The competition for the best jobs in Kenya has gotten increasingly tight.
Many employees are doing everything possible to ensure that they rise to the top and hopefully occupy the CEO’s corner office. The journey to the top is certainly not for the faint hearted. There are so many strategies that workers are using to get to the top.
One such strategy is going for additional academic qualifications. When you look at a job advert in a newspaper, most state that a candidate must have a bachelors degree. If it is an entry level job, then you can be sure that most employers will insist on a second upper bachelors degree. What is stated on the job advert is simply the minimum qualification. However, it is a fact that far many people apply for any one position. The hiring manager will then look at the next thing to use to sieve off the applicants. Those with higher academic qualifications will then be given a preference to those that don’t have the academic qualification. A masters degree then becomes an added advantage and it is now easy to see why many workers have gone back to school.
The MBA( Masters Of Business Administration) is easily the most popular postgraduate degree.Many business schools in Kenyan Universities certainly make lots of money from the MBA students. The MBA is popular since anyone that has an undergraduate degree can pursue it. It was originally intended to prepare junior level workers for positions in senior management. It gives a general management grounding. In deed, many Kenyan companies have used the possession of the MBA degree as the sole criteria to use for promotion up the academic ladder. And in deed, in some cases, experience is thrown out of the window in favor of the MBA degree.
However, human resource professionals wonder whether the MBA degree really transforms one from an average worker to a superstar one. True, it inculcates in one some knowledge of finance, HR, strategic management and planning. However, can such qualities as flare for strategic decision making, creativity, motivation and snap decision making under pressure really be taught? Perhaps, this whole debate points out to the age old question of whether great managers (leaders) are born or made.
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