: Heather Day
Contact position: Director, Strategic Partnership Events
Email: [email protected]

Back to Top
Subscribe for updates
A weekly update of what’s on the Global Agenda
Follow Us
About
Our Mission
Leadership and Governance
Our Members and Partners
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Communities
History
Klaus Schwab
Our Impact
Media
Pictures
A Global Platform for Geostrategic Collaboration
Careers
Open Forum
Contact Us
Mapping Global Transformations
Code of Conduct
World Economic Forum LLC
Sustainability
World Economic Forum Privacy Policy
Media
News
Accreditation
Subscribe to our news
Members & Partners
Member login to TopLink
Strategic Partners' area
Partner Institutes' area
Global sites
Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Open Forum
Global Shapers
Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
EN ES FR 日本語 中文
© 2021 World Economic Forum
Privacy Policy & Terms of Service