By Evelyn Njoroge, Capital FM Kenya

NAIROBI, Kenya - Unemployed Kenyan youth will in the next few weeks start benefiting from a programme that will link them with six months internship and work experience in the private sector.

This follows the introduction of the soon to be launched ‘Kenya Youth Empowerment Project’ (KYEP) which aims to equip jobless youth of between the ages of 15 and 29 with the skills they need in order to be gainfully employed.

Share Google's G-Kenya event is taking place in Nairobi from 6-8 September 2010. It has brought together many local and regional tech savvy entrepreneurs and developers and students at a web and mobile conference at Strathmore University. It will have hosted more than 1200 engineers, product managers, entrepreneurs, students and web developers discussing the future of web application development, and receive training on Google’s products and online business skills as well as meet and engage with top Google executives.

Read more on how to have a fulfilling career and doing the best you can to secure your future career instead of blaming all others apart from yourself.

If you have been a keen job seeker you will notice that more and more Kenyan companies now require you send prior and expected salary with your job application.Even credible recruitment firms are at it. So it was no surprise when Grace sent us this email:

So how do you go about marketing yourself to Kenyan employers?

How do you go about marketing anything to anyone? Simple, You just have to identify selling points, decide on a method by which to communicate them to your target market and compose that communication effectively.

That’s it.

What, you want more?

Oh, OK then….

Back When I Was At The University (around 2002) I went to live with three other students outside campus as rooms for rental were scarce at Main Campus UoN. I didn’t know them very well prior to moving there, but quickly we became good friends.