{"id":8231,"date":"2024-03-03T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T09:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/labour-ministry-dispatches-first-nys-graduates-batch-to-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2024-03-03T09:04:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T09:04:04","slug":"labour-ministry-dispatches-first-nys-graduates-batch-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/labour-ministry-dispatches-first-nys-graduates-batch-to-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour ministry dispatches first NYS graduates\u2019 batch to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 2 \u2014 The first group of National Youth Service (NYS) graduates has left for Saudi Arabia for government-negotiated jobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Labor Principal Secretary Shadrack Mwadime presided over the flagging off of the batch of 46 out of 273 NYS graduates on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Mwadime said the graduates will take up jobs as caregivers, administration assistants, and health workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to establish an international brand as the source of excellent labour by focusing on NYS graduates because of their high discipline. The team leaving will take up health care and Admin. Assistant jobs in Saudi Arabia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The PS said the government will be releasing other batches to different countries in a bid to secure jobs for the Kenyan youths.<\/p>\n<p>Public Service Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria announced plans to export NYS graduates for job opportunities abroad on February 2.<\/p>\n<p>He said while in a meeting with the NYS Recruiting Officers ahead of the countrywide recruitment, the plan is in line with the government\u2019s Labour Exportation Programme aimed at leveraging the capabilities and skills of NYS graduates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe plan to export NYS servicemen and women overseas. The Labor Export process is underway as we have already begun facilitating the issuing of passports at NYS headquarters in Ruaraka,\u201d said Kuria.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came following President William Ruto\u2019s announcement on December 8 making NYS training a prerequisite for deployment for government-negotiated jobs abroad. <\/p>\n<p>He issued the directive during the NYS pass-out ceremony in Gilgil.<\/p>\n<p>Ruto said this move will assist job seekers in understanding the nature of jobs and expectations by their employers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 2 \u2014 The first group of National Youth Service (NYS) graduates has left for Saudi Arabia for government-negotiated jobs. Ministry of Labor Principal Secretary Shadrack Mwadime presided over the flagging off of the batch of 46 out of 273 NYS graduates on Saturday. Mwadime said the graduates will take up jobs as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}