New online jobs portal targets youth
A screengrab of the Y Hub website.
What you need to know:
- Devolution Principal Secretary Peter Mangiti on Monday said 40,000 Kenyans are registered on online work platforms.
- The jobs website has been developed as part of the Niko Job campaign, a partnership between Homeboyz Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation.
The Ministry of Devolution and Planning has launched an online jobs website for youths in an effort to tackle unemployment.
The website has been developed as part of the Niko Job campaign, a partnership between Homeboyz Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation.
One will have to create a profile on www.yhub.co.ke to pick up available jobs in web research, social marketing, programming, writing, translation and design.
WORK PLATFORMS
Devolution Principal Secretary Peter Mangiti on Monday said 40,000 Kenyans are registered on online work platforms — the highest number in Africa.
Rockefeller Foundation managing director for Africa Mamadou Biteye said Kenya had immense opportunities in ICT infrastructure, a strong human resource and the highest literacy level in sub-Saharan Africa.
Five months ago, Rockefeller launched a similar programme in collaboration with Elance-oDesk, an online employment agency.
The partnership is part of the Foundation’s Digital Jobs African Initiative, which aims at improving the lives of one million people in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Morocco and Egypt.
