Some of you guys know, I work at MWEB in Cape Town, yup… that same ISP that rocked SA with uncapped ADSL and doing whatever can be done to make the web experience awesome in SA. Here are a few available posts at MWEB that are worth checking out:

• Brand Manager – Above The Line
• Brand Manager – Senior CRM
• Product Manager

If any of these posts are your thing, send an email to lcarter@mweb.com. Good luck!

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Brand Manager – Above The Line

Main purpose of the Job

The Connect division in Cape Town currently has a vacancy for an ATL Brand Manager, who, reporting to the Marketing Manager, will be responsible and accountable for developing and managing all ATL marketing communication for MWEB through strategic marketing practices to improve the brand presence and increase in sales.

Job Outputs

• Maintain MWEB’s position as the leading ISP in South Africa using all advertising techniques at your disposal
• Work in partnership with creative and media buying agencies to devise and execute ATL media plans in order to reach business targets
• Successfully manage budget for ATL, including regular reconciliations of ongoing costs against budget
• Manage approval process for ad campaigns and ensuring they are compliant
• Ensure cutting edge creativity to maintain brand positioning
• Manage key relationships
• Develop and maintain relationships with all internal and external agencies
• Be aware of and comply on an ongoing basis with the rules and requirements of the CPA, ASA and any other legal / regulatory / risk management frameworks
• Excellent command of the English language
• Strategic thinker
• Strong creative judgement
• Strong analytical skills, in order to interpret results, manage budgets etc.
• Ability to give constructive feedback
• Effective negotiation skills
• Good team worker – with internal teams stakeholders and external business partners
• Energy, enthusiasm and a burning desire to succeed

Skills and Competencies

Qualifications and Experience

• 3 year qualification – Marketing Degree or Diploma
• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Highly computer literate
• Previous experience in Internet and / or Marketing department in an ATL role
• At least 5+ years experience in an ATL environment, of which 3 years are of a Brand Manager’s role
• Experience working in a corporate marketing environment
• Previous experience working with advertising agencies including media
• Knowledge of ATL media and creative development processes
• Experience of managing ATL campaigns
• Experience of working with external media and creative agencies as well as the ability to drive the very best results from these partners
• Experience of managing significant budgets

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Brand Manager – Senior CRM

Main purpose of the Job

The Connect division centred in Cape Town currently has a vacancy for a Senior CRM Brand Manager who, reporting to the Marketing Manager, will be responsible and accountable to prepare and oversee all CRM and specifically all communications to the Connect base.

Job Outputs

• Help achieve churn and up sell targets through developing comprehensive CRM plans / activities for Dial-up, ADSL, Wireless and SOHO / SME bases
• Oversee and initiate communications to the base to fulfil MWEB’s objectives
• Set the CRM strategy for MWEB’s base
• Plan and implement the Retention strategy (e-mails, direct mails, SMS’s and any vehicle used for CRM) within budget
• Build and implement a customer journey plan
• Successfully launch new products to the base
• Increase revenue per user and continually promote value added services
• Reward loyal customers through special offers
• Ensure cutting edge creativity to maintain brand positioning
• Knowledge and experience in research
• Work with data analyst to understand behavioural patterns of MWEB base
• Control segmentation of base
• Manage key relationships
• Manage two staff members
• Excellent command of English language
• Strategic thinker
• Ability to transfer technical terms into consumer friendly communications
• Passion for communication and its role in preventing churn
• Ability to interpret data
• Attention to detail is essential
• Ability to develop strong working relationships with colleagues and agencies
• Passionate with a strong sense of ownership

• Develop and maintain relationships with all internal and external agencies

Skills and Competencies

• Excellent computer literacy

Qualifications and Experience

• 3 year qualification – Marketing Degree or Diploma
• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Highly computer literate
• Numerical ability required
• Previous experience in Internet and / or Marketing department in a CRM role
• At least 5 years experience in a CRM environment
• Experience working in a corporate marketing environment

• Previous experience working with advertising agencies – digital and traditional

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Product Manager

Main purpose of the Job

The Connect division in Cape Town currently has vacancies for Product Managers who, reporting to the Head of Products, will be accountable for managing the lifecycle of technology based products.

Job Outputs

• Craft and execute portfolio strategy within directives provided by Exco
• Act as the business owner for MWEB Connect products and services, which may be under development, in use undergoing extension or re-development
• Responsible for business and product feasibility in relation to business modelling, forecasting sales potential, costing models and target market assessments
• Project revenue and expense targets per product line on a weekly, monthly and annual basis to manage these products and achieve revenue targets
• Serve as an internal and external promoter to MWEB Connect products and services

Skills and Competencies

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Must be able to work under pressure and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Show an aptitude for problem analysis and resolution
• Strong negotiation and analytical skills
• Have a strong technical understanding of Internet products and services
• Excellent presentation skills
• Project management and co-ordination abilities
• Be persuasive and tenacious
• Confident and resilient
• Attention to detail
• Show pro-active initiative and strategic thinking
• Possess a degree of creativity
• Be decisive and show good judgement

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in commercial or technical field
• Sound knowledge of Internet Service Provider and Mobile products and services
• Good working knowledge of MS Office, MS Project and MS Visio
• At least 2 to 3 years experience in a product management, ISP or telecommunications industry or alternatively 3 to 4 years experience in a marketing/sales technology based environment
• Proven experience with presentations to senior management and external stakeholders
• Previous experience in product implementation

But now, more than ever, it looks as though the split is not too far away as Sony looks to own a full stake of the company and Ericsson looks to take its investment cash and go somewhere else.

