How To Use Social Media To Get A Job
No commentsThe credit’s crunched, the recession is biting and certain jobs are getting harder and harder to come by, especially by the traditional means of finding employment. To get ahead of the game you need to utilize the social media world in your quest for another job. That’s right, Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin can all help [...]
Watch out for work from home scams.
2 comments so farI was totally horrified today when we received an email from a Jobseeker who applied to a “Work from Home Data Entry” position. After doing some careful research we discovered that this is all a big “Get rich quick” scam!!!
This is how it goes:
“Job ads” (and I use this term very loosely here as [...]
Job Interview Articles
No commentsTo perform at your very best in a job interview you should get all the advice that you can. We have a number of very useful articles offering Job Interview Advice on Jobs.co.za, however to give you even more insight, we thought that it would be a good idea to syndicate some job interview [...]
Temporary Employment on the rise.
No commentsSince the onset of the economic downturn there has been a drastic change in the employment situation both locally and abroad as there is an increasing trend for hiring people on a temporary basis.
With so much uncertainty regarding in the employment market, employers are reluctant to hire new employees on a permanent basis and [...]
How secure are you in your job?
No commentsFollowing on my previous two Blog entries – Jobs Bloodbath – Value Your Jobs People and Are you in a Recession-Proof Career – I wanted to share with you some interesting statistics published in today’s Star Workplace.
A survey was recently conducted on a sample of 750 small, medium & large organisations in South Africa for [...]
Are you in a Recession-proof career?
2 comments so farAfter last weeks Sunday Times Careers front-page article referring to the Jobs Bloodbath I thought it would be inevitable that this week would follow suit with more articles spreading the doom and gloom of the job situation in South Africa. So, I went out and got the Sunday Times first thing today and true to [...]
Job Satisfaction and Company Loyalty; Committed or Uncommitted, that is the Question
1 comment so farIn a recent press release sent out by TNS, a global market research company, stats gathered from some 880 participants have identified some interesting findings detailing job satisfaction and company loyalty amongst diversified groups of employees.
While the current state of global economies are resulting in even unsatisfied workers being more inclined to hold onto their [...]
Understanding Online Fraud and Security Threats
1 comment so farIn a recent article published by ITWeb, top online security threats were identified as being on the rise during the past year. As reported such security threats have appeared to increase parallel to the world’s current economic state.
Piggy-backing off the instability and vulnerability that consumers are currently experiencing as a result of the current state [...]
Why Use the Jobs.co.za CV Creator?
No commentsWe made it, the end to another week and in fact the last week in January 2009.
Talking about how time flies is so last season, but seriously, this is getting out of hand now, the end of January is already here which means Valentine’s day is only two weeks away. Now there is a thought [...]
Improving Time Management and Finding Merit in Managing Schedules more Effectively
No commentsTime, a natural resource, as limited as any fossil fuel needed to keep the turbines moving and the engines churning.
The problem with time is that the more we need, the less we seem to have and the more we try to save it the quicker is seems to pass us by, neither helpful nor motivating.
In [...]