CAREER LEADERSHIP CENTRE
Building future ready talent
CAREER LEADERSHIP CENTRE
Gain the confidence and tools to manage your lifelong career journey
The UCT GSB Career Leadership Centre offers students and alumni individualised and expert career leadership and development, and year-round support helping them to make continuous, conscious and informed decisions about their careers.
About UCT GSB Career Services
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Employed students within 90 days17
Ventures launched in the past 5 years79
Active corporate client relationshipsCAREER LEADERSHIP CENTRE OFFERING
The UCT GSB Career Leadership Centre supports students and alumni by providing the following a number of support services, these include but are not limited to:
- Career leadership coaching
- Professional leadership brand development
- On-campus and virtual recruitment programme focusing on placement opportunities with employers
- Networking opportunities such as industry panel discussions inviting industry and alumni to inform you on how to direct your application for employment
PLACEMENT INDUSTRIES AND SECTORS
Many UCT GSB students embark on a significant shift in career direction after completing their studies. Examples of the most popular industries and sectors in which UCT GSB alumni find employment in their year of graduation include:
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MEET THE TEAM
MOREA JOSIAS
Head of Alumni Relations and Careers Services
Morea Josias is Head of Alumni Relations and Careers Services at the UCT GSB. She is responsible for the strategic planning, development, management and leadership of alumni relations and career services activities for the UCT GSB. Her role includes planning and implementing projects that strategically engage alumni and industry in strengthening various UCT GSB activities that provide tangible benefits to alumni, current UCT GSB student job seekers and the school as a whole. Morea studied for her undergraduate degree at UCT in Social Sciences and has a post graduate qualification in adult education also from UCT
IDEAS EXCHANGE
How to motivate your employer to fund your studies
Company funding is an excellent option for those who wish to further their qualifications but can’t cover all of the costs. So we’ve compiled a comprehensive guide to getting your employer to pay for your professional enrichment.
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UCT GSB conference to share insights on how to do business in Africa
The Africa Business Club at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) will present its 2nd Annual Africa Business Conference at the school’s Waterfront campus at Lecture Theatre 5 on 7 December 2022.
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UCT GSB Entrepreneurship Conference positions Africa for global economic power shift
The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business’ (UCT GSB) Entrepreneurship Club will host its 12th Annual Entrepreneurship Conference on 17 November 2022, and its theme – Africa’s Place in the New Economic World Order: Building for a Billion – is in keeping with the growing consensus that emerging markets are on course to grow faster than established markets over the coming years and decades.
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What's your people strategy for 2021?
Remember the days when you shook hands enthusiastically with clients and colleagues just before sitting down together at the meeting table? Sharing pens to scribble down ideas during a brainstorming or team building session?
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Advancing your career in the gig economy
What if lifelong employment never existed? What if the only work available to everyone in every industry was short-term contract work? How would you have approached your career in that world? These are important questions to ask because this is the world we are moving towards.
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