Job Description:

Formatting & Design of Documents
- Overall document Controller, developer and designer
- Formatting and designing documents and reports
- Development of invitation and presentation templates etc
- Development of invitation and presentation templates

Website
- Overseeing the design, development and updating all the clients sites (website, intranet, SharePoint and financial planning club site)
- Migrate information to SharePoint and create working internal environment

Promotional and Corporate Stationary
- Oversee production, ordering, distribution of all corporate stationary and marketing collateral
- Develop and manage marketing merchandise, including gifts, promotional items, calendars, special promotional events
- Stock control and distribution of marketing merchandise
- Develop and manage stock control distribution systems

Corporate Sponsorships and CSI
- Coordinate all corporate sponsorships and CSI drives (both internally and externally)

Qualifications and Experience
1. Marketing degree or diploma
2. 3 years experience within a marketing and design environment
3. Exposure to financial services industry

Knowledge
1. proficiency in Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Excel (intermediate), Word ( advanced), Outlook
2. Creative individual with an ability to translate concepts and ideas into visuals
3. Strong technical ability and bias towards different IT systems
4. Strong organisational skills
5. Team player with good interpersonal and communication skills
6. Ability to multitask
7. Strong attention to detail

Competencies
Must be very accurate and ability to type would be advantageous.
1. Punctual
2. Reliable and dependable
3. Good initiative
4. Ability to operate both independently and as part of a team.
5. Attention to detail.
6. Highly organised and energetic.
7. Flexibility and adaptability
8. Professionalism
9. Presentable
10. Able to work effectively under pressure
11. Good interpersonal and communication skills

Salary: R15 000
If you think you have what it takes to be part of this dynamic team then e-mail your CV to Lianne@talentfusion.co.za

Key Responsibilities:

You will be a team player, pro-active in developing, maintaining relationships with clients and positively promoting the company.

• Maintain and develop current Client Relationships
• Lead a team and be able to present new ideas to client
• Ensure deadlines are adhered to
• Be accountable and responsible for from start to implementation of each campaign.
• Ad value by understanding clients needs and ensure Agency delivers on the requirements
• Ensure briefs are creative and on line with clients budget, communication and expectations

Requirements
- Relevant tertiary qualification.
- Four years in the advertising industry
- Have worked within an Agency Environment – Experience in people management and strategic planning.
- Be able to profile clients and understand their business; deliver appropriate solutions and to identify additional revenue opportunities within each clients business.
- Pitch on new business which requires above average presentation and public speaking skills.
- Present proposals within budget and on strategy.
- Proficiency in computer software programs, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Positive, can do attitude. A strong leader by nature.

Advantageous:
- Previous experience in the liquor industry

Personal Skills/Attributes
A confident and focused go-getter, someone who does not need to be motivated The candidate is a big picture thinker, team player and self starter.
Passionate about their role to the client and the agency.
Highly organised and performance driven

Level: Junior
Position: Permanent
Salary: +/ R18 000 – R20 000
Area: Cape Town

Then it happened – I was invited to an interview with an educational institution to apply for the Marketing Director position. What an indescribable feeling of joy it was when I heard that I got the job! It was worth all the frustration to know that my career was about to begin.
I have good and bad news for you, students of today. The bad news is that the job market is more competitive than ever. The good news is that you can do something about being seen before other candidates.

CV in a haystack (of CVs)
A growing trend in business is to use online channels to find the best staff. This goes beyond job portals where we can add our CV (400 times if you like!). The problem there is that everyone is submitting CV’s through online portals, making your CV one in amongst a million.

It’s no secret that companies are looking everywhere for the right employees. So let me ask you: can companies find you anywhere?

Top South African businesses are recruiting through Linkedin. LinkedIn is a corporate version of Facebook so you should find it pretty easy to work out how to use.

LinkedIn lets you have this custom CV that is searchable on a local and international level and even makes it possible for people to contact you without the need of a recruitment agency.

