The programme has successfully registered a total of 553 883 job-seekers on the system. However, the placement rate has been very low, with the Department reporting a total of 96 505 job-seekers successfully placed or referred to opportunities. According to the Department, the biggest challenge is the high percentage of job-seekers with low level skills to match registered opportunities. Another area of non-achievement is the profiling of job-seekers. The department has not achieved its target owing largely to the fact that candidates not turning up for appointments for assessments. The majority of these challenges are long term, as they reflect socio-economic shortcomings posed by the country's economic structural deficiency. Therefore, the Department has to find creative solutions to these challenges.