Jobless Nairobi Man Lands a Job, Rejects It After Being Offered KSh 50k Salary

A Nairobi-based digital marketer who goes by the name BrandSprout has rejected a job offer at a Westlands company after the interviewer named a gross monthly salary of KSh 50,000 for a role that would have required him to build and lead an entire marketing department, he said in a TikTok video.

BrandSprout narrated the experience in a selfie-style clip captioned “Rejected a 50K salary”, walking viewers through each stage of the process.

He said he received an email two weeks before the interview inviting him to apply for a digital marketing position at a company he later learned specialised in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, which help businesses automate tasks such as payroll processing.

The firm, part of a larger organisation operating outside Kenya, had reportedly been in business for about 15 years.

He arrived in a suit after doing his research, only to find three other candidates, all women, had also been invited. He was interviewed second, by a person he believed to be the company’s CEO or director.

According to him, the interviewer wanted to set up a fully operational digital marketing department, an idea inspired by his son. The company had only one digital marketer, who handled content creation and social media.

The role on offer involved managing paid media campaigns, generating leads for the sales team and overseeing the new department.

HBrandSprout said the opportunity sounded promising, and he had no problem with the proposed three-month probation period.

The deal fell apart when the interviewer disclosed the pay of KSh 50,000 gross, not net. BrandSprout said he knew immediately that it would not work and told the interviewer that the responsibilities and the budget for the position were not in sync.

He argued that statutory deductions would leave him with much less, making it hard to live in Nairobi, let alone shoulder the pressure of building a department.

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