Kenyan Jobs Website – Jobs in Kenya, Careers and East Africa Vacancies

Manpower Services cautions jobseekers that an alleged “Jupiter Consultants East Africa Ltd” has advertised certain fake jobs and requested applicants to pay Kshs 300.00 as interview fee to Manpower Services via M-Pesa 0720-709881 as Manpower Services will be conducting the interviews on behalf of Jupiter Consultants.

Jobseekers beware! Manpower Services (K) Ltd never charges any fee for application OR interviews and Tel:  0720-709881 is NOT our telephone number.

Further Manpower Services does not conduct interviews on behalf of other consultants.

http://kenyanjobs.blogspot.com has been reinstated by Google after a month of being in deleted status. Thanks Google for the fair review. Google robots had erroneously marked the blog as spam and deleted it on April 20th 2010.

Kenyan Jobs Blogspot was by then the leading jobs in Kenya website and its ranking had gone to be the second most visited website by Kenyans, second to the Nation website according to Alexa, the leading Internet traffic ranking site. Kenyan Jobs Blogspot offered a free platform where Kenyan employers would post job opportunities for free. It was the first site in Kenya to post jobs for free and allow Kenyans to browse the jobs without requiring rigorous registration processes or making any payments.

The Kenyan Jobs Blogspot was founded in July 2008. The main motivation then was the need to have a place to peruse newspaper job adverts long after the newspapers had found their way to the butcher to wrap meat. In addition, not all team members could afford a newspaper on a daily basis, leave alone the fact that the job search, application and interview cycle in most Kenyan companies takes a turn around time of almost two months. This would create a scenario where you are called for an interview for a job you applied a month ago. By then you have forgotten what exactly was the job description and other conditions. You would have been forced to scan, copy or cutout the paper advert for the future in case you are called for an interview not forgetting that there were high chances of misplacing the job advert copy. Kenyan Jobs Blogspot solved all that hassle.

With time Kenyan Jobs Blogspot started referencing Kenyan companies’ and organizations’ websites for jobs advertised in those sites. The sole purpose for this was to amalgamate Kenyan Jobs and create a collection of jobs available in Kenya. This offered Kenyan job seekers a one-stop shop for almost all the jobs posted in companies websites without having to keep a bookmark of all the sites. Kenyan job seekers loved it.

In the course of all this, Kenyan employers got a chance of cutting down on the time and cost of recruiting potential candidates. A Kenyan employer just needs to send an email with the job description in the morning, was posted ASAP on Kenyan Jobs Blogspot for FREE, by afternoon they would have received enough applications to shortlist and call potential candidates for an interview within the shortest convenient time.

By late 2009 jobs became a major Internet search term in Kenya. Media houses like Nation jumped into the fray – with little success so far, so did Capital – after advances to Kenyan Jobs Blogspot failed. In the same breath, Kenyans “Copycat Business Mentality” went into top gear and within no time Kenyan Jobs Blogspot had enough illegitimate clones to fill a football cheering squad, some who contributed and were happy about the closure of Kenyan Jobs Blogspot.

Kenyan Jobs Blogspot team is happy with the many job seekers who have landed opportunities and green pastures they would otherwise not had. We are happy with the contribution we have made to the Kenyan Internet scene; Kenyan Jobs being one of several ventures which has provoked the thinking of  Kenyan companies and netpreneurs about dynamism of the Internet, e-commerce, local content and service delivery in the digital and Internet age.

We thank all the companies, organizations (Solidarites, VSF Belgium, VSF Suisse, Save the Children, Merlin, Sasini, Zinduka Afrika, Horizon Contact Centers, WRAP Kenya, Corat Africa, Carbacid, ICAP Kenya, AMREF, Africa 24 Media and many others) and recruiters (True North Career Map, CA Global, Swift Human Resource Consultants, Flexi Personnel, Three Green Apples Consulting, Sublime Concepts Management Consulting, MyJobsEye, Abbott Consulting, Workforce Associates, Manpower Kenya) who have at one time or the other partnered with us in this humble initiative.

We are also grateful to Google Blogger team for providing a versatile, easy to use and free platform to enable such a venture as Kenyan Jobs Blogspot to take off for free; no design and web hosting costs.

When http://kenyanjobs.blogspot.com was deleted by Google, Kenyan Jobs Blogspot team raised an appeal with Google which has taken a month to be reviewed and granted. In this Internet era, that was enough time to loose an Internet presence. All the same thanks Google for the fair and successful review. For now we will continue posting jobs in Kenya in this new Kenyan Jobs Website www.kenyan-jobs.com

Cheers!

Kenyan Jobs Team

Many undergraduate students and graduates in Kenya struggle to get internships opportunities. Whilst there is no concrete formula to getting internships, there are a few tips one can use to increase their chances of landing an internship opportunity.

Internships are a great way to enter the job market as they orient new entrants to the job market. They offer a chance to gain the much wanted job experience. They accustom job seekers to organizational cultures and politics. The main problem is how to land one. It makes it even harder that many organizations do not advertise internship opportunities.

