KIGALI EMPLOYMENT SERVICE CENTRE, KESC

The City of Kigali like any other capital city faces a challenge of high rates of unemployment. This is an issue that cuts across social classes, age, sex, and education level. This issue is even worse for youth, women and girls since they mostly lack basic skills and networks that would otherwise be helpful to secure employment opportunities on the labour market.

It is in this regard that in May 2013, the City of Kigali initiated a centre to endeavor reducing unemployment rate and enhance skills jointly with other key partners namely Ministry of Public Service and Labour (MIFOTRA) and GIZ.

Vision:

“To become an Excellent Employment Service Center that satisfies the needs of job seekers and employers’’

Mission:

•  Empowering jobseekers by facilitating them access to all necessary labor market information and offer them trainings to upgrade their skills and knowledge in order to become more competitive on the labour market.
• To develop ongoing cooperation with employers that hire jobseekers for employment and to provide well prepared job applicants to employers.

Services offered by Kigali Employment Service Centre/City of Kigali

To the jobseekers

1.     Internet access to get information about jobs, employment opportunities career options and self-employment opportunities

2.     Assistance in CV writing and interviews preparations

3.     Support during the application process

4.     Trainings like Entrepreneurship, IT, English, Job search strategy and many others;

5.     To develop ongoing cooperation with employers to offer and improve employment to jobseekers in case they have the vacancies.

6.     Internships search facilitation

7.     Information on self-employment opportunity

8.     Career guidance coaches’ trainings at secondary schools

9.     Take part in interesting information sessions through job fairs, opportunity scouting

10.  and breakfast meetings

11.  Helping the youth with business advisory services to have bankable projects that can access finance in SACCOs and other financial institutions

To employers

1.     Partnering with KESC recruitment purpose

2.     Free space on KESC website to publish companies’ job openings

3.     Identifying and connecting employers with qualified jobseekers

4.     Take part in interesting information sessions through job fairs, opportunity scouting

and breakfast meetings