Companies are also using Facebook to find out more about who you are, and even Twitter can help show your future bosses that you are an up and coming time-bomb of success. So to get you started, I thought I would share a few tips to get you off the ground floor.

Getting into LinkedIn
. Register at www.linkedin.com.
. Take some time to complete the entire profile and make sure you use standardised business english (in othr wrds no shrt sms spk).
. Make sure you have a quick, concise, and interesting summary of yourself that shows your future bosses how great you are and how you will add value to their company.
. Fill out your job history. Include any job you’ve had that can help employers see that you will be a good fit for their company.
. If you have a blog or website, link to it from your profile by adding it under the websites section.
. Same with Twitter. LinkedIn will ask for your Twitter details. This makes it easier for people to find your Twitter profile once they have found you on LinkedIn.
. Connect with friends and family in order to start building your business network.
. Now click on the companies section of LinkedIn
. You can now start following any companies that you would like to work for
. When these companies have new job opportunities you will be able to see then on their LinkedIn page
. Making it so easy to apply for the position.

How to use Twitter to brand yourself
. Register at www.twitter.com.
. Start following influential people in the business industry that you want to work in.
. Retweet interesting tweets from these influencers.
. Create a few tweets of your own that talk about your thoughts on the industry.
. Talk to other people on Twitter. Twitter is a social network, so let’s keep it social!

Clean up your Facebook profile
. Stop swearing – it makes you look disrespectful.
. Be positive! No-one wants to hire a complaining and negative individual.
Link to your LinkedIn profile under your website/information settings. This will help recruiters find your LinkedIn profile and direct them there instead of checking out your Facebook profile.

These are just a few ways you can make sure your personal brand is easier to recognize. Good Luck with the job hunt.

This article was written by Mike Saunders. You can find more info. Social Media Agency.

Qualifications required for the Job
1. Matric – required
2. Tertiary – advantageous ; Post Matric Diploma in Customer Service / Logistics / Administration
Previous experience
1. At least 3 years in a similar role (importing , bookstore, logistics)
2. Book industry or experience will be advantageous
3. Import company experience will be advantageous
The job would suit someone with the following skills
1. Strong computer experience and the ability to learn new programmes quickly
2. Strong communicator both written and spoken
3. Organised person with a mind for detail
4. Team player
Computer Skills:
1. Word , Outlook and Excell need to be medium to advanced level
2. Internet ; medium ability
3. General computer skills : medium
4. Website basic (advantageous) ( we have many portals get supply information, pricing and new books from that will fall under this role. The person will receive training on all of them but will need to be proficient on navigating through and using them)
Personality: The culture of the company would suite someone who is an independent worker, who is able to take ownership of the role and broaden it. We value the following attributes
1. Honesty (will be working with cash)
2. Reliability
3. Passion to do well
4. Ambitious
5. Commitment
6. Pleasant personality
Salary
1. Salary range 9-12 k CTC depending on experience , bonuses paid annually (performance dependant) which as usually equal to a 13th cheque
Working hours:
1. Standard Hours :
a. Monday to Friday 8h30 until 16h30

2. Extended Hours (Jan-March , July)
a. Monday – Friday 8h30 until 17h00
b. Saturdays – 9h00 until 13h00 ( the person will have to work every alternate Sat)

Key Responsibilities:
• The candidate’s tasks will include but are not limited to:

Role

• Creative Abilities
• Design marketing concept for all internal campaigns
• Design for all web material including main site and micro sites
• DTP, document layout, copywriting, brochure design and logo design
• Layout and design of advertising materials for the various brands within the group across all types of advertising material including print and online

Experience:

• 3 – 5 years being in a intermediate / senior role in a similar organization
• PC Knowledge:
• Microsoft Office
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe In Design
• Adobe Illustrator
• Macromedia Freehand

Experience in designing the following:-
• Logo and CI
• Corporate marketing material

