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Avoiding CV cliches

24/01/2008

Acting as your personal advertisement, your CV enables buyers (employers) to see what you can offer and the presentation and structure of your CV is crucial. Unfortunately, too many people follow the tradition of using stock phrases and ‘key’ words that they think will help them stand out from the crowd. Due to this overuse, many recruiters have become immune to certain phrases. Not making your C...

Cost of living should drive pension rates

24/01/2008

The announcement in parliament, by the Minister for Finance, on the new arrangements for servicing retired civil servants’ pensions, was very welcome news. When delivering the Budget speech for the year 2007 – 2008, last June, the Minister announced that in the course of the next financial year, (2007 – 2008) “……all pensioners currently serviced by the Ministry of Finance will be transferred to t...

Free movement of labour

24/01/2008

On Tuesday this week, Research and Education on Democracy in Tanzania (REDET) held their tenth meeting on the political situation in Tanzania. Among the components of the agenda was a topic on East African Corporation; Employment, Capital and Investment.Although the discussion addressed it differently but it followed the March 2006 discussion in Arusha at the first meeting of the East African Com...

Manager and her friends waste time chatting

24/01/2008

How do I sit back and ignore the office manager who is always chit chatting with a couple of the ladies in the office. They go out to lunch all of the time, taking an hour or longer, when they are only supposed to have a 1/2 hour lunch. They invite me to come along, but I feel guilty, because none of us should be taking these long lunches.The owner of the company trusts the office manager complet...

Scholars unhappy with quality of higher education

24/01/2008

The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology easily passed through its budget estimates for 2007/2008 in Parliament last week, amid mixed reactions from the elite society, who know how important the ministry is to the fate of the country’s development. When the minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology Professor Peter Msolla (MP) declared his ministry’s plans for the new f...

Unscrupulous employers warned

24/01/2008

The Minister of Labour, Employment and Youth Development this week gave a stern warning to employers who would violate Labour Laws that they will not be tolerated. This was repeated by Hon Capt. John Chiligati when he officiated at the seminar organized by Tanzania Union of Industrial and Commercial Workers (TUICO) for the workers and management of Printech Company Limited in Dar es Salaam.Hon. C...

Educating Child Laborers	06/03/2008
EDC’s radio-based program is adopted nationwide in Tanzania   Child laborers in Tanzania who participated in the non-formal, radio-based education program, Mambo Elimu, performed as well as students in the state-run public school system, according to recent exam scores from districts where Mambo Elimu was being piloted. Over the past four years, the program, implemented by EDC’s Internatio...