Sasol has been in contact with the unemployed graduate who stood at a traffic light in Rosebank with a board asking for a job.
Head of group media relations at Sasol, Alex Anderson confirmed that their Human Resource department was in possession of the job seeker’s CV and she might be considered for their graduate programme. The graduate, only known as Mawandle won the hearts of many South Africans with the step that she took in her job hunting endeavour.
The B-Tech chemical engineering graduate from the Val University of Technology was holding a board that read: “I have a B-Tech chemical engineering, Need a job. Please help.”
Hi everyone. Thanks for sharing the image of the chemical engineer with us. We are in the process of contacting her. We will update.
— Sasol (@SasolSA) May 18, 2016
*Update* We have spoken to Malwandla. She has submitted her CV to us and it is now with our HR team. Thanks again for the tweets.
— Sasol (@SasolSA) May 18, 2016
Speaking on Radio 702, Mawandle said she had been looking for a job after graduating last year, and the job hunt had not been smooth sailing as she had anticipated. “I started by sending my CV out and that didn’t work as I received no responses,” she said. “I then opted to go to companies but this came with challenges as sometimes security personnel would not allow me to go into those companies.”
She mentioned that she also tried cold-calling companies in an effort to arrange for interviews but that also proved fruitless.
Standing at a robot with the board was her last resort and the young job seeker is hopeful that by next week she will be employed. “I started standing at the robot on my birthday, May 13.”
Mawandle added that she did this because she knew that no-one owed her anything and if she needed things to happen, she needed to do it herself.
