Royal Media Services which is a parent Company to Radio Citizen, Citizen TV and many vernacular stations, is accused of charging job applicants for open vacancies at the media house.
The company seeks to recruit 15 sales agents in every county, meaning that in 47 counties, the company will have 705 agents.
Each job applicant is required to pay application fee of Ksh 1, 000,which is nonrefundable. From experience, we understand a job like this will attract at least 70,000 applicants, implying that Royal Media Services will cash at least Ksh 70 million.
Now, each of the 705 agents will earn a monthly retainer of Ksh 10, 000, which means in 8 months the company will give out Ksh 56.4 million
The figures show that Citizen will make a profit of not less than Ksh20,000 from this job advert.
One wonders, is the company intending to provide job opportunities or to take advantage of desperate job seekers?
In normal circumstances,companies are not allowed to charge any fees from job applicants:Only fake jobs attract application fees.
