Do you feel stuck in your career? Do you want more from your professional life but aren’t sure where to start? Do you want to change jobs or get promoted in 2019? Do you want to increase your professional network to include mentors, career sponsors and ambitious peers? If you have answered YES to any of these questions then the…
It’s been over a week since the Wimbiz Annual conference Unstoppable You- Reinvent and Reinvigorate. As someone who has attended this conference for four years running, I’ll say without reserve that this has been my best yet. Perhaps it was the combination of real women with real stories. My most memorable portion of the conference was the keynote address given…
One of the questions I get asked a lot about networking is how to handle the fear of actually starting to network. I get it. We are afraid of rejection, being judged, seeming desperate or as we used to say in my secondary school …receiving “isho”. So we stay in our corner, listen to speakers at the conference, talk to…
I meet tons of career women who tell me they either don’t know what types of events to attend and when they do attend events, they never see any results. I always tells them, there is a right way to network and a wrong way to network. Here are 10 things that are probably hindering all your networking attempts and…
A step by step guide on how to use networking to get your dream job, climb the career ladder and become more visible in your sector. “Taking Glory’s Course on Networking is one of the best decisions I made this year. I learnt so much and it gave me a push” Chinwe- Health Sector BUILDING THE RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS IS THE PATHWAY…
Becuase of what I do, I meet a lot of women who tell me they don’t like to network because they feel shy, awkward, one kind, scared of rejection or seeming desperate etc…can I tell you the truth? I experience the same feelings DAILY. Sometimes when I walk into a room, I feel like the fattest woman there. I sometimes…
When it comes to using social media to build strong professional networks, I have to say, hands down, Linkedin is bae! If you are looking to build strong professional networks while also building a professional brand as an expert in your field, and you aren’t on Linkedin…or haven’t updated your profile in a while…please do so immediately after reading this. Through networking on LinkedIn,…
At the beginning of August we brought back our highly successful IG Live Career Development Series #Networkingforcareersuccess, but this time with a twist. For this special 4 part series, we focused on mentorship. We sought some of the top career mentors and asked them to share with us their top networking and mentorship tips. As part of this series we…
At the beginning of August we brought back our highly successful IG Live Career Development Series #Networkingforcareersuccess, but this time with a twist. For this special 4 part series, we focused on mentorship. We sought some of the top career mentors and asked them to share with us their top networking and mentorship tips. As part of this series we…
At the beginning of August we brought back our highly successful IG Live Career Development Series #Networkingforcareersuccess, but this time with a twist. For this special 4 part series, we focused on mentorship. We sought some of the top career mentors and asked them to share with us their top networking and mentorship tips. As part of this series we…
