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Must Reads, Social Media April 6, 2016

58 Percent Of Job Seekers Use Social Media to Search For Jobs

Social Media plays a very big role in today’s job search. The employment landscape is shifting, thanks to the influence of automation, a growing gig economy and electoral change. According to a recent study by…

Must Reads, Social Media April 4, 2016

Is Your Social Media Addiction Out Of Control? Try e-fasting

So, the first thing you do after getting up is log into your Facebook/Twitter/Myspace/Friendster/Orkut account? and it’s also the last thing you do before going to bed, your work, studies and chores take a back…

Lifestyle, Must Reads, Youth April 2, 2016

National Employment Authority Act: Youth And Marginalised Groups To Access Jobs

Unemployment rates estimated in the last two national surveys and the 2009 Kenya Population Census suggest that open unemployment among youth aged 15-19 and 20-24 years is significantly larger than that of the entire working…

Lifestyle, Must Reads April 2, 2016

Nairobi Lions : Feigned Human-Wildlife Conflict To Grab Nairobi National Park

Not for the first time. Not for the second time and neither the third but for the fourth time in a month have the Kings of The Jungle left their homes to come and pay…

Lifestyle, Must Reads March 30, 2016

A Rudderless Opposition Not Good For Kenyans

The past week a video of Opposition parties’ leaders falling down to earth appeared online. It was more of the podium caving in due to their weight more than an act of the gods but…

Lifestyle, Must Reads March 29, 2016

Societal neglect or failed parenting?

‘Morality Cases On The Rise’ is a heading that was on one of the stories that was in one of the most popular dailies in the republic,last week. I nearly ignored it because I am…

Lifestyle, Must Reads, Youth March 21, 2016

Betting: A Bigger Problem Than We Give It Credit

‘”Game moja imeniua” imekua ni wimbo’ is a painfully true and funny cry of all Kenyans who have betting tendencies. Everyone,or at least everyone I know is betting. Old men,old women, bachelors,spinsters,married men,married women,divorcees and…

Lifestyle, Must Reads March 18, 2016

The Dangers of People Not Thinking And Hiding Under ‘Regulations’

I have been avoiding by burying my head in the sand that Project X story that has been trending in the cyberspace for the past week. I have also been avoiding that other story of…

Lifestyle, Must Reads, Startups March 17, 2016

2016 Kenya Inter-ministerial Public Symposium

The government will be holding a three day inter-ministerial public symposium that started today 17 March 2016 at the Kenyatta International Conference Center. This forum on Government Performance & Innovation is a policy and leadership…

Must Reads, Startups, Technology, Youth March 14, 2016

MasterCard Start Path Program To Engage Kenyan startups

MasterCard Start Path is a global effort to support innovative early stage startups developing the next generation of commerce solutions today Since 2014, Start Path has provided more than 60 startups a variety of operational…

Lifestyle, Must Reads March 14, 2016

Poll Shows 53% of Kenyans Think Country Headed in The Wrong Direction

Infotrack, a reserach firm relesed a poll on Sunday that indicated 53 per cent of Kenyans were of the opinion that the country is going in the wrong direction, while 44 per cent were of…

Customer Service, Must Reads, Social Media March 12, 2016

THE POWER OF ONLINE RATINGS

We all do it – routinely sort through search results by customer star ratings and scroll through buyer feedback before making a final shopping decision. It’s no secret the way consumers make decisions has…

Lifestyle, Must Reads March 11, 2016

Time To Free Ourselves By Forgiving Our Parents

Your parents were not just your parents. They, like all of us, are complex beings with a mixed bag of character strengths and flaws. Perhaps you ended up on the receiving end of their flaws….