Being an employer can sometimes feel like being a kindergarten teacher. It can be quite frustrating when you walk into the office on a Monday morning and find your subordinates sitting around idly. When you ask them what the matter is, they innocently respond:
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.
Smart Job Seeker is a book written for the Kenyan candidates looking for their first job or greener opportunities. And today, the smart job seeker book was featured by the Daily Nation Friday paper. The book is available at Book Point and Chania Book shops along Moi Avenue and is retailing @ K’sh 480. You […]
I welcome the new set of rules proposed by the government to lock out people without leadership experience from top positions.
But whether they will be the solution to problems bedeviling Kenya is any Kenyans guess.
Before coming up with a policy like this, the government should know that it doesn’t matter how many degrees you hold,but […]
Quality regulator, Kenya Bureau of Standards, has dropped private sector representatives from its board, plunging the agency into fresh controversy less than a week after its managing director Kioko Mang’eli left amid a cloud of dust.
People familiar with the matter said Industrialisation minister, Henry Kosgey, had appointed the National Standards Council – which acts as […]
Employers have assured Kenyans that there will be no job losses at year-end as a result of the global financial crisis.
The Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) chairman Patrick Obath said in Nairobi yesterday that the country was now cushioned from the crisis.
He,however, said the economy was unlikely to grow more than 3.5 percent this year […]
The global economic recession posses one of the greatest challenges to public administrators in Kenya. Public service assistant minister Aden Sugow urged administrators and managers in Africa to find ways of responding to the crisis.
“The systems you set up should enable you to solve the emerging issues’ Mr Sugow said. He was speaking at the […]
According to a recent study carried by Sartuday Nation and done by Synovate-former Steadman Kenya most Kenyans are happier in self-employment: Seven in every ten Kenyans (68 per cent) prefer being entrepreneurs, even more than being 86 The percentage of Kenyans that rate themselves as happy employed in a good company (32 per cent).
Those without […]
Pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC) Kenya has taken on board 32 graduate recruits in Kenya in its 2009 graduate recruitment programme.They are drawn from both local and international universities including University of Nairobi,Kenyatta University,JKUAT,Maseno,Moi University,Strathmore, USIU and Rhodes University in South Africa.
Country senior partner Kuria Muchiru said they are part of more than 250 employed across the company […]