# Author: Manoj Ranaweera

## [Volunteer Stories #1](https://wordpress.skilledup.life/2022/02/10/volunteer-stories-1/)

How do you land your dream job, if you don’t have relevant experience? We had a 40 mins discussion today at 7 pm GMT. Speakers: Ayonike and Godwin shared why they are volunteering, supported by Manoj and organised by Mpumi. Mpumi – Events Coordinator and Chief Fun Officer Ayonike – Head of HR Godwin – Head of Nigeria and […]

## [Josué secures employment after volunteering](https://wordpress.skilledup.life/2022/01/29/josue-secures-employment-after-volunteering/)

I am Josué PIERRE LOUIS, a young Haitian student/professional full of dreams and projects for my country. I was born in a very poor country, ranked among the poorest in the world and the poorest in the Americas. I have a degree in economics and this training has given me a lot of knowledge such […]

## [I’m Chinte – Volunteered for Deal Lite](https://wordpress.skilledup.life/2022/01/14/im-chinte-volunteering-for-deal-lite-2/)

I’m Chinthake Mallawaarachchi. I had a tremendous volunteering experience over 6 months. The company I volunteered for gave extra attention to training and monitoring to make sure I was competent. It was wonderful to collaborate daily across the world with my colleagues. And the experience was thoroughly enjoyable. In the meanwhile learning about the business […]

## [I’m Chinte – Volunteered for Deal Lite](https://wordpress.skilledup.life/2022/01/14/im-chinte-volunteering-for-deal-lite/)

## [Time to acquire 1,000 Volunteers](https://wordpress.skilledup.life/2022/01/07/time-to-acquire-1000-volunteers/)

We managed to half the time to acquire 1,000 Volunteers from 109 days to 52 days, all thanks to my awesome team. # Volunteers Days took to reach 1000 volunteers Date Reached 100 363 30/07/2021 2000 109 16/11/2021 3000 52 07/01/2022 Time to acquire 1,000 Volunteers We almost beat the time to acquire 100 Volunteers […]

## [Breaking records](https://wordpress.skilledup.life/2022/01/07/breaking-records/)

We were working extremely hard to break a record yesterday and we failed by 1 volunteer sign-up. Our previous record of welcoming 100 Volunteers in the shortest time was 3 days. We wanted to reduce this to 2 days. In the process, we came so close but were beaten by 1, i.e. we acquired 99 […]

## [Congratulations Isaac! Secures job after Volunteering](https://wordpress.skilledup.life/2022/01/06/congratulations-isaac/)

Congratulations Isaac Lekgothoane Isaac who volunteered for us started a new job with Compaira today. Isaac was fundamental in increasing total Volunteers from 1,000 to 2,000 over his 3-month volunteer term with us. This achievement impressed the CEO of Compaira, Dr. Ram Raghavan who offered him employment. Compaira is a Techcelerate Member Company and also a heavy user of SkilledUp Life. We hope […]

## [We want more Nigerian partners](https://wordpress.skilledup.life/2022/01/06/we-want-more-nigerian-partners/)

The first time I jokingly mentioned Nigeria was on 5th Nov 2020. On this day, SkilledUp Life team was just me and had a total Volunteer base of 64. The emergence of Nigeria as a key market By April 2021, we had a total of 15 Volunteers from Nigeria. We may had more, but that […]

## [Why is SkilledUp Life so popular in Nigeria?](https://wordpress.skilledup.life/2022/01/05/why-is-skilledup-life-so-popular-in-nigeria/)

Image Credits: Utiva – a SkilledUp Life Education Partner from Nigeria. Over the last three months, Nigeria has emerged as the number one market for Volunteers. As a result, most of our own team now comes from Nigeria. This was not by any design. I was curious to find out why this is the case. […]

## [Transformative or just another meh!](https://wordpress.skilledup.life/2022/01/04/transformative-or-just-another-meh/)

Would you consider the following as transformative or just another meh? You bring an idea/concept for a tech startup to us at SkilledUp Life. Our growing volunteer pool (we are adding 100 every 3 to 6 days) of global talent Validates it Help build the idea into a product Acquires users on your behalf Convert […]