Njeri was offered a regional finance role and nearly accepted the first figure out of relief. A short negotiation conversation, backed by market data we helped her prepare, added 22% to her base pay before she signed anything, a single conversation that
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Brian kept hearing the same line in interviews for regional roles: “Honestly, you’re overqualified for this.” He assumed it meant the door was closed. It usually means the opposite the employer is worried about cost and retention, not capability. Once he started
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Amara had been doing director-level work for two years while carrying a manager’s title and salary. She wasn’t overlooked because she lacked ability she was overlooked because no one above her had documented proof of what she was actually delivering. When she
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Kevin spent twelve years in telecom before deciding he wanted to move into renewable energy. He worried his experience wouldn’t “count.” It did once we reframed it around transferable skills like stakeholder management and regulatory navigation. Within two months of repositioning his
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Grace, a Nairobi-based operations manager with nine years of experience, came to us with a CV that read like a job description duties, duties, duties, no results. Within three weeks of rewriting it around impact, she had two interview invitations for regional
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Sandra applied to 11 NGOs over two years. She had 8 years of strong HR experience, a master’s degree, and genuine passion for development work. Zero interviews. The problem was not her skills. It was her language. The Vocabulary Gap That Blocks
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Every candidate who reaches an interview has the same 24 hours before it. Most spend them re-reading their CV and hoping for the best. The candidates who get offers spend those hours doing something entirely different. Why Preparation Is the Most Underused
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“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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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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Amina had spent over twelve years building her career in finance. She had led teams, delivered complex projects, and earned the trust of senior leadership. On paper, she was a high performer. Yet as 2025 came to a close, she felt stuck.
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