Posts Tagged “cover letter”
Save the Children East Africa Regional Office (EARO) is looking to recruit a Finance Capacity Building Specialist
This position carries the critical regional responsibility of building the capacity of and training country office finance and non-finance staff to help them deliver on their ‘empowered’ mandate.
Key Areas of Accountability
Unga Holdings Ltd is looking for a suitable candidates to fill the following positions:
Graduate Recruitment – Sales & Marketing
Job Vacancy: Field Sales Executive
Company: Romageco (Kenya) Ltd
Location: Nairobi (Head Office)
Start Date: ASAP
Current Job for a Management Trainee – Record to Report – Intercompany responsible for inter-company transactions processing in accordance with published guidelines and sound internal control standards of the client. These tasks involve processing of inter-company charges and re-charges, settlement and reconciliation
Experience 2-4 Yrs of relevant experience after education
We are looking for Sales Executive for our food processing unit.
The ideal candidate will ensure increased market share of day old chicks to meet the company objectives in line with the strategic plan.
The position is based in Tiwi, Kwale District.
Position: Sales Assistant
Job Purpose
To provide sales solutions while managing staff and achieving sales targets
Ipsos Synovate, an independent market research organization, is in need of Business Administration / Accounting Graduates to participate in a large Business Survey as interviewers in a temporary position for a 3 month period.
The profile of the candidates should be as follows;
Most Kenyan jobs are never advertised. A cold cover letter is an uninvited inquiry to an employer, recruiter or other hiring manager regarding possible job opportunities in their company.
Frustrated with your job search?
A newly established boutique hotel based in Meru is looking to hire motivated, highly driven staff with hotel and/or restaurant related experience.
Positions:
Waiters/Waitresses(9 positions):
We are undoubtedly in a competitive world. From the early years in school, we are pitted against each other. We even hear of some schools that grade the performance of children from as early as kindergarten. Through school life, we get through a system that keeps us actively competing for positions and our parents make it worse by insisting we have to be number one. Would you wonder how many number ones we would have in a class if all the parents had their way?
Job hunting is a daily exercise. Whether you get a good job, you will be hunting another bigger job after a while. That is why I get shocked when people email us to unsubscribe from getting the latest jobs on their emails. Like I said above, job hunting does not stop because you got a job, it makes it easier. Now you have resources and access to information (internet) and even interview experience.
If you are coming straight from college or university starting to look for a job is tricky but it can be very easy if you know what you are doing. If you have a job, I know by now you know various things you need to adhere to before starting to start looking for a job. But if you have forgotten, then here is a refresher.
1. Tailor your resume to the position for which you are applying – include specific elements of the job description in your resume (make it easy for them to see that you are a good fit).
2. Do not rely on a cover letter to explain why you are a fit. You may want to use it to explain reasons for relocation, but your skills and experience need to be evident within your customized resume. If anything, the cover letter may be used to weed you out.
3. Do not apply for more than one position within one company: It creates the perception that you are not sure which position is best for you. We recommend applying to one but including a variety of skill sets on your resume so that you indicate you are qualified for more than one position.
4. Keep everything positive in your resume and in your communication with the company. Don’t dwell on bad experiences, frustrations, or ineffective bosses. Talk about what you learned, why you are better for it and how you will leverage those experiences to make your new company successful.
5. Honesty rules: Hiring managers and HR professionals will do informal reference checks with people they know at other firms and you do not want them to be surprised.
6. Answer salary questions definitively and transparently: Do not try to circumvent these questions. Tell them specifically what you were making and what you are looking to make.
7. Don’t be shy: let your personality come through in your answers. During an interview, you might be thrown some questions that are asked to assess how your brain works or to find out more about your personality.
8. When accepting an offer, be enthusiastic: They want to hear the smile and excitement in your voice. This will lay the foundation of a very positive transition into your new company.
9. Don’t engage in a counteroffer negotiations: You risk alienating yourself from the new hiring manager and your old company. Consider the offer and decide.
10. Being overqualified is a serious concern for companies, but the solution is not to remove things from your resume as it may create the perception of dishonesty.
11. End interviews with assertiveness and pro-activity: It is very appropriate to end interviews by asking “When would it be appropriate for me to follow-up?”
