By: Ronklein Kipkoech
Worth Noting:
- Most offices, especially with government officers and private companies’ officers require you to be well off in your pockets and to get the jobs unless you don’t want the job. The word doesn’t only apply when graduates are looking for jobs, students being allocated schools, people joining an army and even during allocation of bursaries and funds.
- ‘Connections’ has been a common word in the country and has been a requirement number one when one is looking for jobs rather than a person’s qualifications.
- This has led to some students fear for their life after graduating since they can be able to secure employment without having knowledge of a person inside or within the organization.
As the wise people say, education is the key to success in life, but here in Kenya the saying goes astray, but the word ‘connection’ has been the key to many people seeking jobs. The word has been as many people call it has been the daily routine here in Kenya and the phrase ‘do you know anybody who knows someone who knows somebody’ becoming our daily food amongst the job seekers in the country.
‘Connection’ in our country Kenya holds more power than person holding a PHD. Connections goes hand in hand with corruption, the two are related in a similar manner. When seeking jobs, one has to pay more than expected or without knowing a big person within the organization, a person cannot get job employment or think even of being employed within the organization. Most youths are jobless in the country not because there are no jobs but because they have no one in the inside to connect them in getting the jobs. Not only knowing a top official at the organization, if your father, mother or any member of your family ain’t known then you and your papers are worthless when trying to find a job.
Most offices, especially with government officers and private companies’ officers require you to be well off in your pockets and to get the jobs unless you don’t want the job. The word doesn’t only apply when graduates are looking for jobs, students being allocated schools, people joining an army and even during allocation of bursaries and funds.
‘Connections’ has been a common word in the country and has been a requirement number one when one is looking for jobs rather than a person’s qualifications.
This has led to some students fear for their life after graduating since they can be able to secure employment without having knowledge of a person inside or within the organization. Also this has been witnessed in some universities where students are connected with some lecturers and allow something from them for them to graduate and get grades that are more pleasing yet not theirs.
The government and all stake holders should end the term connections and rather focus on qualifications and education when graduates are looking for jobs. A policy of fairness and equality should be a key factor in most offices in the country and also transparency. Young graduates with the given knowledge and qualifications should be given opportunities to perform the jobs they have been studying for rather than anyone with connections and no real qualifications.
We all should stand against this virtue which is part of corruption and ensure that we are more into quality rather than connections.
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