Paula Thayrow

A nation that is not at war, and where the government does not actively regulate the activities of individual citizens, is a nation full of opportunities. Your job opportunities in Kenya are only limited by the choice you make on where you will keep your gaze. A slight shift in your gaze will put you where you will start to find jobs in Kenya coming at you with increased ease. How can you identify where your gaze is? How can you move your gaze to where the opportunities are?

Though being nervous is considered a normal challenge, it works badly for you when you are looking for jobs in Kenya. Potential employers do not often have the time or the patience to listen to a blubbering, incoherent job-seeker. So if you are nervous enough to make you incoherent you need to start solving that nervousness fast as it will cost you a job in Kenya. Learning to be clear and articulate may be the little key you need to find jobs in Kenya. How do you build that self confidence?

Inner strength and power will help you find jobs Kenya which is a high jobs competition environment. Unfortunately, the word 'power' elicits dread and fear because we tend to equate it with scary woo-woo activities aligned with witchcraft, evil religious practices and illegal activities. But power is the ability to perform and is vital wherever in life you wish to enjoy success. When seeking jobs in Kenya, personal inner power is what enables you to overcome the high jobs competition.

Job agencies are a quick option for job seekers that are starting out in the job market. Yet in a jobs market that is as competitive as that of Kenya, finding a job through a job agency may be a greater challenge that most people recognise. However, that is not to say that you should not use a job agency as part of your job search strategy. What is the right place of a job agency?

Any industry that has low entry requirements is great breeding ground for fraud. In fact, anything on the earth that has easy or simple entry rules has the amazing innate characteristic of attracting abuse and fraudsters. Providing an easy service in an industry with 2million entrants every year attracts both fraudsters and genuine service providers. Good understanding of basic principles is your surest protection against inefficient services and fraudsters when searching for jobs in Kenya.

Thousands of workers in Kenya are running into industries where they supposedly believe there is money. This culture of following after money can only increase your poverty levels for a man or woman that only gives the barest minimum to their work can only earn a minimum wage. If you wish to arise above the poverty levels that you have grown in, then give money its rightful place and work its rightful place.

The normal trend in Kenya where the population of youth looking for jobs stands at very close to half the entire nation's population is to listen in on what is currently touted to be working and then crowd there. The challenge with that plan is that it reduces one's chances to as low as 0.002%. However, using the simple law of probabilities, if there is one prize, but there are only two competing for it, then it raises ones chances to one in two which is an appealing 50% chance.

Some years back the media called Kenya the gambling country. Shortly after came the pyramid scheme madness, cleverly hidden behind the need for overnight solutions. Job seekers have an ongoing version of 'pyramid schemes' in officers asking for bribes and job agencies. Because many job seekers want speed in terms of days, job scams work on that faulty inner psyche to create a false sense of urgency. How can you keep your power of clear minded thinking?

There are two kinds of job service providers that any entrant into the job market in Kenya should be very wary of. The first kind are the seemingly helpful ones who set up offices in some back-street and promise you a job at a fee. The second group, and these are a complete sham, is people who pose as officers in various places or who claim to have connections with some office or other and can 'hook you up' with a job at a fee. Are you inviting these trends into your life?

The law of networking in finding relevant opportunities is such that we all have the same level playing field no matter where we are starting from. Everyone you will ever need to know to get to where you wish to go is within reach right at this moment. Too many people in reaction to their perceived scarcity of jobs in Kenya go out of their way to create unnatural networking relationships, which often turn out to be a complete waste of time and money.