by Benard Makaa | Mar 6, 2018 | Attachment|Internship, Blog
Before I got my first long term Job, I had worked as an attachee/intern at four different companies. For the first three (Nairobi City Water & Sewerage Company, Centurion Systems Ltd, Safaricom Ltd) it was a university requirement that I do so. Our department...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 11, 2018 | Academics, Education
These are some of the websites that can be used to download journal articles. Some are legal, some are in the grey area. Sci-Hub There is an article I wrote a while ago about the science-hub founder, read it here. At Sci-Hub, researchers, students, and other...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 6, 2018 | Career, Education
I got all the Jobs I have ever applied for through the use of speculative cover letters. Most companies may not advertise for positions and they mostly rely on their networks for referrals of possible candidates. Especially small to medium companies. And when you are...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 3, 2018 | Letters
FROM John Graham, head of the house of Graham & Co., at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont Graham, at Lake Moosgatchemawamuc, in the Maine woods. Mr. Pierrepont has written to his father withdrawing his suggestion. July 7, 189— Dear...
by Benard Makaa | Dec 30, 2017 | Letters
From John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Pierrepont has just become a member, in good and regular standing, of the freshman class.1 Chicago, October 1, 189— Dear Pierrepont: Your Ma got...
by Benard Makaa | Dec 11, 2017 | Career, Education
DATE &TIME 05TH December, 2017, 06:30 to 07:30 PM Nairobi local time VENUE Nairobi Garage Westlands; M2, Mirage Towers, Westlands Chiromo Road. “Be the change you want to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi. If you truly believe in an idea, you must be prepared to...
by Benard Makaa | Nov 30, 2017 | Conferences, Education
This a summary of notes I took when I attended an After Office Talk by Kennedy Njoroge, the CEO of Cellulant. Ken is leading Cellulant to achieve its mission of building a world class, value-driven $1B business by digitizing payments for the largest economies in...
by Benard Makaa | Nov 23, 2017 | Books, Education
Dear Friend, I’d like to thank you for responding to this post. I am glad and grateful that you’ve given me this opportunity to share how you can get the free revision guide book with you. You may be a teacher, parent or student. Why is the book free? Here is why. My...
by Benard Makaa | Oct 9, 2017 | Career, Conferences
Dear Fellow Student, Will you do me a favour? For four years now, we have been having the famous “East African Students for Liberty Conference” hosted for free in Kenya. This year, the conference is still free and will still be held in Kenya. Nothing much has really...
by Benard Makaa | Oct 3, 2017 | Career, Education, Scholarships
Dear Friend, Scholarships are a great, affordable way to advance your academic/professional career. I am so far a beneficiary of two scholarships: the JKF Scholarship (high school), the HELB Partial Scholarship (MSc. Electrical Engineering at JKUAT) & AFDB...
by Benard Makaa | Sep 19, 2017 | Education, KCSE
Love them or hate them, it’s hard to get away from exams. All that preparation before the big day, a race against the clock as you sit at the desk, and the aftermath that sometimes feels as stressful as the exam itself. Effective technique goes beyond the exam hall. ...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 30, 2017 | Books
“One never knows, when he enters an elevator or tears open an envelope or picks up the telephone, what new trick of fortune may be about to be played. Every day is a new series of adventures; around the next corner may lie the event that will change a whole career.”...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 30, 2017 | Blog
Book Synopsis: Everyone knew him then: Bruce Barton was a cultural icon. Two-thirds of American history textbooks today cite him to illustrate the 1920s adoration of the business mentality that then dominated American culture. Historians quote from his enormous...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 30, 2017 | Books
DEAR READER: Will you set me right on one point about yourself? I’m wondering if your idea of the Christ is like that of most people—a “Man of Sorrows,” sent to this earth to undergo certain sacrificial experiences, glad to get them ...
