ChatGPT failed a job interview, but I can still put it to work - Pert Industrials

[Peter Horszowski] In this age of AI, do you really have to do anything, yourself? Yes, you do. Let me show you why...

Clout/SA is transforming creative entrepreneurs to sector-leading businesses

[Evan-Lee Courie] An understanding of the business world is key no matter what industry you're in. From architecture to entertainment, music to design, learning business basics is vital for creatives to gain an edge and be successful...

Carol Ofori on becoming an award-winning voice-over artist

[Evan-Lee Courie] South African media personality and East Coast Radio radio host, Carol Ofori recently won a Society of Voice Arts and Sciences (SOVAS) Voice Arts Award...

Business and government - who does it better? - Pert Industrials

[Peter Horszowski] Over in the US and up in Britain, political debates are raging between the Republicans and Democrats and the Conservatives and Labour. Mostly, this consists of vaguely relevant, highly personal slurs...

6 steps to bridging the gap in your skills development plan

[Michael Gullan] Despite efforts by many HR and L&D managers to address the widening skills gap, a recent study shows that only half of employees consider the training provided by their employers to be useful...

The Pert Panama Project and Papers - Pert Industrials

[Peter Horszowski] What do you think of when you think of a big engineering project in Panama? A 50 mile canal, that splits a continent and joins the two largest oceans in the world?...

UCT Digital Bootcamp gives incompletes a second chance

[Shan Radcliffe] The University of Cape Town, in partnership with Umuzi, have officially launched the UCT Digital Bootcamp to assist those students who were unable to complete their degree with the institution...

Autodesk assists unemployed engineering grads in the first step toward their career

[Shan Radcliffe] Autodesk is providing engineering graduates with a leg up into the working world of manufacturing through the launch of its First Step in Your Career initiative...

Level up your corporate e-learning with gamification

[Michael Gullan] We all know how social media gamifies communication by offering immediate, vivid, and quantified evaluations of our conversational success. These game-like features are responsible for much of social media's psychological wallop...

Everyday vs workplace digital skills: Preparing for an all-digital world

[Zuko Mdwaba] Increasingly, business competitiveness, employee performance and satisfaction, and customer experience rely on the combination of technological advancements and skills readiness...

#AfricaMonth: Good Work Foundation - where the best of Africa meets the best of technology

[Shan Radcliffe] More and more, rural children are being left behind because they are ill-equipped to navigate the digital world. Enter the Good Work Foundation, which aims to teach both children and adults the skills they need to succeed in our technology-driven society...

Upskilling vs reskilling: The difference and its importance to e-learning

[Michael Gullan] Though the terms are close cousins, there are significant differences between upskilling and reskilling in the corporate world, and it's crucial to set them apart when developing your online training and e-learning programmes...

Teaching humans to outperform horses in the fourth industrial revolution - Pert Industrials

[Peter Horszowski] There is an old joke among economists: if you think it is so easy to transition jobs in a new economy, ask yourself how many horses found employment in the motor industry?..

9 similarities between training for work and a marathon

[Shan Radcliffe] At the first session of 2021's eLearning Indaba, Thijs van Zundert compared his experience training for a marathon to that of training for work and your career...

3 ways digital learning can empower star employees

[Desiree Gullan] Technology continues to disrupt every aspect of our lives. One sector that is benefitting from this disruption is education and training. The rise of online learning platforms continues to make studying more accessible and convenient to students and employees...

'Levelling up' on quality education - SAICA

[Leigh Andrews] Bojane Segooa has a lifelong passion for education. Not only is she currently completing her Master's degree in Innovation, while working as a senior lecturer at Unisa's department of financial accounting...

SAP Skills for Africa provides life-long career paths

[Shan Radcliffe] The SAP Skills for Africa programme celebrated the graduation of its 13th class, at a ceremony hosted by the City of Cape Town on Thursday, 11 April 2019...

How to future-proof Africa

[Danette Breitenbach] Solutions to problems often require a change in behaviour, which in turn leads to other inventions. The result is a wheel that is spinning faster and faster, and one that is creating anxiety - more recently about jobs...

Applications open for MEST class of 2020

[Tom Jackson] The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has opened applications for its next one-year, fully-sponsored entrepreneurial training programme in Accra, Ghana.

Female entrepreneurs graduate from Mastercard SA programme

[Tom Jackson] More than 120 young South African women have graduated from a Mastercard-funded initiative that empowers women to pursue entrepreneurial ventures of their own...