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Career Services
Front row from left to right: Magdalena Matthys (intern), Lavhelesani Mpofu (intern). Back row from left to right: Carmenita Redcliffe (Chief Officer: Company Relations), Nthabiseng Khota (intern), Belinda Janeke (Head of Career Services and Student Relations).
The Career Services office opened its facilities in 2007 as a help desk on the UFS Bloemfontein Campus at the Sasol Library, due to the increasing number of students looking for employment opportunities. The team has grown over the years and now consists of two chief officers, Belinda Janeke and Carmenita Redcliffe, two research assistants, 15 volunteers and seven career ambassadors.  The portfolio of company relations is the latest addition to the team that runs a number of new initiatives and events that aim to enhance overall marketing and services offered by the department.

In January this year, Career Services hosted a corporate breakfast in Johannesburg.  Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Francis Petersen, led a delegation consisting of Vice Rector: Institutional Change, Student Affairs, Prof Puleng LenkaBula, Dean of Student Affairs, Pura Mgolombane, Director of Institutional Advancement, and Director of Communication and Marketing, Annamia van den Heever, and Lacea Loader respectively . The event was an initiative that sought to motivating companies, donors and funders to employ and fund top UFS graduates.

According to Belinda Janeke, keeping UFS students informed about career opportunities and equipping them with the skills and grit to make them employable, finding employment or starting their own business is the department’s ultimate goal.



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Training programme for high performing directors
2007-03-02

 A training programme for high performing directors and corporate governance role players will be presented this year for the first time by the Centre for Business Dynamics at the University of the Free State (UFS). The duration of the programme is six months and participants will embark on situation-specific learning that will allow immediate application of knowledge in the workplace and the effective transfer of skills and competencies. The programme is presented in Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. The first group of 18 participants from Interstate Bus Lines and the Free State Tourism Authority started with the programme this week in Bloemfontein.

From the left, are: Mr Danie Jacobs (Head of the UFS Centre for Business Dynamics), Ms Annelize van der Zwaard (Interstate Bus Lines), Prof Dave Lubbe (Centre for Accounting at the UFS), Mr Moeketsi Tladi (Free State Tourism Authority) and Mr Quinten Eister (Interstate Bus Lines).		  

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