When one door closes, another opens. This August was our last month with cohort 32 who are heading to work experience with VMLY&R—on the other hand, our c30’s also wrapped up their work experience with their respective employer partners. It’s safe to say we have a number of people to congratulate!
Exciting times, I tell you! Let’s see what else the month of August had in store for our community.
High-Value Career Bagged!
Taelo Seholoba - Web Dev C30 is joining Purple Cosmos on a full time bases post work experience.
Tshepo Lebese - C30 UI Design will be joins Agnet as a Junior Designer.
Muziwethu Mulotshwa - Web Dev C30 is joining Devcom post work experience.
Mathibela Lemekoana - Web Dev C30 is joining TIH on full time bases post work experience.
Lungelo Mthiyane - Business Analysis C32 is joining VMLY&R on work experience.
Tasneem De Costa - UI Design C28 is joining Kurtosys as a UI Designer.
Steve Molele - Web Dev C30 is joining Purple Cosmos on a full time bases post work experience.
Sinethemba Khoza - Web Dev C30 is joining Devcom post work experience.
Nkululeko Zikode - C22 Web Dev is joining Glo Lighting as a Web Developer.
Tshepang Khunou - UX Strategy C32 has joined VMLY&R on work experience.
Kgomotso Mashele - Business Analysis C32 has joined VMLY&R on work experience.
Recruits Making Moves
Tech Spotlight
This past month has been a very good one for our tech recruits. So many exciting things to report for this department. We have 9 recruits who have been serving some serious a$$ kicking. Congratulation to you all for all your hard work.
Problem Solving Foundations 2 - 3
Si’thi asbonge bafethu. This first group of individuals have moved from problem-solving foundation 2 - Problem-solving foundations 3.
Kelebogile Mokwena - CA1 Web Dev
Kgaogelo Mamadi - C33 Java
Ayanda Latsha - C35 Data Science
Ndzalama Mabasa - C34 Web Dev
Katleho Mofokeng - C33 Java
Mathobela Mawasha - C33 Java
Problem Solving Foundations 1 - 2
These guys have moved from problem-solving foundation 1 - Problem-solving foundations 2. Well done on the progress guys. Keep it up!
Velile Vamba - C25 Java
Thifhidzi Rammbuda - C35 Data Eng
Sibusiso Ndlovu - C34 Web Dev
DPD Spotlight
C32 Farewell
A big shout-out to our C32s, Who are off to work experience with VMLY&R. They wrapped up their learning journey with a solid and impressive presentation – what an amazing send-off, with a few guest appearances from C35 and Nhlangano. Lungelo, Kgomotso and Tshepang - have gone above and beyond in the last few months, and we are so incredibly proud of how much they've grown, what they've learnt and your tenacity. We know, that you're going to absolutely own your work experience!
UCT Digital Bootcamp
Meta Certification
A big congratulation to Nkululeko Cele for his legendary record-breaking learning time.
Nkululeko is a Meta Social Media Management student who completed his course within the first month of the bootcamp! This is very commendable and speaks to the great level of determination that he possesses.
We see it and we like it. Well done!
Curiosity Awards
We kicked off the month with an online Curiosity Awards party, where many of you joined, participated and signed up for this year’s awards. That then gave us our 6 teams for the year 2022!
Now a month in, with the first round done & dusted, meet the team Edison, Bell, Da Vinci, Tesla, Wright & Gutenberg who have been hard at work, creating something very curious.
Connection Sessions
August Instalment
We kicked off our August & September Connection Sessions. This time around we have Musa, Liezel & Karabo hosting the sessions. In Musa’s sessions, we tackled vulnerability with a twist via a Never Have I Ever: Work Edition game. In Liezel’s sessions, we took on the art of interpretation via story time with Billy & the Dragon. Lastly, in Karabo’s session, we reflected on our Work-life Balance via goals met & aspirations for the months left of 2022.
If you have not signed up for a session yet, you have one more week to catch the last of these fulfilling sessions where we just connect & chill with recruits & staff alike.
Throwback of the Month
In the time of deadlines, presentations…impressions. In an era of trying to be the best you can be at what you do; if you are lucky enough to have figured it out on time, we find ourselves winging it timelessly with no time to do all of it and even finish it.
But what if you could have time? All the time you could ever want and need? What would you make of it? And moments? Which ones will you seize?
Reality is…as cliché as it sounds… Time waits for no man, and in reality, we require somebody to lean on, push us in the direction…help us. We all require a little push, or a hand to hold while walking through trials and times.
Enjoy!