The new breed of Experience Seekers
There is a new breed of experience seekers on SkilledUp Life. A Volunteer Term is typically 3 months long with a 1 to 3-hour commitment per day. This was designed to be nonintrusive to help the world’s adult population to gain experience to improve their career prospects so that they improve their chance of landing […]
Growth via country-specific strategies
Hypothesis Country-specific teams will speed up the growth of SkilledUp Life. Country Chosen I am selecting the Philippines to test this hypothesis. However, there is no scientific reason for selecting the Philippines. Team Structure The team has to be small and agile, yet be able to achieve results. The decision was taken to build a team […]
Esin joins SkilledUp Life to steer the team forward and bring professionalism
I’m delighted to welcome Esin Eyüpoğlu Akşener to the role of Head of HR at SkilledUp Life. She brings significant HR experience from PepsiCo and Colgate-Palmolive. She will Volunteer for us over the next 3 months and help us build a stronger team with succession planning at the heart of it. Our leaders, Mithun Lance and Godwin Mayaki™ will operate closely with Esin […]
Active Support for Volunteers
We are constantly looking at ways to improve how we support Volunteers through Tawk Chat leveraging the Knowledge Base. The role of our support team starts with: Sign Up: Helping visitors to sign up to SkilledUp Life so that they can gain real Experience and Skills to improve their career prospects. Complete Profile: Helping those […]
I’m Collins – Being promoted to Head of HR
My name is Collins Were Ong’eta. I reside in Nairobi, Kenya. I am a graduate from The University of Nairobi where I studied Bachelor of Commerce-Human Resource (HR) Management Option. So far I have 4 years of experience in the HR field as an HR Assistant. My aspiration is to one day be the Head of the […]
Solving South Africa’s high unemployment rate through stimulating the labour market
Original discussion As we grow SkilledUp Life, I am discovering problems around the world. One of them is the 34.9% high unemployment rate in South Africa. Some people say this is in fact higher than 50%. Since Npumi Mngqibisa (our Chief Fun Officer) joined us three weeks ago, we have started to look at how we might […]
I’m Benjamin – this is my Volunteer Experience
My name is Benjamin Precious and I’m based in Nigeria. I recently concluded my undergraduate studies in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management, and a few months ago I signed up on SkilledUp Life through the LinkedIn platform as an HR Volunteer. I had knowledge in HR but I didn’t have any industry experience to […]
Josué secures employment after volunteering
I am Josué PIERRE LOUIS, a young Haitian student/professional full of dreams and projects for my country. I was born in a very poor country, ranked among the poorest in the world and the poorest in the Americas. I have a degree in economics and this training has given me a lot of knowledge such […]
I’m Chinte – Volunteered for Deal Lite
I’m Chinthake Mallawaarachchi. I had a tremendous volunteering experience over 6 months. The company I volunteered for gave extra attention to training and monitoring to make sure I was competent. It was wonderful to collaborate daily across the world with my colleagues. And the experience was thoroughly enjoyable. In the meanwhile learning about the business […]
Breaking records
We were working extremely hard to break a record yesterday and we failed by 1 volunteer sign-up. Our previous record of welcoming 100 Volunteers in the shortest time was 3 days. We wanted to reduce this to 2 days. In the process, we came so close but were beaten by 1, i.e. we acquired 99 […]