R4K AT THE UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

More than ten companies both private and public, local and international feted the United States International University (USIU) 2013 career fair that was held in the second week of July from 9^th to 11^th in their school ground.

Among the companies that were present included Telkom Orange, Safaricom LTD, Samsung, Institute of Human Resource Management (IHRM), Gibebe, Bidco, Unilever (Rexona), Chase bank among many others. Apparently the Recours Four Kenya Consultants stand was located next to Bidco and opposite Telkom Orange stand.

It should be noted that the main aim of the career fair was to help the university students get career advice about their professional career life. Among the guest speakers who addressed the students was the Safaricom Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O) Bob Collymore who later conducted several interviews among the students for the position of customer care interns. Similarly the Telkom Orange Kenya was also collecting Curriculum Vitae from the students who were present.

The most notable thing during the career fair was that the USIU students took the initiative positively as most of them visited the different stands seeking advice and getting to learn more about what next after graduation.  It could be observed that some of the students even decided on show casing their products by going entrepreneurial, as it could be seen some were involved in catering business while others got involved in selling of clothes and shoes. This was an impressive way of approaching the business world as a way of reducing the unemployment rate in Kenya.

It was a heartwarming and pleasant surprise to note how the R4K stand was overwhelmed by the multitude of students who took their time to learn about the exclusive affordable services that the company offers to graduates and entry levels. As reported some of the students even decided to have their CVs revamped and returned the same day. While this was happening Recours Four Kenya Consultants appreciated the large turnout of students who registered with them for their services in the two days that R4K was in USIU.

As it appears even as R4K participated in its third successful career fair in the USIU, it is evident that the company is gaining the right publicity as both clients and companies keep knocking at the R4K door seeking one service or the other. But in all these R4K still believes in youth empowerment and that is why the company stand remains empowerment for the youth and by the youth.

Recours Four Kenya Consultants (R4K) is a recruitment company which is located in Ngong Road, Piedmont plaza 5^th floor, opposite Kenya Teachers Science College (K.T.S.C). The company face book page is Recruitment4kenya and its twitter handle is @R4Kenyans.

THIS FAR WE HAVE GONE...

The wise men say, the journey of a thousand miles starts with one step and true to this old adage Recours Four Kenya (R4K) has come along way as a living testimony to this.

To most youth their dream is that once they get that white collar job they would wish to be their own bosses. But hey the storyline is not always a smooth path, challenges are always there but they present real opportunities in disguise and as stated by the R4K boss Miss Gloria Michelle before you judge or criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoe!

First, the company started off by successfully hosting its first Youth convention on April where they had several guests including; Shappaman Kanema from Camp Mulla, Charles Mwakio, the Director of Rotaract club of Nairobi, Mike Mina, Chair of United Nation (U.N) simulation exercises and George Saltai a youth farmer and Entrepreneur.

Next R4K hosted a motivational interview training program held in Langata in May where there were speakers like Tom Lee Msongo, a Reseacher, John Kennedy a panel recruiter at SGS and Mr. John Mudany, the Director of Finance from KENGEN. A similar interview training was held at the same venue in the month of June where it was officiated by Ms. Pennie Warren, a Business Coach and a Human Resource Specialist in Africa, also in her company was Mr. Stewart Kinloch, the Managing Director of Dalriada Consultants and finally Mr. Donald Ouko the General Manager of IMC Media Group and also one of the R4Kenya candidates who secured his current job through R4K.

Apart from the several career fairs that R4K participated in and those it will be participating in the near future, the company was also nominated for a Work Life Balance Award by the Catholic University of Italy, which according to Ms. Michele this has been the highlight of the company as she says she appreciates the recognition for the award bearing in mind it’s the first award the company has been nominated for.

The company also brags of having successfully created, designed and developed a creative brand Curriculum Vitae for the American based Kenyan musician Stella Mwangi (S.T.L). This according to the C.E.O was way steps ahead as the international Kenyan musician would go along way in branding the company and giving it the desired publicity that it needs.

Similarly the company is well branded in the social media with the use of Face book as their major platform to connect to its potential clients and to reach out to the youth who need empowerment. As a matter of fact the company has majored on social media since according to Ms. Gloria there is huge potential in the social media since everybody gets connected there. Other social media sites include Linked In and Twitter.

R4K AT THE ATB CAREER FAIR

They say opportunity knocks only once, and for R4K this saying couldn’t come at any other better time than this! When the company was invited for its first ever career fair by the Africa Talent Bank (ATB), Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O) Miss Miriam Mukasa.

The ATB career fair that was held in the month of May boasted of over 2,000 participants who had attended the function and this had provided a major boost for R4K since the more the people it meant more publicity and thus good for the growing company which needed as much exposure as it could have.

Among the guest speakers who attended included Bob Colymore, the Safaricom C.E.O and apparently, the Safaricom stand had been situated directly opposite the R4K stand and thus this had attracted a good number of Safaricom clients to the R4K stand leading to a total of almost 300 clients who had registered with the R4K by the end of the day.

Speaking in his office after their first successful career fair held in Kenyatta International Conference Center (K.IC.C), Mr. Allan Muka the R4K Director of Operations acknowledged the opportunity presented to them by Ms. Mukasa. He pointed out that being at the ATB career fair had placed the company at a more strategic place since thanks to the exposure, R4K got several invitations to career fairs and business conferences, including; Daystar University career fair, IBM conference held at Strathmore University and now United States International University (U.S.I.U) career fair which will be held during the second week of July 2013 just to mention a few.

It should be noted that the company was only approximately two months old when it participated in that particular career fair that hosted already established and even multinational organizations like Unilever, British American Tobacco (B.A.T),  Safaricom, Standard Bank, Dhanush among other companies.

 

 

RECOURS FOUR KENYA CONSULTANTS(R4K)

Did you know that the Kenyan youth form approximately 70% of the country's total population? Now you know. However,  this percentage notwithstanding the continued number of unemployed youth, continues to bring jitters among most developing nations and especially in Kenya.

It is for this same reason that Recours Four Kenya (R4K),  a recruitment agency was formed. R4K is a legally registered company based in Nairobi Ngong Road area. The recruitment company which is four months old in the industry was formed basically with the soul purpose to help reduce unemployment especially among youth graduates and entry level with good GPA's, good grades and class scores.

It should be noted that the vision of the company is to be the leading Recruitment Consultancy company that consistently achieves getting youth employed hence reducing high number of unemployment.

While explaining the whole idea behind the formation of the company, the R4K Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O) Miss Gloria Mitchelle, stated that creation of adequate employment opportunities was still one of the greatest challenges in Kenya and that the Kenyan scenario was quite alarming with the employment challenge growing overtime with the youth being the main casualties.

 

She also added that as much as there are many recruitment consultancy firms out there, most of them were business oriented and did not mind a lot about the youth. She asserted that her company has capitalized on the youth empowerment and thus the punch line 'empowerment for the youth by the youth'.

Until recently when it became registered as a recruitment agency R4K has been offering CV and cover letter makeover services and interview training services for its clients. These services have been and are still charged at very affordable charges considering the nature of its clients being mostly graduates and entry levels, Miss Mitchelle highlighted.

Recours Four Kenya Consultants was rebranded from its initial name Recruitment Four Kenya soon after its registration. Being a young growing company, R4K has managed to hire five staff personnel with one Director of Operations and one C.E.O.