Today’s venture-backed teams need to re-think their approach to talent acquisition. Why?

Founders and VCs alike find themselves spending nearly half their time on hiring, but what is the actual link to the amount of funding making its way into the ecosystem?

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How might we forge a connection between startups operating in Africa who need talent more than ever, and those around the world looking for the right opportunity to devote their passion, skills and time — right now?

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Your business needs new talent; friends and family can’t cut it anymore.
You realise you need to go out and find someone amazing to hire.
You don’t have the budget for it, so where do you start?

In this post, that’s exactly what you will discover. I cover the different building blocks that I personally use in running the recruitment drive at a Pan-African entrepreneurial training program. Read more>>

From my time as part of a 2-man team at MEST Lagos and leading the launch of the MEST Africa brand in a new market, to my current role leading MEST Africa’s recruitment strategy, I go through a LOT of emails and calls from amazing people trying to find out how to get into the MEST Program.

Here are the tools that have helped me reduce over 6000 applications from all over Africa to a shortlist of 150! Read more>>

I have made a reputation for myself of being the guy who spends the least amount of time in the meeting room. You can blame it on my previous experience working in a very bureaucratic organisation where there were meetings for everything.

...although I send out 30-minute calendar invitations, what ends up happening is that I wrap things up in 15–20 minutes and use the rest of the time to get started on the quickest action items.

You can take a look at my ideal strategy for physical/virtual meetings/calls here>>

Internships are becoming a significant part of the lives of university undergraduates. However, a lot of organisations tend to treat them as a pipeline for low-cost labour rather than a platform to provide real-world experience that empowers interns to put classroom knowledge into action.

Interns should not be brought into an organisation to conjure up coffee or run other office errands. They should be there to gain substantive work experience by doing work that matters.

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