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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Ole Ole on September 23, 2014, 06:33:48 AM
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from human resources at DHL to high commissioner in canada at only 35yrs of age is not a small feat.
however, moving forward i think ministry of foreign affairs should start recruiting foreign affairs personnel from campus. Recruit
the sharp, brightest and patriotic young kenyans, indoctrinate them with kenya foreign policy send them out of the country for further studies so they can be exposed to different culture and different way of doing thing. Then from this pool the government can recruit ambassador and high commissioner. Nothing against Chelimo but i think any HR person from a small company would be overwhelmed advancing country foreign policy.
When Kenya’s envoy-designate to Canada, Lucy Chelimo, 35, walked into County Hall’s mini chamber to face a committee of MPs during the vetting process, she was expecting to be questioned on her marital status. Working in human resources at DHL Kenya since 2012, she had interviewed hundreds of candidates and had put them through the same kind of pressure. When it was her turn to answer a similar question, she was ready to answer Kimilili MP Chris Wamalwa. “You are unmarried. How do you think your status will affect your work as Kenya’s envoy to Canada?” Wamalwa posed. When the answer came, it was terse and to the point. “Being single is a status, not a competitive advantage,” she shot back at the questioner, who immediately went back to scribbling his notes. When Chelimo was employed at DHL Kenya, her first e-mail at work was to her business unit manager. The e-mail ruffled feathers and sent her bosses back to the drawing board, in the same fashion as her response to the MPs had sent some scampering for cover, figuratively speaking. In the middle of a work related conflict with her boss, she wrote to him: “We are cross-purposing in our work. See you when I arrive.” Chelimo had been recruited at a time when DHL was undertaking a staff rationalisation programme and she was tasked with drafting and signing letters effecting changes in staff. Instead of following the orders of her superiors, she asked for three months to come up with her own model for staff rationalisation, a decision that ruffled feathers in the company. They could not understand how a person who had just been recruited a few days earlier could be so daring. “They had proposals that they wanted me to endorse. But I was not ready to endorse something that I had not participated in, so I declined,” she said as she relived the incident during her farewell party last week. Her boss Cleophas Amurono, the DHL Business Unit Manager in charge of East Africa Breweries (EABL) products recalled the incident: “I was left wondering who this was with the audacity to write me such an e-mail,” he recalled. The two incidences are evidence of Chelimo’s tough streak as she joins the diplomatic world where she will be expected to summon all her skills in healing the country’s tainted image abroad. ICC ISSUE Chelimo was among 25 other diplomatic nominees appointed by President Uhuru Kenyatta. Her appointment elicited both excitement and doubt on whether she would be up to task of effectively representing the country’s interests in one of Kenya’s most important diplomatic stations after the UK and the US. At 35, she is set to become one of the youngest Kenyan representatives abroad. With the ICC issue hanging around the country’s neck and Canada being among countries that issued a travel advisory against Kenya for its citizens, Chelimo’s diary is already full as she lands in Ottawa. The nominees are currently undergoing a three-week induction programme before reporting to their diplomatic stations.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/lifestyle/article/2000135842/young-tough-and-kenya-s-new-envoy-to-canada
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Discussing a persons marital status in an interview. This is shocking. We have real dinosaurs in Kenya.I don't know much about her but believe she will be a breath of fresh air from the bwana kubwa semi illiterate and lazy dinosaurs that we have had in our foreign missions abroad.
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I am sure that arrogant women ? Jean Kariuki ( Previous acting Amb America) would have wished to be deployed to Canada or Europe instead of far away remote Thailand.
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Agreed, standard story did not help either. It would have been much better if they shared the lady CV and why she is qualified for that position, what she plan to accomplish and the metric the public can use to gauge her success.
Discussing a persons marital status in an interview. This is shocking. We have real dinosaurs in Kenya.I don't know much about her but believe she will be a breath of fresh air from the bwana kubwa semi illiterate and lazy dinosaurs that we have had in our foreign missions abroad.
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Is this the Jubilee 50/50 St work? Why not give us a career diplomat? This lady is best placed to develop business processes and principles in Kenya.
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Am sorry,but this woman does not have enough experience to be in this position.
But again, look at parliarment??
Its full of people who have no idea what policy is.....
Kenyatta himself is an accidental president.