6 Afda films selected as quarter finalists at Fame Shorts Film Festival 2024 - AFDA[Earle Holmes] Afda is proud to announce that six Afda 2023 graduation films have been selected as quarterfinalists at Fame Shorts Film Festival 2024... | |
Overcoming the barriers to entry for youth joining the workforce: Tangible impact is possible now - Red & Yellow[Carmen Schaefer] Bridging the gap between skills and finding employment continues to be a problem for South Africa's growing pool of unemployed youth, with many skilled graduates unable to enter the workforce... | |
SA One Club Creative Boot Camps kick off on Monday with who's who of the industrySource: One Club One Club SA has a long history of Creative Boot Camp that stretches back to 2015. Here are the 2017 Johannesburg boot camp cohort | |
New online community resource for the advertising and marketing industrySource: © rawpixel 123rf The School of Thought, an online community for the marketing and advertising community that focuses on knowledge sharing and talent/skills building, launched recently | |
Moving from burnout to renewal in agenciesSource: © bowie15 123rf | |
Lesley Svenson | [Education & Training] Lillian Bususu, the graduate placement manager at IIE Rosebank College, takes us through the ins, outs and benefits of an excellent cover letter and CV, as well as key elements that should not be included, the importance of attention to detail and keeping applications relevant and to the point. |
Red & Yellow offers free aptitude test to unemployed digital marketers[Jessica Tennant] To assist South Africans affected by the coronavirus, Red & Yellow Creative School of Business is donating R2m worth of digital marketing certifications, specifically its Digital Marketing Aptitude Test (DMAT) to 1,000 unemployed South Africans that want to prove their worth in the job market... | |
Spend your lockdown skilling upImage credit: Burst on Pexels.com. | |
Art is the solution to SA's 'decade of action' in education and re-skillingVusi Mfupi at St Martins De Porres, for the Room 13 Inspiration Day in Soweto. | |
Maroefah Smith | #SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: Experts share expertise on technological advancementsA range of speakers are sharing their expertise on technological advancements and its impact on the world at the third annual SingularityU South Africa Summit, which is being held in Johannesburg on 16 and 17 October 2019. The event is hosted by SingularityU South Africa in collaboration with the Development Bank of Southern Africa, global partner Deloitte and partners MTN and Absa. |
Key takeouts from Global Education Skills Forum (GESF) 2019[Dorcas Dube - Londt] Dorcas Dube, from Symphonia and Media Booth shares key takeouts from the Global Education Skills Forum in Dubai, which took place from 22 - 24 March 2019... | |
Why character-driven animation is vital to the future of workplace education in South AfricaImage source: Gallo/Getty | |
#StartupStory: Sum of 21 addresses transformation, skills development[Juanita Pienaar] A closer look at Sum of 21 Academy, a creative agency that offers a 12-month training platform to young, previously disadvantaged creatives and communicators who already have a tertiary qualification and want to enter the creative industry... | |
The social path to optimising your content marketing efforts[Jessica Tennant] Your business having a social presence is all good and well, but if there's no strategy in place, you're wasting your time and potentially damaging your reputation... | |
Education in SA's design and creative industries mirrors the world's bestImage supplied. | |
Facebook Africa, Digify Africa launch online safety programme for SA youthEmilar Gandhi, public policy manager for the SADC region for Facebook | Photo: Jessica Tennant | |
Brent Spilkin and Vega introduce WTF, new course for freelancers[Jessica Tennant] South Africans are three times more likely to freelance than their global counterparts, but the freelance movement is not a millennial movement, says Brent Spilkin, also known as 'Spillly', author of What the Freelance... | |
The modern marketer is a connected one[Jessica Tennant] In the 1970s, people were served about 300 ads a day. Today it's about 5,000 ads a day. It's a product-polluted world with smart consumers, where it's no longer about differentiation, but about multiple and meaningful connections, says Carmen Murray, founder of Boo-Yah!... | |
#Newsmaker: Junior Mokoma furthers his creative studies in Holland w/ Vega, FCB[Jessica Tennant] It was during his internship as a copywriter at FCB Africa in Johannesburg when Vega alumni student Junior Mokoma was offered the opportunity to study transmedia storytelling at Fontys Academy for Creative Industries in Tilburg, the Netherlands... | |
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