By SIMON F MENDY: Some believed that low GPA is a function of not performing higher on whatever standardized grading system your school was using. Therefore, the excuse is that you didn’t study hard enough or work hard enough to understand what was expected of you so that you could perform higher. Whether that is true or not; you will
Continue reading BY Simon F Mendy The Gambia which gained independence from Britain in 1965 is the smallest country on mainland Africa. It is a long strip of land situated on Africa’s west coast and is sandwiched on either side by Senegal. Here I hash out what it is about this country that has me so enthralled. The Gambia enjoys relative peace.
Continue reading By Simon F mendy ICT is meeting the challenges of the Gambian population, including That is to say ICT is improving the county’s economic development by creating more jobs. The Gambia is a small country with less than 2 billion people. Despite this contrast, it possesses a huge market potential for trade and investment and a huge opportunity for growth
Continue reading ByAkansha Arora Software Development career is just not about computer science expertise. It requires greater number of skills to be a developer. From beating your friend at a chess game to having problem solving skills, a developer needs all. Here are 10 signs that indicate that you are a pro as a software developer. Aptitude tests say a lot about
Continue reading By Simon F. Mendy, You can never predict for sure which questions you’ll be asked in a job interview. However, these six questions are guaranteed to come up in most (if not all) job interviews — regardless of your industry, your experience level, and job type. At the top of this list is “Tell me about yourself”. The interviewer’s ultimate
Continue reading It is no doubt that Human capital is the most important resource an organization can have as it has a direct and significant impact on the organization’s success. However retaining valuable employees can be a very difficult process unless you understand reasons as to why an employee would like to stay or leave an organization. Upheavals in the world of
Continue reading The 21st century skills are skills every HR is looking for. They are more than computer and technology skills. These are skills, without which, you cannot successfully participate in the Gambian economy—and global economy at large. It is a fact that changes to the economy, jobs, and businesses over the last several decades have reshaped workplaces and the nature of
Continue reading Steve Blank and Bob Dorf in their book “The Startup owner’s manual” defined a Startup as “a temporary organization in search of a scalable, repeatable, profitable business model”. From this definition; we know that startups are not simply smaller versions of larger companies because Companies’ executes business models where customers, their problems and necessary product/service features are “knowns”. Apart from
Continue reading What attracts investors into a country is a matter of scholarly debate in our today’s highly optionate and talkative society. Some believed that political institutions are the most important determinants and others say government fiscal policies (e.g., spending and taxation). Whatever your opinion; The Gambia, one of the greatest explosions of new possibilities in Africa, is lucrative for investment. The
Continue reading It is not only phenomenally important to complete an internship to avoid “the how-can-I-get-experience-if-I-have- no-experience dilemma”; but also your internship can earn you a full time job. In fact most employers increasingly see their internship programs as the best path for hiring entry-level candidates meaning your internship can be an avenue to a full time job. But how can you
Continue reading Is Technology making Rural-urban migration in The Gambia irrelevant? A cause of Labour turnover is the massive movement of people from rural Gambia to urban Gambia, not only are they moving but with many businesses—taking jobs with them. Now businesses can operate anywhere; thanks to the ubiquity of internet and other cheap convenient forms of instantaneous communications. For example a
Continue reading Success comes naturally when your career fits you well. This does not mean choosing a big money career such as investment banking, medicine or law. Money is one way to measure success but prestige is another. If you are not happy with your job, the money or prestige will not be enough. It is good to have above average earning
Continue reading The Gambia’s job market is a highly volatile place today with many jobs to be filled and many people including non Gambians jostling to fill them any given time. Why is this? This is because of technological and social change. The Gambia is taking advantage of the phenomenal changes in technologies, developed during the preceding decades—the computers, digital electronics, and
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