Hi Mwendwa - Good information you have shared there!
You will also be very surprised if you engage these youngsters out of college, one on one, leave alone the CV. While many of them have interesting paperwork/professional certificates and look very promising, they lack basics. And guys who are hiring see this from mile away.
Sounds cliche, but our learning institutions really need to up their game in preparing these guys for the market. Or, is it that the candidates are not well motivated?
My 2 cents!
Ogori
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Hi Oketch,
Thats a good question to ask. I was puzzled too. Have you heard of Impact sourcing? To some of us, some skills are basic, and obvious. But that obviousness is what
http://www.samaschool.org/ saw in empowering young people have a skill that can sustain them. more information is available on that website. Some very successful ITES-BPO firms in Kenya
like daproim.com, adept-techno.com , and
www.samasource.org require these skills to keep the grinding stone rolling.
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Samaschool moves people out of poverty by providing digital skills training and a connection to internet-based jobs that pay a living wage.
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Those basic skills can actually end the perennial unemployment for our youth, without necessarily asking for government help. Outsourcing work is unlimited in the world, if an entrepreneur like the above mentioned sets up shop locally. In
2008, India had revenues of US$10.9 billion from offshore BPO and $30 billion from IT and total BPO. Other locations like Philippines, and South Africa have emerged to take a share of the market. The
BPO Industry in the Philippines is employing 1.2 million workers with $25 billion in revenues, while the South African call centre industry has grown by approximately 8% per year since 2003 and it directly employs about 100,000 people, contributing 0.92% to
South Africa's (GDP).
You might think these industries do some complicated stuff like what the techies here do, but that is far from the truth. There are many services that the ITES industry
can do like Transcription, Data entry, Creative writing, Proof reading, Online research and content management, Social media management (online presence), Email copy, Uploading online posts, Re-purposing, Email copy, Image creation, Book keeping, Website maintenance,
Call centres, Sentiment analysis, and content moderation.
Looking at the thousands of youth who leave college every year with various diplomas, and degrees sitting at home, how can we give them opportunities? I'm sure we all know someone out there without a daily gig. Still trying
to get a footing.
And while we are at that, if there is anyone who knows how that industry works, please contact me. I have some interest. Sometimes we can be the solution.
On 5 July 2016 at 11:43, Joseph Maina via skunkworks
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ati Black belt in googling ... niokotwe Nunguni..
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Calvin Omari via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Calvin OmariRegardsAll the best in your future endeavorsHello Guys,For fresh guys from college learn to make a single page resume or at most a two page resume. This helps any reqcruitor to quickly read and make judgement long resumes (more than 3 pages) bore recruitors who have to go through thousands of resumes.
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Victor Kisovi via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Kisovi.That CV is just too plain for a diploma graduate and a NO NO for me ... Simply this person doesn't know how to sell themselves.Regards,
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Jared Koyier via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Maybe BlackBelt in Googling ...who knows
Sincerely,
Jared Oyier
On 5 July 2016 at 09:10, Okechukwu via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Not to digress but if I may ask, what is Certificate in Web Research?
./Ok3ch
On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 11:40 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
_______________________________________________Help a lady in need get a daily gig.
Education: Diploma in Business and IT.- CCNA
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