Job description

Be part of a small team advising potential students over the phone, email or instant chat. You will be offering international professional finance courses. Yes, it’s a sales position, but we’re in the business of enhancing lives and enriching people’s careers, so we don’t think of it as selling but rather advising and helping. Your job is to win the hearts and minds of our students. 

Your primary function is to answer the phone and emails from potential students who want to know more about our accounting courses, to consult with the student and make the sale. Your daily tasks consist of follow-up calls, emails, face-to-face consulting and answering student queries.

I know this sounds like a really nice job and a fun place to work but do the self-check before you apply. We want this to end well so be sure you understand who we are looking for. 

Self-check questions: Do you love engaging with people? Even the confused ones, the soft-spoken ones, the aggressive ones, the angry ones, the lonely ones and the needy ones? Have you been told you explain things really well? Are your emails really clear and well-written? If you answered yes to all these questions, please go ahead and send us your CV and short motivation letter.

CV tips:

• Keep it to a maximum of four pages, or it will be too long to read.
• Start with your current position at the top in your ‘work experience’ section.
• Always state your reason for leaving a previous job.
• State duration of length of employment in each position, so I don’t have to work it out.

Motivation letter tips:

• Your letter must highlight any experience that is relevant to the position you’re applying for.
• Try to avoid telling me that you’re passionate and hard working. I’ll just assume that. Rather tell me what you’re really good at. What is your special skill? Tell me what your current boss or colleagues say about you.
• Spelling and grammatical errors will be frowned upon.

Company Description

We are a small-to-medium sized national company based in Cape Town. We specialise in international financial qualifications which we deliver online, via distance or in campuses across SA. We are a great company that offers richly-rewarding experiences to talented professionals. We enhance careers and enrich lives.

Requirements

• You’ve got to have experience consulting with people, preferably over the phone and email
• You’ve got to be engaging. If you don’t know what this means, then you’re probably not that engaging
• You’ve got to be bright with an inquiring mind, yet patient with people who don’t know what you know
• You’ve got to have a proven track record of making targets
• You’ve got to be able to sit down and get the work done
• You’ve got to be able to work hard, really hard and want to grow

Advantageous

• Matric or more
• Five years’ sales/consulting experience
• Know a bit about education, accounting and part-time studying
• If you have a financial qualification, that will be amazing

Posted on 26 Jun 08:02

Highbury Media (Pty) Ltd is an independent magazine and digital publishing company responsible for some of the best performing titles. We are currently looking for a copy editor for our sports department. The successful candidate must be able to work well in a small but award-winning team, have an excellent eye for detail, have a thorough knowledge of sport and work well under deadline pressure.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:
-Sub-editing, fact-checking and proofreading editorial and advertorial copy across all titles
-Sub-editing, proofreading and signing off layouts
-Trimming copy to fit layouts

Requirements:
-Previous copy editing experience in sport
-Ability to sub-edit copy to desired format
-A passion for sport
-A good understanding of production requirements and systems
-Ability to work accurately and professionally under pressure
-Excellent attention to detail
-A good team player who is nevertheless able to work under their own initiative
-Proactive and self-disciplined
-Problem-solving and lateral thinking skills
-Computer literate and be able to use the internet as a research tool in a critical and informed manner
-Please note that shortlisted candidates will be requested to do an editing test.

Posted on 25 Jun 15:25

Job description

We are looking for a dynamic and creative content producer with a great passion for the South African television industry.

Key responsibility areas (but not limited to):

• Conduct thorough research daily, source content and confirm authenticity thereof
• Scriptwriting
• Generate concepts, story building, setting up shoots and guiding the editing process
• Developing creative content in line with required segments
• Preparing and submitting segment briefs within the prescribed deadline, without exception
• Communicating with PR and talent

Company Description

Media production company.

Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualification in a field such as journalism or film and television with knowledge of and experience in creative writing
• Minimum of two to four years of relevant experience
• Television or media production experience is necessary
• Passionate about the media industry and have a keen interest in entertainment, celebrities and general knowledge in order to submit content in line with the required topics

Attributes:

• Team player and able to work well independently
• Proactive and self-motivated
• Professional
• Takes ownership of own work and projects
• Able to meet deadlines, without exception
• Able to work well under pressure
• Excellent communication skills with management, colleagues and outside parties

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted within 10 working days, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Posted on 25 Jun 14:20