• Templates

• Direct marketing material

• Magazine layout and design

• Prints Ads

• Chase Software

Software applications in:
 Macromedia Dreamweaver
 Macromedia Flash

• Advantages:

• Further programme certifications
• Experience in designing the following

• Websites

• Electronic newsletters

• Custom illustrations

• Flash animations

• Personal Attributes:

• Strong Team Player
• Creative Brainstorming
• Enthusiastic
• Positive Attitude
• Self-Motivated
• Ability to Develop Consistently Quality Work
• Passion for Web Standards, Clean Design and Semantic Code
• Interpersonal Skills
• Decision Making Skills
• Able to Multitask

Salary : R15000
Location: Cape Town

NOTE: Please send a copy of a low-res portfolio with your CV.

Key Responsibilities:

You will be a team player, pro-active and be able to handle all projects from start to finish.

• Maintain and develop relationships within the team
• Ensure deadlines are adhered to
• Be accountable and responsible for from start to implementation of each project
• Ad value by understanding clients needs and ensure Agency delivers on the requirements
• Ensure all projects and on line with clients budget, communication and expectations

Requirements

A confident and focused go-getter, someone who does not need to be motivated. The candidate is a big picture thinker, team player and self starter.
Passionate about their role to the client and the agency.
Highly organised and performance driven

- Relevant tertiary qualification.
- Eight years in industry
- Have worked within an Agency Environment – Experience in Digital
- Be able to profile clients and understand their business; deliver appropriate solutions and to identify additional revenue opportunities within each clients business.
- Present proposals within budget and on strategy.
- Proficiency in computer software programs, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Positive, can do attitude. A strong leader by nature.

Key Skills:
Expertise with building Native iPhone/iPad/Android/Blackbery/Symbian/QT applications

Experience with:
SIP and VOIP
Codecs
Jitter Buffer
Packet loss + packet loss concealment
TCP/IP & UDP
Understanding of Networking, specifically GSM Must have good experience in http/socket based communication.
Experience with client-server based frameworks Object-orientated design patterns are your second nature Open Source products (Linux, Ant, Axis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)

Duties:
Collaborate with Solution Architects in the design of product architecture.
Develop new products against business requirements and the solution design.
Develop major enhancements for existing products in production.
Fix escalated bugs for existing products in production.
Share technical knowledge among peers.
Mentor junior developers.
Where suitable take developmental lead on specific projects.

Attributes:
A BSc or BTech degree is beneficial.
The ability to self-motivate and do whatever it takes to get the job done.
Excellent communication and social interaction skills.
Excellent time management skills and deadline driven.
Analytical thinker with good problem solving abilities.
Professional, proactive and assertive.
Ability to work in a fast paced environment with excellent attention to detail (follow through).
Ability to work well in a team and independently with a Can-Do attitude.
Knowledge of multiple programming languages, and you can quickly pick up additional languages.
Write high quality code, and to raise the bar of what is feasible, where usability, scalability and features are the key to success..

Below are a few simple tips on getting better results when sending your CV to a recruiter or potential company.

Blanket Sending: You start your day off with going through different job boards and just apply. Apply to this, apply to that, ohhh that looks like fun, I could do that too. This is not a strategy that is not going to get you favour.

Vocational Goals: Have you really sat down and decided where you are going with your career, have you made a list of all that you want to achieve? By when? Take responsibility for your career. Nobody else is going too.

Are you being realistic: You have your goals; you know what you want to do. Ask yourself… are you qualified for this career? Do you need more training in this field? The chances of getting hired without the prerequisite training will not get you to the top of the shortlist pile. Be realistic about your goals. There is nothing wrong with a vocational change but be realistic on how you are going to get there.

Cover Letters: Cover letters do not have to become and essay. It could be a brief overview of who you are. Even better it could be a description of how you best suit the job description you are applying for. I would go as far as adding a link to your LinkedIn profile to show complete transparency at the end of your cover letter.

