The jobs are there, but the truth is that 99% of your efforts may be misdirected. This used to be the success rate of job hunting methods (roughly): 10% sending CVs to advertised jobs or through employment agencies 25% approaching employers directly 50% networking 15% a combination of the above No one has done research… [Read More]
Scared of job-hunting? Bash down that wall!
It is easy to construct a whole wall out of reasons not to job-hunt. Once we start looking for negatives, we become masters in the craft of obscuring the future. We can find reason after reason, laying each one like a brick on top the first, as though we have never heard of windows or doors. That is not… [Read More]
Not Retired: Bettee de Groote
Bettee de Groote is in her mid seventies but nothing daunts her, including tackling digital challenges head on. Here is her story. ‘After a high-powered job in Johannesburg with all the trimmings such as international travel, a personal assistant, vehicle, the lot, I, together with my husband, moved to the Cape, basically to get away… [Read More]
