With so much uncertainty regarding in the employment market, employers are reluctant to hire new employees on a permanent basis and are leaning more towards hiring staff on a casual or temporary basis to fill those roles that previously might have been considered a permanent post. Employers are more comfortable taking short-term risks under the current situation.

Gillian Meier, CEO of Jobs.co.za says: “In recent discussions with a number of recruitment agencies we have discovered that many employment agencies who previously only placed permanent staff are now forced into having to do temporary placements to ensure that they continue to drive revenue in their businesses, while maintaining an existing relationship with their clients by being flexible towards their current needs, whether that be to fill permanent or temporary posts”.

The term ‘flexible staffing’ therefore holds true to recruiters, employers and Job Seekers in that everyone has to become more flexible under the current times.

For those who might be new to the world of Temporary Employment, here are some basic guidelines to Temporary Employment in South Africa:

The Skills Development Act stipulates that temporary employment agencies must be registered with the Department of Labour. Basic Guide to Private Employment Agencies.

Workers whose services are provided to a client by an employment agency are employed by the agency. The agency is the employer of the worker. The employee is then under a Temporary Contract of Employment with the employment agency (who is the temporary employer) and the Client, who is a third party, will typically enter into a ‘Contract of Work’ with the agency.

The employment agency hires out the services of the temporary employee to the client. The client pays the employment agency and the agency is therefore responsible for paying the temporary employee the agreed upon salary. The employment agency charges a far higher rate (salary) to the client than hat it has to pay the temporary employee, this being how the employment agency makes its money.

Upon completion of the assignment the Temporary Contract of Employment is automatically terminated and the Employment agency and Temporary employee then enter into a new Temporary Contract of Employment for each new assignment.

Although there is no direct employment relationship between the employee and the client, except for the ‘implied’ contract of work, both the employment agency and client (Company) are jointly responsible to stick to the Basic Conditions of Employment Act.

Occasionally a temporary employee may be employed directly by the Company thereby bypassing an employment agency entirely.

Whether employed through an employment agency (or labour broker) or by the Company directly, under the Basic Conditions of Employment Act a temporary employee must receive annual paid leave, sick leave and so on and is entitled to family responsibility leave, sick leave and overtime as with any other employee.  Furthermore, temporary employees are also entitled to be paid for public holidays that arise during the tenure of employment.

The termination of a Temporary Contract of Employment does not necessarily specify a terminate date, it usually details the termination of the contract being upon the occurrence of a particular event. For instance, the contract will terminate when the employee who is being filled in for returns from maternity leave, or sick leave etc. Or the contract is terminated upon completion of a particular task.

A worker who is an independent contractor is not an employee of a temporary employment service.  Visit the South African Labour Guide for more information on the understanding the differences between a contractor and a temporary employee in regards to the Employee’s Status.

Related Links

The department of labour provides specific Temporary Employment conditions in the following areas:

• Basic Guide to Temporary Employment Services (Wholesale and Retail);
• Basic Guide to Temporary Employment Services (Domestic Workers)
• Basic Guide to Temporary Employment Services (Farm Workers)

A survey was recently conducted on a sample of 750 small, medium & large organisations in South Africa for the first quarter of this year. The results indicated that 69% of companies said that they had no intention of altering their headcount in the next three months. Only 7% suggested that they anticipated staff reductions in the next three months, while 21% surprisingly forecasted growth in their staffing levels.

If you are breathing a sigh of relief at the figure of 7% and feel that you possibly do not fall into that percentage, then you just might need to take a step back and ask yourself if you are really that indispensable to your company. Are you truly adding value to the critical functions of the business?

If you are already unemployed and find yourself struggling to find a permanent job under these tough economical times then you might want to consider boosting your CV with a few more skills or by taking on temporary jobs in the interim. When searching through the job boards such as Jobs.co.za, don’t be too selective when filtering out jobs that might not be offering you the desired salary that you have in mind. You might find a great opportunity paying less than you had hoped for, but if you are prepared to sacrifice a little on the salary to get the offer, you can certainly prove your worth once you start your new job with the company. Once the economical situation improves, your employer will most likely be happy to entertain a salary increase to commensurate with the value that you have contributed to the company during the trying times.

