A Career in the Civil Service: A case for Idealism

It was a shocking sight (though not a novel one) to see thousands of graduates troop out to write the aptitude test recently conducted by INEC for ad hoc staff. The turnout was frighteningly massive and the unnerving spectacle that was the sea of heads...

The Dreamer

The Dreamer I am going to rattle you with this letter so you better brace up. If you haven’t been taken to the cleaners in a while I am going to give you a good dose of remonstrating. Yeah, you are crawling sites like Jobberman because you are...

In the footsteps of Joshua Persky

Joshua Persky Only the paranoid will survive -Andrew S. Groove Joshua Persky, 48, then an out-of-job investment banker caught the eye of the media in 2008 for not being unemployed but for resorting to a creative yet old-fashioned method in his quest for...

A day in the Life of an Analyst

“Morning shows the day” - African Proverb While the sages of Africa are right when they observed that the morning is a portent for what the day holds, it does not always hold true for an analyst, at least one who has thrown his/her lot...