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Excellent working environment

It is an excellent environment to work at, including the diverse skills that exist within the organisation. The management of the entire organisational records enforces one to be familiar with all the discipline that exist in the organisation. I get along with almost everyone in the organisation as we deal with lot of them on daily basis, nice people to have around and lots of recreational activities I have joined which helped me find it easier to get along with lot of people. I have learnt so much in such a small space, from the management of all the archives, records storage and practices, and the organisational culture itself. I enjoy working with different people everyday across the organisation, it gives one an opportunity to network and enforces good working relationship. Challenges is to work with documents/records across two buildings, challenge comes with moving large volumes from one building to another.

Pros: Large and diverse organisation (knowledge gain)
Cons: Not approving overtime

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Review summary in the department

To ensure for the provision of a single point of contact for Clients to log, track, manage, resolve, escalate and close incidents reported to the Service Desk and thereby ensure that the Service Desk meets the required Standards and Measures. I work 8 hours from 08:00 to 16:30 , I have good relationship with co-workers, I have learned a lot since I joined the department because I am supporting national, I enjoy the fact that I am challenged everyday

Pros: doing quality assurance with the client
Cons: working with difficult client

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Policy,strategy and Business Modelling

Current I am having Msc Agricultural Economics , Honours Degree in Agricultural Economics, Postgraduate Diploma in Agricultural Economics,Bachelor degree in Agriculture, and National Diploma in Agriculture. I am having sixteen years doing agricultural development. I am currently a senior manager or director responsible for agricultural development nationality in the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform.

Pros: Exposure to the industry
Cons: Long ours of services

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Great opportunity to establish myself as a new graduate

Because this is such a big establishment, there is a lot of skills to acquire other than just technical skills which are not only used in mu field of expertise. On an average day in the office I examine and approve about 4 diagrams submitted to the Surveyor Generals office by private practicing Land Surveyors. Some days if the project is field based, I interact with land reform stakeholders or site managers as the case may be, set out as required and point out the beacons to the client. My coworkers in general are great, they are always willing to help and teach. They are also always willing to learn, it's a give and take kind of a relationship. The most challenging aspect of the job is having to reject a job that has been done by someone who has more than 20 years of experience when you have less than 4 years of experience. That's usually not received well.

Pros: Great place to learn
Cons: No place for growth

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Fast learner

I am a hard worker and I can work under pressure and long hours. I have interpersonal skills and work with all type of people and in a professional way and treat them equally. My relationship with my colleagues was so good because we were respecting each other. What I've learned from my previous employment is to deal with the labour matters including grievances, misconduct cases and the disputes resolution. To promoting labour relation in working place. To represent the department in GPSBC, PSSCBC and CCMA. What are enjoyed the most is when I investigating the case and more especially if it the unions are involve. The challenges was when my case include unions because unions are very stubborn but at the end I managed to handle them.

Pros: Great opportunity for promotion
Cons: Long working hours

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Excellent Learning experience

It was a great environment filled with enthusiastic people in both management and Junior levels... It really exposed me to a lot of opportunities of growth.

Pros: Opportunities for growth
Cons: None

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Excellent learning curve

It is a very good working environment where I have to be very alert as we are dealing with payments to thousands of people and we need to very the accuracy of all the captured details prior to capturing the payment. I have learnt to be faster and more accurate. My attention to details has improved drastically and applying policies and ensuring compliance. The most challenging aspect about my work is having a high number of payment from the provinces to process with a 0% acceptance level for error.

Pros: Good working condition
Cons: Not great opportunity for growth within

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I WOULD LIKE TO BE AWARE

I would like to apply for one of the above mentioned position. I am willing to go for training even if it is two years so that I can get experience in the field.

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Great exposure to work in this environment

I am investigating and draft responses on Ministerial and Presidential Hotline queries and refer matter to relevant superiors with recommendations. My passion for investigation is also performed in this job like when there are arson cases or theft of property I normally engage with stakeholders for further investigations. I am also responsible for events managements and Public Participation programmes.

Pros: job security
Cons: work even during the weekeend to accomodate farm dwellers

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