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Nice place to be. You learn to be professional

Supporting the COO and the entire chief directorates on all executive matters, Managing the day to day running of the directors’ schedule, Maintaining good working relationships with other staff members, Coordinate activities for both internal and external audit services. • Prepare monthly and quarterly progress reports • Maintain and assist the supply chain unit with assets management. • General Human Resource management for the unit. • Financial Management • Coordinate inputs from relevant branches for Annual Report. • Assist stakeholders in developing policies, regulations and programmes in line with the Approved TRC recommendations. • Provide administrative support for meetings, forums and workshops. • • Budget Management

Pros: The department is still very new and there are lots of opportunities
Cons: long hours

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Lear to do everything to the best of your abilities

I am currently employed as a Data Analyst in the Energy Planning Unit of the Policy, Planning and Clean Energy Branch of the Department of Energy (Head Office). My duties in the current position involve analyses energy data through various methodologies and interpretation of data with regard to consumption, demand and supply of different energy products. This also involves conducting research for the compilation of different technical reports, i.e linking of data on the value chain of what is happening in the energy market. Before joining the Department of Energy, I was employed as an intern at the National Treasury as a Policy Analyst wherein I have acquired experience in National budgeting process and financial analysis. Academically I hold a Degree of Bcom Honours in Economics and majored in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Pretoria. The Econometrics part of my degree had a biased focus on Statistics and economics modelling.

Pros: Have learned may technical skills.
Cons: No opportunities for promotion

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Learning to Design Electrical Projects

I am interested in Power Electronics, Electrical Machines, Electrical Protection, Design Project and Mathematics since I am excellent in calculation and solving problems with analytical, cognitive thinking and having emotional resilience. I believe that there is a lot of electrical fundamentals and general knowledge instilled in me during my study duration at Durban University of Technology. The learning outcomes gained from my academics have enhanced and equipped me very much in confidence, communication, team work, creativity, problem solving, I am pro-active initiative flexible, realistic and computer literate. I am self-motivated and thrive under pressure; self-discipline is what propels me to succeed. I take a keen interest in the latest technology within the power generation field and in renewable energy sources.

Pros: greats benefits
Cons: greats working hours and overtime

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Good for students in work expierimental learning

ABOUT THE CANDIDATE I am a self starter and vision driven individual, an effect team player with excellent leadership skills, a good listener. I am a candidate with willingness to learn highly professional with good project supervision and design experience; I have fully achieved a National Diploma in Electrical Power Engineering at Durban University of Technology. I am interested in Power Electronics, Electrical Machines, Electrical Protection, Design Project and Mathematics since I am excellent in calculation and solving problems with analytical, cognitive thinking and having emotional resilience. I believe that there is a lot of electrical fundamentals and general knowledge instilled in me during my study duration at Durban University of Technology. I have relevant electrical experience in medium voltage 33/11KV and low voltage 420V. I have been working on both electrical planning as well as operations units. I am young and ambitious person.

Pros: Highly learning new things and open opportunities in becoming a technologists
Cons: nomarl working hours (8hours/day)

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Excellent learning curve

I has been a wonderful experience for me to work in a customer service environment learning more of customer service & also creating good relationship with my co-workers,i learned so much from my co workers.I also learned a lot at Department working as a data capture,it was a wonderful experience for me.

Pros: Good learning enviroment
Cons: excellent working hours

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Opportunity to grow

It is a government Department and you learn more on policy development. Allows the opportunity to assist private sector in policy implementation. You learn from international development organisations.

Pros: Growth potential
Cons: Public sector specific

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Job description and tasks

Since I manage a number of Regional Inspectors that are in the Province away from Head Office. This involve a lot of supervision, negotiation and encouragement as the inspectors have no one to look up to in the region as their supervisor is in the Head Office. My job requires that I deal with a number of stakeholders at all levels.

Pros: Contributes a lot to service deliver and protecting the public and Motorists from abuse by operators
Cons: A lot of administrative work

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Project management, engineering management, finance management

as the project co-ordinator/manager sometimes you come very late from the site. learnt how to engage with the stakeholders and form a good working relationship. project management skills personnel management finance management engineering consulting computer literacy

Pros: Growth
Cons: long working hours

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Learning curve

I've studied Bsc in Mathematics and statistics. I love Mathematics from high school. I also completed Bsc honours in Statistics. I've been working on collection, processing, cleaning, imputing and editing data and data analysis since 2006. I've been working with people and I enjoy hardworking team. The most challenging is when the data providers do not provide data on time. I've been working on different data sets, Income and Expenditure data at StatsSA, Agriculture Census data, National HIV/AIDS data and Energy Statistics data.

Pros: Being statistician u can work with any scientist any dataset
Cons: U need statistical qualification and mathematics

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Want to explore new avenues

I worked for my company for far too long and need to explore new challenges. Need to meet a new team. I have acquired a lot of experience which I need to apply at a different environment. I enjoy interacting with different stake holders, sharing ideas and discussing solutions to problems. The most challenging aspect is when there is an emergency and you call out a service provider who does not arrive on time.

Pros: Building a good relations with service providers
Cons: Colleagues and service providers drag their feet when a service is urgently needed

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