The JobVuka blog
Practical guides for finding work, exploring career paths and building experience in South Africa.
- Career Advice
Make a realistic first-month budget for a move into e-commerce operations
Check the everyday costs of taking a new role in e-commerce operations.
- Recruitment Tips
Reduce uncertainty between application and interview in healthcare administration
Give candidates for healthcare administration enough information to prepare and plan.
- Interview Tips
How to answer why you want to work in construction support
Explain why a particular part of construction support fits what you want to do next.
- Career Advice
Protect your momentum in a search for distribution planning work
Use a manageable short routine to keep moving toward distribution planning opportunities.
- Recruitment Tips
Make a structured interview panel for travel operations
Keep hiring decisions consistent when several people interview for travel operations.
- Interview Tips
Prepare for a phone screening in food production administration
Use the first call to explain your interest in food production administration and check the practical details.
- Career Advice
Build a reliable contact list for a move into renewable energy project support
Keep useful connections in renewable energy project support and follow up with purpose.
- Recruitment Tips
Give clearer feedback after a telecommunications support interview
Write interview feedback that helps candidates understand the decision in telecommunications support.
- Interview Tips
How to discuss work samples in a printing and signage interview
Use a small sample to explain your thinking about printing and signage.
- Career Advice
Use a job shadow to learn about community programme support
Make a short observation session in community programme support useful for your career decision.
- Recruitment Tips
Improve the first-day briefing for facilities coordination hires
Give new starters in facilities coordination enough information to get to work and ask for help.
- Interview Tips
Practise explaining a decision you would escalate in insurance administration
Show that you can recognise when a decision in insurance administration needs someone else’s input.