The World Bank eye opening experience

“You the youth must demonstrate tremendous consistent interest for knowledge and hunger for success, no one shall deliver opportunists to you, it’s your responsibility to stay alert and ready to meet success” renown media personality Julie Gichuru quipped. This was at the tail end of a mid-morning session on youth empowerment that she moderated on the sidelines of the world bank group open day, an event that I was privileged to attend at Nairobi club grounds. The CBK Governor Patrick Njoroge who was a panelist too couldn’t agree more, I saw him inevitably nod at Julie’s witty remarks. This is what struck me most during that last Tuesday event, so timely were those words given that myself and many in attendance were just fresh into this CV dropping business.

I have had the privilege of attending a few interview sessions with PwC and Cytton investments within the last two months. I have realized we are many in this predicament, on a trajectory note; we are literally stampeding in to organizations. Though from Cabinet Secretary for IT Joe Mucheru’s stand point this is a positive indicator given the swiftness with which news about the job offers circulates. The second observation is that, more graduates are now aware of the employers’ requirements, unfortunately this has brought difficulties to the employer’s candidate selection processes and in response to these reality, employers have modelled new candidate distilling assessments that gravitate towards behavioral analytics to help identify individuals who poses the preferred salient capabilities. Consequently, from the job seekers end, employers are now a lot more unpredictable. In a nutshell and in the words of Pan Africa Skill’s Director Mr. Elijah Mogere “Given the current nonlinearity and disproportionate nature of the job market, the young people must realign and repackage themselves uniquely and accordingly”.

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