Groupon Graduate Recruitment Program

Number of positions: Four (4)
Location: Cape Town

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Groupon is looking looking for the best of the best to join our team and continue to sustain and expand our incredible growth throughout South Africa.

What are we looking for?
  • Degree in a relevant field (Marketing/ Communications or Business degrees preferred)
  • A top achiever/ performer with a real go-getter-attitude
  • Has that special "x-factor"
  • Someone who thinks innovatively and creatively
  • Someone who has a passion for sales and entrepreneurship
  • Someone who can convince a chipmunk to buy helium
  • Loves an environments where the sky is the limit

So what's in it for you?
  • Experience in a fast paced high energy environment
  • Phenomenal sales, marketing, operational and entrepreneurial knowledge gained
  • Great kick off to career in the fastest growing e-commence business in history
  • Escalated employability- experience gained in an intense 4 month programme.
  • Valuable skills such as:
  • Business canvassing
  • Presentations
  • Researching
  • Lead sourcing
  • Enhanced communication
  • Negotiation skills
  • Analytical thinking
  • Business acumen
  • Forecasting
  • Practical marketing application
  • Ability to work in a fast paced high pressure and target driven environment
  • Web and online marketing understanding

What will the Groupon Gradz program entail?
  • The 4 month program will give exposure to the full sales cycle- shadowing top performers in each department (including: marketing, HR, editorial, telesales, business development, quality assurance, partner management, city planning / analysing and customer Services).
  • Graduates will be required to expand their knowledge by engaging in the day to day activities of each department.
  • Training will be provided to equip graduates with the necessary tools needed to perform in a fast paced online environment.

The closing date is unconfirmed at this stage but we suggest you apply as soon as possible.

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Definitions:

Internship:

There are basically two types of internships:

  • The Undergraduate Internship: Usually with bigger organisations that pick undergraduates to attend the internship. It often takes places during the holidays and the average durations is a few weeks. In most cases the intern will receive some sort of stipend or salary and this type of internship may lead to a job offer to the intern once he / she is finished with their studies.
  • The Graduate Internship: This type of internship could be paid or unpaid and it is to gain practical work experience after the qualification has been completed and in a job related to the qualification. It could be from a few weeks or even one or two years long. This type of internship could also lead to permanent employment.

Learnerships:

A learnership is an occupational qualification and it consists of theory and work-based experience and practical skills, with formal assessment and a qualification. At the end of the learnership the candidate may be offered permanent employment.

In-service training:

In-service training is to gain practical work experience during studies. It usually takes place after a few years of theory has been successfully completed. It is essential work experience that is part of the qualification and the in-service training is necessary to achieve the qualification. It could be paid or unpaid.