by Pardingtone Nhundu I bet you walking up to your parents 10 years ago and saying you want to be a stand-up comedian was tantamount to getting a magnificent beating for utmost stupidity. In some fraction today, you are not allowed to respond to the question what do you want [...]
by Pardingtone Nhundu. Goal Setting is a big deal in life as a whole. But its purpose in career development cannot be brushed of easily. Career Development is not an event but a gradual process and this process derives its endurance from goals: vision, mission and purpose. A goal has [...]
by Pardingtone Nhundu Last month we gave you Goal Setting Skills for High School Students and today we are rolling out an assurance plan to achieve those goals through Goal Management Skills for High School Students. It has been clear in the three years work we have been doing that [...]
by Gary Tight. Music superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi sauntered into the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) with his wife Daisy in tow to grace the 2014 launch of Jah Prayzah’s fifth album, Kumbumura Mhute. As has become norm, there was a big scramble for Tuku’s ear by fellow artistes, fans [...]
by Pardingtone Nhundu. Whether you are in a big corporate, medium enterprise or a small start-up that organization has capacity for office politics and it is there obviously. Office politics are loosely defined as the strategies that people play to gain advantage, personally or for a cause, they support. The term office [...]
by Pardingtone Nhundu. Networking is a main character activity for every business or career. It can be ridiculously frightening if you don’t know how to do it or face the boring process of it. But there has been much teaching of Networking which today we dig deeper to Making Contacts!!! [...]
by Pardingtone Nhundu. Don’t be nice only be Strategic: My mom always said something similar to this common phrase, “Show me your friends and i will tell you your character”. The people around us and worse of closer to us define directly or indirectly our character. Thus be strategic in [...]
by Pardingtone Nhundu In the first issues we highlighted that looking for a job is actually a full time job, let alone in Zimbabwe that you are required to use new methods as to ensure you are employed. Traditionally job seekers have been known to write mails, send by post [...]
by Pardingtone Nhundu In the last issue we talked about tapping the potential of LinkedIn and using it to create networks and at the same time establishing your own name. In this second series we will talk about the need for an Individualistic Approach to getting a job. a. Organizational Culture:Every [...]
by Pardingtone Nhundu “Whether you are unemployed or simply looking to make a move, in a world where jobs are more competitive than ever, finding a job is a full-time job”, notes Dawn Dugan. Currently, 75% of youths graduating in Zimbabwe today are motivated more by salary pegs when considering [...]