After reading a story about me published and printed by The Daily Monitor – Uganda’s latest news, sports, Health, business analysis and reviews – titled ‘I was bored with formal jobs’, ‘friends’ on Facebook in-boxed and asked that I share tips on how to move forward after quitting formal employment. ( You can read the story here -> http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Jobs-Career/-I-was-bored-with-formal-jobs–/689848-4137354-6uq0jo/index.html ) The most touching message among the many was one from an OG (old girl) from college who said, Hey Pat. I’ve just seen the headline in the newspaper. I am also tired of formal employment. I actually quit my job recently and just went home! Please share some tips on how to…
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One Year as an online freelancer; lessons learnt.
If you can’t record or remember your lessons, you learnt nothing from the great experiences life has to offer. Everyday there is something new to learn, to fail at and to aim at. For the last year I have been learning, failing and aiming; below are my lessons learnt…. Never forget your passion – not matter the money or the struggle, if you have passion for what you do, you will enjoy and love it during the bad and good days. Find your niche – do everything until you find that one good thing you are better at. Hold on to that and never let go. That better thing will pay…
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How To Get A Job Using "Who Viewed Your Profile" On LinkedIn
I’m thinking we all by now have linkedIn profiles and we are updating them occasionally and interacting with people there continuously. If not you need to open a new tab now and google LinkedIn then start populating it, you will thank me later. You see if you have it set up already you know that there is a Who’s Viewed Your Profile box in the right corner of your profile. This box that lets you know who was checking you out like when you are in a bar and a nice guy/lady keeps look at you. Now if you know how that game works, it is the same here with LinkedIn……
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Finding a Job Using Social Media
The reach of social media is ever-expanding and there are many ways to use social media to research, network, and eventually find a job. Social networking allows job-seekers and employers to reach their target – matching the right person to the right job. Whether you are just thinking about making a job change, looking for your first job after campus, or find yourself unexpectedly amongst the unemployed, you will find that having a social media job search strategy will greatly increase the number of opportunities that you will become aware of. However, for many job seekers using social media in their job search is uncharted territory and because your on-line…
