The secret to a successful career in customer services
CareersLatest news February 3, 2021
“Excellent customer service is the number one job in any company! It is the personality of the company and the reason customers come back. Without customers there is no company!” ~ Connie Edler, Founder & CEO, Peak 10 Skin Given the stiff competition in the marketplace for consumers’ time, attention,... Read more
Cheeba Cannabis Academy launches grow courses
CareersLatest news January 29, 2021
South Africa’s emerging cannabis industry holds significant promise for much-needed economic development. Key to unlocking the job creation potential is quality education and training that can turn out a knowledgeable and effective workforce. As cannabis legislation changes across the world, South Africa will face fierce competition from other countries,... Read more
The past year has been a true test of working differently for many businesses, as the global Coronavirus pandemic forced the country into various levels of lockdown for most of 2020. One such company that had to adapt quickly to the new circumstances was WesBank. As the leader in... Read more
DUT’S bay curbside job seeker scores job opportunity
AchieversCareersDurban University of TechnologyKwaZulu-NatalLatest news January 27, 2021
Community support, perseverance and hard work have landed Durban University of Technology (DUT) Mechanical Engineering graduate, Vukile Gumede a job at a mining company in Durban. The 23-year-old from Mtubatuba drew attention of strangers two months ago when he stood for days at a busy intersection in Richards Bay,... Read more
Zutari declared graduate employer of choice at GradStar Students’ Choice Awards 2020
AwardsCareersLatest news January 22, 2021
Working actively towards making an engineered impact in the communities it serves, and co-creating complete solutions in collaboration with its clients, resulted in Zutari taking first place in the Professional Services: Consulting Engineering category as a preferred graduate employer at the GradStar Students’ Choice Awards 2020. “This is testament... Read more
Graduate job hunt: starting a career during Covid-19
CareersLatest news January 21, 2021
While university students across South Africa await a delayed graduation, the 2021 job hunt is already underway. Due to the impact of Covid-19, the struggle to find traditional entry-level positions in a country where the youth unemployment rate continues to rise, is greater than ever. For many graduates, this... Read more
Distance Educator, Brainline, says its online school will start virtually and uninterrupted on 25 January as planned. This comes amid suggestions that the Department of Basic Education could consider delaying the 27 January reopening of public schools until February, amid rising coronavirus infections. In his address to the nation... Read more
Building Africa’s AI initiative
CareersGautengLatest newsUniversity of the Witwatersrand January 11, 2021
Considerations behind the largest and most complex undertaking of its kind in Africa’s history. In collaboration with academia, Cirrus is a private sector led initiative bringing together academia and industry for the establishment of a world class artificial intelligence (AI) research and application capability for Africa. Although launched in 2019, work on... Read more
Audi has utilised its brand partnership with South African Olympic runner and world record holder, Wayde van Niekerk, in a brand campaign which is titled #Lane8. The brand campaign is driven on social media and centres on Wayde’s historic victory at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, where he... Read more
Top three strategies to get noticed by employers
AchieversCareersLatest news December 24, 2020
South Africa’s unemployment rate is at 30.8% for the third quarter of 2020, reaching the highest rate in 17 years. As a new graduate looking to enter the job market, this type of news can be highly emotional and stressful. So, it is important for you to have a job-hunting... Read more
