Speaker

Shelagh Foster is the author of Your First Year of Work – A Survival Guide (Bookstorm/Macmillan), and has 20+ years’ experience in training jobseekers, graduates, and employees. Clients include Massmart, the UFS, Isa Carstens Academy, Moshal Scholarship Programme, Vuleka School, King Edward High School, Great Girls, and the Make a Difference Foundation. She also co-authored Your First Year of Varsity with Lehlohonolo Mofokeng.

“In preparing young people for the world of work, Shelagh was utterly professional in her approach; mixing humour, common sense, and evidence to inform and inspire students anxious about stepping out of the comforts of campus life to start their first jobs” – Prof Jonathan Jansen, ex-Vice-Chancellor of the UFS, Distinguished Professor of Education: SUN.