Make sure that your CV is always up to date. You can create a professional CV on Jobs.co.za or upload an existing CV that is stored online and is available to you 24/7 from anywhere in the world. As long as your CV is complete and updated, you can access it quickly once an opportunity presents itself to you.

Whether employed or not if you can afford to, then now is the time to acquire a new skill. Those employees who have rare skills and qualifications will become increasingly in demand over the next few months.
If you are currently employed, hold on to your job and think twice before resigning. Now is not the time to resign unless you have already secured alternative employment. And never resign unless you have another firm signed offer in your hand from an alternative stable and credible company.

So what are these “in demand” qualifications, trades and skills?
According to the article (and subsequent articles carried throughout the same publication), the most in-demand careers for South Africa are:

1. Those holding specific trades such as artisans, plumbers and electricians.
2. Engineers; Specifically mechanical, civil and then electrical engineers.
3. Information Technology skills such as software engineers, developers, network engineers & administrators as well as those IT Managers who can demonstrate that they are able to align IT strategies with strategic business objectives.
4. Sharp managers! Meaning those managers that are able to communicate, motivate and build high-performance organisations through strong leadership.
5. Academics, teachers, nurses and doctors will always be in demand in South Africa as a result of the former brain drain that literally ‘drained’ South Africa of these most needed (but often underpaid) skills.

What do the job advertisements say?
After reading the predictions of two articles for two consecutive weeks regarding who will survive the recession and who should be concerned, I decided to flip through the rest of the Careers section. Pen in hand, I circled those jobs and qualifications or trades that appeared most frequently under this week’s vacancies. On page 1, just slightly below the ‘Recession Busters’ article was a fairly large ad for a mining giant promoting bursaries offering hope to Matriculants holding a 60% average in maths and science for a future in Mining, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering as well as other promising careers in the mining industry. This being an industry identified in last week’s publication as one of those who are most likely to lay-off employees during the coming Recession. Alongside the mining advertisement was another large advertisement recruiting for an Information Services Architect in the Petroleum industry, who should hold a degree or 3-year diploma in Computer Science or Information Technology accompanied with no less than 7 years technology architecture experience.

So that’s what the front page of the Careers section said, but what about the rest of the publication? A number of positions popped up frequently for Financial Managers – qualified CA’s – with between 5 to 7 years experience. This was not identified as one of the ‘in-demand’ skills, however judging by the number of job advertisements for Financial Managers; this too might be a promising career. I also spotted at least five job advertisements hiring CEO’s of medium to large size organisations with most of these vacancies requiring no less than a post-graduate qualification in business administration, or more specifically and MBA with 10 years plus experience.

What about all those Government Positions? Over the last few months or even years I have grown quite accustomed to seeing the majority of job advertisements in the Sunday Times Careers being for Government positions. I was surprised to see that the number of vacancies being advertised for the Government had reduced significantly – and as a result, so had the number of pages of the Career’s section. What did stand out is that the Department of Health is still advertising a large number of health jobs in the publication. Positions for Academics and teachers are also still featured rather prominently throughout the publication.

In support of last week’s predictions that the pharmaceutical and medical industries will not be retrenching, I noticed quite a few job advertisements in these industries. I also noticed that throughout the Careers section there was definitely an increase in the demand for Engineers holding BSc degrees with between 5 to 15 years experience, therefore supporting the comments in the headline article stating that those engineers with qualifications and skills will be more likely to survive the recession.

Looking at the content of the job advertisements throughout the publication it clearly demonstrated that those ‘in-demand’ careers mentioned above are, well … clearly in demand.

The article continued: “South Africa is on the brink of a jobs bloodbath. Between 200 000 to 300 000 people stand to lose their jobs this year on top of more than 112 000 who have already been laid off since November.” Wrote Rowan Philp of the Sunday Times. With over 350,000 school leavers looking for jobs, already over 47,000 employees laid off in the automotive industry and the projection of up to 50,000 job cuts predicted in the mining industry it is clear that there is cause for concern. Individuals that are most likely to be affected are those in the mining, automotive, call centre, steel, engineering, clothing and textile industries. Retrenchments are predicted to affect both white-collar and blue-collar workers alike.

According to the director-general of trade and industry, Tshediso Matona, only the pharmaceutical, chemical and agricultural processing industries are less likely to expect lay-offs this year. According to the article, the unemployment rate could be pushed up significantly – pegged at 22% by government and 40% by various research units – up roughly 3%.

