They say that every year this country loses a large portion of high school leavers to foreign universities and upon graduation from these foreign universities an even larger percentage do not dare to come back to the motherland. Dare? yes, is it quite a juggle of odds to choose a comeback to this beautiful kingdom of diversity to chase the lifetime career of your dreams over an easier sail upstream inn the land of dreams and opportunities. Don't get me wrong at all ,I haven't completely lost my faith in this country. Employment rates have been on the rise of late thanks to improvements in the economy and efforts towards greater industrialization and that's a good indication of the decades ahead but. But before the decades find me a reality less of my long sought dreams, I believe its not too late to raise it to the people, even though those people are a few eager bloggers that make up a minute fraction of the Kenyan economic machine. All in all , This is the currently applicable Kenyan definition of braindrain as is purely misunderstood by most Kenyans. Well I think there's a very solid justification for this phenomenon which has been so wrongly described. The real braindrain my friends is what is happening every day in our city's offices as we speak. Thousands upon thousands of college and university graduates toiling till the setting of the sun to make a living through a redundant and unchallenging job they never thought they'd find themselves doing. The daily motions of underproductivity. Walk into a bank today and find a pretty law major smiling at you from behind the customer relations desk. Walk into NHIF and ask for the med graduate whose sorting out mail to different hospital locations for delivery. Sitting in your office ,sipping a cup of hot coffee you will probably recall some beat down looking dudes in cheap suits who came to talk you into purchasing a life insurance policy they were marketing, yap those were a bunch of Actuarial science graduates I went to school with.
So its clear that any naive shagzmondoz strolling aimlessly around town might
easily befall the cleverly painted illusion of a glamourous corporate lifestyle that comes with working hard in the intellectual death race that has become our educational system. With the Mercs and Mark Xes, the X 5s and X6es ,the Range Sports and Lexuses, everybody in Nairobi seems to be living their dreams. Yes indeed ,everybody is living their dreams ..everybody in the back left of those cars that is and for all we know that chauffeur could be another first class honored B.A graduate. A BA driving an M.BA, I mean how long a ladder does he need to climb to add the M to the BA. If a foreign scholarship or green card was offered ever so generously to the chauffeur in question how long do you think it would take for him to ditch the big M.D for a ride on the wild side. This city is lined with block upon block of money solvent skyscrapers but of course the formula is so defined to ensure a consistent saturation of the guap-extract within certain higher offices. A classic case of
So its clear that any naive shagzmondoz strolling aimlessly around town might
easily befall the cleverly painted illusion of a glamourous corporate lifestyle that comes with working hard in the intellectual death race that has become our educational system. With the Mercs and Mark Xes, the X 5s and X6es ,the Range Sports and Lexuses, everybody in Nairobi seems to be living their dreams. Yes indeed ,everybody is living their dreams ..everybody in the back left of those cars that is and for all we know that chauffeur could be another first class honored B.A graduate. A BA driving an M.BA, I mean how long a ladder does he need to climb to add the M to the BA. If a foreign scholarship or green card was offered ever so generously to the chauffeur in question how long do you think it would take for him to ditch the big M.D for a ride on the wild side. This city is lined with block upon block of money solvent skyscrapers but of course the formula is so defined to ensure a consistent saturation of the guap-extract within certain higher offices. A classic case of pseudo - economics. So in the mean time ,the underpaid and overworked community that hurdles up each day inside those less than flashy offices keep digging that hard rock for some more gold ore for the master hoping one day to become the master. The summit bound race of a hundred junior employees towards a big seat at the tip of a very steep power pyramid . Tragic, just tragic.
But I believe a huge portion of the blame can be directed to the Society for Human Resource Management in Kenya - SHRMK which Kenya actually has a institutional equivalent in the The Institute of Personnel Management and its many little minions of HR units from various Kenyan business organizations.The simple question that troubles me is why do HR departments jointly choose to post highly talented individuals in such low life dead end positions when they know that with just a few investments in workforce training projects they can completely harness the potential that these individuals have to offer and steer the bank's productivity to new heights. Now isn't that the traditional job market rhetoric? Answer it and I will promptly revoke this blog.
But I believe a huge portion of the blame can be directed to the Society for Human Resource Management in Kenya - SHRMK which Kenya actually has a institutional equivalent in the The Institute of Personnel Management and its many little minions of HR units from various Kenyan business organizations.The simple question that troubles me is why do HR departments jointly choose to post highly talented individuals in such low life dead end positions when they know that with just a few investments in workforce training projects they can completely harness the potential that these individuals have to offer and steer the bank's productivity to new heights. Now isn't that the traditional job market rhetoric? Answer it and I will promptly revoke this blog.
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