Gamjobs.com has new feature that notify candidate of jobs opportunities based on their preferences. In this new feature, candidates can choose to receive job alerts base on job category, keywords, job location or job types etc. They can also choose the frequency they want to receive this notification (i.e. Daily, Weekly or monthly) To set this up, visit www.gamjobs.com, login
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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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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
Continue reading We all know that job interview never seems to be a glass of “ataaya” that can be just gulped down easily, even when you have gone through various interviews in your career. The feeling of going through an interview is the same – jitteriness. Considering that the company is vetting you against numerous other candidates, it is always a good
Continue reading By Ebrima S. Dem I recently started reading about the online community in The Gambia. Not just Gambians on social media but also home grown grown websites. My intention was to see which websites are most visited and how online businesses can target this growing trend of online interest, so as improve overall business performance and drive business in the
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