@tignetworkafrika yesterday hosted a career development workshop with the students of @ucuniversity_official, Kampala Campus. This successful career guidance workshop was attended by over 500 students and had several key speakers.
The speakers included Prof. @maggiekigozi - a Ugandan business leader, medical doctor, consultant, educator, and sportswoman, Innocent Kawooya, CEO of @hipipolive, Amb. @damalissali, Founder of @ideationcorner, Hon. Katabazi Francis - The Kalungu East MP and Dr Patricia Achan – the Deputy IGG.
At the workshop, speakers, one after the other underpinned the importance of hard and smart work, self-discipline, respect and collaboration as keys to having successful careers. They noted that the difference between success and failure may just be a happy face; advising students to be serious but also find time to play and positively engage with one another.
Discussing the role of Innovation, Amb Damali Ssali and Innocent Kawooya noted that Innovation is the new normal as all sectors need new ways of doing things. Mr Kawooya noted that in the early days of Innovation, there are always challenges and thus Innovators must ‘celebrate every step they make, every success they attain’.
Amb Damali Ssali urged the students to leverage Technology to provide better services. She noted that while everyone can not be a techie, “we can all use Technology to improve the different products and services that we offer.” Amb Ssali gave an example of My Doctor; a health service provider that is using Technology to provide digital healthcare.
Amb. Ssali urged the students to select three good habits each and be very good at them. Such habits can be excellent timekeeping, effective communication, excellent collaboration and reading and learning new things periodically.
Prof. Maggie Kigozi underscored the significance of job creation noting that well as over 700,000 people join the job market every year, a huge majority of these remain unemployed as they are trained to look for jobs not create theirs. She tipped the students on Jobs Creation and never took opportunities for granted.
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