Category: Business

Here are four main steps to help you as you plan to transition career: Identify the market value of your current career (degree and work experience combined, what am I worth?). It is critical to define your starting point to make proper plans, and it helps you determine whether you really must change a career.… Continue reading How to Transition Smoothly from One Career to Another

1) Knowing your “bottom line”: Before starting your negotiation, take a close look at your finances and calculate your monthly expenses or a rough estimate of the monthly expenses at the job location. Then, determine the lowest possible salary you can earn and still be able to support yourself and your immediate family. Then, in… Continue reading How To Discover Your Market Worth To Help You Negotiate Your Pay

Thanks to digitization, life long employment with one company or one industry has become a thing of the past. By analyzing 7,000,000 work histories in the Canadian resumes in the Workopolis database, it was estimated that working aged Canadians will likely work roughly 15 jobs throughout their careers. And the younger you are, the more… Continue reading Reasons Why Millennials are Job Hopping

In 2006, I interned at an Oil & Gas Engineering Servicing company in Victoria Island Lagos, Nigeria. The workplace provided me with my first work interaction with expatriates (mostly Caucasians but there were some African Americans, Mexicans and Indians). After 6 months of internship, I noticed quickly how every expatriate had a brand new car,… Continue reading The Hope and Struggles Of Most Nigerian Professionals

Many recent graduates with exceptional grades may still struggle to obtain entry level jobs because of lack of portfolios full of the right skill sets and lack marketable abilities. Recently, I started my mentorship program and 90% of the participants have clear concerns about how to map out a successful career from their degrees. In… Continue reading Tips To Help You Map Out A Career Path From Your Degrees

Am I the only one who uses weather as a go to small talk topic every time? I guess you are also guilty. Let’s face it, black people are not wired to engage in small talks and we often struggle with this. Most people I know don’t even bother about small talk as they have… Continue reading How To Initiate Small Talks For Networking Purposes

Have you ever found yourself making a list of close friends and associates who can help you with finding a job? Has it yielded the desired results? It’s time to stop and start looking at your weak ties. Why?  Because, your weak ties are a lot more likely to move the ball forward than your… Continue reading How To Make Use Of Your Weak Ties

How To Maximize Every Stage Of Your Journey After arriving in Canada for my Ph.D., I quickly realized that things weren’t as cheap as they were in Finland and that the program wasn’t tuition-free. I had to pay tuition, rent, and upkeep from the monthly stipend that I was receiving from my supervisor. So, I… Continue reading How To Maximize Every Stage Of Your Journey