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Lyndy van den Barselaar As labour markets dynamics continue to shift rapidly and the lifespan of skills becomes ever shorter, the gap between the skills that people have and those that employers need is widening...read |
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Grace McCarthy Forget the gadgets and "lifehacks" to increase productivity, my research with Julia Milner shows that managers need to become coaches to get the best out of their employees...read | 
Calestous Juma Rapid advances in artificial intelligence and the rapid adoption of robots across diverse industries are stalking the fear of jobless growth. Responses to these developments have focused on what to do to ensure that robots don't steal jobs...read |
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 | Johan Botes As we launch into 2018, here are a handful of trends we'll be seeing in the workplace this coming year... read | |  | Mark Orpen Kicking off 2018, the priority for the Education and Training (ETD) and Management Training calendar is planning for the coming year ahead... read | |  | Mark Bussin During 2018, reward practitioners must show inventiveness in developing cost-effective reward solutions but also exercise their influence to solve persistent problems that linger in the workplace... read | |
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 | The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has noted false advertisements that have been circulating on social media on the recruitment of new members for the Military Skills Development System (MSDS)... read |
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 | Andrew Timming It turns out that bosses who take the time to listen to their employees and involve them in organisational decisions may be inadvertently strengthening their country's democracy. read |
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 | Boris Dzhingarov Issued By Monetary Library Why are millennials so flaky? Some people might chalk this up to feelings of entitlement, impatience, or demand for instant gratification, but the real root cause might be a more philosophical one... read |
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 | Tanya Tosen One of the perks the South African Revenue Services (Sars) has always allowed is one-month's salary as a tax-free allowance for employees who were being relocated. read |
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 | Linda Ensor Eskom's acting head of group capital Prish Govender returned to work on Tuesday while the head of generation Matshela Koko is scheduled to do so on Monday next week after both were cleared of wrongdoing by internal disciplinary processes and reinstated late last year.... read |
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 | Jacques van Wyk Can an offer to employment which is later withdrawn amount to a dismissal? read |
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 | Johan Botes "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone," it means just what I chose it to mean - neither more, neither less." ... read |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: A Google engineer who was fired after writing a memo defending the gender gap in Silicon Valley tech jobs as a matter of biology has sued his former employer for discrimination... read |
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 | Nick Hedley Steinhoff said after the JSE's close on Thursday that Ben la Grange had stepped down as finance chief to focus on shoring up liquidity within the beleaguered retailer... read |
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 | Nadine Mayers, Eckard Smuts and Ralph Hamann Unless companies move away from a slavish devotion to the pursuit of profit and learn to act in the interests of the communities that sustain them, the Steinhoff collapse won't be the last corporate disaster... read |
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 | Linda Ensor Advocate Xolisile Khanyile is the new director of the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC), and is replacing Murray Michell, who headed the organisation since its establishment more than 12 years ago... read |
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 | Robert Laing Steinhoff International promoted its chief operating officer, Danie van der Merwe, to acting CEO on Tuesday... read |
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 | Issued By EOH Coastal EOH launched the EOH Youth Job Creation Initiative in 2012, a programme aimed at creating work experience opportunities for skilled and unskilled young jobseekers... read |
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 | Having financial knowledge goes hand-in-hand with entrepreneurship, though too often entrepreneurs lack even basic financial savvy to make a success of their business... read |
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 | Lyndy van den Barselaar If you're looking for a career move but you're finding it difficult to transition, it might be that employers are overlooking you due to personal branding issues... read |
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 | Tom Jackson South African startup Digemy is optimising corporate education via its platform, and has already signed up two of the country's elite corporates as clients... read |
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 | Odette Parfitt A Port Elizabeth automotive and engineering company is positioning itself as a visionary for the industry, with plans to develop skills and small businesses through a newly established incubator... read |
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 | CNN Africa Voices recently met, Asnath Mahapa, the first African woman to become a pilot in South Africa... read |
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 | ManpowerGroup SA's managing director, Lyndy van den Barselaar, is of the opinion that the automated economy will open up employment opportunities for those with the right skillsets... read |
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 | In 2018, organisations will need to be more nimble in responding to changes in the macro-economy - particularly in terms of how this impacts their staffing requirements... read |
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 | The Talent Boom are looking for insanely awesome global recruitment talent scouts in Cape Town! Read more >> |
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