{"id":215501,"date":"2016-05-19T12:04:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T12:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=215501"},"modified":"2016-05-19T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T12:04:55","slug":"graduate-lands-interview-after-begging-for-a-job-at-traffic-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=215501","title":{"rendered":"Graduate lands interview after \u2018begging\u2019 for a job at traffic lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A jobless chemical engineering graduate has received positive responses after standing at a busy intersection in Johannesburg, South Africa with a placard, asking for work.<\/p>\n<p>A photo of Anthea Malwandle, a BTech: Chemical Engineering graduate, was shared on social media prompting several calls from prospective employers.<\/p>\n<p>When Malwandle completed her degree at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT) in 2015, she never anticipated that her job-seeking journey would be so arduous.<\/p>\n<p>Since April last year, she has been hunting for graduate and internship programmes to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>She took to the streets after calling many companies and visiting their offices to try schedule interview appointments.<\/p>\n<p>Malwandle\u2019s tale has moved many people and the determined woman says that she would love to work for petrochemical companies in the production of energy fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Touched by her struggle, a Sasol employee called into the Early Breakfast Show to request a meeting with her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0ewn.co.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A jobless chemical engineering graduate has received positive responses after standing at a busy intersection in Johannesburg, South Africa with a placard, asking for work. A photo of Anthea Malwandle, a BTech: Chemical Engineering graduate, was shared on social media prompting several calls from prospective employers. When Malwandle completed her degree at the Vaal University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":215502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}