EWSETA — a national career portal pointing youth toward the energy and water economy
We built the interactive platform South Africa's Energy & Water SETA uses to guide young people into careers in two of the country's most strategic sectors — turning career guidance into something they can explore, not just read.
The Energy & Water Sector Education and Training Authority (EWSETA) is responsible for building South Africa's skills pipeline in two sectors central to the country's future — energy and water. But guiding young people toward those careers is hard when guidance lives in PDFs and brochures that don't reach, engage, or hold the attention of the youth they're meant for. EWSETA needed career guidance that worked the way young people actually explore: interactive, visual, and self-directed.
We built a comprehensive career portal designed around how youth actually discover careers — not how institutions usually publish them. An embedded squad delivered the full platform, integrating real career-guidance content into interactive tools: quizzes that match interests to pathways, explainer videos that make sectors tangible, dashboards that visualise options, and job-outlook tools grounded in real sector demand. The goal throughout was engagement — a young person should leave the portal knowing what's possible and what to do next.
We delivered an interactive career guidance portal for the energy and water sectors, featuring career quizzes that steer users toward suitable pathways, explainer videos, interactive dashboards, and job-outlook tools that show where the real opportunities are. The content and the technology were built together, so the guidance isn't a static library — it's an experience that helps young people find a direction.
EWSETA moved career guidance from static documents to an interactive national platform — giving South African youth a self-directed way to explore careers in energy and water, and giving the Authority a modern channel to deliver on its skills-development mandate.
Melsoft turned our career guidance into something young people actually want to use. They understood the audience as well as the technology — the portal does the job the brochures never could.