Archive for October, 2009
United States International University (USIU) Kenya has job vacancies as follows.
1. Assistant Internal Auditor.
2. Business Application Developer (Two Positions)
Check todays Daily Nation for the job opportunity.
Applications to the Head of Human Resources. USIU Kenya by 13th November.
October 30th, 2009 | Posted in JOBS KENYA | No Comments
A permanent secretary has called for an increase in local internet content generation to
take advantage of the landing of the fibre optic cables in Kenya.
MinistryofInformationand Communication PS Bitange Ndemo said this will make
more use of the increased bandwidth capacity.
“When we were talking about the supply side of the infrastructure, we also talked on pushing to […]
October 29th, 2009 | Posted in WORK PLACE NEWS | No Comments
Kenya youth fund faces an uphill task as Board rejects the ministers decision to re-appoint former youth fund boss.
A standoff looms at the Sh2.75 billion worth Youth Fund with the board vowing not to let reinstated CEO Umuro Wario take office.
The board instructed Fund employees to ignore Mr Wario’s directives even as they attempted to […]
October 28th, 2009 | Posted in WORK PLACE NEWS | No Comments
Two cases challenging the recruitment of Kenyan teachers as interns may be heard together after the parties argued that they were related.
High court judge Jean Gacheche will rule whether the cases should be heard together.
The cases were filed separately by two teachers Unions-Kenya National Union of Teachers and the Kenya Union of post primary education […]
October 27th, 2009 | Posted in WORK PLACE NEWS | No Comments
The four most searched jobs in Kenya are in accounting and finance,NGO and humanitarian organizations, ICT and IT, and United Nations vacancies.
Which makes me wonder whether accounting job market in Kenya is that saturated.
The other day i was talking to a KASNEB finalist and he remarked how cheap it has become to study accounts. You […]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in CAREER ADVICE, JOBS KENYA | No Comments
The average Kenyan graduate will send out about 70 CVs when looking for their first job in Kenya. Of these, the average number of responses will be 7 including 3 to 4 polite rejections and the remainder inviting the job seeker to interview or further contact.
There was a direct link between the number of CVs […]
October 25th, 2009 | Posted in CV & COVER LETTERS | No Comments
Teachers in Kenya have threatened to call a strike if a decision to reduce hardship allowances for their 94,000 colleagues is not reversed.
The giant Kenya National Union of Teachers wants Education minister Sam Ongeri to convene the Teachers Service Remuneration Committee to discuss the matter urgently.
Kenya National Union of Teachers officials said in a statement […]
October 25th, 2009 | Posted in WORK PLACE NEWS | No Comments
As the Kenyan economy takes a hit and few people invest at the Nairobi Stock Exchange, Kenyan stock brokers are feeling the heatt. Already hundreds of staff members have lost thier jobs as stock brokers and investment banks in Kenya scale down their operations.
CFC Financial Services a subsidiary of the CFC Stanbic bank is the […]
October 24th, 2009 | Posted in WORK PLACE NEWS | No Comments
Are you a Kenyan graduate looking for an internship or management trainee opportunity? Or do you want to plunge directly to a job? Learn how to get that management trainee job or an internship that will give you the skills to beat the competition.
Getting your first job in Kenya after college is probably the hardest […]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in JOBS KENYA | No Comments
The internet is well endowed with sites that offer free Kenyan job alerts. Many of these Kenyan websites give subscribers the option of narrowing down their alerts to careers of choice. It’s time to give them a try.
Most of these job websites don’t charge for the service,so there is nothing to lose (apart from a […]
October 23rd, 2009 | Posted in CAREER ADVICE, JOBS KENYA | No Comments