The Anglo American BLAST Graduate Programme (Building Leadership and Shaping Talent) is back in full swing. If you’re commerce, science, engineering or IT graduate who excels in their work – this one’s for you!

Now in its 6th year, the programme aims to attract and develop the required exceptional people to lead Anglo American into the future and ensure the company meets its goal of being “the Leading Global Mining Company in the world.”
The GDP also provides graduates with the opportunity to travel internationally. Assignments have been secured for GDP candidates …

They’re young, smart, brash. We wear flip-flops to the office or listen to iPods at our desk. We want to work, but we don’t want work to be our life.
This is us – Generation Y, a force of the first wave is just now embarking on their careers — taking their place in an increasingly multigenerational workplace. Get ready, because this generation — whose members have not yet hit 30 — is different from any that have come before.
There is no consensus over the exact birth dates that define Gen …

The UWC has established an Entrepreneurship Initiative (UWEI) which will see that service support is made available to student-owned businesses on campus and externally.
As a way of developing and empowering students as future business leaders, UWC aims to aims to increase the sustainability of current UWC student-owned businesses and encourage a culture of entrepreneurship among students through increasing the number of businesses on campus and in the communities that students come from.
The UWCEI is also an exciting step by the Centre for Student Services to grow and promote student development …

The Campus Financial Mail reports that most of us are familiar with the traditional text-based curriculum vitae (CV) or résumé, which has a uniform structure, is no longer than two pages, and leaves no space for creativity.
But as we move into the digital age, characterised by social media and rapid technological advances, methods of submitting CVs to prospective employers are changing. Some tech-savvy job seekers in the US and the UK are rebooting their image by creating visual CVs. Unlike the conventional CV, a visual CV provides one’s professional information …

The number of artisan graduates are who either unemployed or underemployed is increasing.
Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande blamed the mismatch between the aspirations of graduates and employment opportunities available to them.
The Minister has however promised to take personal responsibility for the acceleration of artisan training, as well as for the creation of a national register for artisans. Government also aims to combat the current artisan shortage by scaling up artisan training, with the assistance of the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Sector Education and Training Authority (Merseta).
Click …

These are considered the 10 Common Study Skills Mistakes that students make…

1. Poor Attendance
This may be the most common student mistake– and the most unavoidable. If you want to succeed in varsity, you need to be in class all or most of the time. Really – there’s no way around that.
2. Poor Note taking Skills
Unfortunately, many students come to varsity without having mastered this skill. Most of the time, lectures are straight forward and to the point. To succeed in class, you need to learn how to listen …

The National military service is set to be introduced as a way of instilling discipline and patriotism in the country’s youth, who make up nearly half the South African population and comprise the majority of people who are unemployed.
Defence and Military Veterans Minister Lindiwe Sisulu announced at a briefing at Parliament that she will seek a national consensus around the proposal and plans to introduce legislation enabling it within a year.
Sisulu says the national service would offer South Africa a solution to dealing with the growing numbers of people younger …

Sign Up to Become A Promoter, Driver, Event Co-ordinator, MC, Bartender, waiter, or Brand Your Car!

Click below to SIGN UP!

www.gradx.net is Student Village’s career portal where students can find everything from how to look for a job, being in the know about graduate recruitment, studying further, right through to starting your business! The list is endless!
Take the next step into your future! Get to www.gradx.net!
Here’s what is making headlines on the site:

Deciding to study further is not a last-minute call
It’s tough deciding whether to study further and what to study, what course to choose. But though it’s a tough call to make, you to need to decide at some …

Fay Humphries looks at how part-time work can improve your chances of building your career
I recently got a call from someone called Nelly. She’s in a really tight situation.
She’s 23 and sat her matric exams in 2007. She got an ‘F’ for just about everything, except for English. She got an ‘E’ for that. She lives just outside Ermelo with her mother, who is in her sixties. They’re both currently unemployed. In fact, Nelly has never been able to find a job.
She called because she’s looking for funding to go …