Kenyan jobs 2011

(All you need to know)

The Kenyan job market has never been as murky as at the moment. Although the number of Kenyan jobs has kept on increasing over the years, the increase has not matched the pace of the available vacancies. Additionally, most young people want to work for blue chip companies such as Safaricom, Airtel Kenya, East African Breweries (EABL), Kenya Airways,Nation Media Group, Unilever Kenya, KPLC, KenGen etc. many young people often do not want to start from the bottom. To such young people, taking twenty years before you acquire the CEO corner’s office is something that only fools do.

Kenyan vacancies overview

At one time, it was considered a right for one to get a job immediately after graduation. In fact, during such times, companies would visit the campus and recruit students directly. Then the jobs started becoming scarce and there were preference for certain courses. Many parents actually pushed their children to study certain courses so as to secure the best paying Kenyan jobs. Nowadays, all the sectors seem flooded and one really needs to stand out from the crowd if they hope to get a foothold in the Kenyan employment scene. Even medicine graduates nowadays do wait at home for at least a year or two before being posted. Just recently, medical graduates were protesting at the Afya house demanding to be posted to their stations. Even actuarial science, which previously had only had a few graduates, now has an avalanche of graduates.

Kenyan careers- Best paying Kenyan jobs

According to a report by PWC Kenya, the best paying Kenyan jobs are in the finance sector. The highest paid CEO in Kenya was in the finance category (At a monthly salary of Kshs.3.9 million). This is perhaps the reason why many graduates (especially engineering graduates) are flocking to the financial sector. Marketing, media, sales, IT careers/jobs also pay well. Kenyan media jobs have been lucrative of late as can be evidenced by highly paid presenters such as Caroline Mutoko, Maina Kageni, Shaffie Weru, Catherine Kasavuli, Lilian Muli amongst a host of other presenters.

Kenyan jobs (Working in the Private sector versus the Civil service jobs).

The private sector has always attracted Kenya’s best and brightest brains. However, this seems to be changing as the Civil service seems to have improved their parks. Parastatals also pay a huge salary as compared to the past. The process of applying for the government jobs is also more transparent (although not perfect) as compared to the past. One can easily apply for the PSC/civil service/government jobs through the PSC website. There are also other government jobs such as Police, army and the military which are usually advertised each year.

Kenyan job sites

Nowadays, many people are applying for jobs by searching them on the web. Some of the most prominent Kenyan job sites include careerpoint.com, kenyanjobs.blogspot.com ,brightermonday.com ,dealfish.co.ke, amongst other job sites. Such sites thousands of Kenyan jobs and vacancies. Additionally, some of them provide a platform in which you can apply the Kenyan vacancies online.

Kenyan online jobs.

Increasingly, some people are working from home through the internet as freelancers. This people basically do all kinds of jobs ranging from programming, website content writing, web design, front office, call attendants, etc. Some of the websites that Kenyans obtain such jobs include elance.com and guru.com.