STUDENT 911
Job hunting? Have a look here!
Keleabetswe Narenti
Are you looking for a learning or work
opportunity?
This is a question you ask yourself
whenever you are looking to find experience; finding a dream job can be
a hustle for most of us. In the final
year of study we are faced with a
lot of unanswered questions about
employment and unemployment.
Well the Department of Labour has
launched a website to help you find
your dream job!
The service is called Employment
Services of South Africa (ESSA),
ESSA is a service available to all
South African citizens. All you have
to do is register as a job seeker on
the Public Employment Services
(PES) system on the Department of
Labour website.
Enquiries via email to PES@labour.
gov.za
Good Luck!!
Once you have registered and
logged in to ESSA, you will be able
to capture/ edit your CV, search their
database for opportunities and apply
online for opportunities at no cost.
Through your registered CV, the department also helps to match you to
potential employers.
Keep calm! It’s almost EXAM MONTH!
Vukosi Nwaila
A few weeks till exams and once again everyone is
under what I’d like to refer to as the “Natural selection
week”. Charles Darwin is well known for his natural selection theory which implies only the fit survive; survival
of the fittest can be likened to students and exams. After
you realize you qualify for all your papers, congratulations... keep reading. If you don’t qualify for all, here’s a
little motivation for you.
Not qualifying for an exam
There comes a time in everyones
life where you feel like “oh I’ve had
enough, maybe I should give up”. At
that particular moment nothing matters. I’d like to refer to that as a pit
moment. Pits may differ in depths,
but all-in-all they are dark holes. That
is not the time to blame yourself or
friends, or even feel miserable, but
an opportunity to reassess your life.
Life will not always be sunshine and
rainbows. Perceive not qualifying
for a module as a challenge to test
your courage... life will beat you to
your knees permanently if you let it.
It may seem too hard to accept but you need to focus on
the other papers.
Success
Success is personal, the implication here is; whether or
not you make it depends on you, not your friends or lecturers but you, it is your choice. A low self-confidence is
quite draining but when you put in effort you will make it.
No amount of external motivation can boost your confi-
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dence, the only person who can motivate you to study is
basically yourself... motivation stems from within.
As students, it’s normal to be under pressure, so take
pleasure in knowing you are not alone. When the pressure gets too intense, giving up becomes an option but
I would like to remind you that nobody has it easy. We
look up to people of different proffessions who have
made it out there and think they had it easy. Truth is they
didn’t. At the end of it all, the endless tests and trials... there is light .
All you need to do is persevere. Be
of good courage, set up study time
tables or form study groups if you
need to, whatever works for you .
Realise that you are in it alone; put
all your focus on your studies and
try not to procrastinate. A few years
from now you will realise how saying
no to procrastination paid off; and
what beats spending the December holidays knowing you gave your
papers your best and you can now
look forward to another great year?
You are awesome and smart, and
grades do not necessarily determine your level of intelligence. Do not reflect on your past, for instance... failing a test doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll fail an exam...
getting 50% in almost all yor tests doesn’t mean you
cant get a PhD one day.Stand tall, be positive and believe you can achieve anything.
Best wishes fof your exams