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How To Work With Recruiters To Improve Your Chances of Getting a Job #JobAdviceSA 24/08

Tim Barry — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 06:44:45 +0000

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 the companies for which they recruit staff, many agency recruiters have realised that it is more beneficial to work with candidates and treat them like people rather than a commodity or product that they are selling to their clients. One such agency will be our guests on the latest #JobAdviceSA chat.

Liyema Consulting (@liyemaConsultn) were founded in 2012 as a two person, human resource consulting company, and have grown to be a formidable force in the industry, boasting a number of local and international clients. At their foundation is the belief in the cyclical effect of growing businesses and changing lives. Their business is people and their solutions are people centered.

They value their candidates and take every opportunity to help them gain knowledge and experience. Their people are their company’s greatest asset and they pride themselves on their culture of learning, growth and inspiration. They provide quality service with the utmost integrity, reliability and honesty in all spheres of their business.

This is why they are the perfect company to tell us how jobseekers can work with recruiters to improve their chances of getting a job. Here are the questions they will be answering:

Q1. Why should people build a relationship with recruiters when they are looking for a job?

Q2. What do recruiters want to see on your CV?

Q3. What should you include in the email when you send your CV to a recruiter?

Q4. When should you expect to hear from a recruiter after you’ve sent them your CV?

Join us at 4pm on Monday 24th August to get the answers to these questions by following the hashtag #JobAdviceSA as well as the @JobAdviceSA Twitter account and our host @TimJBarry

You can answer any of the questions using A1, A2, A3, etc, or ask any other questions you might have using the hashtag #JobAdviceSA

Looking forward to chatting with you!

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How Women Can Overcome Employment and Job Search Challenges #JobAdviceSA 17/08 #WomensMonth

Tim Barry — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 05:41:23 +0000

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.

There is still a long way to go before we can confidently say that there is equality for women in the workplace, let alone when they are considering seeking work and searching and applying for jobs. The challenges that women face are far more plentiful and difficult to overcome than those faced by men, and they have been exacerbated by the rising rate of unemployment in South Africa and further job losses resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.

So in our chat Ennie and the rest of the #JobAdviceSA community are going to cover the four main areas where women must overcome challenges in order to find work and enjoy a successful career. Here are the questions:

Q1. What are the personal factors that inhibit women from seeking employment, progressing in the workplace and growing in their careers and how can they overcome them?

Q2. How can women address the challenges and limitations related to family and gender roles that they face in securing employment and succeeding in their careers?

Q3. What are the barriers and challenges that women face in society and the workplace to take advantage of opportunities and succeed at work and how can they overcome them?

Q4. What would you advise women to do to help them find jobs and succeed in the workplace, and how can employers and recruiters help them?

Join us at 4pm on Monday 17th August to get the answers to these questions by following the hashtag #JobAdviceSA as well as the @JobAdviceSA Twitter account and our host @TimJBarry

You can answer any of the questions using A1, A2, A3, etc, or ask any other questions you might have using the hashtag #JobAdviceSA.

We look forward to chatting with you then!

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How to Prepare for an Interview #JobAdviceSA 06/07

Tim Barry — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 07:38:02 +0000

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 have a new message. You open your email inbox. The subject doesn’t give away what it’s about… You open it, closing your eyes before it comes up on the screen… it’s a recruiter from the company who you sent a job application to last month inviting you to an interview!

The feeling you get when you are invited to an interview is the second best feeling after being offered a job. No doubt you will have sent hundreds of applications before finally being successful, so no one can blame you for taking a moment to pat yourself on the back, right? Well don’t take too long, there’s a lot of work to be done yet!

On #JobAdviceSA chat on Monday 6th July we’re going to talk you through all the steps that you must take to prepare for an interview because, as they say, “fail to prepare, prepare to fail!”

Here are the questions:

Q1. What are the first things that you should do when you find out that you have been invited to an interview?

Q2. What do you need to research about the company?

Q3. What do you need to know about the position you are applying for?

Q4. How should you prepare yourself to attend the interview?

Join us to get the answers to the above questions by following the hashtag #JobAdviceSA as well as the @JobAdviceSA Twitter account and our host @TimJBarry

You can answer any of the questions using A1, A2, A3, etc, or ask any other questions you might have, using the hashtag #JobAdviceSA.

We look forward to chatting with you at 4pm on Monday!

