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Yes, there is skills mismatch

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Photo by  Kelly Sikkema  on  Unsplash Let us say I was lucky to be employed at our company and fate brought and kept me here for two years now. I think I was supposed to be chased but the company is a start-up, the wage is not so much competition and they are probably seeing potential in me and keep on waiting for it and if so, that is the fate I am talking about. Today companies need a kind of person who can create jobs for them, who can criticise ideas and contribute constructive ones, someone reliable and problem solver. I wasn't that person when I arrived here and like any other graduate, we have not been prepared for those, arguing with seniors, correcting the directives and coming up with your ideas and advised them to be implemented at someone's office. We are prepared to obey, follow and execute orders and reporting progress. Looking at myself from this point of view I would have been an employee of the month for every month and an employee of the y

#muhitimu

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Ni stori ya maisha ya kijana wa Kitanzania aliyehitimu chuo kikuu na harakati zake tangu akiwa shule mpaka mtaani. Mategemeo, mahusiano na majaribio ya kutoka kimaisha. Je atafanikiwa? Usikose kufuatilia hadithi hii ya kusisimua kila Jumapili kupitia tovuti ya   Graduate v2.0  au hapa 4minutes blog #enjoy

Internship Opportunities

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Photo by  Bram Naus  on  Unsplash Do you have a computer and internet at home? This internship opportunity allows you to work with one of the partners' organizations virtually and if willing and able can work from the office or both. You will be given an internship contract which is flexible and allows for creativity, you will come up with ideas and strategies that will extend your knowledge and can generate money under collaboration with colleagues and experts. To quality register to  an orientation course  the first opportunity on the page and share a screenshot of your progress (should be at least 30%) to the chat button  have an idea?  and the first 20 will be contacted from there. This is only to Graduate v2.0 project beneficiaries, non-members can  register here "We are giving to students while at the Universit, so that we may receive more from them afterwards. We train them and expect more contribution to our well being than their untrained counterpart

Learning; Knowing where to find it in your network

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Image by  Carwash.com I have gone through a learning experience that almost confused me until I met open learning and come to a conclusion of what learning is to me. I remember my first question on a history session at advanced level, I asked my teacher " you are saying the Buganda Kingdom was the biggest in East Africa but I remember one of the reasons Buganda collaborated with the British colonialist was fear of their enemy camp Bunyoro which was the biggest, so which is which" he replied well and I remember the answer but I had learned about collaboration  at ordinary level, we were not taught about that yet but I saw that relationship with what I already know. When at higher learning I had a tendency of using everything I remember from kindergarten to high school in answering exams, I could answer something that I heard from friends conversation to a story I had from my teachers or in public transport if I see it useful at the moment. I had developed my learning

Why all graduates and continuous students in Tanzania should go through this course

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Image by ulmagine CSU The world is changing and so does learning, the digital disruptions require for people who are ready for them or else things will be even worse. Unemployment and poor productivity will be the songs of the day. Our education system has not integrated the changes to a large extent but at least every university student can access a computer and or a smartphone and is in one or few social media platforms which mean is a digital citizen already. The environment is therefore conducive, given the infrastructure challenges and the flexibility that allows for the use of the internet to access materials makes it even more important for students to acquire online learning skills. #getreadyDol, as it is on social media platforms, will not only give you skills and confidence for online learning but also complement the traditional learning system that is used with our system. Do not miss this social learning experience. It is best for citation and referencing lesso

Scapbook Challange #20: Review. Reflect, Plan

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Remember  my digital, online learning skills . A lot has changed and there are even more opportunities I have improved much on my citizenship and collaboration with a slight improvement on creation and choice of tools, except for video contents and editing to the higher quality. My connection and communication skills have remained same though there some improvement but are more theoretical than practical, I have made some practices and add connections but I need more practice as a competent learner to see how best I can do as a digital citizen.  I need more development on Communication and creation because these were not directly in line with the course sessions compared to others. Communication also was the biggest challenge with me at the beginning and creation has happened to be on my interest throughout the course and here is the plan to take this experience to a new level. 1. 1 tweeter post/comment every day for three months  2. 1 blog post e

Scrapbook Challenge #19: Lights, camera, ction

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Creating this video was a nice experience, I tried it offline with my webcam and online with Wevideo but the online experience was not good because of the internet bandwidth so I made several practices offline until I was confident enough to create a good video and uploaded it to Wevideo and make some edits. Because I was in a free mode I had to upload the audio and image that I used for editing. The editing was not so much challenging because I was referring to tutorial video on the course and I was able to upload and share my video on youtube, all the uploading procedures are visible on the tools and it is just cool. several practices was a key, as you record more videos you become confident.