By Simon F mendy ICT is meeting the challenges of the Gambian population, including That is to say ICT is improving the county’s economic development by creating more jobs. The Gambia is a small country with less than 2 billion people. Despite this contrast, it possesses a huge market potential for trade and investment and a huge opportunity for growth
Continue reading ByAkansha Arora Software Development career is just not about computer science expertise. It requires greater number of skills to be a developer. From beating your friend at a chess game to having problem solving skills, a developer needs all. Here are 10 signs that indicate that you are a pro as a software developer. Aptitude tests say a lot about
Continue reading By Simon F. Mendy, You can never predict for sure which questions you’ll be asked in a job interview. However, these six questions are guaranteed to come up in most (if not all) job interviews — regardless of your industry, your experience level, and job type. At the top of this list is “Tell me about yourself”. The interviewer’s ultimate
Continue reading It is no doubt that Human capital is the most important resource an organization can have as it has a direct and significant impact on the organization’s success. However retaining valuable employees can be a very difficult process unless you understand reasons as to why an employee would like to stay or leave an organization. Upheavals in the world of
Continue reading The 21st century skills are skills every HR is looking for. They are more than computer and technology skills. These are skills, without which, you cannot successfully participate in the Gambian economy—and global economy at large. It is a fact that changes to the economy, jobs, and businesses over the last several decades have reshaped workplaces and the nature of
Continue reading Steve Blank and Bob Dorf in their book “The Startup owner’s manual” defined a Startup as “a temporary organization in search of a scalable, repeatable, profitable business model”. From this definition; we know that startups are not simply smaller versions of larger companies because Companies’ executes business models where customers, their problems and necessary product/service features are “knowns”. Apart from
Continue reading What attracts investors into a country is a matter of scholarly debate in our today’s highly optionate and talkative society. Some believed that political institutions are the most important determinants and others say government fiscal policies (e.g., spending and taxation). Whatever your opinion; The Gambia, one of the greatest explosions of new possibilities in Africa, is lucrative for investment. The
Continue reading It is not only phenomenally important to complete an internship to avoid “the how-can-I-get-experience-if-I-have- no-experience dilemma”; but also your internship can earn you a full time job. In fact most employers increasingly see their internship programs as the best path for hiring entry-level candidates meaning your internship can be an avenue to a full time job. But how can you
Continue reading Is Technology making Rural-urban migration in The Gambia irrelevant? A cause of Labour turnover is the massive movement of people from rural Gambia to urban Gambia, not only are they moving but with many businesses—taking jobs with them. Now businesses can operate anywhere; thanks to the ubiquity of internet and other cheap convenient forms of instantaneous communications. For example a
Continue reading Success comes naturally when your career fits you well. This does not mean choosing a big money career such as investment banking, medicine or law. Money is one way to measure success but prestige is another. If you are not happy with your job, the money or prestige will not be enough. It is good to have above average earning
Continue reading The Gambia’s job market is a highly volatile place today with many jobs to be filled and many people including non Gambians jostling to fill them any given time. Why is this? This is because of technological and social change. The Gambia is taking advantage of the phenomenal changes in technologies, developed during the preceding decades—the computers, digital electronics, and
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Culled from Africa Business Communities founded Gambia’s most popular job-search website, Gamjobs.com. He also co-founded in Spain the GAC – Gambia Association in Catalonia, a migrant support system. His interview with Africa Business Communities: Would you please introduce GMJOBS? GMJOBS is an online advertisement, job listing and marketing firm registered in the Gambia in October 2014. It is the country’s
Continue reading We are looking for good article relating to contract procedure and social security contribution requirements and benefits and any other contractual rules for foreigners in the Gambia. We need this information to updates foreigners who might be thinking to relocate, live and work in the Gambia.If you can help in researching and writing this article, please contact us: info@gamjobs.com Best wishes
Continue readingEmails addresses like: sexybabe69@gmail.com, danboy@yahoo.com, preacherman@hotmail.com, madcobra@live.com etc are not appealing to most employers. If you are applying for jobs at gamjobs.com, and have something similar to these as your profile email address, we recommend that you change it. A good email for professional purposes can be something like yourname.surename@example.com, namesurename@gmail.com, surenamename@ymail.com etc . Emails addresses like these make employers
Continue readingHaving reviewed hundreds of resumes posted at www.gamjobs.com , we have realized that there are common errors in the way many job seekers in the Gambia write covers letters which limits their chances to get hired. Key errors we observed on their resumes are: Many don’t have cover letter at all, despite been requirement for the job application Cover letters are too scanty
Continue readingIf you’re looking for a new job, internship, volunteer opportunies or perhaps a career change in the Gambia, we can help you stay ahead of the game. Follow our 4 simple steps and you’ll be leading the pace for your dream career: 1. Visit www.gamjobs.com 2. Click on the tap “Register‘ enter your username and email and click “send” Your
Continue readingByNatalia Baryshnikova Every manager wants Why Managers Fail at Hiring Good Peoplto hire talented people and help their teams become high performing. But why do some managers and teams fail at it so often? Here is my list of five common mistakes that cost you good candidates – and suggestions how to avoid them. #1 You Don’t Know What You
Continue reading1. Many people believe that the more resumes and job applications you send in, the higher your chances of securing a job. This is just not true. What matters is quality – not quantity. 2. It’s also widely believed that cover letters and thank-you letters are not only unimportant, but a waste of time. This is a big mistake! These
Continue readingIf you’re relatively new to your career, you’re probably asking yourself “what can I do to be successful?” Well I’ve had the opportunity to work with hundreds of amazing people over the years and there’s one trait thatalways comes throughamong the highly successful: Hard work. Of all the things you can do to be a success, the one which
Continue readingIn Gambia, many people have agreed that it’s all about who you know thats gives you job. If this is the case, then it is good that you connect and know the people that matters. And one way of doing that is networking. Networking with the right people in your industry can open doors for you and help your career
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