Category: Landing that Job
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Why I Can’t Wait to Take One Giant Leap Into the Unknown
Well, here I am, standing at the edge of change. I’ve decided to take the next step and find a new place to work. I’ve navigated my first real job successfully and satisfactorily. Without any major mess ups, a good few mistakes to buffer my mind, and a whole lot of learning. I feel ready.
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Why Every Freelancer Needs to Schedule a Fridge Break Right Now
Being the master of your own schedule is liberating and heady. You feel powerful, you feel inspired and…you feel like scrolling Facebook. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Let it happen, sometimes. Scrolling on Facebook and pithy updates on Twitter can be good for you. Here’s the trick to it: schedule…
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How to Win the Gruelling Game of Office Rugby
The props are the workhorses who put their heads down and steer clear of the limelight. The fast-talking wings are usually found in the sales department. The flyhalves are those mildly annoying golden boys and girls who can simply do no wrong.
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Podcast: Wouter Kellerman’s long, hard road to global Grammy success
Now a superstar of the diverse crossover genre known as World Music, he took time off from recording and touring to chat with Ruda about life in the frontline of the winds of change, and to play an exquisite excerpt from “The Long Road”, his epic tribute to the life and times of Nelson Mandela.
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Will the New Bok Coach be a Game-Changer?
It’s official. Allister Coetzee is the new Springbok coach, replacing Heyneke Meyer. Coetzee could not have taken over at a more difficult time. A string of disappointing results, and inability to beat the All Blacks, suggest the Springboks are in decline.
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How the Stormers Jersey Became an Icon of Change
From a garish rainbow to the famous blue and white hoops, the Stormers have been through a lot of change since the beginning of the SuperRugby era. Here’s why they wear their jersey so well, especially now that it’s got a BrightRock logo on the back.
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VIDEO: Your Career as a Rugby Match
Whether in a rugby game or your career, an awkward bounce of the ball, or an unexpected twist of fate, can make all the difference between that awesome win or that epic fail.
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Move over Trevor, here come the new Goliaths of comedy
Nicholas Goliath was working as a call centre operator, a job he loathed, when he rose to the challenge of taking the mic at open night in a Joburg comedy club.
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How Not to Get Fired on Your First Day at Work
If you follow these rules and unless you have lied massively on your CV and have no hope of actually ever being able to do your new job … you should be golden.