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- Answer your phone as if you are expecting a deal of a lifetime
- Subject line: One of the specified qualifications
- Know what job you are applying for
- Don't be late, no excuses
- Make a good first impression
- CV must be professional
- Know where you have sent your CV
- Show that you are managing your CV
- Be professional in the waiting room
- Grooming in the bathroom
- Sit up straight
- Know what value you are going to deliver
- Utilise your networks, job clubs - strategy not moaning
- Stay with a job for 3 years - companies only start making money after your learning curve after 2 years - if they see you bounce, they won't want you
- Make lists of your skills, not just your personality - not bubbly, but 'professional telephone call screening'
- Too many courses (which shows you can’t learn on the job and have a culture of being spoon fed).
- At the clericial and secreterial level I would include emotional stability, neatness, presentability speaking and writing in english and afrikaans. That means answers like ‘eish, I don’t know’, eh, maybe’ etc. tells me what i need to know. What client wants to hear that
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