A road with potholes will force you to reduce your driving speed. In Uganda, you buy a car of 180 kilometres per hour, but you hardly find a road where you can drive even at 130 km/hour. Even the Entebbe expressway, you need a very stable car to cruise at this speed! Anyway, career potholes are limiting. You can make more money or buy more cows, but you cannot manufacture even a second. Time, once you lose it, it is gone for good. For this reason, my career strategy has always been read as much as you can while you…
What it takes to become a professional accountant
There are few professions that give one a latitude to excel at different jobs. Accountancy is one of them. A master at numbers and a bedrock of key decision making across the business, there are few fulfilling career options like becoming a professional accountant. You would be right to call me an accidental accountant. Limited career guidance during our secondary school times meant that we drifted our aspirations to professions that were common in our rural communities. When you were sick, you would go to the doctor or nurse at the local dispensary. When the bicycle broke down, you took…
Tool 45 of 104 is to improve your self-esteem
On 08th June 2019, I met a man, tall about 26 years. He said “I have a B. Com and about to complete CPA, but no one seems interested in my profile. I have so far sent my CV to over 30 companies without success. I got feedback once where I found so many other job seekers. We were asked to undertake an aptitude test. Which they told me that I had failed. It is now three years when I am on the street, and it is clear, they sold us the wrong education.” The fact is at 26 years…
Tool 41 of 104 is to show up often
Luke 9:17 They all ate as much as they wanted, and when the scraps remaining were collected, they filled twelve baskets. In life, an attempt at something, is the most important thing that cuts across all winners. Why? If you don’t show up, you don’t register any performance. For example, to win any race like a marathon, you must show up and participate in the race first. If it is an exam, you must show up in the examination room. Whatever you think of in life, success starts when you take the first step. As a consultant, I am always…
How to win at Panel Interviews easily common questions answered
Have you ever lost that much needed promotion job at the last minute at the panel interview? Have you ever felt too intimidated by panel members? My first panel interview was also the toughest. A high-level job was advertised on the website of the professional accountancy body, which I am a member. I checked the listed minimum requirements. I saw I had all it took. I decided to try my luck. I took time to write a custom CV for the job from the perspective of the person who wrote it – in this case was the chief executive officer…
Negotiating salary as a new staff
What you don’t know about me is that I resigned from my first job. This was one of the worst decisions of my life. And I want to warn you: never resign from your job before you find a new one. When you do so, your transfer price goes to zero. I mean 0. This means, that you lose all your previous career salary increases. Many companies want to match your current pay. Never your previous pay. Many companies ask for your most recent pay slip. The thing is, many company HR and executives have been taught wrong things. They…