Our client is poised for substantial growth over the next few years and requires an experienced Senior Exploration Geologist to head-up a coal exploration program in this fast developing region of Africa.
The Role
Based in an African country, the incumbent will be leading a small team of geologists and field technicians to drive exploration on existing projects, as well as identifying and evaluating further exploration targets.
Requirements:
o degree qualified geologist with unchallenged experience in developing and implementing coking coal exploration programs, as well as previous supervisory, project management and budgeting experience.
o excellent communication and presentation skills, both oral and written.
o familiar with design and project management of various geological issues – including mapping, resource estimation, software modelling as well as data interpretation and consulting on drilling options.
o solid expertise in integrated geological studies, prospect generation & analysis AND will utilize geological and/or geophysical software to produce cross sections, maps and regional geological studies.
o Experienced in conducting prospect reviews through independent analysis.
o Portuguese speaking ability will be advantageous, but not essential.
Do any names come to mind? Any assistance would be appreciated.
Wayne Gibbons
General Manager, South Africa
wayne@cowaninternat ional.com
Cowan International (South Africa)
Tel: +27 (0) 51 430 9430
Mobile: +27 (0) 82 927 9450
Fax: +27 (0) 88 051 430 4309
Skype: wayne.gibbons. cowan
www.cowaninternatio nal.com
Yesterday Yahoo Finance published an article on the Best Companies for Job Growth. Many of the companies had over 20% job growth last year when “companies weren’t hiring”.
They’re Hiring! As the leader of The Compass Group, my church’s career group, I often hear “no one is hiring”. Even in Austin, Texas – reportedly one of the strongest economies in the U.S., I constantly hear this statement. I always reply with “someone is hiring”, and by the stats in Yahoo Finance’s article, some companies were doubling their workforce!
Target As a Career Coach, I recommend a strategy that targets companies that the client would like to (and be proud to) work for. I’m generally asked how to get started making a list of companies. This Yahoo Finance article will be one of the tools that anyone can use to start building a list of target companies.
Happy St. Patricks Day everyone!
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Went to see the accountant today. Since I have no income to speak of that may seem like a ridiculous thing to do. But the tiny sum money I do earn needs to be protected. AND each year I seem to have something strange happen that I don’t know how to handle. I started seeing these accounting people about 16 years ago when I still had a job.My Father died and taxes became more complicated. Anyway, I took all my info and found that once again I don’t owe any money since I don’t make any money.
The nice thing about speaking with an accountant each year is that I can ask questions that help me plan things better. This year I learned quite a bit. And also I now know, for sure, no doubt, no question, that I NEED a job.
Or I need to win the lottery.
Or both.
(Didn’t post here yesterday…spent time prepping the tax info. And grumbling. )
this is seriously the best part of my job. i absolutely love going up to the studio, setting up the lights, setting up the product (okay, my team in most cases is the product stylist…) and shooting. I could totally do this all day. I wish I could do this all day.
the. best. part. ever.
sorry i’ve been a little lax in posting. it’s been a crazy week.
I’m playing around the fringes of something here. A new perspective perhaps. I just found out a few days ago that my job will end in a couple of months. A more piecemeal form of it will remain available to me, which is – okayish, I suppose. I’ll be eligible for unemployment. And I have a marketable skill that I can also use in freelancing.
I wonder, though, about something. See, here’s the thing. It turns out that in the work I was doing, I was never fulfilling the role I thought I was fulfilling. When I was informed of the job ending, it was with a “thank you for helping us for so long” message. I’ve been there, off and on, for over a decade (the “off”portion was for the baby/toddler years). I thought I was a colleague, not someone brought in to help the real colleagues. So I toy with the question of whether I should respond with the anger I feel over that, if I might burn some bridges if I do that. And then I toy with the question of whether the bridge was ever really built in the first place. And maybe all that’s there to burn is my phantom idea of a nonexistent bridge that I’ve been so diligently building and maintaining…
So – what does this say about the rest of my life? Is it possible that as I strive for self-awareness, and reach for a safe and simple way to continue coming out, that I’m just helping? Or worse yet, am I just doing other people’s jobs for them? Is it possible that I’m trying to keep bridges from burning in places where there is no bridge?
I’m so “good,” so “cooperative.” I want everything to be “fair.” And right now, most of what matters intensely to me is quiet, unannounced in my external life. To some degree that’s really fine. I feel like some aspects of my life are incubating. So be it. But on some level I wonder if I’m just helping, rather than living.
And I don’t have a road map for how to make the change. I’m not twenty. I’m not leaving home to go off to college or something like that. I wonder, how do I find my way out of the places I feel trapped, but familiar? And even more, how do I discover those places where I thought I was being fair, but I’m really just “helping”? How do I determine what parts of my life consist of investing in relationships and lifestyle patterns that will never ever give back?
I suspect the answer is that if I have to ask myself if THIS or THAT is one of those places, it is. No wonder I’m exhausted. I think it’s time to sit back and feel the difference between real life and forced life. Just sit back, just observe from inside my life – what’s working, what’s not? And it occurs to me that a lot of what I need to “do” is – nothing. I need to do a lot more nothing in most of the places where I am investing.
