Unless you have been headhunted, chances are your curriculum vitae (CV) will go through several ‘shortlisting’ stages before the real recruiter looks at it before you land that dream job. These days, any job advert will attract several applicants. Due to the mundane nature of the recruitment process, several companies have outsourced the function. Your CV risks being buried deep in a pile if you don’t take effort to make it stand out. Be creative ways to make it easy to spot. Consider printing it on a colored hard paper, binding it and orsend your application by priority mail to…
Is your business a grammar class or ideas class?
Many people are afraid of taking that critical first step to their business success for fear of making mistakes. They are afraid of speaking out their mind for fear of making grammatical mistakes. It is said that the fear of public speaking is one of the top two things in addition to death most people are afraid of. Such people have inner little voice that keeps telling them “you will make mistakes”, “your grammar is not good”, “you stammer”, “there are better educated people in the audience”, “you cannot do this”, “you are poor speaker”, etc. Do you have such…
Kenya Airways net operating loss worrying! Company highly indebted to a tune of Kshs 90 billion as of 31st March 2014
There may be something wrong at Kenya Airways (KA) investors are yet to know. The region’s leading Airways Company has reported a loss per share of Kshs 2.25 (US $0.025) for the year ended 31st March 2014; a slight improvement compared to Kshs 6.35 in y/e 2013. For published summary financial results, download Table 1. Will KA’s struggles end soon? The performance of KA has been wanting for the last few years despite the high investment. Although the Airline’s net loss reduced from Kshs 7.9 billion to Kshs. 3.4 billion, the current loss is still on a higher side considering the…
Three sure strategies to reduce employee turnover
The objective of any great executive is to attract and retain the best staff while letting the incompetent to exit. It is easy to attract incompetent staff and very difficult to get rid of them. Likewise, when you get the best on board, keeping them is very tough. For this reason, you must always ensure quality at the door and have a continuous process of identifying the best folks and doing all it takes to retain them. True, no one is indispensable. But there is always cost in terms of learning curve when you lose a good staff. Now you’ve…
Success in your marriage insights from President Museveni
How would you feel if the President of your country appeared at a wedding you are attending? It is both good and bad. The good side is that everything is upgraded to high alert and great class. The downside is that security is over tightened that you get self-restraint to move freely. That is what happened at the wedding of Kenneth Baija, a statehouse employee, a friend,and brother to Robson Aine, one of my colleagues at Summit Consulting. At about 10:20pm, on Saturday 21st June 2014, at UMA main hall, the President arrived. The President’s presence is always a tense…
Overcoming rejections: here is how to excel at face-to-face job interviews
On 16th June 2014, a young man who has just completed a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering requested for an appointment with me via email. I agreed because I found his email outstanding: “Dear Mr. Mustapha, My classmates call me Mr. Ethical Hacker due to my demonstrated skills in the use of Linux and Mac OS. I know you already work with some of the best folks in the field of computer security. But this is technology. Today is not yesterday as many things have so far changed. I want to meet and explore my value to your team. Any…
