Using the Internet to advance your career

[Carolyn Holgate] With social networks increasingly being used for recommendations and to source skills, it's vital for you as a young professional to build an online profile and network to seek out opportunities. You'll also find that a strong online presence will not only aid you in your search for opportunities, but facilitate opportunities finding you. Read more >>

Adcorp slams job cuts in SA

South African companies have been accused of using the global recession as a reason to get rid of workers so that they can cut costs and this move could lead to more than a million jobs being lost. Read more >>

More job losses on the cards for SA

A total of 468 000 people are likely to lose their jobs in South Africa as a result of the global economic decline and a report released by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) rates South Africa as having one of the worst employment rates in the world, alongside Spain and America. Read more >>

Call for Africa to create decent jobs

Countries in Africa - and not just South Africa - need to develop policies that will create decent work for workers and put an end to povery, claims South African President Jacob Zuma. Read more >>

Thousands lose jobs as timber production wanes

At least 12 500 workers have lost their jobs in the forestry sector since 2008 according to Michael Peter, executive director of Forestry South Africa, mainly as a result of the sharp decline in timber production, which dropped from 19-million tons in 2008 to 15-million tons in 2010. Read more >>

Digital artisans can fill gap in the market

Before Web 2.0, high school graduates would either enter into tertiary education or take up an artisan trade. Today, with the innovations of social media, apps and content management platforms like WordPress, school leavers can find jobs building the world around them, not with bricks and cement, but out of clicks and content. Read more >>

EXCLUSIVE: New Brand Council of SA announces office bearers

The board of the new Brand Council of South Africa (BCSA) has elected HKLM's Sean McCoy as chairman, and Interbrand Sampson's Jeremy Sampson and Brand Leadership's Thebe Ikalafeng as joint vice chairs. The BCSA, incorporates the Brand Design Council (formerly known as THINK), was constituted after extensive debate around the need for a collective voice to represent, strengthen and advance the interests of the wider branding and design industry in SA, and it. Read more >>

Rolling Stone South Africa: the first in-depth interview

[Johann Smith] "Rolling Stone" - it was the writing on the wall found backstage at Rocking the Daisies. It was a hint, a secret, that the writer wanted musicians to know first, before anyone else. There is no way of saying it better: Rolling Stone magazine is coming to South Africa in November 2011. Johann Smith and Ruth Cooper of Bizcommunity.com's BizLounge speak to Miles Keylock, editor-in-chief of RS SA. Read more >>

South Africans are overweight - survey

South Africans weigh in as the third fattest nation on earth. A survey done in 2010 by Glaxo SmithKline has found that 61% of the South African population are overweight or morbidly obese. In addition to this survey, a study done by the Medical Research Council in 2007 found that 56% of adult women and 29% of adult men in South Africa were overweight or obese. Read more >>

Unions to picket at Wal-Mart/Massmart hearing

The Congress of SA Trade Unions' (Cosatu) and the SA Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) on Monday announced their intention to embark on "mass pickets" at the Wal-Mart-Massmart appeal hearing in Cape Town set for Thursday and Friday, 21 - 22 October 2011. Read more >>