Covid-19 pandemic has amplified the need to consider skill transferability in career choice

When Kenya announced the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in March 2020, many people went into panic mode. Business owners and employers immediately began re-strategising in a bid to remain afloat in case of an economic meltdown.

Unfortunately, in the process of cost cutting, many organisations resorted to laying off employees while sending others on unpaid leave to await better days. A few months into the global pandemic, many small-scale businesses and big corporations were struggling to meet the daily operation costs, leave alone turn a profit.