Career OfficeYou never make the next move alone.
Get your CV, your applications and your interviews ready.
The Career Office helps job seekers in South Africa build a CV from nothing, write for a specific job, prepare for an interview, and work out what kind of work suits you. A free account gives you one free go of every one of them.
Studying at Skills Academy, Matric College or Bellview? The whole Career Office is already yours, free, for as long as you are enrolled.
The aptitude test, the templates and the scripts need no account at all.
A CV and a cover letter, built from your own answers.
In partnership with
Studying with one of our partner colleges?
If you are enrolled at Skills Academy, Matric College or Bellview Institute of Distance Learning, you already have the Career Office through your college. Nothing to pay and nothing to sign up for.
Pick your college below. You will be asked for a few details, and the Career Office team sorts it out with your college for you within 24 hours.
What you can do here
Start with the one that sounds like you.
- I don't know what work I want to do Take the aptitude test →
- I'm working, but I don't know what my next move is Answer eight questions →
- I don't have a CV at all Build one from scratch →
- I have a CV, but I'm not getting replies Have it checked line by line →
- I don't know where to look for jobs See where to look →
- I've found a job I want to apply for Work the application →
- I have an interview coming up Get ready for it →
- I want to move up where I already work Build the case →
- None of these, or more than one Answer a few questions →
Try every Premium service once, free
Make a free account and you can use each Premium service one time. After that it locks, and Premium opens it again for R1,250, which covers 12 months.
Unless you are enrolled at Skills Academy, Matric College or Bellview — then it never locks. Every service is yours, free, for as long as you are studying with them.
Everything below is the full list, in case you would rather look through it.
Every service marked Premium is free if you are enrolled at Skills Academy, Matric College or Bellview, for as long as you are studying.
Not sure what you need
Starting out unsure is normal.
Get your documents ready
The things an employer or a manager actually reads.
- Build a CV from scratchWe build one from what you tell us. Any work counts.Premium
- Improve the CV you havePaste yours in. We check it line by line, then you rebuild it with your old one beside you.Premium
- Apply for a specific jobPaste the advert. We pull out what it asks for, then set out a cover letter in your own words.Premium
- Move up at workA case for a promotion you can put to your manager.Premium
- Templates and scriptsCV and cover-letter templates, and scripts for phoning and following up.Free
Find work and get the job
How to handle the interview, and how to weigh up an offer.
- Where to look for workThe job sites worth your time, how to spot a scam advert, and this week's government vacancies.Premium
- What should this job pay?The legal minimum for your kind of work, and what people in it earn.Premium
- Prepare for an interviewThe questions you will get, and how to answer them.Premium
- Compare up to three offersWhat you keep, once transport and travel time are counted.Premium
- Job-hunting glossarySeventy terms employers use, in plain language.Premium
Go further
When you want the whole thing, or a person to talk to.
What it costs
Start free. Premium opens everything else for 12 months, for one payment of R1,250 — and if you study at Skills Academy, Matric College or Bellview, it is free for as long as you are enrolled.
What the Career Office does not do
Worth knowing before you start.
- It does not place you in a job. It helps you apply properly. The job offer is between you and the employer.
- It does not make things up. Your CV is built from what you tell us. If something is missing, we ask you rather than invent it.
- It does not sign you up to a subscription. Premium is one payment of R1,250 for 12 months, and already yours if you study at a partner college.
- It does not apply for jobs for you. You send your own applications. The Career Office gets them ready with you.
You never make the next move alone.
Whatever you are going for, the Career Office works it through with you — and a person reads every question that comes in.