Transparency: You see a job and you think this is the job for you but you are missing a quality or a specific requirement that is in the job description. Be honest and upfront. Have the attitude that a recruiter is trying to assist you, the more they know the quicker you will get an answer to your CV.

Ideal Candidate vs. Ideal Job: Do not take it personally when your CV gets rejected. You are looking for the perfect job and the company is looking for the perfect candidate. So when your CV does not get shortlisted it is not a personal attack on you, the company could be trying to find the most qualified, experienced candidate within their budget constraints. This does not mean you are not an amazing candidate.

Follow up: There is nothing wrong with following up on why you never got the position or if you are going to be considered. Know what positions you are applying for. Keep a list, try and learn from the advice of people that are reading your CV, perhaps there is an insight that you overlooked.

Motivation: Do not lose faith in your job search. Remind yourself of your goals, do not be that pessimistic person that looks for external reasons. Stay motivated, stay positive. Your perfect job is out there.

Good Luck with the job search, wishing you success in finding your perfect position.

OUR CHOICES

Yesterday, I was sick with a head cold. I chose not to blog at [chrisbrogan.com]. I also didn’t get my Blog Topics letter published. These were choices. I could have written enough posts and had some in draft so that I didn’t miss either publication, but I didn’t. I chose to use that time for other things, like my upcoming book. These choices impacted my day yesterday. But even then, I made the choice not to feel bad about it, because I wasn’t feeling well, and it just didn’t feel as important.

I have many choices in front of me today. We all do. That’s the point. There are choices all around us that need to be made. But we make so very many of them without thinking.

RECOGNIZING OUR INTENTIONS

Answer some questions:

• Is rest and sleep important to you? What time did you go to sleep and wake up? What did you do instead of going to sleep? Which choices did you make instead?
• Is your health important to you? What did you choose to eat yesterday? How much time did you schedule for your fitness?
• Is your future important to you? What moves did you make yesterday towards advancing that future? What did you do with your time instead?

If you stopped and answered those questions honestly, you’d see your choices in action. But more interestingly, you’d hear the voice of guilt, the voice of justification, the voice that excuses make to dull your guilt. You’d hear many little decisions and self-talk click in, all of which serve a purpose (most of which is the purpose of avoiding pain and discomfort, or the perceived pain and discomfort we associate with guilt).

WE ARE ADDICTED TO EXCUSES

What I’m saying is that we all grow very comfortable with our excuses and justifications. This impacts how we do our job. This impacts how we relate to those we love. This impacts how we face every moment of the day.

And the gravitational PULL of excuses and justification are huge. Think about it. “I really should work out today, but I’ve got so much stuff on my plate.” The word “but” is your indication that you didn’t mean what you said in the first half of the sentence.

The truth is, in the above example, you will always have so much stuff on your plate, and if you don’t, the excuse will be that you really should work out, but you’ve gotta search for work, so that you can have a lot of stuff on your plate.

I’m right there with you. I’m addicted to excuses the same as you, the same as everyone. But that’s also not an excuse, not license to do nothing. It’s a call to action.

LIVE YOUR PLAN

If you don’t have a direction or goal or path in mind, how will you know you’re going the right way? I’ve recently made a commitment to my fitness and health. I now have a very simple path that I can clearly explain. When I’m not on the path, it’s really clear. So I make choices that keep me on that path. In my case, my simple path is to eat more meals than not according to my goals, and to make time for fitness five times a week. There are no excuses allowed for this. Even with a head cold, I’m working out today.

The trick to this all is creating enough simple paths and putting success in our way every day (I wrote about this recently in a post about discipline.)

But then beyond that, it’s becoming acutely aware of choices, and of seeing each moment that they come up as an opportunity to practice the response that is in better alignment with your goals. I’m writing about this today because I saw a very obvious stumbling point of my own come up. And for once (and yes, it’s rare for all of us, and even that is something to think about), I made the right choice in this specific instance.

