Author: Charl Nortje

Your suit is pressed and steamed, your shoes are shined to a mirror finish and you’ve picked the perfect tie, the blue one that just shouts ‘HIRE ME!’.  So far so good… What’s next? You Google interview tips and come across the same old tired tricks, buzzwords and robot answers that bore employers to death and…

Everyone’s been here before. It’s 3pm on a Monday and you’re in deadline hell. Three of your assignments need to be finalised by 5pm, and there’s absolutely no chance of getting another extension. Now what? Pressure, pressure, pressure. It’s all about giving it 120% these days, and there just never seems to be enough time…

You need the right attitude if you’re going to accomplish anything. That’s a fact we can all agree on. You might have heard the term Emotional Intelligence being used in the workplace, and like myself, you might have wondered what on earth that even means. If you really think about it for a minute, the term Emotional…

Many of us have great expectations for 2015. Some expect to progress in their career, others expect to become rich. Many people quite simply expect the world – which is nice if life was a fairy tale, but none of us should really expect anything from anyone. Expecting things to happen for you is a…

2015 Is here, and that means everyone will be planning their new year’s resolutions… Let’s face it. New year’s resolutions are scary, because we’re all scared of responsibility. We’re scared of it because it means we’re in charge and we could easily mess it up. Setting goals for yourself isn’t as easy as sitting back…

We’re nearing the end of another year, and 2014 was an interesting one all across the spectrum. In the world of politics, we witnessed Russia’s annexure of the Crimean Pensula and the appointment of world leaders in high stakes elections. Our president built himself an impenetrable fortress with our hard earned bucks. Brazil suffered an…

Why do we celebrate Day of Reconciliation? Ever wondered what it really means to us? “There are few countries which dedicate a national public holiday to reconciliation. But then there are few nations with our history of enforced division, oppression and sustained conflict. And fewer still, which have undergone such a remarkable transition to reclaim their…