Solid mentorship programme is the engine to the future

Even the finest brains need someone to 'hold their minds' into new environments, new challenges, new thinking processes, new attitudes, new cultures. [iStockphoto]

A group of new job recruits met at the Kenyan of School Government last week. They were young, excited, with fire burning in their eyes. All of them had a degree certificate-from IT to communications. They were the creme de creme; the chosen few that just landed a job in a country where jobs are as scarce as saints in hell.

The organisers spared nothing to get the youngsters the best speakers-from university lecturers to Lilian, a human resources guru.