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Why companies are unable to offer you employment

President Uhuru Kenyatta with Safaricom CEO Bob Collmore at the official opening of the 2016 African Employers' Summit.(Photo: File/Standard)

There are hundreds of thousands of young graduates who wake up every day, arm themselves with an academic certificate and faint hope that things will be different.

After spending hundreds of shillings in a cyber café sending their resumes to different employers and keeping an eye on their email for, at least, a word of rejection from the many other previous employers, they have gone back downcast. There has been neither job nor word from the employers.

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