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Working relationship at The Presidency

I am currently an Intern at THE PRESIDENCY (Corporate Support Services- Procurement) in Cape Town; I am responsible for facilitating the processes to obtain operating equipment for residences, Compiling procurement requests, initiating procurement processes, obtaining quotes and performing general administration duties. To work in The Presidency as a Procurement Intern is a great privilege as it is a highest office in the land; you get an opportunity to build relationships with end users, service providers and supply chain team as a whole. It is a challenging field full of opportunities to grow.

Pros: Opportunity for growth
Cons: Too little time to execute all tasks

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Building competency and expertise

i have been working in an enviroment that is well rounded up with team work and well communicated goals. in a day i perform administrative duties such as compiling databases and performing any other assigned duties. i work with analysing the socio economic impact assessment systems where i have learnt on conducting cost benefit analysis, strategis and monitoring and evaluation. i enjoy the fact that i engage with people from all works of life and get to learn new things all the time from the inputs and dynamics of the enviroment.

Pros: great opportunity for promotion
Cons: non growth enviroment

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Excellent learning curve

Doing teaching practical is an amazing feeling, knowing that the future of our learners are in the hands of teachers. We change their life's positively. Engaging with learners on daily basis inspires me, it motivate me to share my knowledge with the people who holds the future of this country. I must my self and any other teachers we do this work for passion rather than anything else.

Pros: Great experience and opportunity to grow as person both personal and carrier level
Cons: The amount of work we do at short space of time

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Team player and a go getter.

A typical work day would be responding to telephone and email inquiries. I have good working relations with colleagues and always eager to learn from others. I mostly enjoy acting as chairperson of disciplinary hearing and also in prosecuting in misconduct hearings. Most challenging aspects of my job is taking unlawful instructions from principals. I am go getter and always on time with my assignments. Another challenging aspect of my job is ensuring that managers understand processes so that the department is not compromised of face legal action from employees. I am also responsible for Employment Equity and my role is to ensure that the designated employees get a fair chance to be recruited and advanced through measure that are transparent and legitimate.

Pros: Carreer growth
Cons: Working under pressure

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Interpersonal skills enhanced

In a typical day, one manages the diary; all incoming and outgoing correspondence for the unit. Emails are essential as communication is mostly done through emails. The job has interesting days when there are prominent figures that come to work. The top 5 Idols contestant for example were at work.

Pros: One gets to meet prominent figures
Cons: There are not a lot of promotion opportunities

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Excellent

It was an excellent working enviroment,I liked the working style, and the structure of position.It was a place I looked forward to in the morning.they always make sure they empower the employee in what ever way possible

Pros: Great opportunity for training,so you hain skills in different unit
Cons: Long working hours

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Internship

i enjoy every second for being here, but i need to explore and learn something new from different companies. i love working with people especial those who love sharing experience with other people. what i have learn from my job is to capture a payment on Basic Accounting Sysytem (BAS),capture claims on Persal,determining irregularities and fruitless expenditure,compiling of payment and claims,filling of batches and retrieving

Pros: to get experience
Cons: 8 hours

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Handle confidential matters and has integrity and is trustworthy

• Be professional, highly motivated, initiative and critical thinker who will be able to gather and analyse information skilfully; • Have excellent interpersonal skills; • Have excellent organizational and planning skills and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously; • Have sense of urgency and ability to identify, analyse and resolve problems in a timely manner; • Be able to work independently and as part of a team and also work well under pressure; • Excellent telephone etiquette • Have effective oral and written communication skills; • Good office management skills; and • Use of PERSAL.

Pros: structure is compact, promotion is scares
Cons: 8 hours sometimes overtime

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Excellent culture of team work

I have been appointed since 2007 as a leaner and during my tenure as a learner i was tasked to assist in most of Training and Performance Management units. The environment was conducive due to the level of trust they had on me, i was given task of an administrator. My relationship with my fellow colleagues was out of this world, we are like family. There is a culture of unity. I have learnt to work as a team, present HR matters, sense of urgency, supervising staff and to be able to solve challenges.

Pros: bursary
Cons: salary

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Excellent learning curve

A typical work day is when coming to the office and dealing with queries relating to Request for quotations, and dealing with suppliers/ service providers. Working in the field has taught me how to handle pressure as we constantly under pressure, the challenges that comes with the job are motivating as you learn more when challenges arises. The most challenging aspects of the job is being given a short period of time to source quotations, however over coming those challenges entourages increase the moral of the individual.

Pros: Great Opportunity for learning and growing
Cons: Long working hours

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