Many young Kenyan professionals move through their career waiting for things to happen to them or for them. Waiting and hoping that “someday” they will be having great jobs, will be recognized, known, respected, valued, and excited about their career. That “someday” their business will grow, they will have their ideal clients, partners and resources.
I have never been a fan of MBA’s. If you ask me the fees and time spent studying for an MBA in Kenya is negligible to the benefits accrued. I also rate experience more importantly than having the right papers. And how many of you have benefited from having the MBA tag anyway? And benefiting […]
With layoffs, pay cuts, and furloughs all in the news, even the most accomplished professional has good reason to worry about job security.
Last month it was Equity bank in the news for retrenching over 50 employees. Yesterdays lead feature in Business Daily reported that KCB Bank has plans to retrench a 1,000 of its […]
Has this ever happened to you? You’ve been instructed to list your career accomplishments, and you can’t think of any. Or you’re asked in a job interview, “What accomplishments are you most proud of?” — and you freeze up. You know you have had accomplishments, but you just can’t dredge them up.
The inability to come […]
Jobs in Kenya come to you in different ways. You’re good and trusted friend can decide to forward you a job vacancy at their firm. You might be a member of a professional body who regularly send job vacancies to their member’s i.e. ICPAK for Kenyan accountants or IHRM for us in Human Resource.
However, for […]
Once in a while you come across a Kenyan job you think it’s a perfect match for you. Maybe it’s a Kenyan company you have always wished to work for. Maybe you are already tired of working for an ungrateful company that still pays you peanuts despite your qualifications or the number of faithful years […]
Accountants jobs in Kenya are many. so why am i not getting the job i want? Read on for some advice.
As a qualified Kenyan accountant its easy to despair when job hunting. Accounting jobs and vacancies are being advertised on a daily basis and even though you’re making applications almost on a daily basis no […]
This is how to do unpleasant tasks and making sure you achieve all your goals.
Mark Twain once said that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worse things that is going to […]
Nurses, Driver job and clerical officer among latest jobs advertised by the Kenyan government.
If you bought Fridays Daily Nation you will notice the job advert for nurses courtesy of the Ministry of Health. And today the press carried driver job vacancies and 600 clerical jobs by the Office of the President. In total more than […]
This week’s job searching tip deals with gaps in employment on your Cv. If, by looking at your CV, an interviewer can see an obvious gap between recent jobs, their perception of what that gap means could hurt your chances of being considered for a job. This week’s tip discusses strategies for dealing with these […]