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By Mariam Kigongo Uganda’s economic update mainly focuses on the importance of jobs in the context of Uganda’s growing economy. As it is for other countries around the world, jobs are very essential for Uganda’s development because they determine the living standards of every individual and household, whilst supporting economic transformation and promoting social cohesion. Uganda’s economy has grown significantly over the past years after we got our independence Uganda has seen massive growth and development to date, this growth is expected to continue also in the future. Presently, however, a significant proportion of the country’s population are not benefiting optimally from this growth. Most of Uganda’s labor force is employed but rather in low productivity activities. This is largely because most of the largely productive and rapidly expanding economic sectors which are often more capital intensive than labor intensive. For this reason they employ a small sector of well-ex

Mount Elgon Hotel                     Located in the East of Uganda, Mbale is a bustling town towered over by the mighty Mountain Elgon one of the biggest exntict volcanoes in Uganda. Mbale has a population of over 700, 000 people minus those that are always coming, leaving and passing through. Mbale can also be referred to as the “headquarters” of the Bagisu, a bantu tribe that originates from the East of Uganda. When using public means and heading to Mbale, there are two options; the buses (several available in the bus park located in lower Kampala) or taxis (always get the ones in the park because they don't do stopovers.) Your journey from Kampala to Mbale like all over Uganda will be filled with sights of green and scattered homesteads and water bodies first over the Nile in Jinja then Mpologoma river along Tirinyi road. The journey is an estimate of 4 hours long via public means and a little longer while using private due to random stops along the way but it

  Kampala, January 25, 2016: Hellofood Uganda for its 2 nd year anniversary has offered all new customers a 50% discount on any meal ordered from any of the over 150 restaurants that they have on the portal.   Hellofood is the biggest food portal in Uganda and as part of their celebrations; to enjoy the offer all that the new customers need to do is download the hellofood app which is free on android, ios and windows or use the hellofood website https://www.hellofood.ug/ . The voucher code is 2YR and it will end on 31 st of January 2016, with the minimum order for any of the orders being 15,000 Uganda shillings and the maximum order being 70,000 Uganda shillings. New customers can choose from any of the over 150 restaurants that partner with hellofood in Kampala or Entebbe.   Ron Kawamara, Managing Director of Hellofood Uganda, said: “Our goal from the very beginning has been to deliver a high-quality marketing for our restaurants and great delivery service to our cust

By Mariam Kigongo We all have had of some few experiences that are more humbling and for sure sometimes frustrating than reducing your life’s work and experience to the few pieces of paper that every applicant knows as a cover letter and resume.   Despite the fact that we spend so much time perfecting these documents yet, it all boils down to whom you are handing them to. For a fact, the person making the hiring decision takes only 15 seconds on average to know whether to say “yes”, “maybe” or “no”.   While presenting yourself through a resume and cover letter is a tough challenge we all have to face, there are several useful tactics that could genuinely make you, and your potential value to the organization, stand out. Whenever you seat down to prepare a cover letter and resume, always take a moment to get inside the head of the person doing the first screening. These are ultimately the only three things an employer asks during those crucial seconds of analysis, that eve

  By Mind Leaders Uganda Staff I  consider myself to be a bit of a champion press release writer. I can churn them out at the rate of knots without ever compromising on quality. Creating an effective press release is surprisingly simple. Just follow these five steps: 1.) Find the angle Usually this isn’t obvious so you need to use all of your detective skills to unearth why the reader should care about the subject. A reader doesn’t care if a company has a new product out, but they will care if that product is rumored to be popular with, oh I don’t know, a member of the royal family (for instance). 2.) Incorporate your angle into a catchy title It needs to be edgy yet factual and, unlike with blog posts, it doesn’t matter if it runs over to a couple of lines.   3.) Write an opening paragraph that includes all the important facts As a test, check that if the client or publication were to cut everything that follows your opening paragraph, it would still include a

By Mwebya Fred Employing AIDA in your social content creation will not only help you produce more results but also improve the effectiveness of your efforts, but what exactly is the AIDA formula and why is it so important? How do you effectively employ it within your content creation and when should it be used? I know many of us could have come across this acronym before but for those who are AIDA virgins; this is what the powerful acronym stands for, A ttention, I nterest, D esire and A ction.       This formula has been recognized since the beginning of selling and Marketing as the logical process people go through when making a buying decision. Attention! Attention simply means breaking someone’s current preoccupation and getting them to take notice. As content creators, words and visuals are our major tools. We can either ask a relevant question or present an idea aimed so specifically at the needs of the target customer/market that they can’t help but turn on their sm

By Mwebya Fred Though many Ugandan companies have not yet embraced Social Media as a business operations tool, there are those that have already taken off time to invest in Social media. Those that have embraced the Social web have gone on to hire Social media mangers to run and guide the social media operations within the organization to match with the overall strategy. As dreadful as it may sound, a social media audit is probably the most important part of social media managers. It provides you with an overview of how’s everything going with your brand on social and it gives you something tangible to share with your team or clients and of course your boss. I don’t know about you but when I hear the words “social media audit”, I get the shivers. The truth is that working with spreadsheets is not my favorite thing in the world but it is definitely something that grows on you, you know what I mean? And that’s because at some point you realize that there are certain tasks you can

Lamudi Uganda shares with you the top real estate trend that will influence this year. Last year proved to be a challenging year for the real estate sector in Uganda but this year we are bound to see the rewards of all the hard work that was put in. One of the main reasons as to why 2016 will be a good year for real estate is that we expect more cash flow in the economy due to more employment opportunities. Shakib Nsubuga, Country Manager of Lamudi in Uganda, said: “With 2016 here, there are many opportunities to be ceased especially in the real estate sector. An increase in employment opportunities means that we will have more people investing in the real estate sector.” This week we share with you the real estate trends that will influence the real estate sector this year. Growth in property sales and prices Property sales and prices will experience a healthy and steady growth due to the investments that will be seen in the sector. This will bring back a consistency an

By Mwebya Fred Based on a True Story It usually takes me a lot of time to come to an understanding with myself on the things I hate but end up doing them every single day. As we start 2016, I am greatly compelled to share a story that brought a lot of freedom and happiness to my life. I had always thought that I would be an engineer during the early days of my education; I then realized I somehow hated engineering as I got closer to the line where I had to make a decision.   I had always trusted my conscience that I had always been fair to my feelings and interest while choosing the things I loved. Slowly but steadily as I advanced with my education, I realized I had this leadership calling that I very much wanted to be that individual that shapes people’s decisions in society.   At that time, I practically felt like I had all that it takes to be at the center of leadership. While at Namilyango College I gave leadership a shot by becoming the Students Council Chairman, a r

By Mind Leaders Uganda Longer tweets are coming soon to Twitter. Twitter is building a new feature that will allow users to tweet things longer than the traditional 140-character limit, and the company is targeting a launch date toward the end of Q1, according to multiple sources familiar with the company’s plans. Twitter is currently considering a 10,000 character limit, according to these sources. That’s the same character limit the company uses for its Direct Messages product, so it isn’t a complete surprise. There is no official launch date set in stone, these sources say. It’s also possible the character limit could fluctuate before it rolls out the final product, which people inside Twitter refer to as “Beyond 140.” Re/code first reported that Twitter was building a product like this back in September. A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment. Twitter is currently testing a version of the product in which tweets appear the same way they do now, displaying just 140 cha