Innovate or perish: Are your skills relevant to today’s reality?

Young professionals talk about emerging realities in the once-esteemed occupations ahead of the Booked for Life Higher Education and Career Fair organised by the Standard Media Group, higher education institutions and top recruiters to be held at KICC on Saturday.

During a technological exhibition at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology a few weeks ago Cielo Mutuku stood out.

The young innovator, who is pursuing a degree in Finance at the university, stole the show by explaining how a computer numerical control (CNC) machine she had developed together with another student works. The two had made the CNC machine from scratch using motors, controllers and other locally-sourced materials with the aim of coming up with an affordable machine for engraving images and texts on various surfaces.