Will this benefit the company and will this allow Sony the freedom to develop handsets with features that have wowed the world, much like its Bravia range of TV’s, the Walkman, the Playstation, etc?

Infact, could this mean afully fledged gaming device in the form of a PSP mobile device soon?

Only time will tell!

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Whether you’re suddenly unemployed or just looking to change up, starting out in a new career is daunting. Take our advice on how to write—and plan—your way into a new field.

Photo by Yo Spiff.

Why switch careers?

Blogger, career writer, and Brazen Careerist founder Penelope Trunk knows from jumping ship. From her own ups and downs at work, both office-based and freelance, she’s compiled a (relatively) low-stress approach to making the switch. More important: She lists reasons why you should and shouldn’t move on:

Here are some bad reasons to switch careers:
1. You hate your boss. (Switch jobs, not careers.)
2. You want more prestige. (Get a therapist – you’re having a confidence crisis, not a career crisis.)
3. You want to meet new people. (Try going to a bar, or Club Med. What you really want is to get a life. Pick up a hobby.)

Here are some good reasons to switch careers:
1. You want a role that is more creative, more analytic or more management-oriented.
2. You want to live in a location that does not accommodate your current career.
3. You want more flexibility or fewer hours.

Drafting the resume

Now that you’ve set your mind to making the big move, let’s talk text.

Alexandra Levit, career specialist and author of How’d You Score That Gig?, graciously offered to provide some guidance on writing a resume for a new career path:

• Getting past the minimum requirements: Use a functional format that lists achievements by general skill area. Most fields want your transferable skills, like project management and client relations.For example, if you spent a few years working at a toy store, but you want to get into architecture, you might highlight a project management skill and say that you managed a semi-annual special parents night, which included activities geared toward 150 regular customers. You should also focus on results you’ve achieved rather than job responsibilities—so instead of just saying that you sold infant-related toys and merchandise, you could say that you were named as the top infant toy salesperson, generating revenues of approx. $20K. By doing these things, you show that you have the right combination of talent and skills to get the job done, even if you don’t have specific experience in that industry.
• Avoid looking like a job-hopper: Hold each job for at least a year before you consider a change. Individuals who switch more often become known as chronic job jumpers, and employers either consciously or subconsciously avoid these candidates. Especially in this competitive climate, when a hiring manager sees a resume listing four jobs in three years, he won’t wait to hear your explanation. He’ll think that you can’t hold down a job, and he will move on to the next person.If you do have a history of moving around a lot, I suggest removing the months from your chronology line. For example, saying that you worked at a place from 2007-2008 sounds a lot more palatable than November 2007-March 2008. Also, if you have JUST quit a job or have been laid off, say that you have been at your last position from 2006 to present.

As for the rest of your text, we’ll recommend one of the five tactics we’ve suggested to rebuild your resume: Start with a list of reasons why you’re great, then distill it into your resume. All the other stuff—fonts, vertical bars, exact wording of “coffee-grabbing intern”—is just finesse. Start with a blank text editor or sheet of paper, and start throwing down whatever skills you have that the others don’t. By doing so, you form the basis for a punchy, concise resume, and (bonus!) you hone your talking points for your interview. Photo by emdot.

Now onto the cover letter, often as important in getitng a hiring manager’s attention:

Don’t bore your next employer with your layoff story

Cynthia Shapiro, career strategist and author of What Does Somebody Have to Do to Get a Job Around Here?, points out to the Wall Street Journal that taking the time to explain your layoff not only wastes cover letter space, but won’t win you many sympathy points these days, as there are a lot of layoff stories to be told.

When applying, avoid expressing bitterness or self-pity. Many layoff victims send cover letters that blame the economy for their job loss, says Ms. Shapiro. There’s no need to even point out the fact that you’ve been laid off. “If your last work day was in October, your résumé will say that,” she explains.

Photo by sunshinecity.

In the same article, an IBM hiring manager notes that in a crowded, competitive group of candidates for a consulting job, what helped her pick the winner was a “can-do attitude.” More importantly, that applicant didn’t make a lot of requests, requirements, or pitch themselves for an exact job doing a precise thing. Get the job first, then work your way into the working environment you dream of.

What to expect (and plan for)

Not to keep hitting on the suck-it-up nail, but crossing into an entirely new realm of experience and work probably requires a bit of sacrifice. To jump-start a stalled job search, you might have to start humble and work your way into career confidence.

Career specialist Levit explains that process in detail for us:

• Ease into a new career one foot at a time: Perhaps this means earning a paycheck at a more attainable job while doing a part-time internship in your new field, or taking an adult education class or workshop on the weekend. The only way to find out if you’re passionate about something is to try it – ideally with as little risk as you can manage.
• Remember that any progress is good progress: In the quest to uncover a source of meaningful work, your worst enemy is inertia. Make an effort to do one thing, like e-mailing a networking contact or attending an event, every morning, every day, or before you do something else—that moves you a bit closer to your big-picture goal.
• Have realistic expectations: Even if you’re lucky enough to finally get and hold a job in your dream career, there’s no such thing as the perfect work situation; dream job doesn’t mean “cushy” job. As your mom always told you, anything worth having in this world requires some effort. There will be some days you feel like shutting the alarm off and going back to sleep, especially if you’re being made to do grunt work at first, but many more ahead where you feel more energized by the prospect of work than you ever thought possible!

Your advice

If you’ve successfully gone from apples to oranges in your career, or even just from apples to different-colored, slightly sweeter apples, by all means—tell us how you got there in the comments.

[This is a repost from Lifehacker]