Career Guidance Zimbabwe

A Career in Dentistry

Dentistry is not only about taking away the pain from bad teeth. Dentists help people regain their confidence for that jaw dropping smile!

Careers: Data Science

Data science refers to the mechanisms, skills and technologies that can be applied to data so as to extract patterns, predictions, anomalies and make recommendations in business

Career guidance in Zimbabwe

During my secondary school years, I used to be amazed at the lack of career information available to us students. If you didn’t know someone who was in a certain career line that interested you...

Demistifying the Actuarial Sciences

Actuarial Science is about using mathematical skills to analyse and assess risk. Some of the areas addressed by Actuarial Science include: Insurance, Pensions, Health Care, Banking and investments...

Career Interview: Meet Haanyadzisi Batisai the meteorologist

Following our article on meteorology, we met up with Mr Batisai who gave us a more vivid out look on pursuing this career line.

A Career in Meteorology

Meteorology has been around as far back as the 18th century. It focuses on the fact and processes of the atmosphere. Becoming one blesses you with the power to "predict the future!"

Training: Microsoft Certified Solution Associate inBusiness Intelligence Reporting

In this 4th installment of the Business Intelligence Training, we will be covering the two exams for the certification. Getting certified gives you key skills and very high visibility.

Career Interview Nicole Motteux Social Scientist and Coffee Specialist

I see the real magic of coffee as the way it involves interaction between people, cultures, environments, politics and history.

SWOT Analysis- a tool for career management

SWOT analysis is a useful tool for planning your career direction. If one knows their strengths, they can exploit them, if you know your weaknesses you can work on them or navigate around them...

5 Years from now, who will you be?

One of the tools I use when giving career guidance advice to recent graduates and working professionals is the “5 years from now essay” and for the younger students: “5 years after graduation"

An interview with award winning Investigative Journalist: Locardia Mavhudzi

I am a freelance journalist. I write for various publications. Currently I am writing for The Herald newspaper and Starfm radio. I have also recently done media projects with Thompson Reuters Foundat

We interview a media legend: Temba Hove

I started in television in 1973 at the Bulawayo Montrose studio of the then Rhodesia Broadcasting Corporation (RBC-TV). I left the country a year later, travelled the world ...

Careers in journalism

With the advent of social media, blogging and other technology tools, journalism is becoming one of those fields that beautifully merge art and science. But what is journalism?

Career Interview with renowned Speech Therapist Olwen Morgen

I have worked as a speech and language therapist, therapy service manager... My career, spanning 30 years so far, has taken me from Zimbabwe to South Africa, UK, Denmark and Australia - and back!

Career Interview with Farzana Naeem: Senior Clinical Psychologist

Currently I'm a Senior Clinical Psychologist at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals and Vice President of the Zimbabwe Psychological Association.

A career in Clinical Psychology

Psychology is one of those careers that you generally don’t hear local students aiming at. My hypothesis here is that: ignorance plays a huge role in “fuelling” this lack of interest

Career Interview with Happiness Munedzimwe: Product Quality Analyst at Facebook Inc

Some of my projects have internal engineers as the customers, such as monitoring API handoffs and service degradations or business leaders as the customers, such as using data for market segmention

Microsoft Certified Solution Associate: Business Intelligence Reporting

Great news, there is now a separate certification focusing solely on Business Intelligence reporting: Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate BI Reporting.

Career Interview: Boboh Kamangira the Data Analyst

In 2015 I joined the Clinton Health Access Initiative as a Volunteer, a position I held for 4 months before being “promoted” to Analyst, Laboratory Systems. I held the post of Analyst, Laboratory Syst