“I’m not unhappy,” Wanjiku told us in our first session. “I just feel like my career is happening to me instead of me happening to my career.” That sentence is the career coaching diagnosis. It’s also one of the most common things
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Sophia applied to over 15NGOs over 4 months. She has a master’s in public health, 8 years of programme experience, and genuine passion for development work. She had zero responses. This is not a story about lack of qualification. It’s a story
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Otieno spent 3 months applying to US-based organisations. He submitted a polished, beautifully formatted 4-page CV to every single one. He did not know that what they needed was a 1-page resume. The documents are not interchangeable. CV vs Resume: Why the
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Irene has a first-class honours degree, 9 years of financial analysis experience, and a CFA Level 2. She failed a numerical reasoning screen. Not because she couldn’t do the maths. Because nobody had told her what a psychometric test actually is. What
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Written by Brenda Adanga After 12 years in corporate banking, Peter was terrified of making a move. He thought he was too specialised. Too old. Too deeply embedded in one sector. He was wrong on every count and 3 months later, he
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Fatima earns in pounds. Her employer is a London-based fintech. She has never left Nairobi. She found this opportunity 5 months ago and almost didn’t apply because she assumed it wasn’t possible. Companies in the UK, UAE, Germany, Canada, and Australia have
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Recruiters at Amazon, Unilever, and Deloitte have all said the same thing: most candidates lose the job in the first two minutes. The interview room goes quiet. The hiring manager leans back, folds their hands, and says four words:”Tell me about yourself.”
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That green banner might feel proactive. To international hiring managers, it can send the wrong signal entirely — here’s how to signal availability strategically It started with the best of intentions. You hit a career transition, maybe a redundancy, a contract ending,
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Sarah had everything going for her solid experience, strong results, and a career she’d worked hard to build. Yet after weeks of applying, she received nothing but automated rejection emails. No interviews. No feedback. From a recruiter’s perspective, Sarah wasn’t unqualified. Her
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When Grace started her job search, she focused on her CV and applications. LinkedIn, to her, was just an online résumé something recruiters checked after shortlisting candidates. What she didn’t know was that for many recruiters, LinkedIn is the first place we
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