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placement of students and graduates and ensuring that they have the opportunity to pick attires to kick-start
their careers in their interviews. I make bookings for them to be assisted with Work Readiness Programmes
like CV Writing. I get to assist with organising career fairs for them and exhibitors. I get to speak to students/
graduates during recruitment initiatives/exhibitions. I organise their CV and documents in our databases so all
this work I do is somehow related to what I studied in some way.
| What do you enjoy most about your current career position?
I enjoy being a helping hand in diverse ways because I am not just placed on a single duty but an all-rounder
that gets to learn the different channels and processes of student and graduate success and placement. I get to
throw in a few ideas while I learn more about myself and what I am capable of when I am not afraid to be seen.
Through criticism and guidance, I learn to do more, better.
| What have been the biggest challenges in your career?
Being able to come out of my shell and being confident enough to talk to large groups.
| Based on what you know now, would you pick the same career path?
Yes I would, even if it would mean pursing it further in a corporate space.
| What do you consider to be your greatest accomplishments (both personally and professionally)?
Being part of the Nelson Mandela University alumni. Securing an internship shortly after my first graduation.
Being able to make my family proud of my achievements and being their first child to do what I did and setting
an example to my younger siblings.
Being part of an amazing team that guides, cares for me and that wants to see me win. A team that sees me as
competent even when I do not feel like I am.

| What advice would you give to younger alumni or current students who aspire to follow a similar career
path?
Even when you want to give it all up, try and stick it through. At the end of the day, there is a reason you wanted
to pursue it in the first place, therefore seeing it through till the end will be more fruitful then what could have
been. You are doing this for yourself, hang in there.

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