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#ShiftGears on Youth Unemployment with @YouthCapitalSA #JobAdviceSA 15/06

Tim Barry — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 14:58:46 +0000

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 South Africa. Youth Capital’s Action Plan comes from joining the dots between research and data with the lived experiences of young South Africans and data from research, with the goal of providing a shared agenda for Government, Private Sector and South Africans to get behind to finally shift the needle on youth unemployment. In our country, every young South African could have the skills, support, and opportunity to get their first decent job… if we work to #ShiftGears together.

Find out more about Youth Capital and get in touch at: https://youthcapital.co.za/

Fb: @youthcapitalza

Twitter: @YouthCapitalSA

Insta: @youth_capital_sa

LinkedIn: youth-capital

In a change to our normal format we are going to let @YouthCapitalSA ask the questions which will be answered by the Founder of #JobAdviceSA and regular host @TimJBarry as well as resident expert @EnnieChipembere and the #JobAdviceSA community of career, job search and recruitment professionals. Here are the questions that we will be answering:

Q1. Most jobs require 2 or 3 years’ work experience but we are just out of school – how can we get around that?

Q2. What should we include or not include on our CVs and are there any CV templates that you can recommend?

Q3. Often we apply for jobs but never receive a response and don’t know why we didn’t make the cut. What is a nice way to request feedback in our applications?

Q4. Social Capital is very important when job-seeking but as young people we don’t know many people. What are some good tips to help build our social capital?

Join us to get the answers to the above questions by following the hashtags #JobAdviceSA and #ShiftGears as well as our special guest host @YouthCapitalSA resident expert @EnnieChipembere and Founder @TimJBarry

You can answer any of the questions using A1, A2, A3, etc, or ask any other questions you might have, using the hashtags #JobAdviceSA and #ShiftGears.

We look forward to chatting with you at 4pm on Monday!

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Looking for Work as the Lockdown is Lifted #JobAdviceSA 01/06 #YouthMonth

Tim Barry — Sun, 31 May 2020 11:25:23 +0000

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 eventually led to the democratic election in 1994.

The celebrations for Youth Day have since been expanded to include an entire month’s worth of events, programmes and talks which are aimed at educating, empowering and inspiring the youth of South Africa who are the future of our country. Therefore on the first day of Youth Month, which coincidentally is the first day of Level 3 of Lockdown, we will be answering the following questions to advise young South Africans on how to look for work as the economy is reopened:

Q1. What should young people be doing to prepare to look for work as the lockdown is lifted and companies begin hiring again?

Q2. Where should young people be looking for jobs whilst the coronavirus outbreak is still ongoing?

Q3. How can young people keep themselves safe when they go out to look for jobs or attend interviews?

Q4. How can young people keep themselves motivated and remain positive about finding work in the midst of an economic recession aggravated by the national lockdown?

Join us to get the answers to the above questions by following the hashtag #JobAdviceSA as well as the @JobAdviceSA Twitter account and our host @TimJBarry

You can answer any of the questions using A1, A2, A3, etc, or ask any other questions you might have, using the hashtag #JobAdviceSA.

We look forward to chatting with you at 4pm on Monday!

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Researching Trends in Careers and Work – #JobAdviceSA 25/05

Tim Barry — Sun, 24 May 2020 14:31:40 +0000

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 and how do you research trends to help you make career decisions?

Q2. Why is it important to know about changes in the labour market?

Q3. Who should you connect with or follow online to get insights into career trends?

Q4. What work trends should jobseekers be aware of when searching for a new opportunity?

Join us to get the answers to the above questions by following the hashtag #JobAdviceSA as well as the @JobAdviceSA Twitter account and our host @TimJBarry

You can answer any of the questions using A1, A2, A3, etc, or ask any other questions you might have, using the hashtag #JobAdviceSA.

We look forward to chatting with you at 4pm on Monday!

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How to Prepare for a Video Interview – #JobAdviceSA 06/04

Tim Barry — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 14:40:20 +0000

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 recruiting to fill those vacancies. If you apply for one of these jobs, and your application is shortlisted, then you might be invited to attend a video interview.

The technology that enables recruiters to interview candidates over the web via video has been around for a long time, but even now it is not commonplace for jobseekers to be asked to attend a video interview rather than meet the recruiter face-to-face. Now that most recruiters are working from home, and jobseekers are also under lockdown, video interviews are the only way that the two can ‘meet’ to discuss a job opportunity and determine whether the interviewee is the best fit for the role.

Therefore on this week’s #JobAdviceSA chat we are going to give advice on how to prepare for a video interview to improve your chances of being successful. Here are the questions:

Q1. What should be in your Video Interview Preparation Plan?

