EWN & Women Executives: Food for Thought.

This week on Tuesday night (written on April 22, 2016) , I attended the first event of EWN: the Executive Women Network, a new Ghanaian initiative founded and spearheaded by Maidie Arkutu (MD Unilever Ghana), Freda Duplan (MD Nestle Ghana), Edith Dankwa (CEO Business and Financial Times), Lucy Quist (MD Airtel Ghana), Patience Akyianu (MD, […]

Mentorship & Coaching for Professionals.

As the owner of HIREghana (www.HIREgh.com) and an active recruiter, my associates and I are also involved in mentoring, coaching and counselling of candidates from all sort of seniority levels. Yesterday, I participated into two meetings regarding setting up mentorship- activities and these 2 activities made me decide to write this article on Mentorship and […]

How To Land A Job Using Linkedin As A Tool

As an active recruiter (I am the owner of HIREghana), my associates and I use contanly Linkedin as a recruitment tool. Below is a summary of our Jobberman Ghana Live Twitter Q&A session (thank you for that invitation to hold that session) from 10 days ago. Using the hashtag ‪#‎jobbermangh4jobs, we were able to create […]

Time Management Tips: How-to

As an active recruiter (I am the owner of HIREghana – www.HIREgh.com), my associates and I come daily through several candidates -from all sorts of experience levels- who claim to have time management skills, but unfortunately fail to demonstrate so during our prescreening activity. But the truth is that we all have these skills and […]

Professional Networking Tips.

As an active recruiter (I am the owner of HIREghana – www.HIREgh.com), my associates and I come daily across through several hundred of LinkedIn profiles via our candidate sourcing searches and via our very own professional networking too. What prompted me to write on this topic is reading an article this week on Deutche Welle’s […]

That Cover Letter…

As an active recruiter (I am the owner of HIREghana, www.HIREgh.com), my associates and I come daily through several candidates’ CVs and (lack of) accompanying Cover Letters. Over the years, I have also read several unfortunately bad books on Cover Letters (why do you need a book to tell someone how to write a simple […]