A couple of days ago, I came across a post on social media that asked; “What lessons did your first job teach you?”. The question got me to reflect on my first professional experience and I decided to share two lessons I learned along the way. By sharing them in…

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson I have been in my current role for over a year now. Six months ago, if you had asked me, what someone working in Recruitment Marketing does, I would not be sure what to tell you. As you would probably guess, I didn’t know so much when I started. …

“Social media has provided people whose lives are in disarray the means to teach a mass audience how to organize their lives. More so, Blame Artists now have a mass avenue to play the victim, lament or blame some external forces for ALL their misfortunes.” About a year ago, I…

“People only see what they are prepared to see.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson About a week ago, I attended a meeting hosted by an organization I volunteer with. Founded in Germany, the organization champions initiatives that provide professional development opportunities to people of colour (BPoC) and promote diversity in the corporate world. As it is typical during the start of such meetings, we…

“A person can be highly educated, professionally successful and financially illiterate”. — Robert T. Kiyosaki I have always been interested in learning about how money works. Especially during my early teens, I often wondered why and how some of our neighbours became richer while others became poorer, although they had relatively similar jobs. But growing up in a typical African household, discussions around financial skills…

“If you don’t look back at yourself and think: Wow, how stupid I was a year ago, then you must not have learned much in the last year.” — Adam Grant Admitting that I have been wrong is nothing new. On several occasions, I have had to abandon several preconceived notions after coming to terms with the reality that they either didn’t make much sense or were no longer true. …

“Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Some weeks ago, I visited a friend with whom I used to play football with just before the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown regulations had come into place in 2020. Since the lockdown…

“A great camera doesn’t produce a great photographer. A good tool can enhance our ability to create quality of life, but it can never create it for us.” — Stephen R. Covey A couple of weeks ago, I wrote the first part of this article. In that piece, I primarily reflected on my professional journey, career challenges, and shared my conviction that empathy and affirmative actions would be necessary to help provide the needed career opportunities to fresh graduates and young professionals…

We all have at some point in our professional journey had similar experiences; searching for jobs, applying to several positions and getting only rejections letters/emails. I too have lived that experience and can tell that the feeling is not so great. Now imagine yourself in the shoes of a fresh…