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The Career Lessons from Joseph: “Remember me … mention me to Pharaoh”

By
Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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He was sold by his brethren, and later found himself in a jail with servants of Pharaoh. They dreamt and he interpreted their dreams, a pro bono service which he used to showcase his abilities. But he did one critical thing: he told one of the servants to remember him when he finally gets out of jail.

Then Pharaoh had a dream and was troubled. None of his astrologers and thinkers could help. And one of the jailed servants, now free, told Pharaoh: “Now there was a young Hebrew man with us there…he interpreted our dreams for us… And it came to pass, just as he interpreted for us, so it happened”. Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he helped his master.

Some lessons here: 

(1) Joseph did a pro bono (not paid) and showcased his skills.

(2) Joseph was very clear and told the servant to remember him. That request was clear and definite: “But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison.”

This is the deal: until people could recommend you in your absence, the promotion may not come. Joseph was recommended before the king while he was still in jail because he did a great job, and he also spoke for the person to put good words for him.

How many times have you asked your colleagues to put “some nice words” when necessary for you, besides them just thanking you for a job well done? Happy Sunday.

Reference: Genesis 40 and 41

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Comment #1: The Bible has countless lessons. This is a professional trend that is still used a lot today- recommendation.

I tell people that one of the things I value most is trust. I want my yes to be yes. I ensure that the task which I have committed to do is done.

What I am doing is simple, I am building reputation which would eventually make ways for me.

Like Joseph, I will be more outspoken about asking for recommendations. Even linkedIn has it :)

Thanks for sharing this Prof. Ndubuisi Ekekwe

Comment #2: Joseph was recommended because he delivered value, the recommendation would have been worthless if he had nothing to offer. In other words, value attracts value.

You can be a plumber or mechanic but still have influential and wealthy people as friends, how? Just by doing a fine job when called in by one of them, and from there – they keep recommending you to those in their circles, because your quality of work is peerless. Before you know it, you start attending functions and events meant for the super rich, because you a great guy.

The world really doesn’t have much need of mediocres and those who cannot be linked with anything worthwhile, it is extremely difficult to help anyone who cannot do anything well, do not be that person.

Congrats TAP for Making YC Winter 2022

By
Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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Join me to congratulate Africa’s largest micro-transaction fintech company, Touch and Pay Technologies Ltd (TAP), for making the YCombinator Winter 2022 program. TAP has more than 1.5 million users and powers Lagos contactless Cowry card system. With TAP, you have peace of mind with zero-leakage. Very proud of Ogo, Kabir, Olamide and Mike for what they have accomplished through innovation and flawless execution. I am always with the best #team. Congrats Team, more wins in 2022.

Preparing JumiaPay To Boost Jumia Group

By
Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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Jumia is having a tough winter in New York. But it has a promise ahead. There are many latent opportunities in Jumia. If they unlock them, great things will happen. 

There is a great playbook: “spin off” JumiaPay and embed “Buy Now Pay Later” in it . Then do three other things with JumiaPay. 

JumiaPay has many latent leverageable factors which could compound in the 13 countries Jumia currently does business. It has to be the double play which Jumia will feed on. 

How many fintechs are in 13 African economies with millions of users and still worth with the parent company less than $800 million? Only JumiaPay – and that should change. Yes, JumiaPay alone is worth more than $1 billion. Jumia, think differently; you have all the pieces already.

The Mastery of Marginal Cost is the Mastery of Digital Business Growth

 

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Personally, I think Jumia (eCommerce) hasn’t really found Product Marketing Fit to be honest. Jumia still rides the narrative that it’s the ‘Amazon of Africa’ and some investors still see it as a way to get exposure to Africa’s growing internet economy. My concern is that Social Commerce (WhatsApp and Instagram sellering) is slowly eating the eCommerce market, and people may not be aware of this yet.

JumiaFood’s is also another huge play, and it’s growing too, 2million deliveries a quarter is definitely impressive. I believe that when companies build at scale, they must capitalize on their advantages – this is why Microsoft Teams came after Slack but still dominates that market – Microsoft had too many inherent advantages to capitalize on. If JumiaPay is their salvation, they must capitalize on it.

One of my concerns is that we’re getting to see this because Jumia is public, only God knows what’s happening at some of our privately run VC funded tech firms bleeding capital like blood. We need to balance chasing growth with core fundamentals.

P.s: Don’t go public if your fundamentals aren’t right yet.

Your Nigeria’s permanent voter card (PVC) has no expiry date

By
Stanley Alieke
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A viral statement which was accorded to the APC chieftain and national leader who happens to be a presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, has called for answers as to what the electoral act says. The former Governor of Lagos stated while addressing some of his campaigners during the week advised them to go get their permanent voters card (PVC), and make sure that they vote in the upcoming elections. 

