PSC Kicks Off Government Internship Interviews Today

The Public Service Commission (PSC) has announced recruitment for 3,000 internship positions to begin on Tuesday, September 3^rd.

According to the PSC, 8,000 candidates have been shortlisted for interviews, after which the successful 3000 will be given the internship positions which will eventually lead to employment.

The PSC says that the recruitment activity, which is to take place throughout the country until September 11, is meant to ease the employment crisis as about 60,000 civil servants are set to retire by June 2020.

The exercise is set to be launched at the Rift Valley Institute of Science and Technology, in Nakuru by Public Service Commission chairperson Stephen Kirogo and CEO Simon Rotich.

“The commission has dispatched several teams to various parts of the country to conduct interviews for the 8000 candidates who applied for the positions advertised in July,” said PSC’s Deputy Director of Communications, Mr Browne Kutswa.

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The Public Service Internship Programme (PSIP), introduced by the PSC and supported by the National Assembly, which allocated one billion shillings to enable the programme take place is meant to help fresh graduates acquire skills and improve on what is taught in class.

Employers have been complaining about receiving incompetent graduates in their firms who have no skills at all to meet the requirements of the firms in which they are interned, forcing employers to spend millions of shillings on job training.

“Most graduates in Kenya are considered unfit for the job market for lack of experience. We believe that this notion will cease as the internship programme commences, to give them hands-on skills and enhance their development and employability,” said Mr Kutswa.

The nine-day interviews will come to an end on September 11. Successful candidates are expected to be posted to various working stations by the end of September, after Parliament revised the PSC budget for the 2019/20 financial year to include a one billion shilling allocation to facilitate the hiring of the interns.