Abridged Knowledge 035

Bridging South Africa's Career Guidance Gap

AK035 is an online platform addressing the "Last Mile" problem in South African employment by making CV tools, career guidance, and job-seeking resources free and easy to access.

Quarterly blog posts and annual publications drawn from anonymised platform data and labour market observations, organised by year.

Quarterly reports

Annual reports

About these reports

Every interaction on the AK035 platform generates anonymised data that feeds into the research published here. The reports cover what we observe on the ground: how job seekers use the tools, where they struggle, and what patterns emerge across different provinces and demographics.

Nothing in these reports identifies individual users.

Data disclosure: All data is anonymised at the point of collection and used solely for social research into youth unemployment. Read the full privacy framework.

Work with this research

If you are a researcher, journalist, or organisation working on youth employment in South Africa and want to collaborate or reference these findings, get in touch.