What type of job are you looking for?
Looking for Marketing or Project Planning and Management jobs
What nationality are you?
Iam a Zambian with Angolan roots
What country or area are you looking to work in and why?
I speak English, Lunda and Luvale
What countries have you worked in?
I have worked in Zambia and have done short tasks in Zimbabwe.
What countries do you have a visa to work in?
Have no visa.
What field do you currently work in?
Work as Project and Marketing Manager in a Community Development Organisation
What fields have you worked in before?
Have been working in Non Governmental Organisation ever since.
What qualifications do you hold?
I am a holder of a College Diploma in Marketing, University Diploma in Project Planning and Management.
Which do you consider more valuable? Formal education or skills and why?
Skills are more valuable for me because skills help in responding practically to tasks, while formal education is usually based on theory, sometimes responses through such are based on trials.
Describe the benefits of working with others
Working with others is building one's skills and human relationship. In fact a single skill only contributes towards what others are or have done to achieve one goal. So working with others provides an opportunity to learn and build each other, resulting into achienving one goal.
Describe the benefits of working alone
There very few benefits of working alone, one is that there is less disturbance and so concentration is high, the second one is that one gains self confidence.
What was your worst working experience?
My worst experience was when I lost my first job after the cooperating partners pulled out, by then I only had a certificate in Project Management and it was difficulty to find another job.
What is the most important lesson you have learnt throughout your career?
In my Project Planning and Management career, every problem is unique, it requires its own approach, the more one understands the root cause, the easier it may be to design an intervention.
What unique skills do you have?
My skills include: Humanitarian and livelihood needs assessment, Problem analysis, Project designing, Social research, Community livelihood capacity building, Market and marketing researching, feasibility studying, Pricing techniques, Stores and purchasing.
What would you consider as your 'dream jobs'?
1. Director of Social Programmes and Projects or 2. Project Manager
What are the most interesting aspects of your field?
The most interesting aspect of Project Planning and Management is that identifying a problem and following it up to a point of intervening and yielding results. However, not only interesting but also challeging.
What are the least interesting aspects of your field?
The least interesting are those which are more challenging, these include Project Designing, Designing of suitable tools of Project Monitoring and Evaluation because these are suggested at design stage and sometimes the situation can dictate for different tools.
How much are you worthy in terms of salary?
This is a common question during interviews. However, in my view no one can calculate how much they are worthy and if they do no organisation may be able to pay because one may calculate how much was spent from childhood to date. So what is easy to cost is the input for one to a task or tasks which an individual is to work on, this then calculted in form of a salary or wage.
How can potential employers contact you?
Write to: Mr. Isaac Mungwala, C/o Box 110033, Solwezi, Zambia.
or Email: isaacmungwala@yahoo.co.uk
or Call +260 955 035 453
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