12. Be prepared for behavioral interview questions: Come to the interview prepared with several anecdotes about challenges you have faced before and how you dealt with them. Demonstrate a positive and measurable result whenever possible.
13. Do your best to incorporate the firm’s core values into your interview responses.
14. Keep up your knowledge: Companies understand that people may have been out of work for extended periods of time in this economy. However, you must demonstrate your ability to stay current (seminars, certifications, etc.) and to get up to speed quickly.
15. LinkedIn is a recognized tool, but they disregard most of what they see, including recommendations. Be prepared to provide a supplemental reference sheet during interviews.
16. Identify and ease their pain. Ask hiring managers about “gaps in their department” to find out where their pain is and suggest how you can help ease that pain. They need to be sure they are hiring someone who can help with their issues. Ask good questions. Like, “What does success look like 6 months into this position?” and “What obstacles might I run into?”
17. Be careful with Facebook: they review these pages and screen people out as a result!
If you look at all the above, they seem like warnings but in real sense they are just ways in which you can help yourself find the exercise of job hunting very easy. You do not want to experience a hard time finding a job. Some of you might already be doing this but if you are not, then have these like 17 commandments.
All the best.
Job Title: Quality Assurance Assistant
Required Skill Set
- Knowledge of relevant flower varieties and quality check procedures.
By Juliah Karimi.
Chances are you went through several drafts of your CV before you submitted it to a prospective employer. You wrote and rewrote each line several times and had friends, family, even strangers proofread it or you even had a professional firm do it for you. But if you send it off without enclosing a cover letter, your hard work may never be seen. I recently had to read an email application for someone who had one line as a
cover letter. It really left me wondering about the seriousness of such a candidate.
A Cover Letter Example
I know most of you have a problem writing cover letters (and CV’s) going by the daily emails we get. Here is a cover letter i did for a soft engineer. The cover letter has a bonus in that it addresses the all important question of where to put the salary requirement as requested by many employers.
Driver / Mechanic (PK/DM/2011) Location: Nairobi, Dagorreti Corner, Kenya
Driver Job Description:
Reporting to the senior driver, the driver-mechanic will be required to provide professional driving, transportation and other logistical support services to the overall Pact Kenya operations as shall be required from time to time.
New Communication Officer Job in Nairobi Kenya 2011
Filing And Reporting Assistant Job Vacancy Nairobi Kenya-2011
The Kenya LCDF Programme Manager Job 2011
Job description: CAHR Project Officer
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Availability: Immediately
Management reporting line: Program Director
Technical reporting line: Community Systems Strengthening
Background
KANCO is a national membership network of organization with over 1000 Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs), Community Based Organization (CBOs), Faith Based Organization (FBOs), Private Sector, Research and Learning Institutions responding to HIV & AIDS and TB in Kenya.
Community Action on Harm Reduction (CAHR) is a Dutch Government funded programme, to be implemented in China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, and Malaysia, that aims to make substantial contributions towards ensuring that injecting drug users, their partners and children are healthier, less marginalized and more engaged in social and community life.
Overall Role
The Project Officer is expected to manage overall project activities, ensure project relevance to the country IDU community needs to most effectively address HIV, provide and coordinate provision of technical assistance, advocate for the rights of drug user populations, alcohol and non-injecting drug users and represent the project nationally.
Responsibilities
1. Ensures country participation in the global development and coordination of the project implementation, develops and leads the country team of various specialists (staff and/or consultants) required to achieve the programme goals.
2. Monitoring of the HIV epidemic in the country; the responses and opportunities for strengthened responses to the epidemic and challenges associated with illicit drug use; and the role played by local governments, donors and other stakeholders, as well as ensures necessary adjustments in country programme design and implementation.
3. Ensures that the scale, spectrum, accessibility, intensity and quality of services and information available to IDUs and their families corresponds as much as possible to harm reduction and HIV prevention objectives as well as to health, social and other essential needs of drug users, their partners and children.
4. Ensure that the CAHR programme design and activities at country and local levels builds upon the strengths of the KANCO members and partners while being effective, strategic and relevant in local context.
