From street corner to candidate for graduate with a board

19 May 2016 - 11:56 By Pericles Anetos

It is not easy finding a job in SA. It’s a challenge thousands of graduates face each year‚ but one lucky university-leaver might be nearing the end of her search…thanks to her holding at a board at a busy intersection. A picture of Anthea Malwandle went viral this week after she was snapped standing at a robot in Rosebank with her brown board which said she is a B Tech Chemical Engineering graduate looking for a job.Sasol spokesperson Alex Anderson said the chemical company had reached out to Malwandle for a copy of her CV‚ which is currently being processed by its human resources (HR) department.Anderson said that Malwandle would be considered for a spot in the company’s learnership programme: “She has B Tech in chemical engineering‚ which is quite a desirable qualification from a Sasol perspective…so we have just brought her into the fold to be considered with a number of other candidates.”He said that the programme’s duration was between three and four years‚ and the work she would do varied depending on where she was placed in the company.The company absorbs “about 95% of our learnership programme candidates”‚ he added.When the programme is over‚ Anderson said Malwandle would come out with a competency qualification and they as a qualified artisan or technician.He said Sasol had trained 1800 people last year‚ with 94% of them being youth.Malwandle told 702 on Wednesday that she was hoping to be able to say she is working somewhere by sometime next week.Malwandle told the station that she had been trying to find a job since graduating in 2015 from the Vaal University of Technology.She said she had sent her CV to HR departments and even went to companies to get her foot in the door‚ but had met with no success.“After that‚ I said these methods are not working‚ let me write on a board and wait in the busy robots and someone will pick me up and I will get something‚” she told the station.Malwandle said that she had been standing at the Rosebank intersection looking for work since last Friday‚ and had received many positive responses asking for her CV. - TMG Digital..

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