{"id":870,"date":"2021-06-09T20:39:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T18:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmugdev.wpengine.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2022-01-27T18:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T16:19:17","slug":"were-back-bold-better-brighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/were-back-bold-better-brighter","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Back! Bold, Better &#038; Brighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2020 was a difficult year and we thank you for trusting our brand throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This has made us bold, better and brighter as we continue to serve you with our wide range of products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The relationships we are building and maintaining continue to guide our passion to serve you even better with our products, services, and technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">What has BrighterMonday Uganda been up to?\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BMU was established in 2014 and quickly established itself as the best job site in the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2016, BrighterMonday Uganda\u2019s parent company, One Africa Media was acquired by <\/span><a class=\"article-body-links\"href=\"https:\/\/www.ringier.com\/en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ringier AG<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to form the Ringier One Africa Media (<a class=\"article-body-links\"href=\"https:\/\/www.roam.africa\/\">ROAM<\/a>)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Group.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">What is bold, better and new at BrighterMonday Uganda?\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BrighterMonday Uganda recently got a new Chief Executive Officer, Brian Ntambirweki; who served as Marketing Manager at BMU in 2015. Find story <a class=\"article-body-links\"href=\"https:\/\/www.roam.africa\/brian-ntambirweki-announced-as-the-new-ceo-of-brightermonday-uganda\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brian has successfully scaled our team to 12 members by May 2021 with the aim of putting the customer first and delivering exceptional value to our customers in a bold, better and brighter way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BMU aims to digitize Human Resources and Transform Productivity using technology through the BMU platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BMU falls under the Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM) Jobs, who also appointed a new Managing Director, Hilda Kabushenga Kragha, in November last <a class=\"article-body-links\"href=\"https:\/\/www.roam.africa\/roam-africa-jobs-appoints-hilda-kabushenga-kragha-as-new-managing-director\/\">year<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brian &amp; Hilda are Ugandans with an outstanding passion for transforming HR particularly supporting small businesses, and using the power of technology to achieve sustainable growth for their customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In that regard, BrighterMonday Uganda is launching a bold new campaign that will enable companies, especially small companies to use our technology and expertise to hire the right way using our platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We strongly believe there is a more productive and efficient way to hire therefore, we will use our <\/span><a class=\"article-body-links\"href=\"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/hire-the-right-way\"><b>#HireTheRightWay<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> campaign to help you find the right people that will enable you to grow your business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Why SMEs are important \u2013<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Small &amp; Medium Enterprises <\/span><a class=\"article-body-links\"href=\"https:\/\/www.ugandainvest.go.ug\/smes-driving-economy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">contribute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> around 20% of Uganda\u2019s GDP and employ over <\/span><a class=\"article-body-links\"href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/business\/finance\/govt-seeks-to-link-750-000-smes-to-international-market-3349660\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2.5 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> people in Uganda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They also make up more than 90% of the entire private sector and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">without them, we will not see the expected economic recovery or create the desperately needed jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SMEs faced their own set of challenges such as; regulatory hurdles, financing bottlenecks and lack of enough market access to sustain their growth and success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our research shows that SMEs face a combination of challenges (pain points) when it comes to hiring the right people to sustain their growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These pain points include;<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Low quality pool of applicants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High cost of recruitment versus the value attained.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Limited time to go through the recruitment process.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High volume of applicants for the available positions, among others.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b><i>How can BrighterMonday Uganda help?\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We recently also revised the pricing of our products\u00a0 at\u00a0 BrighterMonday Uganda with one single aim; helping and supporting our customers to tackle these pain points. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our price revision was more than just <strong>reducing the price<\/strong> but also providing value beyond just recruitment. You can read more <a class=\"article-body-links\"href=\"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/our-new-prices-and-what-this-means-for-your-business\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We believe that once you hire through BrighterMonday, you will experience first hand our key values that we are passionate about in helping you grow your business with the right people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And under ROAM, we are part of a bigger, stronger, and caring group of companies, partners, and people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At BMU, we want you to get the right people, the first time and avoid the pain that comes with getting it wrong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Talk to our customer success team today and together, let us find you the right people. Request a call <a class=\"article-body-links\"href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3xQL8Iq\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hire The Right Way with BrighterMonday Uganda and experience the difference with our wide range of products make for your hring process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[159,158,160,155,154,157,156],"content_author":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-employers","8":"tag-better","9":"tag-bold","10":"tag-brighter","11":"tag-brightermonday-uganda","12":"tag-hire-the-right-way","13":"tag-roam","14":"tag-small-enterprises"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"content_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_author?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}