Career Point Kenya

NGO’s in Kenya and aid agencies are looking for Kenyan job seekers and professionals with the qualifications and skills that are most needed in a specific situation or region. That a person wants to help others is nice, but it’s not what these NGO’s are looking for; they are looking for experts who can undertake tasks that cannot be undertaken by local people, and people who can build the capacities of local people to undertake their own aid, development and relief efforts.

Networking is vital in finding a job with a Kenyan NGO or any career. If you feel you have solid skills and areas of expertise that would be immediately useful in the NGO world, then you are ready to network.

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There are many facets of life that require discipline; getting up every morning to go to work, paying your bills, milking the cows if you unemployed and back at the village somewhere in Muranga north, washing your car if in Nairobi and countless other things. However, many people consider looking for a new job in Kenya as a hassle that can be addressed whenever the mood strikes them. Going for dates are the things you do when in ‘mood’. Let me explain how.

Many Kenyan job seekers today adopt the ‘it can wait’ attitude and their job search suffers as a result. Finding a job, just like putting food on the table, requires discipline and extreme effort to accomplish.

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Thoughts of an interview should not worry you. Find out how to behave from the Smart Job Seeker Book.

An interview is a selling situation. In most cases, you are trying to sell the HR Manager on hiring you for the job. In our efforts to present ourselves in the best possible light, it’s easy to forget that it is actually possible to “oversell” oneself. Most sales experts will tell you that listening to the customer is more important than talking. Interviews are no exception. It’s unfortunate, but selling an interviewer on one of your capabilities could actually hurt you if it’s a skill that’s not central to the job.

Most Kenyan HR managers think in terms of categories. They often view candidates as being one type of employee or another. If you sell the HR about a strength that they feel would be uncharacteristic of the type of person they’re trying to hire, they may eliminate you from consideration. For example, if you’re applying for a sales job and you spend a lot of time talking about how great you are at preparing sales reports and organizing your contact database, there is a danger that the interviewer could perceive you as being someone who has good computer skills but is not as aggressive on the phone.

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