The recruitment officers at Del Monte, a food processing company located in Thika, Kiambu, were forced to come up with a strategic way of choosing only 40 candidates from the hundreds of young Kenyans who had turned up for the casual workers’ job on the company’s farms.
According to well-known city lawyer and blogger Wahome Thuku, the company targeted to employ only 40 people, but to their shock, hundreds of unemployed youths arrived to fill the casual workers’ positions.
Following the massive turnout, the job seekers were asked to surrender their national identity cards, put them inside one bag, and choose three people amongst them.
The first person was to vigorously shake the bag containing the IDs, while the second person would dip his hand in the bag, pick any random ID, and give it to the third person, who would read out the name of the card owner loudly.
The process was to go on 40 times, and the candidates whose names were called out were successfully hired for three months, with a daily pay of 800 shillings.
A section of Kenyans online praised the company’s method of recruitment, stating that it was transparent and made everyone equal.
By Kenyans