PRIME Kenyans learning German up 95pc with eye on jobs, business abroad Applicants also need other skills, including the ability to write a proper application letter and maintain consistent communication through email.
PRIME Ex-banker turns immigrant woes into thriving UK career As a mortgage and protection adviser, her work involves more than helping someone secure a home loan. She assesses clients’ circumstances, identifies suitable products, prepares applications and...
PRIME How to secure greener pastures without jeopardising your job An employee can spend weeks applying for positions and attending interviews without receiving an offer. Even after reaching the final stage of a recruitment, the opportunity can still fall through.
PRIME Why leaving work on time is hurting your career In some workplaces, employees who consistently pack up at the official closing hour risk being seen as less committed than colleagues who stay late.
PRIME Rajen Shah: The Kenyan pharmacy dropout driving Citi’s global tech transition Over the course of his career at the institution, he has held several senior roles, including chief auditor for data quality and global chief administrative officer for enterprise operations and...
PRIME Kenyan workers who have found success in Romania food industry For Gerald, the journey to rebuilding his financial stability in Romania has not been smooth. He nevertheless believes the move was worthwhile.
PRIME Is ‘shamelessness’ the secret success sauce for women in corporate Kenya? While workplaces have made significant progress toward gender equity, women who are outspoken, assertive and ambitious can still face different perceptions from their male counterparts.
PRIME The Kenyan lawyer taking on US-based firm trying to sell sunlight from space In the next decade, she says, people standing in major cities and looking up might see more satellites moving across the sky than actual stars.
PRIME Kenyans in diaspora: They waited years for jobs that were never their dream For Abubakar Juma, the journey to a better life abroad took years of rejection, deception and false starts before it finally began to move.
PRIME The five-star hotels country manager refusing to retire at 77 Age has done little to blunt his curiosity or his eye for detail. He still enjoys spotting what employees miss, pointing it out and, perhaps most importantly, watching a younger employee learn...
PRIME Kenyan celebrities turn their faces into millions A face, a name or even a social media handle is no longer just part of fame.
PRIME Kenyan spa therapist finds new career path in Mongolia Never one to think twice about making big moves, when the opportunity for her current job came, she jumped at it.
PRIME Mark Mansa, the YouTuber taking ordinary Kenyans into homes of the wealthy His most viewed episode is of a Sh47 million house in Kahawa Sukari, which has 707,000 views.
PRIME Kenyans earn big driving trucks in the US and Europe Trucking in the US comes with its own strict rules. Drivers are limited to 70 hours over a rolling week, with a 14-hour working window each day and no more than 11 hours of actual driving, broken...
PRIME How they set up successful law firms in the US Starting a law firm from nothing required substantial money, yet a new firm has no credit history, which drives up the cost of commercial leases.
PRIME Why Kenyan executives excel globally, but struggle locally It is better for organisations if you conduct your studies in Kenya and then go and work abroad rather than go and study overseas and then come directly back.
PRIME The career detour that sparked a thriving deep-cleaning enterprise He spent four years learning every aspect of professional cleaning before venturing into the business himself.
PRIME How a Kenyan lawyer built a career, immigration firm in the US He believes every green card he secures for a client is, in many ways, a gift to an entire village back home.
PRIME The architect who quit employment at 33 to build value-driven firm 'Someone should construct a structure that occupants will be happy using. That way, a commercial building will bring back revenues seamlessly.'
PRIME What it takes to cook for a president What surprised George most was not the grandeur of cooking for heads of state, but their surprisingly simple tastes.
PRIME The rules we broke to succeed: High-flying young women on carving their own path Many say they were given a template to follow, but they chose instead to live by their own rules.
PRIME How Mugo went from Tahidi High extra to The Agency For many aspiring actors, rejection is interpreted as failure. For Mugo, it eventually became part of the job description.
PRIME Lecturers and the quest for academic relevance University business schools seem to have prominent lecturers who are constantly searching for relevance.
PRIME The lawyer who bet his career on a leap of faith If he was not pushed, maybe he wouldn’t be the managing partner of ENS in Kenya.
PRIME What Morocco match reveals about leadership that boardrooms never will Football exposes the truth about systems, psychology, and decision-making under pressure.
