Zainab has personally hired and onboarded over 400 employees across sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, and North America. She learned the hard way that compliance checklists don't prevent cultural misunderstandings -- the kind that make your best hire quit in month three. Now she helps SMEs avoid the mistakes she made scaling Andela's early teams.
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