Career

Door to door job hunting is one of the oldest methods of finding a job, but it can also be a humiliating experience as you could get chased away by a rude secretary or guard. It’s a method I have also used before and sometimes I got a kind “No, thank you,” other times I got a rude “No, get lost.” Either way, I had to take a very humiliating walk of shame. 

Job searching in Zambia in 2022 can be a very difficult task and it can become a job in itself.  But like always, a challenge is an opportunity to learn something new and I’ve been pleased to discover a few more methods to find a job other than the traditional job search websites and newspaper listings.

Remember the events they used to ask us to attend in school because they’d be great networking events? They said, “Go, you might just never know, you might meet your next employer.” I never had any career success with the networking events, but when I started taking LinkedIn seriously last year; I discovered that LinkedIn