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Practical guides for finding work, exploring career paths and building experience in South Africa.
- Career Advice
Compare the first and next steps in distribution planning
Explore how entry-level responsibilities can grow into more independent work in distribution planning.
- Recruitment Tips
Design a short screening task for travel operations
Give every applicant for travel operations the same clear task and scoring criteria.
- Interview Tips
Explain a gap in your work history when applying for food production administration
Prepare an answer that moves the interview towards your readiness for food production administration.
- Career Advice
Build a 30-day learning plan for renewable energy project support
Turn your interest in renewable energy project support into a small learning plan with a useful outcome.
- Recruitment Tips
Write an accessible advert for telecommunications support
Make the duties and practical requirements of telecommunications support clear to applicants.
- Interview Tips
A good question to ask when interviewing for printing and signage
Ask the employer how the team recognises sound judgement in printing and signage.
- Career Advice
Map a move into community programme support
Identify the parts of your past work that transfer to community programme support.
- Interview Tips
Ask about success in the first 90 days in telecommunications support
Use the interview to understand what good early progress looks like in telecommunications support.
- Career Advice
Make a realistic first-month budget for a move into printing and signage
Check the everyday costs of taking a new role in printing and signage.
- Recruitment Tips
Reduce uncertainty between application and interview in community programme support
Give candidates for community programme support enough information to prepare and plan.
- Interview Tips
How to answer why you want to work in facilities coordination
Explain why a particular part of facilities coordination fits what you want to do next.
- Career Advice
Protect your momentum in a search for insurance administration work
Use a manageable short routine to keep moving toward insurance administration opportunities.