As I read this article with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, I was immediately reminded of a previous article regarding Job Creation that we commented on in our blog post in October last year where Finance Minister Mr. Trevor Manual delivered his medium term budget speech on Tuesday the 21st Of October, placing emphasis on job creation and the further reduction of unemployment and poverty in South Africa. As quoted in a newspaper article published in The Star, 22 October ‘08 (by Sibusiso Ngalwa), according to Manuals reports during this speech, more funds (Approx R4.1 Billion) will be injected into the EPWP (Expanded Public Works Programme) over the next 3 years with the intention of boosting long term job creation and employment opportunities that offer sustainable and enduring promises to Job Seekers. Manuals speech further expressed that such financial backing would expect to create 155 000 long term permanent jobs per year, until 2011 which will result in a round 465 000 jobs in the next 3 years with particular focus in; Community Health Services (including home based care), Construction, Rehabilitation and Environmental Programmes (projects based employment), NGO and Community Based Organisations. Manual also suggested that further wealth will be injected into South Africa’s Employment Intensive Programmes, further boosting job creation with the objective of reaching a projected target of creating a total of 5 Million jobs by the year 2014.

Given the current economical status and the many predictions that we are heading for a deep recession, I need to wonder what the reality of the situation is. My suggestion to those currently employed is to value your jobs. Hold onto your current employment with all your might. Make sure that your attitude at work reflects one of ‘I love my job and am thankful to be here’. Arrive at work on time, give 110%, try to add value wherever you can and retain a positive attitude amongst your colleagues. In other words, do whatever it takes to prove to your employers that you value your job and want to be there and will do anything to stay employed. The old saying of ‘last in first out’ does not necessarily apply in the current situation. If companies are forced to retrench, they will rather retain those that add value and have a positive attitude and will retrench those that offer little to no value to the organisation.

If you are one of the unfortunate hard working, positive, valuable employees that are faced with retrenchment, start looking for a job immediately. Register your CV on CV databases such as Jobs.co.za and make your CV active and searchable so that companies can find you.

When you apply to jobs, make sure that you write your cover notes with careful consideration and thought rather than simply using a standard ‘Dear Sir/Madam, please find my CV for your XYZ job attached’. Highlight in your cover note where you can add value to the role that you are applying for. Show that you are dedicated, skilled and committed. Before simply attaching your default CV make sure that the CV is targeted to the specific role that you are applying for by highlighting those skills that you have that matches the job advertisement and include references wherever possible to demonstrate that you have nothing to hide.

Good luck to everyone in South Africa – whether employed or unemployed – and remember, with so many unemployed individuals in the country there is some dedicated, hard-working individual waiting in the wings to take your job in a heart beat.

So I reiterate, if you are one of the fortunate to have a job right now – value it!

I hope you are all well and having a great week so far.

While to some, this may be old news but I wanted to chat to you about the budget speech that Trevor Manual, South Africa’s Finance Minister delivered last week during what seemed to be a melancholy address of the nation regarding finances for the upcoming financial year.

Understandably so, aside from the global economy scraping along the underbelly of the recession pool, our countries economy is taking its fair amount of strain along with the upcoming political challenges that we will be faced with in April.

Not to say the upcoming elections are a bad thing, but these do always tend to create a little bit of a dip in foreign investment while under way. Needless to say, Mr Manual delivered a beautifully articulated speech, as to be expected and the one thing that I’m absolutely stoked beyond my prayer beads about is the announcement of reduced personal income tax. While there is a very sound and smart strategy behind this, in my eyes it’s still completely terrific that we will all be paying marginally less tax each month which will ultimately mean we clear just a little bit of extra cash after each pay day. With the intention of injecting more wealth into our own economy ahead of the 2010 world cup as well as to clear the domestic debauchery of dept that most of us are battling to cover, bring on the tax relief! Trevor for President!

In fact I’m so excited about this reduction in personal income tax I have included a handy tax calculator link to help you to work out how much of a saving you will be making with this financial years reduction. The attached tax calculator is compliments iafrica.com and not only shows you what you can expect to pay in personal income tax this year but how this amount compares to what you were paying during last year.

