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Archive for July, 2011
So What is Job Mail All About?
We thought it was time we answered this question, as you might just be asking yourself the same thing.
Job Mail was founded in the late 1990s. Job Mail is a platform that provides South African employers and recruitment agencies with a medium to advertise their job vacancies to all South African job seekers. Just to clarify Job Mail is not a recruitment agency, but an advertising medium to link employers and Job Seekers together.
Job Mail enables Job Seekers (like you) with the option to upload Read more [...]
Job Mail adds FMCG category
At Job Mail we like to look at the needs of both Job Seekers and Employers. For this reason we have created a FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) category.
The term FMCG refers to those retail goods that are generally replaced or fully used up over a short period of days, weeks, or months, and within one year. This contrasts with durable goods or major appliances such as kitchen appliances, which are generally replaced over a period of several years.
FMCGs have a short shelf life, either as a result Read more [...]
Use RPL to get a recognised qualification
If you have been working 3 to 5 years in a certain line of work and have in the process acquired skills, knowledge and experience but don’t have a specific qualification to prove it, then you are the right candidate for doing an RPL.
What is RPL you ask? Well, RPL stands for Recognition of Prior Learning. According to SAQA (the South African Qualifications Authority), "Recognition of Prior Learning is the process whereby through assessment, credit is given to learning which has already been acquired Read more [...]
Lesson 2: Do These Things When You’re Looking for a Job
Looking for a job is not easy. We have all been without work at some point in our lives. You may be feeling lost and maybe confused as there is no set algorithm that guarantees you the job. Some of you may even argue that you have the skills and the enthusiasm, yet you are still not getting the job. The rest of you agree… but maybe you just don’t have the 10 years of experience required by the job advertisement.
Experience in a certain field should not be the number one thing that stops you Read more [...]
Lesson 1: Do These Things When You’re Looking for a Job
You might live in a part of the country where competition for jobs is fierce. There's a large number of people in some areas of South Africa who are looking for jobs at all times because they might live in transient urban locations (this means that people are always moving into the areas and attempting to join the local workforce).
This is the classic case of urban migration. People go where the work is. You often find many individuals leaving the small towns from where they were raised, to find Read more [...]
Staying Motivated Whilst Searching for a new Job
Studies have shown that the average job seeker gives up searching for a job after 5 months. Do you fall into this category?
Are you staring at an empty page, trying to write the next cover letter or to update your CV? Are you postponing the grip and grin meeting you’ve scheduled? Has laziness started to set in? Has your get up and go taken a permanent vacation? Well, you are not alone. Staying motivated during a prolonged job search is more challenging than actually going for an interview.
Here Read more [...]
The CV template to rule them all
Following the overwhelming response we received from all our Job Mail Facebook fans last week it was very clear that not enough time was being invested towards CV writing. We at Job Mail appreciate your feedback and to show you all that we really do listen. It was noted by our Job Master that our recent poll showed that you were all very interested in getting a template to compile your perfect CV and cover letter. This post was created to share our preferred CV template with you.
We all know that Read more [...]
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