Engineers in Kenya have called for level playing field to enable them access decent jobs.
“Denying us that is simply curtailing our professional bargaining power thus rendering us desperate and vulnerable to go begging for “any opportunity” to be engaged hence exposing those who get these opportunity to being assigned irrelevant tasks or being left on their own without any form of mentor-ship,” a bitterly aggrieved Engineer told Modern Construction Africa.
“The truth however is, employers who are not keen to accept or to properly engage graduates have a hand in the very crisis they have been raising alarm over. How are students expected to acquire practical workplace competencies if they can’t find internship-relevant & properly structured ones for that matter? posed the Engineer