He also charged those that already have permanent voters card (pvc) to go and re-register with Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) so that another pvc will be issued to them as the pvc currently in their possession may have expired. He’s quoted to have said: “Incase they (INEC) do not announce it to you on time, the PVC you have has expired”.

Does PVC expire?

Commonsensically, the use of the word ‘permanent’ indicates that a voters card issued to an individual is for a lifetime unless that pvc is lost by the holder, torn or defaced but as for expiration; pvc has no expiry date; it does not expire as claimed by the apc national leader, Bola Tinubu.

The law specifically provided in s.16(2) of the electoral act of 2010 that no voter shall hold more than one voters card and any body who does have or hold more than one voters card is an offender and shall be liable for 1 year imprisonment or a fine of N100,000 as provided in sub 3 of the section 16 of the act.

A voter is only allowed to apply for another permanent voters card if the voters card he was previously issued is torn, defaced or lost: these are the grounds a voter can apply to INEC for another pvc as provided by the electoral act. This is the provision of s.18(1&2) and it reads thus:. –

(1) Whenever a Voter’s card is lost, destroyed, defaced, torn or otherwise damaged, the owner of such card shall, not less than thirty (30) days before polling day, apply in person to the Electoral Officer or any other officer duly authorized for that purpose by the Resident Electoral Commissioner, stating the circumstances of the loss, destruction, defacement or damage.

(2) If the Electoral Officer or any other officer is satisfied as to the circumstances of the loss, destruction, defacement or damage of the Voters’ card, he shall issue to the voter another copy of the voters’ original voters’ card with the word ?DUPLICATE? clearly marked or printed on it, showing the date of issue.

On no account should a voter who is already issued with a voters card apply for another voters card as an act of having more than one voters card in your possession is a crime as provided in s.16(3) punishable with prison sentence.

Permanent voter cards don’t expire.

The Technology Impacts on Jobs

By
Ojukwu Emmanuel
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Fintech community will have some adjustments

With the world rapidly evolving and so many technological advancements emerging, no doubt technology has improved the standard of living and created employment opportunities for some individuals.

Although there has been a recurrent fear that these technological advancements will lead to mass unemployment. A lot of people in certain jobs already feel threatened by the fact that technological advancement would be the cause of unemployment in the near future.

Many businesses/ companies have begun to introduce high-end technologies into their business to improve efficiency which would lead to higher productivity and also high profit. Advancements in information technology, robotics, and other promising technologies emerging out of science offer the promise of increased productivity and therefore economic growth in the years to come.

But while technology has come to make life easier and is improving production and efficiency in organizations, it has begun to create problems for employees and has become a threat to job security. Technology has had not only a positive impact on jobs but also a negative one. This article focuses on the negative impacts of technology on jobs.

For example, ATMs popularly known as automated teller machines have replaced some bank jobs. Certain individuals were in the past handling the giving out of money to customers, before the invention of ATMs which has made the job redundant. The new wave of technologies like automation and artificial intelligence is a threat to so many jobs.

A lot of machines and automation are replacing low-skilled workers. Lots of companies are already opting to replace human labor with technology because of the efficiency and high productive nature of technology. Failure for them to replace human labor with technology is equal will see them losing out, due to the high competition from other companies that use technology.

Technical advancements have forced and are still forcing people to update their knowledge to remain relevant in the job market. This can be so overwhelming for some to balance work and personal life. According to reports, technology has already replaced 90 percent of the jobs that humans do, from customer care, filling papers, factory workers, etc.

Low-skilled workers are those greatly affected by these technological innovations, jobs such as switchboard operators, mail sorters, etc, have fallen drastically or even gone into extinction because of the invention of technologies that replaced human efforts. For example, by investing in industrial dishwashing machines, restaurants would no longer see the need to employ a human dishwasher. Fewer people now work in car factories than in the last century.

Most car factories now routinely use machines to lose, repair, and paint body parts, which has seen the reduction of human effort in car factories. In China, a restaurant uses robots to deliver a fully automated dining and cooking experience for customers. At food restaurant, robotic arms prepare fast food after they are programmed to follow recipes for making noodles and stir-fry dishes.

A large number of economists believe that technology enhances productivity and creates wealth in the society. Although there have been less dramatic changes created by technology in clerical and professional services.

Conclusion

Although technology has come to make life easy, those greatly affected due to job loss are at the losing end of it. They will now be forced to learn other high-income skills to remain relevant. In these times of rapid technological advancements, it is reasonable for anyone who feels threatened, especially low-skilled workers to ensure they don’t wait till they are finally laid off from their jobs before they begin to learn other skills.

Technology has come to stay, and with more advancements taking place, more people will be out of jobs, except those who have deemed it fit to move with the flow.

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