Solving South Africa’s high unemployment rate through stimulating the labour market
Original discussion As we grow SkilledUp Life, I am discovering problems around the world. One of them is the 34.9% high unemployment rate in South Africa. Some people say this is in fact higher than 50%. Since Npumi Mngqibisa (our Chief Fun Officer) joined us three weeks ago, we have started to look at how we might […]
I’m Benjamin – this is my Volunteer Experience
My name is Benjamin Precious and I’m based in Nigeria. I recently concluded my undergraduate studies in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management, and a few months ago I signed up on SkilledUp Life through the LinkedIn platform as an HR Volunteer. I had knowledge in HR but I didn’t have any industry experience to […]
4,000 Volunteers to build the next wave of tech startups
After Mithun spoke to Homero Gheorghe on Linkedin, he signed up to gain further Experience and Skills by volunteering through SkilledUp Life. In the process, he became our 4,000th Volunteer. Thank you. I want to thank everyone who has supported us since we went live on 1st August 2020 and take a moment to reflect […]
Shortcast Volunteer Stories
Some of our team have been sharing their experience through Shortcasts. Here they are: Sakhile – https://ui.short-cast.club/post-details/96 Godwin – https://ui.short-cast.club/post-details/98
Volunteer Stories #1
How do you land your dream job, if you don’t have relevant experience? We had a 40 mins discussion today at 7 pm GMT. Speakers: Ayonike and Godwin shared why they are volunteering, supported by Manoj and organised by Mpumi. Mpumi – Events Coordinator and Chief Fun Officer Ayonike – Head of HR Godwin – Head of Nigeria and […]
Josué secures employment after volunteering
I am Josué PIERRE LOUIS, a young Haitian student/professional full of dreams and projects for my country. I was born in a very poor country, ranked among the poorest in the world and the poorest in the Americas. I have a degree in economics and this training has given me a lot of knowledge such […]
I’m Chinte – Volunteered for Deal Lite
I’m Chinthake Mallawaarachchi. I had a tremendous volunteering experience over 6 months. The company I volunteered for gave extra attention to training and monitoring to make sure I was competent. It was wonderful to collaborate daily across the world with my colleagues. And the experience was thoroughly enjoyable. In the meanwhile learning about the business […]
Time to acquire 1,000 Volunteers
We managed to half the time to acquire 1,000 Volunteers from 109 days to 52 days, all thanks to my awesome team. # Volunteers Days took to reach 1000 volunteers Date Reached 1000 363 30/07/2021 2000 109 16/11/2021 3000 52 07/01/2022 Time to acquire 1,000 Volunteers We almost beat the time to acquire 100 Volunteers […]
Breaking records
We were working extremely hard to break a record yesterday and we failed by 1 volunteer sign-up. Our previous record of welcoming 100 Volunteers in the shortest time was 3 days. We wanted to reduce this to 2 days. In the process, we came so close but were beaten by 1, i.e. we acquired 99 […]
Congratulations Isaac! Secures job after Volunteering
Congratulations Isaac Lekgothoane Isaac who volunteered for us started a new job with Compaira today. Isaac was fundamental in increasing total Volunteers from 1,000 to 2,000 over his 3-month volunteer term with us. This achievement impressed the CEO of Compaira, Dr. Ram Raghavan who offered him employment. Compaira is a Techcelerate Member Company and also a heavy user of SkilledUp Life. We hope […]