Q2. What do you need to research to help you prepare for a Video Interview?

Q3. How best should you prepare yourself for a Video Interview?

Q4. What is important for you to do during and after a Video Interview?

Join us at 4pm on Monday 6th April to get the answers to the above questions by following the hashtag #JobAdviceSA as well as the @JobAdviceSA Twitter account and our host @TimJBarry

You can answer any of the questions using A1, A2, A3, etc, or ask any other questions you might have, using the hashtag #JobAdviceSA.

We look forward to chatting with you!

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How to Map and Use Job Search Spaces #JobAdviceSA 23/03

Tim Barry — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:27:44 +0000

In the first #JobAdviceSA chat of 2020 our regular expert contributor, online Career Coach Ennie Chipembere, introduced us to the concept of using a Job Search Plan to focus and guide your job search strategy.

One of the techniques that you can use to implement your job search plan is to “project manage” your job search strategy, which includes mapping and using job search spaces and opportunities, both offline and online. Here are the questions that we will be answering in order to help you do this:

Q1. What does it mean to “project manage” your job search strategy?

Q2. What are some offline spaces that employers and recruiters use to advertise jobs?

Q3. Apart from job websites and social media networks, what other online spaces can you use to find jobs?

Q4. What personal relationships and experiences can help you find jobs?

Join us at 4pm on Monday 23rd March to get the answers to the above questions by following the hashtag #JobAdviceSA as well as the @JobAdviceSA Twitter account and our host @TimJBarry

You can answer any of the questions using A1, A2, A3, etc, or ask any other questions you might have, using the hashtag #JobAdviceSA.

We look forward to chatting with you on Monday!

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Creating a Cracking CV with Career Coach @EnnieChipembere – #JobAdviceSA 02/03

Tim Barry — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 08:19:31 +0000

Since the dawn of the 21st century more and more jobseekers have created online profiles on job websites and professional networking platforms like LinkedIn, but the humble CV document remains the most important tool to help you find a job. Having a good CV is so crucial that it can mean the difference between being shortlisted for your ideal job and being overlooked in favour of other candidates who do not have half the skills and experience that make you perfect for the role.

In order to help all the jobseekers in the #JobAdviceSA community create or update their CV to give them the best chance of being successful in their job search our special guest Ennie Chipembere will be hosting a live CV workshop where you can edit your CV and ask questions in real-time. Here are the five areas she will be covering:

Q1: What is your advice about the “look and feel” of a CV? E.g. contact details, length, picture, font, grammar, alignment, text size, online links, headings, bullets, design, CV templates, format etc

Q2: What should be in the Personal Profile/ Executive Summary section of the CV? What do recruiters want to see here?

Q3: What are the “do’s” and “don’ts” of the Key Skills Section?

Q4: How best should candidates present the “Experience and Employment History” section of the CV for them to be picked?

Q5: What’s your advice about the “Education and Training” section of the CV?

Join us at 4pm on Monday 2nd March to get the answers to the above questions by following the hashtag #JobAdviceSA as well as the @JobAdviceSA Twitter account and our special guest host @EnnieChipembere

You can ask any questions about drafting your CV that you might have by using the hashtag #JobAdviceSA.

We look forward to chatting with you on Monday, don’t forget to have your CV ready to edit!

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Negotiating Your Employment Contract with @EnnieChipembere – #JobAdviceSA 24/02

Tim Barry — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:36:53 +0000

So you’ve passed the interview and been offered the job, now all you need to do is sign on the dotted line, right? Wrong. Your employment contract is a legally binding document, so you need to make sure that you are 100% satisfied with the benefits as well as the salary that you will receive as part of your total package when you start working for the company.

After her amazing debut guest slot on the first #JobAdviceSA chat of 2020 it was clear that the best person to help us navigate us through the delicate topic of negotiating your employment contract is online Career Coach, and Head of Learning, Knowledge, Program Quality and M&E at @ActionAid International, Ennie Chipembere. Here are the questions that she will be helping us to answer:

Q1. What do you need to know before you negotiate your contract?

Q2. What financial benefits can you negotiate other than salary?

Q3. What work structure, wellness and days off benefits can you negotiate?

Q4. What personal development benefits can you negotiate?

Join us at 4pm on Monday 24h February to get the answers to the above questions by following the hashtag #JobAdviceSA as well as the @JobAdviceSA Twitter account and our host @TimJBarry

You can answer any of the questions using A1, A2, A3, etc, or ask any other questions you might have, using the hashtag #JobAdviceSA.

We look forward to chatting with you on Monday!

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