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Is There Anything Like Genuine Friendship In The Workplace?
What is a Management Trainee?
International IT Coordinator
Job Search. Reasons For Ignoring Instructions?
Program Manager / Senior Program Manager – Elections Job in Kenya
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Managing Director Job Vacancy – KEBS
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Is There Anything Like Genuine Friendship In The Workplace?

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 05:56 AM PDT

I have a pretty tight schedule. Being in full time employment and doing Biashara on the side doesn't leave you with a lot of time in your hands. I've also had the chance to work for different employers, actually four to be precise in the last eight years of employment.

In all those companies I always make it a point to get along well with others. You stand to gain more when
you're friendly than those obnoxious employees who operate at their own level. Anyway, even after making such good friendship I only find that they are 'very few workmates' who can be truly counted as real friends.

Even when I make like fifteen good friends, at the end of the day you'll normally find that you've kept in touch with only one or at best two friends after leaving a particular employer.

In college, making friends is as simple as sharing a particular course or unit, or staying in the hostel or having fun together in a particular joint. After graduation, however, there are no such opportunities. Because you might be too busy to go out and meet new people, the tendency is to target your coworkers.

But there are differences between close friends who will be there for you through life's tough times and people you hang out with while you happen to be stuck in the same office or building. You can spare yourself disappointment later on by noting the differences between a work friend and a real friend.

• If your friend left the company, would you still be in touch with him or her in a year?

• If you had a personal emergency, would you consider asking your friend for help?

• Do you hang out with your friend outside the office? (Weekday lunches and business trips don't count.)

• Have you met your friend's significant other? What about his or her friends outside the office?

• If your friend received the promotion you were banking on, would you be genuinely happy for him or her?

• If you ran into your friend in the streets, would you be able to talk to them for 10 minutes without mentioning work?

• Have you been/seen where your friend lives?

• Do you and your friend have anything in common besides your age, profession and your job?

Is there anything like genuine friendship in the workplace?Many people's careers have been destroyed by supposedly 'good friends' and others have had their lives changed for the better.

What's your experience with workplace friendship? Did they steal your promotion, job, wife or even husband? comments below.

What is a Management Trainee?

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 02:58 PM PDT

From first-line supervisors to top executives, managers plan and direct the work of the organization. They set policy, establish channels of communication and evaluate the work that is done. These…

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International IT Coordinator

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 01:50 PM PDT

Organisation:?

International Rescue Committee

Country:?

Kenya

Closing date:?

12 Oct 2011

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

Scope:
The International IT Coordinator (IITC) has primary responsibility for the coordination and execution of the IRC's international IT activities in the French speaking countries, but is also involved in larger, strategic projects, and will work in other regions as necessary. In this role, the IITC, will work closely with the Director, Field Office Technology (D-FOT) and other NY-based IT staff on the implementation of the global IT strategy. The IITC will also liaise on a regular basis with both country management and field based IT staff, and will visit the region on a regular basis.

Responsibilities:
• Work closely with D-FOT and other NY-based IT staff to develop overall strategy for ensuring optimal use of IT resources in IRC field offices
• Communicate this strategy to field office staff
• Support field-based IT staff in various initiatives, acting as level-2 support where necessary
• Pro-actively advocate for field office IT needs
• Develop, in coordination with D-FOT and in-country management, plans for increasing IT capacity in field-office, including both systems capacity and personnel capacity
• Train and mentor field-based IT staff
• Stay current on all relevant technologies

Requirements:
• Fluency in French, both written and spoken.
• College degree or relevant work experience
• 5+ years of work experience in an international NGO strongly preferred
• 5+ years of network and enterprise technology project management experience
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to interface with and lead both technical and non-technical teams
• Strong, solid knowledge of network and communications technology, to include but, not limited to, server operating systems, network architecture, IP based networks (voice and data), satellite communications, desktop solutions, email systems, etc.

This position is full accompanied.

Please apply at http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=IRC&cws=1&rid=7314

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International IT Coordinator

Job Search. Reasons For Ignoring Instructions?

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 10:27 AM PDT

Anytime a Kenyan company announces that they’re looking to hire, they’ll be instructions on how to apply–even if nothing more than a sign that says, “Inquire within.” Often, they’ll want quite a bit more–CV, cover letter, samples, etc. There’s a delicate dance involved in deciding just how completely to follow those instructions. Here are a few of the important steps.

To begin with, it’s important to remember that, whatever the instructions are, they exist for at least two
reasons, only one of which is to gather the information the people doing the hiring think they need for deciding if you can do the work. There’s another reason, that’s at least as important.

It’s a test.

Whether you’re able and willing to follow instructions is an important thing for anyone to know before deciding to hire you.

There are plenty of bad reasons to ignore the instructions. I can only think of one good one: You only want the job if they’re so desperate to hire you that they’ll overlook your unwillingness to follow instructions.

You might think that knowing that they were desperate would give you an edge–in salary negotiations, for example–but I think you’d have a much bigger edge if you went at it the other way around: Follow instructions scrupulously, make the absolute best case that you’re the person they want to hire, wait until they actually offer you the job, and then play hardball–on salary, or whatever terms and conditions matter to you. Once they’ve decided you’re the number-one candidate you’re in a much better position than if you’ve already got strikes against you for ignoring their instructions.

Here are a few bad reasons for ignoring instructions, with suggested alternate steps to take:

You don’t have what they want (no cv, no references, no samples, etc.)

The solution in this case is to come up with something. If you don’t have a cv, write one–a crappy cv may get you dinged, but no faster than not sending one if they asked for it. If you don’t have references, find some–coworkers or classmates aren’t as good as someone who’s supervised you, but they’re better than nothing. If you need samples, make some–again, crappy samples won’t get you dinged any faster than no samples will (although, if you can’t come up with good samples, maybe this isn’t the job for you anyway).

Program Manager / Senior Program Manager – Elections Job in Kenya

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 09:48 AM PDT

The National Democratic Institute (NDI) is an International nonprofit, Non partisan organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation,…

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Ranch Manager Job Vacancy in Kenya

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 09:48 AM PDT

Teita Estate Ltd Requires the services of a Fully Qualified Ranch Manager, who must be a Kenyan Citizen.?

Applicants should forward a detailed CV latest by 30th August 2011…

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Managing Director Job Vacancy – KEBS

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 09:47 AM PDT

Ref:?CEO-KEBS/08/2011?

The Organization?

Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) is the National Standards Body established under the Standards Act, Cap 496 of the Laws of…

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Monitoring and Evaluation Associate Job in Nairobi, Kenya

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 09:45 AM PDT

ICF Macro Health, Education and Social Programs?

Position:?Monitoring and Evaluation Associate?

Nairobi, Kenya?

About ICF International?

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HIS Technical Advisor Job in Nairobi, Kenya

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 09:44 AM PDT

ICF Macro Health, Education and Social Programs.?

Position:?HIS Technical Advisor?

Nairobi, Kenya?

About ICF International?

ICF International (NASDAQ:ICFI)…

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