Career Tips

Early on in your career you excitedly join the world of work with bated breath, dizzying expectations and hopeful dreams. Many young people anticipate their steady rise to the upper echelons of the corporate ladder to be smooth and rather quick. The actuality is rather a dire reality check; the climb is hard, steep and filled with twists and turns. This has resulted in many conversations with my clients where I have to re-iterate the truth of: you have to do, what you have to do until you can do what you want to do. It is my thought that

There are few dances between two parties as calculating, nerve wracking and exhilarating as the dance of negotiation. It is a frenzy to acquire as much as you can without being unreasonable or deemed by the opposing party as unrealistic or uncompromising. This often plays out in our careers as we negotiate our contracts. In getting into the arena of negotiations there are a number of things to consider in being successful. The first for would be to speak up. Many of us seem to accept whatever is offered to us without so much as a question raised. Silence does

Traditional long held beliefs that to be successful at work one must hard are fast becoming redundant. The thought that being the first person to be at the office and being the last to leave may give rise to the perception that you are a hard worker but in reality does not mean you are the most productive employee. When we take a look to the East we see the Japanese phenomena known as karōshi. This is translated as death from overwork. This term arose in the 1970s and is used to describe a death as a result of a

Vumile Msweli’s background is very similar to millions of other young Africans across the continent. There was never an easy route to achieving anything in her life.te strategy foster collaborative thinking to further the proposition. Everything that Vumile dreamed of, growing up seemed almost out of reach and not practical. Vumile’s hard working ethos, commitment, dedication and faith made her to be one of Africa’s most influential and modern millennial females the continent has seen so far. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Hesed Consulting, a consulting firm that specializes in the African markets and creates platforms of conversations

Vumile Msweli is the Chief Executive Officer at Hesed Consulting. She is one of Africa’s leading businesswomen who has been awarded the Mail and Guardian Top 200 most influential Young South Africans, the Elle Boss of the Year in the Corporate Category as well as the Gauteng Premier Award for Excellence in Leadership. She has previously worked for reputable multi-national institutions including Barclays, Investec, Nedbank, First National Bank and Vodafone. She has corporate global teams in Africa(Nigeria; Kenya; Democratic Republic of Congo; Zambia; Lesotho; Ghana; Tanzania; Mozambique and South Africa) and Europe (Scotland; Isle of Man and England). Msweli is