Is your job portal giving away free access or trials?

Beware of Job Portals who currently offer companies free access to companies in the interest of trying to win them over as a client. By offering free CV database access to agencies or companies, these portals are potentially putting their Job Seekers personal details at risk.
Before registering your CV on a job portal, find out [...]

Win an iPad: Tell us why your job rocks!

So you’re looking for a new job. Time to move on (or up) in your career, but there must be that one special thing that makes it impossible to hate your job. Whether you are in the job market or not, tell us why you love what you do. (After all, if [...]

Important Notice: Protect your Online Identity and Beware of Scam Jobs on free sites.

We feel that it is our duty to make Job Seekers aware of the risks of publishing your CV (with address, ID etc) on any website that does not place your CV behind a secure login area.
We have been informed by some Job Seekers that another job website called Jobspace.co.za that publicly displays everyone’s CV’s [...]

Watch out for work from home scams.

I 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 [...]

Temporary Employment on the rise.

Since 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 [...]

Are you in a Recession-proof career?

After 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 Scam Warning

We have recently been notified of another scam that is doing the rounds on job advertising boards, where a company is posing as Climax Oil and is presenting job offers on behalf of Climax Oil to job applicants without even having met for a job interview.
Although the job advertisement may seem rather legitimate, this is [...]

Jobs.co.za Prize: 2 Nights stay at Tau Game Lodge – Winner reports back

To those  Recruiters that attended the Johannesburg launch of Jobs.co.za, on the 25th of July ‘08 would know that during this event a lucky Recruiter namely; Wouter van Wyk from Career Confident, won a lucky launch draw for a weekend away to the exquisite Tau Game Lodge in the Madikwe Game Reserve.
Wouter has since returned [...]

The difference between CV Search and Match Maker

Greeting’s and salutations everyone,
Today’s blog is specifically for Recruiters and I plan on discussing the difference between Match Maker and CV / Candidate Search. I wanted to clear a few things up regarding these smart Recruiter Tools as it can get a little confusing if you don’t know the difference between these two.

Upon [...]

Jobs.co.za and JOZI Weekly Partner to Launch JOZI Jobs.

Ola’ Everyone!
Happy Halfway weekday! I know I say this all the time but hey, if we have nothing to look forward to, we don’t have much to live for.
So it’s my Wednesday Workplace Blog post that’s got me all excited because it’s actually us, Jobs.co.za that’s in the headlines this week and for a [...]