Cotlands Employee Reviews

The few days I spent there I had a smile on your face and great energy to make a difference. The team was very accepting and worked well together to ensure an overall success.

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Igniting potential through play

Facilities Manager/Executive Secretary (Former Employee) - Ormonde, Johannesburg - 8 November 2018

Cotlands is a multi-award winning, non-profit organisation with a rich history and 80 plus years of experience in serving young children. Cotlands heeded the call to build a stronger nation by ensuring that as many potentially vulnerable children as possible have access to play-based early learning opportunities during early childhood. As an organisation, Cotlands is working towards making South Africa a more equal society by creating access to play-based early learning opportunities for young children. Through the generous contributions of donors and partners, Cotlands initiates and facilitates innovative, play-based early learning opportunities for young children. Children are provided access to toy library and playgroup programmes aimed at improving school readiness. The programmes are designed to ignite potential through play by enhancing children’s language and mathematics skills as well as ensuring physical and social-emotional development. The ultimate goal is to ensure that children have the required skills to excel academically and socially when entering formal schooling.

Pros

Secure working environment

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Bad Employer

ELFA (Current Employee) - KwaZulu-Natal - 23 October 2018

Worst company to work for. Staff treatment horrible. Salary just too little. The company's way of doing business is not progressive. If you an option do not join

Pros

Nothing I can think of

Cons

Just about everything

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Productive

child and youth care worker (Former Employee) - Johannesburg South, Gauteng - 18 March 2018

It a productive company that is able to uplift their stuff,take them to short courses for the stuff to have more knowledge about the work their doing.an open minded company who gives further education an assistance to their stuff.

Pros

Free birthday gift to every staff

Cons

No long hours

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Exciting

Conference Delagate (Former Employee) - Johannesburg, Gauteng - 10 January 2017

A day a the cotlands is filled with laughter and joy. Management is always there to help. It's a friendly environment as people learn more and help children develop.

Pros

Free lunch and resources are paid for

Cons

None

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Challenging work place

Toy Librarian/ Administration (Former Employee) - Johannesburg, Gauteng - 5 January 2017

At Cotlands,many employees were willing to go the extra mile to bring in the money. Most of the employees would travel from afar using trains carrying equipment to use when playing with children in the settlement sectors,,I use to go in different places in the township including informal settlements to provide free education through playing games and puzzles,we worked under difficult situations whereby sometimes we will be working under the trees just to help less fortunate children.

Pros

No free lunches

Cons

Long hours

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It brought great joy seeing a smile on the childrens faces knowing that u had something to add onbit

Events Coordinators assistant (Former Employee) - Gauteng - 29 December 2016

It would make a big difference if the government would fund the organization more. Even though the hours were long it was exciting for me working course I new how much of a difference my good work was gonna do in the childrens lives.

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Productive and fun to work with

Team Leader (Current Employee) - East London, Eastern Cape - 15 March 2016

Cotlands is a good NGO to work with . It gives you a room to grow and study. I learned to be more responsible and accountable for all task I need to do.

Pros

No free lunches.

Cons

I have to come to work 30minutes earlier .

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A love family

Assistant to the I.T. Manager (Former Employee) - Johannesburg, GP - 27 March 2015

Cotlands is a charitable non government organisation that help needy children and babies who are orphaned as a result of HIV AIDS or neglect. everyone in Cotlands sees him/herself as a member of the family and does well to contribute their quota.

Pros

free food n accomodation

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Productive

Human Resources Intern (Former Employee) - Johannesburg, GP - 9 February 2015

I enjoyed working at cotlands, I did interact well with the staff and they were all helpful in assisting me when needed. I learned the basics on human resources although it was not my field of study.

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