Web Designer Needed

Tw1X

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Edit: Need to be based in Northern Suburbs JHB

Qualifications:
  • Matric (Non-negotiable)
  • Must have a qualification in web/graphic design


Requirements:
  • Work experience not absolutely required, but definitely a plus
  • MUST have a valid license and own car as travelling to clients is required
  • Must have own cellphone, computer capable of running design software and internet access
  • Must have an up to date portfolio of previous design work
  • Knowledge of PHP
  • Be very comfortable working with Joomla & Wordpress
  • Knowledge in Photoshop
  • Knowledge in Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash advantageous
  • Knowledge in SEO and Google AdWords is advantageous
  • Strong understanding of web design technologies, including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
  • Experience in responsive interface design essential
  • Ability to interact and communicate effectively and professionally with clients
  • Ability to take initiative and come up with ideas, solutions, creative brainstorming


Brief Overview of position
You will be the first employee of this small and growing business. As a result, the basic salary is quite low, but will be heavily based on commission allowing earnings to grow substantially and quickly. We are looking for someone who can meet with clients for briefs/new business leads, put together proposals and manage the entire web design process themselves.
You will be ideally positioned to grow with the business. You will be required to work from home for the first 6-12 months while offices are being built. You will need to be available for a few meetings after hours every month, but hours worked can be negotiated.
We are looking for someone able to start ASAP as we have quite a few large projects lined up.

Application Process:
To apply for this position kindly e-mail your updated CV to careers@slyce.co.za

Disclaimer: Please note that only short listed candidates will be contacted. Therefore, if you have not received any correspondence within two weeks of your application, you have been unsuccessful.
 
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ITCynic

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This ad could be so much better if the poster could add the location.

For all we know this could be anywhere in the world.
 

DA-LION-619

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Am I missing something or is the job description actually asking for someone that can work for themselves to work for the company? :wtf:
 

Tw1X

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Am I missing something or is the job description actually asking for someone that can work for themselves to work for the company? :wtf:

In many aspects, yes. However, company will find work and pay salary.
 

stricken

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you have a problem. the person you really need is too expensive (like min R80k a month expensive), yet the person you can afford (I estimate from the OP about R15-R25k a month... if that), will make you a mediocre company no different from the rest.

catch 22. chicken and egg. what to do.
 

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Min R80k for somebody with no real work experience that know their way around Joomla and WordPress? I think you are either smoking something or added one too many zeroes.
 

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What on earth is Stricken on about worth 80k a month? For wordpress with a matric? There are Doctors, Engineers, and Accountants that don't even make close to that. Think about a person who builds a bridge that 10000 2ton vehicles drive over a week. A person who saves an accident victim's life in a state hospital. Think about someone who analyse and prepare the financial information for a multimillion rand company with 100's of thousands of transactions accurately and according to various laws and standards. Now think about wordpress and a matric qualification. Would be great if what you're saying was true then we could all do that and live a glorious life!
 

azbob

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What on earth is Stricken on about worth 80k a month? For wordpress with a matric? There are Doctors, Engineers, and Accountants that don't even make close to that. Think about a person who builds a bridge that 10000 2ton vehicles drive over a week. A person who saves an accident victim's life in a state hospital. Think about someone who analyse and prepare the financial information for a multimillion rand company with 100's of thousands of transactions accurately and according to various laws and standards. Now think about wordpress and a matric qualification. Would be great if what you're saying was true then we could all do that and live a glorious life!

Unless it's for a provincial government website, you'd need an 80k designer at the minimum.
 

DA-LION-619

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What on earth is Stricken on about worth 80k a month? For wordpress with a matric? There are Doctors, Engineers, and Accountants that don't even make close to that. Think about a person who builds a bridge that 10000 2ton vehicles drive over a week. A person who saves an accident victim's life in a state hospital. Think about someone who analyse and prepare the financial information for a multimillion rand company with 100's of thousands of transactions accurately and according to various laws and standards. Now think about wordpress and a matric qualification. Would be great if what you're saying was true then we could all do that and live a glorious life!







I think he meant the person they're looking for is worth 80k a month, not that they should pay that.











Although there are a lot of requirements.




1. Tertiary education.


2. Own car for business use so that person needs to know about sales apart from just being a designer/dev.

3. BYOD also internet and possibly all the other software that the applicant has to cover the costs for, Adobe isn't cheap.
 
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Vegeta

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slyce.co.za looks terrible.
Lol I made a much nicer looking website for a Non profit organisation in a lunch hour while having coffee and posting crap on mybb.
I'm not even remotely in IT and it was my first time using wordpress.
 

Lawrence777

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Lol I made a much nicer looking website for a Non profit organisation in a lunch hour while having coffee and posting crap on mybb.
I'm not even remotely in IT and it was my first time using wordpress.

Yeah for a company so finicky about a matric and a qualification in web design this ad is too damn rich, mainly because their site looks like it has been done by a 10 year old.

I wonder when people in this country will start realizing that a qualification isn't worth any more than the paper the certificate is printed on. Yahoo's in this country have qualifications but the standards of their work is equivalent to the design of a Peugeot 206.

I hire people with working experience preferred over any certification and they have to solve a few scenarios to be considered for the position.

Stricken, a Wordpress or Joomla developer is definitely not worth 80K. I would not even pay a decent one more than 8K a month. Wordpress and Joomla is good for quick small R800 to R1500 sites and even for that I prefer to code it myself.
 
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