“Our society teaches us to spend a lot of time looking out there for success, but the ability to drive yourself to your full potential starts internally with personal mastery.” – Rapelang Rabana, founder and CEO of Rekindle Learning. They say hard skills get you the interview but soft skills lands you the job. So what are soft skills – and how can you make them work for you? While hard skills refer to your skills set and ability to carry out work-related tasks – from typing up memos to drawing up plans for your architecture firm – soft skills are personal…
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Technology has changed the world of work and nowadays, people change jobs between 10 and 14 times by age 34! An important thing to understand is that people seldom make step-by-step decisions that they can predict when they are school, about their career. You may have heard your parents speaking about “career paths”. In the past, people tended to follow quite a structured and logical career path. After school, you would possibly look at going to university and then finding a job. Your grandparents probably only worked for one or two companies during their entire lives – how things have…
Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are still the dominated by men. By a long way. In South Africa, only 7% of young women choose to pursue a STEM career. And yet, there is a massive demand for qualified candidates across every industry. It’s called the 4th Industrial Revolution. And it does not discriminate. So with the massive demand for skills in STEM careers, why are so few women missing out on these prime employment opportunities? We can blame the bias of previous generations for that. After all, boys became doctors, girls became nurses. Boys become engineers and scientists,…
Fourteen-year-old Paballo (Pabi) Leqhotsa jumps out of the pilot seat of a four-seater Cessna monoplane giddy with delight. “It was amazing. I felt like I was in control, do you understand?” she says, spinning round in excitement. Taking control of an aircraft was something the teenager from Soweto had dreamed of since she was little. She stands on the runway at Grand Central Airport and whoops with pure joy; the words of delight streaming out of her. “Driving Zulu Sierra Papa Whiskey Whiskey (her aircraft’s call-sign) was so amazing. It was so amazing!” The woman behind this euphoria is Refilwe…
It can be hard work looking for jobs online. Try these smart-search strategies to make the internet work for you – not the other way around. Where to start? The key to searching for jobs is knowing what you are looking for. You need to decide where you want to work, what you want to do, and how much you’re willing to get paid for the job. It often helps to start with an exercise, which I like to call “Brainstorm Myself”. Be honest and list what you’re good at, as well as any achievements you’ve accomplished (at school, church or…
How to change your subjects in GRADE 10, 11 or 12 You CAN change a certain number of subjects, depending on the rules for public schools. (Please double check with your Province’s Education Department.) A learner can change 2 subjects in GRADE 10 and 11. This will be managed by your school. The closing date: 31st July. In exceptional cases a learner can change ONE subject in GRADE 12 if the school think it’s in the best interests of the learner. The school may only take this decision after consulting with the Head of Department. The closing date: 30 January for the subject change for…
STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics The 4th Industrial Revolution is upon us. It is no longer a future concept; it’s here. And with it, a lot a traditional jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence (yes, the machines are taking over). While it causes some concern to think that jobs your parents had might not exist when you leave school, the exciting part is that millions of new jobs will be created. Innovative, highly-rewarding careers that will only be open to those who have the education and skill set to fill them. And Grade 9 is the perfect…
YES, you can! You can add subjects to an NSC qualification … BUT FIRST check that the institution/course you want to attend will accept subjects added at a later date. Where can I study extra subjects? To add additional NSC subjects register at one of the following institutions: INTEC CORRESPONDENCE COLLEGE Advantage: Start immediately. First register with your Provincial department of education early in the year in order to write. DAMELIN: (Lecture based or correspondence studies) Advantage: With the correspondence option you could start immediately. First register with your Provincial department of education early in the year in order to write.…
The difference between ideation and brainstorming is that in an ideation session “you introduce new stimuli to excite people’s brains in a new way. That’s where new ideas come from,” explains Bryan Mattimore, author of 21 Days to a Big Idea. In the book, he talks about ideation workshops he conducted with brands like Chips Ahoy! to come up with new products and ideas for marketing campaigns. “These companies have been around for 100 years,” he said, “how do you get people to start thinking about something differently when all these smart people have been thinking about it for a century already?”…
“I wish I’d thought of that!” Have you ever had that thought when you see something online or in a store that catches your eye and fires your imagination? Well, that’s how it started. Someone had an idea. Then developed that idea through different processes right through to its final implementation. Most of the time, ideation doesn’t start with an idea. It starts with a problem, or the search for a solution to the problem. This can be done alone or in collaborative brainstorming sessions. It will require a disciplined approach which should include research or knowledge on customer needs,…