Your child has spent a great deal of time and hard work to get the qualification that she now holds. You as a parent spent thousands of Rands for your child’s education but she is still sitting at home with her qualifications without a job. The economy is not about to change and government promises to create more jobs is not happening. The question to you as a parent is what can you do under these circumstances? Sit back and wait for the economy to improve? Continue to pray and hope for the best? These are not viable options if you take into account that your child may be exposed to a lot of wrong things at home whilst you are at work. You know what I am talking about; drugs, pregnancy and HIV/AIDS are rampant in our country. I do not think any responsible parent would like to see her child exposed to these social ills. What then can you do as parent? There are couple of things you can do to help your child. Among others, keep your child busy whilst you are at work. I don’t mean giving your child home chores, these are fine but the child need to wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose. She needs to know when she wakes up in the morning what she is waking up to do, besides the home chores. Are you sure as a parent whether your child is prepared and ready when she is called for interview tomorrow? Does your child know how to conduct herself in front of the interviewing panel? It’s possible that she may have sent hundreds of resumes to hundreds of companies, but if she is not job ready, she will be waiting for a long time for a call to start on her new job. That call may not even come. Do you know why? If your child is not job ready no matter what qualifications she holds she will not get the job if she is not job ready. How do you assist your child to be job ready? You don’t have to spend thousands of Rands again; after all she does have the qualifications. She even completed extra classes on computer classes. Maybe she may not have the necessary experience. But how is she going to acquire experience if she is not given an opportunity to work and acquire experience, because experience is acquired through being given a job?
I will now answer some of the questions I posed above to help you take a decision that will help your child get that next job fast.
Get your child books, not any books but books that can help her to be job ready and to find a job fast.
The second question I would like to respond to which I think is bothering a lot of parents is the question of experience. How do employers expect our children to have experience if they are fresh graduates and students? What counts are the times she spent volunteering and the skills she had acquired. Let me tell you this, I have been a Human Resource Manager for more than 30 years and I have employed children fresh from school based on the potential of the child and the exposure a child has acquired through internship and volunteering for no pay and demonstrating her leadership skills in those environments. You may be thinking that may be because I am a Human Resource Manager and I practiced some nepotism and hired all my children. Far from it, you see all my children are not employed in my company. I am employed in a government department and none of my children are employed in government. I will confess to this though, I gave them the advantage other children do not have, I gave them all the tools, strategies and methods used by hiring managers – they had an advantage of my skills and insider information regarding hiring and interviews. All these skills are illustrated in clear and easy steps in a book you will find below.
The book in question has been designed and written for all people interested in finding a job fast – whether your child is just beginning to look for a job or she has been looking for some time without success the steps found in this book are the single most important elements to get your child a job in a matter of months. Any of the steps mentioned in the book are indispensable tools which many parents used to help their children to get work more quickly. You see, they realised that sending hundreds of resumes to hundreds of companies did not help.
Today you have the chance to give your child a second chance at finding a job using this knowledge. It is organized and provided in well defined and clearly structured steps. One such book I know of which has prepared my own children is “What They didn’t Teach You in School: Life Long Learning Tips to Land a Job Straight out of School by Justice Mandhla. This book is obtainable from most online bookstores including Kalahari.net and Amazon.com. Parents in and around Johannesburg can obtain the copies of this rare book from the following shops: Hems Bookstore, Ransom enterprises, Park Meadows, Kiosk 6 Opposite Mr Price in East gate Mall their telephone numbers are 072 669 6593/ 084 381 2444 or you can contact Limbada & Company School Books & Stationers, 22 Diagonal Streets Johannesburg at telephone numbers 011 838 6326.
For this book I am offering you as a parent a second chance at seeing your child employed.
You can also contact us at: Life Long Learning, Box 51136, Protea Glen 1818 or Fax us at 086 685 7642 or Email: learninglife@mweb.co.za.
Our website: www.mystudent4life.com
Justice Mandhla is the author of What they did not teach you in school: Life Long Learning Tips to land a job straight out of school and he spends a great deal of his full-time writing days researching and writing about job search strategies.
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