The Kenyan government, KEPSA, and other partners continue to initiate projects aimed at discovering and highlighting new opportunities for Kenyan youth beyond traditional channels.
As part of this year’s World Youth Skills Day, which also comes at a difficult time in the country, this article seeks to explore some of the available opportunities for Kenyan youth to earn a living beyond traditional employment channels.
It aims to highlight the need to equip youth across the world with the skills they need to secure employment or explore available entrepreneurship channels.
This year, World Youth Skills Day comes at a time when youth across the world are facing a bigger challenge in the form of a global pandemic on top of other problems such as unemployment and poverty.
These are some of the avenues some enterprising youth entrepreneurs have turned to in light of the current business environment.
Content/Article Writing
An already mature and popular online earning channel, content, or article writing involves creating original content for online employers and getting paid for it. This is, by far, the best and most popular online earning channel for Kenyan youth, given the number of unemployed university-educated youth in the country.
Transcription
This is another online job market that attracts a lot of Kenyan youth and employers alike. In transcription, one is tasked with transforming audio recordings into written text. There are shining examples of transcriptionists in Kenya who have managed to build a career out of it.
Virtual Assistants
These are trained online workers that handle everything for remote employers, including digital marketing, scheduling, calendar management, communication, design, among other tasks. VAs need to be all-rounded individuals with a solid work ethic and ability to learn on the job.
The above are just some of the most popular online job opportunities for Kenyan youth. However, there are literally thousands of other services with a ready market in various remote working platforms, among them:
- Freelance web design
- Bookkeeping and Accounting
- CAD design and other engineering-related design services
- Telemarketing
- Data entry, data scraping research
- Copywriting
- Social media management and marketing
- Translation services
- Ghostwriting
- Dropshipping
- Affiliate marketing
- Video captioning
- Video editing
- Graphic design and photo editing
