7. Competitive career fields in Kenya to choose from...

There are numerous career opportunities in the various social-economic fields. Students are advised to choose a career from the field they are interested in. They should also ensure they are good in the subjects relevant to the field. To cover a wide range of careers, we have classified them into broad categories as follows;

1. Agriculture and Related Careers

These include careers related to plant and animal science. It also includes careers in crop and animal production, pest and disease control and animal science. Careers in horticulture and floriculture are also included. Examples

are agribusiness management, agricultural and biosystems engineering, agricultural business management, agricultural economics, agricultural economics and resource management and agricultural education and extension.

2. Architecture, Building and Related Careers.

These include careers in the field of building and construction. Other areas include land economics, landscaping, urban and regional planning, civil and structural engineering, construction management, landscape and architecture.

3. Beauty, Fashion and Related Careers

They include careers in fashion, textile, interior and exterior designs. It also includes careers in beauty, hairdressing and modeling. Other jobs are fashion design and marketing, clothing, textile and interior design and apparel and

fashion technology. Interior designers need a combination of both science and art related skills, which include the ability to work with technical details as well as keenness on fashion, style and trends.

4. Business Related Careers

These include careers in commerce and industry such as marketing, insurance, finance, investment, banking and

entrepreneurship. Other related jobs include accounting, actuarial science, banking and finance, business management, business administration, cooperative management, micro-finance and marketing.

5. Community Development Related Careers

These include careers in sociology, social work and community development, cutting across a variety of settings that include schools, hospitals and the general community. The jobs here include social studies, gender studies, social work, population studies, justice and peace, participatory project planning, disaster management and community development.

6. Creative Arts and Entertainment Related Careers

These include careers in fine art and related areas, cartoon industry, photography, music and theatre. Other

jobs include sports technology, recreation and management, physical education, fine art, creative arts, theatre arts, cultural studies, drama and theatre studies. The work environment includes advertising, publishing (books, newspapers, magazines) and electronic media (television, radio) industries.

7. Diplomacy and Public Relations Related Careers

These include careers in public relations as well as in diplomatic assignment, international relations, justice and peace and political sciences. One needs to have the ability to work with people of diverse backgrounds, good communication skills and patience.

8. Education Related Careers

These include careers in teaching at all levels. The careers also include education administrators such as education officers and teachers in special education programmes.

9. Engineering Related Careers

These include careers in the different areas of engineering cutting across diverse fields such as electrical, mechanical, civil, agricultural, chemical and environmental and computer engineering.

10. Environmental management and conservation related careers

These include careers in air, water, land management and conservation, forestry, wildlife and fisheries. Other jobs are land economics, urban and regional planning, science and technology, wildlife management, environmental health, environmental science and wetlands management and conservation.

11. Entrepreneurship and Related Careers

Entrepreneurship cuts across all fields where there is need to look at organizations and institutions as business enterprises. They also include careers in entrepreneurial development, commerce and business administration.

12. Geography and Related Careers

These include careers in geology, survey and mapping, cartography, meteorology, oceanography, remote sensing and astronomy. Others are natural resources, eco-tourism, mining, geography, and environmental science.

13. Guidance, Counseling and Related careers

These include careers in guidance, counseling, psychology in religious, industrial and community related fields. The work includes guidance and counseling, counseling psychology, education and counseling, pastoral counseling and social work.

14. Health Related Careers

These include medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, medical technology, radiography and physiotherapy. Careers in this field require students with good mental ability and aptitude to think logically, keen, alert and quick in interpretation, warm personality, patient and commitment to serve mankind.

15. Home Science, Food Technology and Related Careers

These include careers in nutrition, dietetics technology and fashion design and textile technology.

16. Hospitality and Related Careers

These include careers in the various departments in the hotel industry, travel and tourism related areas. The jobs include hotel and restaurant management tourism management, home economics and food science and nutrition. Others are foreign languages, hotel and institutional management, hotel and hospitality management and travel and tours operation management.

17. History and Related Careers

These include careers related to archaeology, anthropology and political science, among others. Those with interest

in this area need to have interest in getting information, are curious and have deep interest in the past.

18. Information, Communication Technology (ICT) and Related Careers

These include careers in computer industry including computer hardware and software. The category also includes careers in library and information science, computer technology and computer science. Others are information sciences, information systems technology, computer applications, web design, networking and communication systems.

19. Journalism Related Careers

These include careers in print journalism and electronic journalism such as information sciences, communications

media technology, journalism and media studies and communication technology.

20. Law Related Careers

Careers in these area deal with governance and justice which ensure people’s stability and confidence in their country. This category includes careers relating to matters of law in the mainstream as well as those in the para-legal field such as court clerks.

21. Management and Administration Related Careers

These include careers in different specializations of management in such areas as sales and marketing, finance, human resource management, production among others. The jobs here include business administration and management, international operations management, purchasing and supplies management, human resource management, tourism management and marketing management.

22. Manufacturing and Processing Related Careers

These include careers in manufacturing and processing industries in both food and nonfood related areas. The jobs here include industrial and production planning and management, manufacturing engineering technology, industrial chemistry, food science and technology, chemical processing engineering, production engineering and analytical chemistry.

23. Research and Statistics Related Careers

These include careers in research and statistics related areas which cut across different and dynamic fields such as education, health, business, marketing, information communication technology (ICT) among others.

24. Security Related Careers

These include careers in defence, (army, navy, air force) paramilitary, police and intel ligence services. It also includes jobs in private security firms as well as careers related to provincial administration.

25. Sports and Physical Education Related Careers

Career in sports is still in its early stages of development in Kenya. There is a lot of potential and opportunities sports can offer. Currently, there are many Kenyans earning a living from athletics, football and other sports. All you require is energy, drive, passion, enthusiasm , agility and perseverance.

26. Transport and Communication Services Related Careers

These include careers in the shipping, aviation, railway and road transport sectors. One requires alertness, courage, determination and physical fitness. The person should be self-confident, reliable, calm and able to take charge in an emergency.

NOTE: More courses are being introduced in Kenyan Universities that you can also consider.