The JobVuka blog
Practical guides for finding work, exploring career paths and building experience in South Africa.
- Career Advice
Use a job shadow to learn about food production administration
Make a short observation session in food production administration useful for your career decision.
- Recruitment Tips
Improve the first-day briefing for renewable energy project support hires
Give new starters in renewable energy project support enough information to get to work and ask for help.
- Interview Tips
Practise explaining a decision you would escalate in telecommunications support
Show that you can recognise when a decision in telecommunications support needs someone else’s input.
- Career Advice
Compare the first and next steps in printing and signage
Explore how entry-level responsibilities can grow into more independent work in printing and signage.
- Recruitment Tips
Design a short screening task for community programme support
Give every applicant for community programme support the same clear task and scoring criteria.
- Interview Tips
Explain a gap in your work history when applying for facilities coordination
Prepare an answer that moves the interview towards your readiness for facilities coordination.
- Career Advice
Build a 30-day learning plan for insurance administration
Turn your interest in insurance administration into a small learning plan with a useful outcome.
- Recruitment Tips
Write an accessible advert for agricultural operations
Make the duties and practical requirements of agricultural operations clear to applicants.
- Interview Tips
A good question to ask when interviewing for events operations
Ask the employer how the team recognises sound judgement in events operations.
- Career Advice
Map a move into property administration
Identify the parts of your past work that transfer to property administration.
- Interview Tips
Ask about success in the first 90 days in agricultural operations
Use the interview to understand what good early progress looks like in agricultural operations.
- Career Advice
Make a realistic first-month budget for a move into events operations
Check the everyday costs of taking a new role in events operations.