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Youth fight for your share
Today, I want to spend a little time discussing real life challenges that our youth are facing and likely to…
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Regularly update your ‘interviewing skills’
Recently, I had the privilege of chatting with three senior executives from different companies at some forum. Two of them…
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Congratulations Prof. Father John Ryan
The news that Professor Father John Ryan has been appointed by Pope Francis to be Bishop for the Diocese…
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Approaches to first job after college
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine got his first ever job, beyond the nature of attachments and…
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Former students ain’t paying nothing
(The Coalition for the Advancement of Quality Education and the Consolidated Public Universities Students Union wants government to suspend…
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Tom Botts’ career ‘litmus test’ questions
Ten years ago, when I was working for Shell Oil’s Exploration and Production Europe division, our chief executive officer…
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Degree-blind career approach – Part 2
Last week, we discussed how it helps to approach career with some flexibility, without being locked to your academic…
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Focus on employee engagement
It is common knowledge that employees who love their work, respect their employer. Employees who have so much passion…
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Managing heavy work load – Part 2
Last week, we shared five of the 10 selected tips for managing heavy workload. This is part of an attempt…
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Follow good trends
Today, we want to focus on the need to follow trends. Good trends. In whatever you do, be it in…
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Managing heavy work load – Part 1
One of the regular readers of the Rise and Shine column asked me to address a couple of topics that…
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Get ready for luck
Last week, I went to visit a friend at some company within Lilongwe. As I was walking to his office,…
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Do the whole job
It is a common tendency to only choose parts of the job while not doing other parts of one’s…
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Commentary on the letter from Ghana
We have spent the last one month discussing the idea that you are not ‘married’ to your degree or any…
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Letter from Ghana: Biochemist turned IT guru
The last two weeks, we have been discussing how you can shift your career away from your original academic…
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Discover your rhythm
I have a friend whom I have known since secondary school days in the early 1990s. We were together…
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Degree-blind career approach—Part 2
Last week, we discussed how it helps to approach career with some flexibility, without being locked to your academic…
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Independence breeds success
This column is apolitical and we completely avoid political topics, themes and content. Every rule has exceptions. Today, we will…
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Degree-blind career approach
Atypical build up to a successful career is that at Form Four stage, we spend a lot of time…
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Preferential care for the less privileged
My lawyer friends tell me that in labour disputes between an employee and the employer, the judicial system is in…
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