SUCCESS BREEDS SUCCESS

One last point and then I’ll let you go. The more times I choose to honor my paths and avoid excuses and justification, the more times I can leverage that success for other things. My eating better and getting more healthy remind me to stay more disciplined about other things in my life. All of this together is leading me towards even better choices. There’s a snowball effect at play here. The more we can work on our choices, the more times we can have small victories and bring that success to bear on other choices in our lives.

If you stopped right now and just wrote five choices you’d like to think about today and for the rest of the month – just five, I bet you’d have a better time of things. If you had even the simplest of guides to the path you’d prefer, versus what comes up or what can be excused and justified, even if this is just a starting point for something else, I promise you’d feel better.

What do you think? Are you willing to make that choice?

Thank you to Chris Brogan for allowing Talent Fusion to use this in our blog post. http://www.chrisbrogan.com/ourchoices/. This article has been inspiration in how we tackle each daily activity and making everything count.  If you would like to get hold of Chris, please contact him directly at the below details.

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/contact/

Have you ever been confounded by this employer request?

“Please send a 1 page CV.”

You may think that one-page CV is just not long enough to do you justice. How can you possibly describe where you’ve been and what you’ve done in one page? So, when you’re asked for a one page CV what do you do? Is it worth the hassle and the time it’ll take to put it together?

Good Reasons for a One Page CV

Yes it is, and for good reasons.

One, that’s what the employer or the recruiter as asked for, give it to them. But secondly, writing a 1 page CV is a good exercise for you.

It’s good because …

• it’ll force you to think hard about who you are and what you do;
• it’ll force you to put it in the simplest and most concise terms;
• it’ll force you to make it easy to understand;
• it’ll force you to define it in your own mind – it’ll make clear.

And all of that is good for you. In a crowded job market, where few have a sharp, simple, hard hitting message of benefit to an employer, you will stand out! You’ll be fresh. You won’t be weighed down by detail.

In my experience as a CV writer and recruiter, very few people ever do this. Yes they can go on for 10 pages about what they do and where, but can they be concise and clear, definite about what they do and the benefit they bring to a company? Not very often.

And it’s the reason recruiters and employers HR people ask for one or one or two page CV. It doesn’t take them 10 pages to figure out whether you should be called in for an interview or not. It takes just one or two. They want relevant information short, sharp and concise.

How Does a One Page CV Help You?

But there’s another benefit. And it is this: a one-page CV creates a great first impression. In what way?

A 1 page CV exudes confidence.

There is an energy about it. The opposite is the 45 or 60 year old person with a 20 page CV and he’s uncertain, and he’s lost confidence, and perhaps he feels he’s no longer relevant in the job market. But that’s not necessarily true. It’s maybe that he’s just presenting himself badly.

My 1 Page CV Challenge to You, NOW

So, I challenge you: take all that you’ve learnt, take all your skills, take all your qualifications, and all your experience and distil it down to one page.

Show clearly and concisely what benefits you have brought to your previous employers; highlight your biggest achievement; even include a quote or two from a performance appraisal or a testimonial. Make this one page CV your marketing showcase.

Here are some other one page CV writing tips:

• Focus on your most recent experience
• Focus on your most relevant qualifications
• Focus on your most relevant and recent achievements
• Summarise older experience
• And lastly write a short three or mostly at most four line opening paragraph explaining what you do, that you do it well, how long you’ve been doing it, for and how you are qualified to do it

Even if you never use the one-pager CV, you’ll feel more confident, more prepared marketer of “you” once you’ve done it.

_________

Gerard le Roux is South Africa’s leading CV writer (www.wowcv.net) and Job Search Coach. Get his hard hitting free e-course “12 Breakthrough Job Search Secrets” by sending an e-mail to 12jss@getresponse.com or by visiting www.jobsearching.co.za