Jedi Master wanted immediately: APPLY HERE
Potchefstroom, North West
Position: Jedi Master
That is not a misprint. Our core purpose is to make people more valuable to the marketplace, which can often require the patience and wisdom of a Jedi. Does this purpose resonate with you? We’ve been making people more valuable since 1995, and we’re getting steadily better at it, which is why we need more Jedi. And to be fair, who doesn’t need more Jedi?
Making people more valuable requires a sincere sense of personal purpose beyond oneself, along with an unusual blend of discipline, conceptual smarts, good with numbers, having a genuine affinity for people, persistence, and creativity. Authenticity and integrity are crucial. The Force must be strong within you.
You will need to be a good listener and an effective communicator. You must be teachable, with a healthy curiosity about the world around you. If you already know everything, stay where you are.
Passionate people do well with us. It’s not that critical what you’re passionate about, just that you feel strongly about things, and can articulate this. Actually, that’s not entirely true. If you’re an anti-vaxxer, or a flat-earther, or think that chemtrails are a thing, don’t apply. Even we have limits.
A sense of humour is vital. While we take what we do very seriously indeed, we try not to take ourselves too seriously. If you can’t laugh at yourself, click out now.
Oh, and you should be a team player. No, really. We operate as small, self-managed site teams, and it’s hard for your teammates to focus on making people more valuable if you have weird personal space and/or hygiene issues. We don’t do positions and titles – respect is earned.
This is not for the faint of heart – even people who have agreed that they need to change are grumpy about actually having to do it this week. This is called conflict and is very much part of the job.
On the subject of jobs, this is not an office job. We work on-site with the client, wherever they may be. Some indoors, but lots of outdoors. You’ll be away from your blankie and your budgie during the week. If we get to work in another country, you can probably take your blankie with you, but the budgie will have to stay here.
On the plus side, you get to meet all kinds of interesting people, most of them very grateful to have us there to help them become more valuable to their particular marketplace.
A final, and quite important, point – you ain’t gonna get rich working here. We pay okay, we look after our people properly, 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 you want to make money, try the parastatals. Better do it soon though – that party appears to be winding down.
Does this sound interesting? It’s hard work, we must be honest. Not for snowflakes.
When we succeed – and we try very hard to succeed every time – then we fundamentally empower the people we work with. They connect better with their business and can make Better Business Decisions. These Better Business Decisions make their business more profitable, stronger and more resilient. This in turn keeps people employed, which pays salaries and groceries and teachers and healthcare and suppliers and utilities and transport and rates and taxes, all of which keeps vital money pumping into the community. Which brings us neatly back to making people more valuable to the marketplace. That’s the part that gets us out of bed in the morning.
We hire for character. 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.
What you need:
A completed tertiary qualification, preferably an honours degree, and preferably in a field that blends humanities and sciences. We know, we know. That’s why you need to be special. If you studied something on either end of that spectrum and then realized you’d made a terrible mistake, we can talk. You still need a tertiary qualification – we need proof that you are disciplined in both thought and action. Well-intentioned but undisciplined doesn’t work for us.
1 to 3 years of post-graduate work experience. We need people who have come to know that home and school and varsity are not the real world, and have gotten over that, but are still flexible and teachable.
To be willing to work 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.
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.
To have a valid driver’s license and your own reliable transport.
To have a functional smartphone.
Action:
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 have the requested documentation will be automatically rejected.
Job Type: Full-time. Apply Now
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