Jobs.co.za announces SA’s first Career Management Seminar

Despite comments that the economy is recovering, local unemployment stats keep rising with more than 171,000 people having lost their jobs in the first quarter of this year driving the unemployment rate to above 25%. Together with local experts, Jobs.co.za is reaching out to job seekers in a unique way by hosting South Africa's first ever Job Seeker and Career Management Seminar.

The seminar entitled ‘Find your Career Success' has been organised by South African Job Portal, Jobs.co.za in association with Human Communications, Canei Solutions, The IE Group (Image Excellence) and Brain Matters inc. The aim of the seminar is to empower job seekers who are struggling to find employment as well as those employees who are feeling de-motivated in their current positions and who simply need to re-charge their careers.

Industry experts will come together to present a series of workshops that will provide active and passive job seekers with fresh ideas on how to compete better in today's tough employment times, and to help them find the right career to match their own unique success potential.

Topics that will be covered at the seminar include an overview of South Africa's changing job market, successful job interview tips including how to handle difficult or discriminatory job interview questions and expert advice on how not to get a CV chucked out. Professional image consultants will advise delegates on how to make a powerful first impression by helping them discover the tools and skills required to make an impression that sells the visual expression of the personal brand through dress and non-verbal communication (body language).

Delegates will each receive a Genetic Brain Organisation Profile report to assist them in understanding their unique strengths and challenges and how these can be used to refine their job search. The session presented by Brain Matters inc will guide job seekers towards finding their unique success potential and their innate strengths that they may not have been aware of, but that can be used to market themselves more effectively whether looking for job, considering a career change or negotiating a promotion.

'By hosting the seminar, we hope to hope to inspire, educate and guide new entrants into the job market, retrenched individuals as well as those professionally employed, yet unsatisfied workers.' says Gillian Meier, CEO of Jobs.co.za.

The seminar will take place over two days on the 8th and 9th July 2010 in Johannesburg. Individuals interested in learning more about the seminar interest can go to http://www.jobs.co.za/workshop/ or they can contact 0861 JOBS (5627) 101.

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