Here are a few other top financial changes that will be applied as a result of the budget speech;

• Sin Taxes Increase (expense)

- A box of cigarettes will now cost an additional 88 cents per box

- A bottle of spirits (750ml) will increase by R3.21

- A can of beer will now cost 7cents more

• Petrol and Diesel on the Rise in April (around 40 cents per litre) (expense)
• Old age, Disability and Care Grants to increase by R50 per month (income)
• Foster Care Grant to Increase to R680 (income)
• Child Support Grant of R240 per child is now extended to children up to the age of 15 years
• R932 Million to be injected into the treatment and prevention of HIV/Aids

And that’s about as much financial coverage as I choose to dabble in.

Go check out the tax calculator, amidst the doom and gloom of our finances I think you may be pleasantly surprised at the saving you will be making in the next 12 months.

Hope you all have a marvellous evening and I will catch up with you later on in the week.

Namaste’

Jo Blog

Joblog@jobs.co.za

How are you all doing this wet and watery January Monday in Jozi.

All is well on the Jobs front, and have successfully got stuck into the second working week of the year despite a somewhat slow and as described this morning by a friend, “indifferent” start up to the day.

Yes I know, I know, guru’s are supposed to exude positivity, energy and excitement for life, but if I didn’t have a marginally off day every now and then you would start to doubt whether or not I was genuine or worse yet, possibly suspect that I was rolling myself in Prozac each week.

Right moving along and swiftly at that, those of you that read the paper this morning would have noted that there is a proposed Election Day set for the 2009 South African presidential elections.

So get out your buttons, banners and streamers because it’s time to prep for the polls people.

Ok, well perhaps not as over the top as that, but as reported in the front page of the Star this morning, a date for this year’s elections has been informally reserved for Wednesday the 15^th of April 2009.

This date will be confirmed on Friday the 6^th of February when “stand in” president Kgalema Motlanthe reopens parliament for the year.

The build up to the 2009 elections will see another registration weekend over the 7^th and the 8^th of February, awarding South African voters one last opportunity to register in order to cast their votes and have their say. Surprisingly enough, there are apparently 150 registered political parties in the country, lobbying to take part in this year’s election, however less than 30 of these parties will be open to receive votes and rally for their spot in parliament (financial deposits are required for participation which, as with any “business”, places pressure on those parties who have been less than successful in receiving capital support for such requirements).

It has also been scheduled that following the elections, regardless of when the formal date that these will fall on, the formal swearing in of the countries much needed, newly appointed president is set to happen on Monday the 27^th of April and most aptly, South Africa’s Freedom day. (Superb diary management by the minister date dogma).

Exciting times – exciting times!

As mentioned before, politics are my least favoured topic of conversation but I am happy to sacrifice my personal preferences to ensure that you are kept up to date with topics that have particular bearing on the South African employment market and general state of our economy. After all, these elections will have a large impact on both of these and thus we should all be paying very close attention to them regardless of whether we are interested in them or not.

I will be back in a bit with more information, interesting stories and sometimes simple chit chat to keep you entertained, enlightened and always, in the know with Jo.

You all have yourselves a terrific evening and I will catch you again soon.

Peace and Love everyone!

Jo Blog

Joblog@jobs.co.za

www.jobs.co.za

South Africa’s Job Portal

I can hardly believe that my chocolate advent calendar has just over a week’s worth left of festive season’s calories to munch on. The 23^rd is upon us, Christmas only 2 days away and the New Year peeping around the corner.

Time certainly flies when you are having fun and what a fun year it has been.

With a focus on creating a Job Seeker centric job portal, 2008 has brought about the rebirth of South Africa’s most established Job Portal, Jobs.co.za.

With a new family to ensure its success, a firm focus on the goals at hand and a positive attitude to push through each challenge, Jobs.co.za would like to thank each and every visitor to the website and hope that your experience has been a good one.

After successfully re-launching Jobs.co.za, moving forward into 2009, Jobs.co.za promises to deliver even greater benefits to service the South African job market with. With marketing campaigns planned and ready to roll out, new tools and functionality to be added to the mix and further growth to the Jobs Team to ensure that clients and Job Seekers are getting the attention that they require, 2009 is going to be better than fine.

As mentioned in my previous blog post, the Jobs.co.za offices will be closing as of this afternoon for the holiday period and will reopen on the 5^th of January 2009.