1. What are you offering? Although internship is an opportunity to learn and gain experience, you will be better placed if you evaluate your skills and are clear of what you can offer an organization. The more convinced you are that your value is distinct and unique, the more attractive you will be in the job market.

2. How big is your business or employment network? However unpalatable this is, in most cases it boils down to who you know who owns a business or works in an organization where you are interested in securing an internship. If you do not have a network, start building one today. If you are in college, lecturers are a good starting point, as they are usually approached by persons looking for interns, some of whom are past students, peers or just their contacts (got my first internship this way).

3. What is the quality of your network/contacts? Whereas anyone in an organization can inform you of internship opportunities, the more influential the contact is within the organization of interest the better s/he is positioned to hook you up with an internship opportunity. Aim to network with persons high up the corporate ladder.

4. Where are you looking? Many internship seekers go for the big corporates, the dream employers or organizations within their locality. They forget that numerous opportunities to work as interns exist in small and medium enterprises and other organizations that are far away in other towns. Do not limit your search to the blue chips, widen your search to even include sole-proprietorships, SMEs and startups.

5. When did the search begin? If you are in college or campus do not wait till the end of the year or semester to start looking for an internship. Organizations that regularly offer internships have a calendar when they recruit interns. Do your research and time your applications in time to be considered for recruitment. Give yourself at least a month to the scheduled internship programme.

6. Are you ready to work for free? To many organizations, interns are a good resource to get work done at a cheaper price. Do not get shocked if you are offered nothing or peanuts. Focus on the opportunity to start or jump-start your career, do a good job to get references, experience and repeat offers. Internships have a tendency to develop into jobs and lifelong careers. Think longterm not shortterm.

7. How many organizations have you approached? Many internship seekers give up too early. There are thousands of companies, small businesses and organizations in Kenya. How many have you approached before giving up? 3, 11, 29, 101? The wider the search the higher the probability.

8. What if the search does not yield? This is Kenya and there are high chances that the internship search can end up as a disappointment. Whatever the outcome, remember it is not a vote against you or your skills. Compose yourself and wait for another time or just keep looking.

9. Sometimes intern seekers wonder why a company is not taking them yet they are ready to work for free. Remember that there are still costs associated with a free intern, such as allocating a work area (with computer, phone and other job accessories), office tea, appointing a supervisor and at times insurance costs. Other times, there is just not enough work to warrant having an extra hand and the last thing an employer wants is an intern yawning, chair-swinging, surfing and reading newspapers the whole day.

10. Be busy and productive doing something. When you are not in the education pipe or not in the job rat race or not in the humbling internship programmes, account for your time by being busy doing something productive. Volunteer in a charitable organization or home, engage in community work like cleaning the environment, take up a sports or religious activity or just utilize your skills within the limits of unemployment e.g. if you are in IT, develop a website or system prototype, if in arts, painting or photography, approach galleries to display your work. You can’t just afford to sleep and/or watch TV idling the whole day!

These tips are not exhaustive, if you have any more tips, feel free to leave them in the comments section below

How will you move on if you lose your job today, either through the sack, redundancy, incapacitation or retirement?

What would happen to you if your career line becomes redundant as globalisation and technology takes over the corporate world?

Do you have a plan B or even C – an alternative or recovery plan- or will you be overwhelmed by the sudden twist of fate and your fortunes, sinking into hopelessness, depression and into oblivion?

This is not far fetched, it is happening all over. Although Kenya has not suffered serious credit crunch related problems to the extent of massive job losses due to folding up of companies somebody’s career is facing a bleak future as we speak.

From the introduction of tea picking machines, electronic voting, mergers of companies, cost cutting measures, passing of new constitution  to incapacitation through accidents and illnesses, jobs and careers in Kenya are threatened each passing day.

It is therefore a wise thing to take a moment and think of how you will ensure career continuity.

There are many options to execute a near foolproof career continuity plan. It may start with a stringent and consistent savings and investments plan to ensure you have enough passive income to live on when you are short on active income generating activities.

Career continuity plan may require you to get additional skills or refresher courses in your line of expertise or even get new skills in a different area altogether. If you are employed this may involve getting a second job – like the way our lecturers are known to moonlight – or starting a side business that you can fall back on in case you lose your job.

Career continuity planning may require you to actively network by joining and participating in a professional association, a club, sports activity, religious associations, an alumni network or consistently keeping in touch with your Internet social networks. Such networks hold the precious job leads, potential employers and customers who can help you rebuild your career at a faster rate.

To effectively execute a career continuity plan, you need to evaluate your career goals, review your skills and anticipate possible factors that can negatively impact your job or career; the threats to your job or career. You then need to draw up a career continuity strategy, detailing how you intend to counter each career threat you have identified. From here you develop an action plan with achievable timelines showing the tasks you will do to improve on the continuity of your career.

Do not be caught flat-footed, ponder seriously about your career continuity plan.