First, why would a person in their right mind apply for a job where 500 applications have already been submitted for the same job? If you go to drop a CV and find 500 before you have already applied, don’t leave your application there. Stop dreaming and get serious about your career. Always be the old man out. That should be your focus. Don’t follow the crowd. Don’t go for the road most travelled. Look for the road less travelled. Even for the road most travelled, make sure you take a different path. Take a case of a typical African…
How can Interns get confirmed at the workplace?
The biggest challenge is always how to put your foot on the door. Once you go past that challenge as an intern, it is your best opportunity to shine. That is why I am always very concerned whenever I see a person who worked as an Intern somewhere and was not retained. Once you get an opportunity to work in any company as an Intern, begin exploring opportunities to get retained. It is your business to know who sis who in the organisation. Know the office cleaners. The personal assistants of the bosses. Their family and friends. Know their hobbies…
Governance and profitability: is there a dilemma?
The reason for good governance is to earn as much profits as you can in a sustainable way. In non-government organizations and public sectors, the reason for good governance is to deliver stakeholder value. There is no dilemma whatsoever unless there is conflict of interest, corruption and fraud. These are tell-tale signs of bad governance. In my position as the Secretary of the Institute of Corporate Governance of Uganda, we are creating environment of best practices to make sure that people understand how to run their businesses profitably and sustainably. When this is achieved, economies prosper, and people succeed. You…
Why do some Ugandan businesses fail?
Many people start businesses because of the attractiveness of self-employment. However, sustaining the business is the most difficult part. One of the reasons why businesses are failing is lack of good people with passion and the zeal it requires to drive business growth. Some employees have a mindset of poverty and negative mentality. They think by working they are making the business owner to succeed. They forget that they need to put in their best foot forward so that the business succeeds which is good for their careers. Most staff have a mindset of public service, even when they have…
Where and how do you start life after campus?
Why do some students get great jobs before they live campus while others tend to linger for long on the street looking for some work, just any work and fail to even find it? The secret is not something you may think. Every year, leaders and top executives approach University lecturers for names of their top students in the class. If you are average, chances that your name could end up with the top bank’s top honcho are high if you just a great student that works closely with the lecturer! You must have a strategy for every situation you…
Hold on, pain ends.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 HOPE. Is a very powerful ingredient for quality life. When I had just arrived in Kampala, I was so mesmerized seeing so many tall buildings. So many cars. I will never forget that first experience. I vividly remember the trip. My elder brother was seeking nomination for the position of Youth MP, Western region a race that included powerful contestants like Maj Rabwoni Okwir. I boarded the bus to Kampala,…