We would like to wish everyone a safe, prosperous and love filled festive season and trust that as you ring in the New Year, your lives will be recharged with energy, gusto, enthusiasm and success.

The website will still be accessible and you will still be able to register, create CV’s, run searches and apply to job ads.

Should you encounter any technical difficulties during the time that our offices will be closed, please don’t hesitate to contact us on 0861 JOBS 101 (0861 5627 101) and we will direct your call to the most suitable means of resolution.

And with that, this old Guru guy is heading on out to go and spread the word, share the love and make nice with the natives.

In keeping with the steady pace we follow towards the New Year I’d like to leave you with a piece of writing to end off 2008 with. Written by Osho; a professor of philosophy, spiritual teacher and author of a collection of life changing books that have the ability to enlighten even the darkest of hearts.

I hope that this inspires all of you to push forward through the challenges and victories that the New Year will uniquely bring to each of us as and when we need to experience them.

“The seed cannot know what is going to happen; the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed.

Nothing can be guaranteed. Thousand and one are the hazards of the journey, many are the pitfalls – and the seed is secure, hidden inside a hard core. But the seed tries, it makes an effort; it drops the hard shell which is its security, it starts moving. Immediately the fight starts: the struggle with the soil, with the stones, with the rocks. And the seed was very hard and the sprout will be very, very soft and dangers will be many.

There was no danger for the seed, the seed could have survived for millennia, but for the sprout many are the dangers. But the sprout starts towards the unknown, towards the sun, towards the source of light, not knowing where, not knowing why. Great is the cross to be carried, but a dream possesses the seed and the seed moves.”

- Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain], Dang Dang Doko Dang, chapter 4

Happy Holidays everyone and I will be back with you in 2009.

All the very best!

Jo Blog

joblog@jobs.co.za

0861 JOBS 101

I hope you are all well and had a fantastic weekend – I certainly did; definitely one for the books and what’s more, we are one more week closer to the New Year

Fresh starts, new beginnings, clean slates and 365 days injected with sunny potential and boundless possibilities.

How exciting!

So as you may well be able to tell I have been bitten by the Happy Holiday Bug and am feeling the positivity all around.

(Which might I add, is quite out of character for someone dubbed the “Grinch” in previous years)

For some however, the Festive Season is a difficult time and sometimes challenging to get through.

Traffic, pressure, gifting, shopping, wrapping, meeting, greeting, being alone or being overwhelmed with guests – Each of us have our own quibble, not to mention energy supplies are on an all time low and some of us still have to work through until the New Year.

Every year the festive season seems to come around a lot sooner than it did the year before (provided you are over the age of 21) which adds to the pressure and leaves some almost with a sense of panic and disorder.

This year I have decided to tap into a resource that we all have and we can all make use of provided we choose to do so.

The resource; the choice itself.

We all have a choice in life which means; believe it or not you and I get to purposefully choose how we move through each moment that we encounter, the festive season included.

And without being to gaudy and nauseatingly positive but I wanted to share with you this gift that I have been given early this year that may just make the holidays that much more enjoyable.

My gift to you this year is to remind you of the awesome choice that you have at your fingertips just waiting to be pinched and hope that you too will try to tap into the positive energy that others may be exuding right now (even if you fail to do so yourself).

I hope that the choice comes easy to each of you and at best you find even just a moment of joy during this very busy time.

In sticking with the festive season theme, I thought it would also be worth mentioning to you that the Jobs.co.za offices will be closed over the 2008 Festive Season and more specifically

from the 24^th of December ‘08 until the 5^th of January ‘09.

You may have noticed the mention of this on the home page of Jobs.co.za that went up today but I thought I should mention it in the blog pages as well just in case.

Should you encounter any technical issues or problems during this time please do contact us on

0861 Jobs 101 and your call will be diverted to the necessary means of recourse according to the nature of your query.

I hope that I haven’t been too gushy today and if so I do apologise, I just had to share with you what I feel it to be my duty to pay forward (True Guru Style)

I hope the rest of your day is how you choose it to be.

Namaste’

Peace Out

Jo Blog

joblog@jobs.co.za

0861 JOBS 101

I hope you are all well and slowly winding down as the year draws to an end.

As much as I’d like to say I am, sadly a Guru’s job is never done and in fact on contraire’ this time of year things always tend to heat up on my side.

