HUMHR Career Insights

172 job applications. 3 responses. I shared that story and the comments came flooding in — not with surprise, but with recognition. Same story. Different country. Different industry. Same silence. In Batje’s Take #13, Batje Chibafa, Certified Professional Career Coach and Founder of HUMHR, makes the case that trust in recruitment is broken — and that the Applicant Tracking System is at the centre of it. Not because it manages volume, but because it removes the human from the most important momen

Be a Pioneer. Be a Weed. | Part 2 | Elizabeth Mhangami Be a pioneer. Be a weed. Weeds survive where other plants cannot. Dandelions are food. Being a weed is not a consolation — it is a strategy. In Part 2, Elizabeth Mhangami, Principal Consultant at NDISU and founder of Vanavevhu (V² Enterprises), joins Batje Chibafa in studio for a conversation about building a career on your own terms. They go deep on entrepreneurship as a deliberate identity, what donor consulting actually looks like in prac

She sent 172 job applications. Got 3 responses. Not because she was underqualified — but because AI screened her out before a human ever read her CV. In Part 1, Batje Chibafa sits down in studio with Elizabeth Mhangami, nonprofit leader and Principal Consultant at NDISU, to talk about what is really happening in hiring. The ATS problem. The AI arms race. And whether the tools shaping the job market were ever designed for candidates from the Global South. Topics covered: — Why personalising AI to

What happens when the title, the office, and the status disappear? Who are you then? In Batje’s Take #12, Batje Chibafa reflects on her powerful conversation with humanitarian leader Rudo Kayombo and explores a theme that quietly ran through every answer Rudo gave: faith as an operating system. Not performative faith. Not inspirational language for a LinkedIn bio. But the kind of grounded belief system that shapes decisions, leadership, transitions, and identity. After leading across multiple co

She walked away from being Africa Vice President at Habitat for Humanity. The most overwhelming feeling, she says, was relief. This is Part 2 of Batje Chibafa’s conversation with Rudo Kayombo. If you missed Part 1, start there. We walked through the twenty five year humanitarian career, the lawyer years, the saying-yes-in-tears moment, and the faith thread that pulled her from World Vision Zimbabwe to World Vision Uganda to ONE Campaign to Habitat for Humanity. Part 2 is the building arc. The fi

After 25 years leading major humanitarian and development organisations, Rudo Kayombo finally signed her own name and launched Fahari Kubwinya Splendour. In Part 1 of this two-part interview, Rudo shares the formation of her leadership, the faith that guided her decisions, and the practical lessons she learned running teams across Africa. What we cover in Part 1 • Rudo’s path from lawyer to NGO leader, including UNHCR, World Vision, ONE Campaign, Food for the Hungry, and Habitat for Humanity • L