When you are job seeking you will normally come into contact with a recruiter rather than the employer themselves. These can be in-house recruiters or human resources staff who are responsible for recruitment, but the majority of job adverts are posted by recruitment agencies. Whilst recruitment agencies work contractually for…
How Women Can Overcome Employment and Job Search Challenges #JobAdviceSA 17/08 #WomensMonth
In a special #WomensMonth edition of #JobAdviceSA chat we are fortunate to be joined by online Career Coach Ennie Chipembere (@EnnieChipembere), who is Head of Program Quality, M&E, Learning and Knowledge for Action Aid and was International Women’s Rights Technical Advisor for an INGO covering 44 countries for 6 years. …
Pay Secrecy, Payslip Collecting and Wage Discrimination #JobAdviceSA 20/07
On the next #JobAdviceSA chat we are going to be joined by Leonie Hall, the Founder of PaySlipBanSA to discuss the discrimination and inequality that results from employers not disclosing the salary for a position in job adverts and demanding that jobseekers provide their payslips when they are applying for a…
How To Answer The Most Common (and Hardest) Interview Questions #JobAdviceSA 13/07
There are some questions that come up in almost every interview you attend, and these also tend to be the ones that trip most jobseekers up. Fortunately the #JobAdviceSA community of Career, Job Search and Recruitment experts is on hand to advise you on how to prepare your answers for…
How to Prepare for an Interview #JobAdviceSA 06/07
We all know that feeling… your phone starts ringing and your heart starts beating faster. You hesitate to answer as you’re not sure whether it will be good or bad news… You pluck up the courage just before the call goes to voicemail… or… you get a notification that you…
#ShiftGears on Youth Unemployment with @YouthCapitalSA #JobAdviceSA 15/06
In the third of our series of chats during #YouthMonth, and in the week in which South Africa celebrates #YouthDay, we are very excited to welcome a special guest host to #JobAdviceSA chat. Youth Capital is a youth-led campaign with an Action Plan to shift gears on youth unemployment in…
Looking for Work as the Lockdown is Lifted #JobAdviceSA 01/06 #YouthMonth
Youth Month is celebrated in South Africa in June every year, with the highlight being Youth Day on 16th June. Youth Day commemorates the Soweto Uprising of 1976 by young South Africans of colour that became the turning point in the ending of their oppression by the Apartheid Government, which…
Researching Trends in Careers and Work – #JobAdviceSA 25/05
On this week’s #JobAdviceSA chat our regular expert contributor, Career Coach @EnnieChipembere, will be introducing us to Trends Research and explaining how it can help you in planning your career. Here are the questions that she and the #JobAdviceSA community of experts will be answering: Q1. What is trends analysis…
Leveraging LinkedIn during the Lockdown – #JobAdviceSA 20/04
LinkedIn is a professional social network where you can connect and network with people from all over the world to explore job opportunities, learn new skills and make useful contacts for your job search and future career. During the Covid-19 outbreak and national lockdown it is even more important to…
How to Prepare for a Video Interview – #JobAdviceSA 06/04
Since the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus Covid-19, and following the start of the 21-day National Lockdown imposed by the Government, many companies have put recruitment on hold for all their open positions. However, as we discussed in our last Twitter chat, there are still companies advertising jobs and actively…