5. Partnership development across sectors Local, nationally and internationally as well as strategic management of donor and stakeholder relations including the delivery of financial and technical support to field level service delivery organizations.
6. Ensures that region-specific as well as site-specific interventions are developed and implemented as appropriate.
7. Guides contributions to national and global learning and sharing focused on deepening and dissemination of the harm reduction evidence base.
8. Promotes and advocates for harm reduction and ensures a favorable project environment
Person Specification: -
Essential
The applicants for the above assignment MUST possess the following qualifications:
Education: A minimum of Master’s degree in Public Health, Project Management, or any relevant discipline
Experience: Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Project Management or advocacy Harm Reduction among injecting drug users and their partners.
Knowledge: Experience of harm reduction programming or other similar approaches; Strong commitment to confronting HIV/AIDS; Strong support of harm reduction approaches to work with injecting drug users; Experience of harm reduction programming or other similar approaches; Understanding of both public health and human rights dimensions of HIV prevention and care work; Understanding and supporting the role of communities and non-governmental sector in the responses to HIV and other challenges associated with injecting drug use;
Critical factors: Strong representation skills and capabilities for high level policy work; Solid negotiations skills, Articulation and assertiveness in communication, Skills to present and defend their views, Creative and independent thinking, Integrity and diplomacy; Ability to work under pressure; Skills to encourage field level partner organisations to collaboratively introduce improvements to their programmes and measures to increase efficiency of the country response to HIV/AIDS epidemic and drug use related challenges; Excellent English language (written and spoken).
To apply, submit your CV and list of 3 references, a detailed cover letter illustrating your suitability (marked ‘CAHR Project Officer ’) to Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium, P. O. Box 69866 – 00400, Nairobi – Kenya.
Email: jobs@kanco.org.
Applications will be considered until 6th May, 2011: Please note only short-listed candidates meeting the above requirements will be contacted. This vacancy is open only to Kenyan Nationals.
Real Estate Sales and Marketing Manager Job in Kenya 2011
Job Summary
Our client, a real estate development company established in 2006 develops exclusive (residential) real estate and has a high net worth customer base. The company is currently looking for a Sales and Marketing Manager.
Responsibilities
· Generate leads by executing the marketing strategy through sales and marketing strategies including but not limited to organizing presence at general real estate events, advertising, website and organizing dedicated sales events.
· Follow up the leads generated and closing sales.
· Attend Sales and Marketing meetings and be responsible for the preparation of annual and monthly sales and marketing budgets.
· Develop the company’s sales and marketing strategy.
· Co-managing the communications and PR strategy for various projects.
· Manage internal and external relationships with real estate agents and other stakeholders.
· Coordinate the sales team through the administrative and legal processes.
· Supervise outsourced production of sales and marketing materials.
Requirements
· Bachelor’s degree in marketing or in a business related field and a Diploma in marketing is a must.
· Minimum of 6 years experience in a similar position with proven sales skills.
· Sales background where products or services sold have been ‘hard sell’.
· Experience in Real Estate would be an added advantage.
· International experience is essential.
· Ability to network, communicate comfortably with all cultures and nationalities.
· Ability to work independently, solve problems to achieve desired results.
How to apply:
Send your application including a cover letter indicating your desire to work with our client; a detailed CV highlighting relevant experience, details of current and expected salary, a daytime phone contact, email address, and the names of three professional referees by close of business Friday 29th April 2011.
Adept Systems
Management Consultants
P O Box 6416, Nairobi, GPO 00100
Email: recruit@adeptsystems.co.ke
Management Consultants
P O Box 6416, Nairobi, GPO 00100
Email: recruit@adeptsystems.co.ke
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Please note that we do not charge fees for receiving or processing job applications.
Kenyan Jobs:
A very busy NGO would like to recruit a PA to the Executive Director.
Requirements:
· Degree or Diploma in Administration (or equivalent), from a reputable institution
· 3 years experience
· Organized, keen to detail and must possess computer skills
· Must be self driven and able to work for long hours with minimum supervision.
A cover letter, detailed CV, copies of certificates and contacts of 3 references should be sent by 11th April 2010 to:
The Executive Director,
P.O. Box 43982 – 00100
Nairobi.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
