Why Do All Fresh Graduates Want to Work For Blue Chip Companies?
When young students are about to graduate from leading Kenyan Universities, it is fashionable for the big blue chip companies to present a career talk on how it would be important for the young graduates to join their companies. Given that such companies offer the best Kenyan jobs with attractive perks, many young Kenyans are actually attracted to them. Companies such as safaricom, Zain and Kenya Airways regularly present career talk to students in their penultimate year. However, many young people set themselves up for heartbreak as these companies only employ a few people each year. You not only have to score top grades in order to be employed by these companies but you also have to excel in other attributes such as leadership and extra-curricular activities.Besides, you also have to contend with competition from Kenyans with foreign University credentials. Given that some of these Universities want to be seen as top employers in the region, some regularly shun graduates from local U
