Career Development Services (CDS) is a national initiative to bring free quality career information, advice and counselling services to South Africans of all walks of life. CDS was established in 2010 following a decision by the Cabinet of the Republic of South Africa which sought to ensure that South African’s of ‘all ages have access to quality and differentiated career information, advice and counselling services throughout their lives’.

The preamble to the South Africa’s Constitution notes the importance of ‘freeing the potential of each person’ while the National Development Plan talks about the need for every individual to ‘embrace their full potential’. This embracing and freeing up of potential is critical to this nation’s development and transformation. As CDS we do not just aim to provide quality career and study related information and counselling services but to also contribute to the larger goal of assisting our people to ‘embrace’ and fulfil their potential.