- Potchefstroom
- Salary: Market Related
- Job Type: Permanent
- Sectors: Human Resources Academic Graduate
- Reference: MW01
Vacancy Details
Employer: Overberg Personnel
What do we do? Good question. We make people more valuable to the marketplace. How? We engineer behaviour. If that doesn’t scare you off, then read on. If it does scare you off, it’s been real. All the best.
We’ve been engineering business behaviour successfully since 1995 and have finally got a clear idea of what it is that we’re doing. We’re always looking for good people to help us make more people more valuable in more businesses. Are you a ‘good people?’ Good people for us start with a sincere sense of purpose, of wanting to make a difference. Then, people who are self-disciplined, who can get stuff done, who have a genuine affinity for people, have grit, authenticity, competence with numbers [this is after all still engineering] and integrity. You must be teachable – if you already know everything, stay where you are.
Our chosen approach is facilitative – in other words the art of assisting discovery. This requires people who are self-aware, listen more than they talk, know how to ask good questions, are self-aware, and emotionally intelligent. People who are confident without being arrogant. People who have resilience and grit, because even people who know that they need to change their behaviour are grumpy about having to change today. If you can't take conflict, click out now.
Passion is good for us. What you’re passionate about isn’t that important, just that you have passion and energy, and can articulate this. Hmm – on second thoughts, maybe not. If you’re an anti-vaxxer, love astrology, or think that homeopathy is a science, don’t apply. We need logical, critical thinkers.
What does ‘make people more valuable’ mean? Our process helps people connect more meaningfully to their business and can make Better Business Decisions. Those Better Business Decisions make their business more profitable, stronger, and more resilient. This in turn keeps people employed, which pays salaries and taxes and groceries and teachers and healthcare and suppliers and utilities and transport and rates and so on, all of which keeps vital money pumping into the community. Which brings us neatly back to making people more valuable to the marketplace, the part that gets us out of bed in the morning with a smile.
Don’t worry too much about exactly how we do what we do, or exactly what you’ll be doing. We’ll teach you everything you need to know. It’s tough, but not impossible.
While we are very serious about what we do, we try not to take ourselves too seriously. If you can’t laugh at yourself, you’ll struggle. You have to play well with others – our site teams operate semi-autonomously, so you can't be an ‘I’-specialist. We work on site with our clients, wherever they may be. You’ll probably be away from your blankie and your budgie during the week, most weeks. If we get work out of the country, you can probably take your blankie with you, but the budgie will have to stay here.
An important, point – you ain't gonna get rich working here. We pay okay, we look after our people properly [everyone is a shareholder, BTW], and you sleep the sleep of the righteous, but none of us do this for the money. We take the money, but it’s not about the money. If bling is your thing, apply at the parastatals. Better do it soon though – that particular party appears to be winding down.
Required Skills
- Communication: 1 year or less
- Hr: 1 year or less
- Presentations: 1 year or less
- Training: 1 year or less
- Development Support: 1 year or less
- People Skills And Experience: 1 to 2 years
Candidate Requirements
What you need:
· Tertiary academic qualifications that show us you are disciplined and teachable;
· Some meaningful work experience – i.e. people who have realised that home / school / varsity is not the real world and have gotten over that disappointment.
· To be willing to be away from home during the week. We don’t have a ‘head office’ – you’re either on site adding value, or you’re on leave.
· To have a valid passport. If we work internationally, you will be away on a rotational schedule.
· To be currently based within a 200km radius from Potchefstroom. Yes, it’s a real place.
· To be medically and physically fit enough to pass the clients medical requirements.
· To have a valid SA driver’s license and your own reliable transport.
· To have a functional smart phone.
Action:
· Your current CV including your contact details.
· A few paragraphs about why you think you might be a good match for us, and why you think we might be a good match for you.
Please note – we’re serious about that discipline thing. Applications that don’t arrive at the right place, with the requested documentation will be automatically rejected. We can't teach you to read.
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About Overberg Personnel
Overberg personnel is a recruitment agency based in the Overberg region.
The Director Karen Labuschagne has been in recruitment for over 20 years working National /International in various industries.
With experience in all sectors of recruitment, we understand that the recruitment process needs to be flexible and customizable to suit our Client’s needs.
We thus strive to make the recruitment process as smooth as possible with the ever adjusting HR needs.
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