It’s the places that comfort me and scare me that are probably real.
Edit: I have no idea what’s up with all the broken images. Don’t ask. I cleaned up my computer so maybe that has something to do with it.
Hey internet. How are you? I’m good now that SNOWPOCALYPSE 2010 has passed.
Thank goodness for 4-Wheel Drive!
School is going ok. It’s been awhile since I took a gen-ed so I forgot that you should actually study for them. I think I’ll be ok. My Senior Psychology class (Physiological Psychology) is killer. It’s kind of interesting in an “I needed to fulfill a requirement and this is the only class that fit my schedule” kind of way. My research team’s experiment is looking at the effects of music on spatial reasoning tasks (read: How well can you do a maze while listening to music?). One of my group mates is a slacker, and I was concerned that we would have a repeat of last semester, but my third group mate is really awesome, so I’m not that worried.
Color Guard is going ok. The expected hostility is there and I’m in the back a lot…BUT….I have a sweet solo! It’s on sabre and it’s a pretty decent length. I will post a video when I get one. Sorority life is…odd. It was great but then we had a medical emergency and now it’s kind of falling apart and sad. Target is going great. Im working on getting trained at Guest Services (where you can play with TAPE!) and am a pretty good cashier. Yesterday a guess asked me if I could figure out his change if he gave me an additional $0.14, which ticked me off (fyi $0.86 + $0.14 = $1). Just because I work at Target doesn’t mean that I’m stupid, ok?
My roommate is really starting to tick me off (nothing new there). He’s just so dang LOUD! He’s loud when he leaves in the morning, he’s loud when he comes home, he turns his TV/Computer/Music on loud, he SNORES loudly. He contributes nothing to the household and even refuses to unload any dishes from the dishwasher that he doesn’t own (read: silverware). It’s very frustrating. But, I’m moving out June 1 (even if I don’t find someone to take over my lease). I’ve finally found a job that will pay me ok!
Today’s passage gives us a refreshing change from the slalom of arguments between Job, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. Another charatcer enters the scene (although I have to wonder if he has been there the whole time but simply was not mentioned before), and he brings the earlier speeches to a halt. I’m liking this guy already.
First, we see a clear image of their culture through the first several verses of Elihu’s speech. After his introduction, Elihu spends 17 verses defending himself to Job’s friends, telling them that he, too, is qualified to speak. He makes it clear that he was intentional in respecting the authority of elders by listening to them speak, but now that they have nothing more to say, he would like to add something. He also says, “But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding. It is not only the old who are wise, not only the aged who understand what is right” (32:8-9). It is unclear just how revolutionary an idea this might have been at the time, but I can say from experience that it’s not entirely removed from our own culture today. Perhaps it has been just as much my own insecurity as it has been feedback from the world around me, but for one with the ambition to speak the Word of God to teach others, it is difficult to gain respect from elders. One feels the impulse to go further than necessary educationally to make up for youth, but here Elihu simply makes his case and leaves it at that. He says that he will speak, even if others tell him he is unqualified to do so. May we all be so bold!
Elihu goes on to say both that God redeems us many times over from our deserved doom (death) and that even if we do not hear Him speaking, who are we to challenge Him? Here again we see a Christlike image in 33:24b-26: “…I have found a ransom for him — then his flesh is renewed like a child’s; it is restored as in the days of his youth. He prays to God and finds favor with Him, he see God’s face and shouts for joy; he is restored by God to his righteous state.” Christ is the promised Messiah who would be the ransom for many — but again, have they received this prophesy yet, or are they speaking merely of God’s grace extended to those who humble themselves before Him and offer up sacrifices of atonement?
Elihu’s final words in this passage are strong: “Oh, that Job might be tested to the utmost for answering like a wicked man! To his sin he adds rebellion; scornfully he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God” (34:36-37). Elihu made it clear earlier on that he does not speak with the intention of slandering Job’s name, as it seems the others have (32:21, 33:6-7), but he also speaks truth where he sees it. It seems, at least concerning Job, that Elihu’s point here remains that in his stubborn will to clear his name, Job has been prideful and has sinned against God. Again, I mentioned this before in an earlier post so I won’t dig too far, but Elihu’s complaint with Job is spelled out from the beginning in 32:2: “[Elihu] became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.”
It is refreshing here to see a meaningful answer to Job. His three friends gave him nothing but worthless condemnations that did not confront or even begin to address the arguments that Job made. Here, Elihu specifically counters with the idea that Job is arguing the wrong point. The bigger issue is that God is God, and who are we to aruge against that?
I think we all try to make ourselves out to be God sometimes. We don’t always do it on purpose, but even our tendency to fit everything into logical boxes is playing God in the sense that we lose the mystery of God’s ways. If we shrink Him to fit into our boxes, then it leaves no room for Him to be who He is — all-powerful, all-knowing. It is difficult to take a step back and just let Him work, but it’s a necessary step.
Yesterday Yahoo Finance published an article on the Best Companies for Job Growth. Many of the companies had over 20% job growth last year when “companies weren’t hiring”.
Thank goodness for 4-Wheel Drive!