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The debate has been on about the runaway unemployment rates in Uganda and generally in Africa. Hundreds of thousands of graduates are released from higher institutions of learning but most of them fail to get jobs yet employers insist they cannot find people to employ. So where is the mismatch? Job Mart explores the issue A recent study revealed something interesting. In 2017, Fuzu, an online career development platform, looked at 30,000 job adverts that ran on the platform and separated this out into three sets of data. The report looked at the percentage of jobs in a certain industry, the total number of postings and percentage of applicants for roles within those jobs. This was to establish the simple equation of supply and demand to better inform both job seekers and employers where the biggest mismatch was happening. This was the skill gap analysis. Fuzu also collected data from their user base as well as job seekers over a 12-month period to gain deeper understanding of the skills gap at different levels. The data set shows that information segmented into job seekers with less than two years experience, two to seven years and seven years and above. This data was….

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In many cases both employees and employers underestimate the value of soft skills training. Yet such training saved an employee from premature resignation on account of her harsh boss who she described as a tyrant. Alice Lubulwa was a senior manager in Kampala when she felt like she had had enough from her boss and was ready to resign two years ago. However, she attended a leadership course and read a book on leadership by John Maxwell, which liberated her from making a hasty decision. She became more assertive and started sharing with her boss what he was doing that she felt was not right. The boss was later persuaded to attend the same course leading to his transformation which was unbelievable. Today, they are happily working together in mutual respect. Such leaders are the target for the TRAIN campaign, aimed at transforming leadership culture among leaders is Uganda. The first such training was organised by Solutions Africa in partnership with Watoto Church. It included management skills, designing management strategies, improving relationships between the employer and employee, customer care, among others. “The development of leaders with the exceptional character and skills is critical to Uganda’s development. Transforming the leadership culture….

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In a heated argument over uncompleted tasks and missed deadlines, Sarah angrily said to her supervisor, “If you keep treating me like your five-year-old toddler, I may miss more deadlines.” How criticisms are given or received goes a long way in determining how satisfied people are with their work, those they work with or those to whom they are accountable. Criticism is one of the most important tasks a manager has, yet it is also one of the most dreaded and a put-off. And today, too many managers and leaders have poorly mastered the crucial art of feedback. This deficiency has a great cost. Just as the emotional health of a couple depends on how well they air out their grievances, so does the effectiveness, satisfaction and productivity of people at the workplace depend on how they are told about nagging problems. Many managers are very willing to criticise but very economical with praise, leaving their employees feeling that they only hear about how they are doing when they make a mistake. This propensity to criticism is compounded by managers who delay giving feedback at all for long periods. Effective handling of mistakes and nagging problems in a way that consistently….

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A lot of fresh graduates keep on asking this question, more about http://cmlsociety.org/wp-content/plugins/events-manager/classes/em-location-post-admin.php “How can I get a job if all jobs need me to have experience?” Its true most jobs need you to have experience but not all. Here are 4 job types in Uganda that won’t ask for a single bit of experience …

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