You can’t job hunt 24/7 without going mad
This is based on a response I provided to a person on Indie Hackers. The strange thing with the job market is that on one end, companies complain about the lack of good candidates and on the other end, good candidates cannot find best-fit jobs for whatever reason. Whilst we do not provide jobs at […]
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 […]
Why is SkilledUp Life so popular in Nigeria?
Image Credits: Utiva – a SkilledUp Life Education Partner from Nigeria. Over the last three months, Nigeria has emerged as the number one market for Volunteers. As a result, most of our own team now comes from Nigeria. This was not by any design. I was curious to find out why this is the case. […]
How to return redundant back to employment
People who have been made redundant or have taken voluntary redundancy have skyrocketed to 14.2 to 1000 employees, according to the Office for National Statistics data. BBC News reported today that unemployment rose to 5% from 4.9% making 1.79 million jobless (thanks Ram Raghavan for the tip), which is 418,000 more than the same period […]
SkilledUp Life: How this all started
The journey of SkilledUp Life started on 1st of April when a conversation between Manoj Ranaweera (me) of Techcelerate and Anthony Chisnall of Driver Net gave me an idea. I invited a number of Techcelerate Tech Founders and Partners to a virtual meeting on 2nd to discuss the concept which led to launching Furloughed Life […]