Grow Salone

Watch the performance of our Managing Director, Marcus Smith, on the JAB Show with Joe Abass Bangura. In this show he talks about his history of working and living in Sierra Leone, and how that experience came to form the business that is Grow Salone.  Part 1: Part 2:

We are excited to announce that we have joined up with the biggest jobs portal in all of Sierra Leone. Through our partnership with Careers.sl we are going to help improve the performance and reliability of professionals in Sierra Leone.  We will also be collaborating to transform the way in which employers find recruits, and arming those professionals with the essential skills to give them that competitive edge. More will be announced soon!

  Helping young people be workplace ready Grow Salone is a private company that provides professional skills training and recruitment services to tertiary graduates and employers in Sierra Leone. Through research and consultation with employers across different professional sectors we designed the Professional Skills Programme. The PSP is a full-time, 10-week intensive programme which is more than training; for our graduating students, it is a pathway to employment.  Through the Professional Skills Programme we not only assess the academic performance of our trainees; but through direct observations, we collect over 2,500 data points across 75 indicators of behavioural and attitudinal performance relating to participation, mindset, approach and delivery.   With this information we are able to provide detailed feedback and comprehensive skills reports to our trainees and to their future employers, supporting not only the learning process but the recruitment and ma...

What if you can give employers exactly what they want? Landing your dream job and becoming successful in your chosen career doesn’t just happen by luck, it requires a conscious campaign on your side. People who get employed, and are successful throughout their careers, have the skills and attitudes that employers require to achieve their goals. Skills are valuable! Employers are becoming more and more aware that paper qualifications alone don’t guarantee that employees will bring value to their organizations. Furthermore CV’s and Interviews paint an imperfect picture of you as a job candidate.   At Grow Salone, we support you through our 10-week intensive Professional Skills Programme with the skills and competencies employers in Sierra Leone have told us they’re most in need of.  Our programme is based on practical workplace skills and competencies and specifically tailored to the needs of employers in Sierra Leone. Are you ready to invest in your career? T...

Watch an interview conducted live from AYV's studio in Freetown with our Managing Director, Marcus Smith, discussing Grow Salone and the Professional Skills Programme. We've broken it down into two parts: