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BrighterMonday's Impact of COVID-19 report shows that jobs in the technological sector are in high demand.

The report revealed that some of the emerging roles include AI & Data Science roles, IT/Tech support, coding, virtual events specialists, COVID-19 Testers and medical experts.

Allan Lwala, User Awareness and Training (UAnT) group leader at Kenya Cyber Security and Forensics Association told TUKO.co.ke there is a huge demand for professionals in the sector.

He added:

According to data released by LinkedIn, Coursera and the World Economic Forum, it is estimated that over 85 million jobs may be lost by 2025 due to advancements in technology.

However, the Future of Jobs Report 2020 stated that 97 million new roles might emerge as people adapt to the new division of labour between humans, machines and algorithms.

The 2021 economic survey report revealed that the total recorded employment in Kenya outside small-scale agriculture dropped from 18.1 million in 2019 to 17.4 million in 2020, attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The International Monetary Funds projects that Kenya's economy would grow by 6.3% in 2021, thus creating more jobs.

According to another report by eafinder.com, the following is the list of careers in demand in Kenya.

Despite the poor short rains, COVID-19 pandemic and desert locust incidence, agriculture growth increased from 3% recorded in 2019 to 5.4% in 2020.

The sector earned a total of KSh 509.7 billion during the period under review.

The uptake of digital tools in Kenya increased in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a result, the value of output from the ICT sector rose by 2.5% to KSh 535.5 billion.

Social media is now part of our daily lives.

The Communications Authority of Kenya reported the total number of active data subscriptions increased to 46.7 million during the quarter ended June 2021 from 43.7 million reported in quarter three of 2020.

The jobs in demand are social media management, digital marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) experts, graphic designers and content marketers.

According to the 2021 economic survey, the total number of undergraduate and postgraduate medical students increased by 13.5% to 22,200 in 2020/21, with male students accounting for 56.2% of the total students

Medicine and surgery was the most popular course among male undergraduate students, while nursing was the most popular course among female students in 2020/21.

In August 2021, the government invited applications from Kenyan Nurses interested in working in the United Kingdom (UK).

Over 20,000 nurses would be sent to the UK.

Others: Architecture, finance, engineering, lecturing, quantity survey, human resources, GIS and remote sensing specialists.

Source: Tuko

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