Jobs in Non-Governmental Organisations, Non-Profit Organsations and charities were the most sought after in the first half of last year, a report shows.
The BrighterMonday survey further shows research, teaching and training is the top job in supply while sales led in demand between January 2021 - July 2021.
The report attributed the trend to the high prevalence of international and local NGOs and civil society organisations in Kenya, while the IT and technology industry was the most wanted industry in terms of demand.
“The main influence on this trend is that most of these industries tend to have some semblance of job security, particularly NGOs and government,” it said.
Notably, the report said hospitality and Hotel industry is among the top five industries high in demand, but does not appear among the most high in supply.
“This means the jobseekers in this industry are still in need of work after the disruption caused by the global pandemic,” it said.
The firm analysed 9,474 job listings and 625,014 job applications and 18,675 job listings between January 2021 - July 2021 and 1,353,041 job applications from July 2020 - July 2021 to form the analysis. In the report, job listings represent supply while job applications represent demand.
It said annual trends indicate that demand is overwhelmingly higher than supply.
BrighterMonday is an online platform that enables users to find and post job vacancies in East Africa.
BrighterMonday is an online platform that enables users to find and post job vacancies in East Africa. The platform covers administration, farming, accounting, engineering, IT, real estate, retail, insurance, hospitality, legal, government, transport, research and science and human resources.
BrighterMonday was launched in June 2006 and is based in Nairobi.
According to CEO Emmanuel Mutuma, these data is a critical tool to help employers plan their hiring and expose jobseekers to relevant trends to help them apply for jobs strategically.
“This bulletin is the first volume of a series of research that reviews hiring and application patterns to help our audiences leverage useful research to make more informed choices,” Mutuma said.
Overall, the report said the month of January 2021 saw an increase in job applications across most of the top industries, meaning more job seekers were looking for jobs at the beginning of the year.
“Furthermore, the high demand could be as a function of low bar to entry, coupled with cross-up-skilling that happened during the pandemic, as well as numerous qualified individuals churning out of institutions of higher learning,” the report added.
It said the supply for vacancies in the government sectors remains high as the overall top industry that employers posting vacancies operate in, followed by NGO, Non-Profit Organisation, charity and education.
It added that IT and telecoms, manufacturing and warehousing and banking, auditing and finance are the top 3 most sought-after industries in terms of demand during the period.
“Engineering and technology recorded the highest number of vacancies that employers wanted to fill, in addition to research, teaching and training and sales,” the report noted.
