Takealot invites unemployed youth to apply for YES Internships / Internship Programme for 2025 / 2026.
Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Job Type: Internship
Closing Date: Not Specified
takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented YES Intern – Opportunity to join our team in Cape Town
We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard- working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
We operate in a fast-growing, quick-moving environment, and we’re looking for someone who thrives when the going gets tough, is solutions-driven, and will simplify & innovate. If you’re results-oriented, self-motivated with attested retail/e-commerce experience, this is your opportunity to kick-start your career.
You will undergo an intensive induction for 8 weeks to question, learn and understand what it takes to work within the Customer Service Department.
You will report to the Customer Service Team Leader
Your responsibilities will include:
- Participate and complete a 12 month learnership programme while undergoing training and practical experience in the workspace.
- Deliver timely, accurate and professional customer service aligned to service level standards.
- Resolve product or service problems by utilising your listening skills to clarify our customer’s query; assess any service failure to identify the root-cause and take appropriate action.
- Communicate with our customers via phone and email.
- Utilise a variety of software tools to navigate to a resolution.
- Liaise between internal departments to solve our customer queries.
- Take ownership of our customers and ensure their needs are met in accordance with being Africa’s most customer-centric company.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Successfully completed Grade 12 (NQF4).
- No prior work experience is required.
- Flexibility to work rotational shifts which includes weekends, public holidays and overnight work.
Attributes:
- Have the passion and willingness to want to get the exposure.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English is a must.
- Customer obsessed and knows what it means to deliver an exceptional service.
- Competitive: Although innovation is important, GREAT requires a lot of work.
- Curious and Teachable: Always questioning the status quo, hungry for knowledge. and experience no matter what you already know.
- Hardworking.
- Smart: Able to identify the root cause of a problem and find a solution.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced high-pressure environment and thrive on delivering quality work at hyper-speed.
- Collaborative and mindful of the impact of your actions on the team.
- Energetic.
- Emotionally resilient and comfortable with ambiguity and constant change.
- Ability to approach problems logically and with good judgment to ensure the appropriate customer outcome.
- Computer literate and tech savvy – exceptional typing and computer navigation skills.
- Accountable and responsible, strong sense of integrity and takes ownership regardless of whose ‘problem’ it is.
The Environment:
takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
- We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
- We are short on ego and high on output.
- We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all.
- We love what we do and what we are creating.
We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:
- is forthright but respectful
- is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
- is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
- is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
- is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
- is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
- is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
- is curious and challenge the status quo
- is innovative and enjoys iteration
- is collaborative
- will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.
- thinks like an owner of the business.
- is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING
If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!
How to Apply for Takealot: YES Internships 2025 / 2026
Click here to apply online for takealot.com YES Internship Programme
Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
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