Skills Development Practitioner
OFO Code: 242302
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 242302
- Occupation
- Skills Development Practitioner
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 2423 · Personnel and Careers Professionals
Official description
Personnel and careers professionals provide professional business services related to personnel policies such as employee recruitment or development, occupational analyzes and vocational guidance.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Workforce Planning Analyst, Skills Development Strategist, Human Resources Planner, Training Analyst, Enterprise Resource Planner
- Studying and analyzing jobs performed in an establishment by various means, including interviews with workers, supervisors and management, and writing detailed position, job or occupation descriptions from information obtained
- Advising on and performing personnel functions relating to employee recruitment, placement, training, promotion, compensation, and employee-management relations or other areas of personnel policy
- Advising and working on the foregoing and other aspects of job and occupation analyzes in such fields as personnel administration, workforce research and planning, training, or occupational information and vocational guidance
- Preparing occupational information or working on occupational classification systems
- Studying and advising individuals on employment opportunities, career choices and further education or training that may be desirable
2. Demand status
Demand evidence not yet linked
This is an official OFO 2021 occupation. Demand status is separate evidence and is not inferred from inclusion in the OFO.
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3. Salary evidence
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned