By Ousman Seckan In the Gambia, some workers fear performance appraisal because they see it as a witch -hunt meant for supervisors to expose their weakness. The fear of supervisors using appraisal tools to punish or even threaten their subordinates make them quite uneasy. These among other reasons make some workers in the Gambia fear appraisal so much. In fact, some staff see it as
Continue reading By Ousman Seckan Gamjobs through REAP project and with support from Migration and Sustainable Development Gambia (MSDG) and GK Partnershas rolled out returnees’ training on soft skills, job coaching, and placement opportunities in the Gambia. Three hundred thousand dalasis (300,000) is earmarked for this project, which will run for 6 months. Dodou Kah, the Talent and Career Coach, Gamjobs,said the
Continue reading By Ousman Seckan The excitement you feel when called for job interview is quite phenomenal, but this excitement can be ruined inadvertently when you do not know the right respond to a few interview questions. Scores of interviewees in the Gambia are usually eager to respond to questions instead of carefully analyzing them for befitting responses. In this article, I
Continue reading By Ousman Seckan In the Gambia, job seekers are usually quick to complain of the turn-down of their carefully prepared applications when they have met the requirements and also answered all the interview questions. It wonders them what is actually responsible for this rejection despite their qualification and experience. In this article, I will discuss 5 things recruiting managers are
Continue reading By Ousman Seckan Recruiters aim in job interview is to ascertain candidate’s suitability for the job. This allows them to scout out best from a pool of potentially qualified candidates. Thus, all questions in an interview are designed to get as much information as possible from the candidate to help the recruiters to arrive at good decision. As a candidate,
Continue reading By Ousman Seckan In the Gambia, the general perception that if your job application is rejected after supposedly meeting the required qualifications, there is no doubt the job is given to a relative, friend or a loved one. While I cannot refute this possibility in its entirety; I’m with the conviction not all positions can be given to relatives, especially
Continue reading By Ousman Seckan Like elsewhere around the world, employers in the Gambia are seemingly engaged in competition for top talents to keep their services and businesses thriving. As such, technical and professional capabilities aren’t enough to excel professionally and sustain a job. Recruiters are increasingly concerned about soft skills because they have come to realize that these skills drive performance.
Continue reading By Ousman Seckan Do you follow Gamjobs on social media? If yes, perhaps you have been seen several wrong ways some Gambians apply for jobs online. Well, Gamjobs has over the years compiled these not-so-good job application methods, and now wish to use them to advise job seekers on how they can change their application procedures that would lead them
Continue reading By Ousman Seckan It’s common in the Gambia for someone to apply for a job vacancy multiple times without any success. While you need not to relent in applying for your dream job, there is a limit to incessant application of a particular job. Besides, you may wonder what has gone wrong for not getting the job offer or even
Continue reading By Ousman Seckan In the Gambia, there is a general belief that it is only through personal contact and referral that one can get a job. While it is undeniable that personal contact is an important element in job searching anywhere in the world, it is not the only option available to job seekers. Searching for job, they say, is
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If there is any positive lesson taken from the COVID pandemic, it is the importance of technology in our lives. Digital transformation has become the order of day, even for those without technologies. Every sector, organizations, institutions and even people’s family engagement were all digitized, leaving many people marginalized. The lingering question is how do we level the playing field
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Usually, graduations are term as achievement and show some degree of success. It is very beautiful to see one-self graduating from a university. Grandaunts tend to have rationale and super spirits whenever they think of the life that awaits them. From the four years’ experience, they will take with them the memories, good and bad and as well relationship that
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Gamjobs in collaboration with UNDP-The Gambia Accelerator Lab has introduced an SMS service targeting job seekers and employers, geared toward increasing public access to job information. This will enable job seekers and employers to be receiving regular job information amid coronavirus pandemic. Through the service, job seekers will receive real-time SMS alerts of existing job opportunities directly on their mobile
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Unemployment rate in the Gambia has increased to 9.50% in 2017 compared to 9.40% in 2016 respectively. By extension, lead to an averaged of 9.35% from 1991 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 9.50% in 2017 and a record low of 9.10% in 1991. While access to employment in Gambia is a challenge to many, young people are
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Gambia has undergone several years of dictatorship, during this period, the county was virtually shut down for foreign national, often, due to fear of the regime.Apart from tourist visiting the country mostly during the winter for sunshine,Gambia’s doors were closed for foreign workers. Now that the country had a smooth transition, several foreign nationals are eying the country as their
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Tired of applying to jobs, but getting nowhere? It may be because you’re not going out of your way to network. But if you’re dreading the thought of going to another industry meet-and-greet or grabbing coffee with your former coworker, you can relax — networking can be much simpler than that. In fact, you don’t even necessarily have to leave
Continue reading Are you a fresh graduate and about to start looking for job? Here are few steps you can take to land yourself a job right after graduation: Create/Polish Your Resume This is the first and most important step. You can’t do anything else until you have a resume to give to hiring managers and recruiters. First, you typically want to
Continue reading Photo by Talent 2 Africa ByBusiness Insider Interview questions are often designed to test candidates. Some of these questions are obviously difficult, while others are more subtle traps. Business Insider spoke to two career experts who listed some especially tricky questions to watch out for and how to answer them. Savvy hiring managers know exactly what to ask candidates. Sometimes,
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We have just entered into 2018 and obviously many professionals desire a new job, promotion or career change. When you start to feel like your career is becoming stagnant, it`s time to push the reset button and upgrade yourself the same way you upgrade the mobile apps on your smartphone. Below, are five powerful strategies that can help you to
Continue reading Culled from Glassdoor.com If there’s one thing that drives people crazy when applying to jobs, it’s the uncertainty. Of course, you alwayswantto geta job offer, but if recruiters give you a prompt feedback on your application status — even if it’s negative — you can generally deal with it pretty well. Those days after an interview where you aren’t quite
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