None the less, the festive season always promises positivity and at best good company with those you love so I hope you are all finding your little piece (peace) of heaven as we wrap the year up.

A week or so ago I posted a piece about Jobs becoming the first member of the IAEWS, the International Association of Employment Websites. As mentioned the IAEWS is an organisation that protects promotes and directs the operation of job portals and job boards and ensures the integrity of such services is maintained.

In other words users of the Jobs.co.za website are protected at all times according to the IAEWS code of ethics that Jobs.co.za adhere to in terms of user confidentiality (passwords and user name protection), fair and just operation of the website, transparent and open operation of the website, self regulation and providing services to users with the highest level of responsibility and integrity.

Now you may be wondering, ok we get it, Jobs.co.za are now members of the IAEWS and I’m safe and well protected and you’d be correct in saying so.

You are safe on Jobs, but are you safe on other websites that you register with?

Sometimes in trying to hurry along the registration process we encounter online, often we agree to terms and conditions of websites without ever even glancing at them while submitting personal details to companies we know nothing about

Bad idea…

When registering on any website we submit personal and highly confidential information (especially in the case of job portals).

By not reading the T’s and C’s of the website we register with, we essentially open ourselves up to having our personal information be taken advantage of and misused and compromised for commercial gain.

By all of the above I’m specifically referring to the selling of registered databases and fundamentally your personal and highly confidential information.

A common factor found circulating in the underbelly of the World Wide Web, is where website owners collect user data, compile elaborate and lucrative databases and proceed to sell this information to other website owners for a fortune.

So this might not sound so bad, but how would you like your personal information be registered in dodgy internet neighbourhoods, porn sites or alternatively sold companies who proceed to inundate you with spam.

My point is that while we have slipped into a comfortable second gear when using the internet, vigilance and attention to detail should always come first when submitting personal information online.

Research a site before being too quick to submit your personal information. Read their terms and conditions, if you don’t understand something in the T’s and C’s, Google it and look for further clarification and be 100 % confidant that your information will be protected.

Register with websites that are transparent about their affiliations, what they plan on doing with your personal information and how it will be gathered.

Only ever contribute your personal information to those sites you have paid some attention to in making sure that have your very best interests at heart.

I hope that I have enlightened you and at best made you aware of simple ways to protect yourself online and when registering on websites.

Your integrity is the most important thing you have to protect.

Once it is gone you can never get it back and while we like to think we live in a world of peace and love and community sadly there are a few people out there with other things on their mind than being “a nice guy”

Thanks for your time!

Peace out

Jo Blog

joblog@jobs.co.za

And welcome again to yet another blog post, today while paging through the newspaper I came across a rather upsetting piece of writing regarding the current state of the South African economy and more specifically a report that concerns the South African job market.

While I’m not one to spread doom and gloom, I felt it worth reporting to you the current state of our employment market given the current status of global and domestic markets.

In a newspaper article published in the Business Report of The Star today, according to South African economists and labour analysts, retrenchments are on the up and up for the 4^th and final quarter of the current financial year.

Mike Schussler, an economist at T-Sec, a South African stockbroker company, reported in the newspaper article that 74 000 jobs were lost in the 3^rd quarter of the current financial year and predicts even more to come in the 4^th quarter.

So far, approximately 20 000 jobs have been lost over the last 6 weeks, although, keeping in mind that this is as reported by major companies. Counting those jobs lost within smaller enterprises, this figure could more accurately be predicted at around 60 000 jobs lost over the past few weeks.

While the increased numbers of lost jobs is mainly being experienced in mining, manufacturing and motor industries, it is evident that the current lull in the South African economy, as well as other international industries is having a severe effect on job markets.

Despite efforts to boost employment, the South African unemployment rate remains at 23% and if predictions for 2009 are accurate things are set to stay stagnant through the upcoming year with growth rates estimated at a whopping round number of zero.

Those of us that are lucky enough to be employed should certainly be grateful for this blessing, especially around this time of year and the looming festive season just around the corner.

Be sure to keep productivity levels burning on the back-up thrusters, be the first one into the office in the morning and the last to leave at night, meet your deadlines and hug your boss at least once a day.

I will be sure to keep a look out for further reports regarding these worrying topics and hope to find more positive news in weeks to come.

Until then, peace out!

Namaste’

Jo Blog

joblog@jobs.co.za