Career Wisdom: Ideas to Kickstart your Career
About this ebook
Using relatable anecdotes, true-life stories and quotes, the authors simplified the steps to take in choosing a career and staying focused on it. Having gone ahead and had firsthand experiences of how confusing it to find career paths, they considered this book a guide for young people to unearth and maximise their potential in a fast-paced world.
About the author
Hammed Kayode Alabi is a nonprofit leader, 2x TedX speaker, poet, author, and social entrepreneur known throughout Africa for his advocacy for education, youth, and sustainable development. He describes himself as a product of grace and circumstance. He grew up in the largest floating slum in Africa “Makoko-Nigeria”, lost his mother at age 7, and watched his father struggle to find employment and this became his motivation for empowering young leaders in his community and education offered him that pathway. By the age 15, he was already teaching in a basic rural school in Lagos and later founded a nonprofit, the Kayode Alabi Leadership and Career Initiative -KLCI. With over 100 volunteers across 10 states in Nigeria, KLCI has provided life, 21st-century skills, leadership development, and career readiness training to over 8000 secondary school students in rural and underserved communities in Nigeria. He also created the teachers-in-training fellowship that leverages technology to empower 70 student-teachers in Nigeria with innovative teaching methodologies. Outside of KLCI, he has worked with Peace First as a Regional Manager and board member supporting youth social innovation in over 150 countries to create social change, and impacting hundreds of thousands of young people across the world. Hammed spoke at the Pre-Summit of the Transforming Education Summit at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris where he shared his vision to revolutionise 21st-century skills based education to over 50 ministers of education across the world. He has written three books and authored over 192 articles focusing on personal, community, and global development. His work has earned him several awards including the US Consul General Award, Africa Talent of the Future, Western Union Foundation Fellowship and Mastercard Foundation Scholarship to complete an MSc in Africa and International Development at the University of Edinburgh. He currently works as a Transitions Coordinator with the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Programme at the University of Edinburgh and supporting African Scholars transition into graduate career roles and coordinating scholars alumni activities. He is also transitioning one of his social innovation Skill2Rural Bootcamp to an edtech start-up to democratise access to 21st-century and life skills for underserved young people such as displaced young people and those who live in highly marginalised settings in Africa.
Abiodun O. Ajayi is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Waterstone with a dedicated ten (10) years of working in the Water and Environmental Industry through providing innovative and scalable solutions to address the need of water in Nigeria. As an advocate of quality education and clean water for rural communities in Nigeria, he was selected from a pool of more 19000 applicants to attend an UNLEASH Innovation Lab in India.
Abiodun has held leadership roles on various projects and assisted so many young people with their career- related decisions through talks, articles, educational path planning and in their quest for meaningful lifestyle. Through all these accomplishments and in a way to give back to his society and the nation at large, he founded Edu-impact and Water Initiative in advocating for quality education and WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) to support healthy society, most especially incarcerated communities in Nigeria.
