Build your career beyond one contract.

Start before you resign. Build the profile, complete verification and publish an availability date while you still have salaried income. The market takes you more seriously when you are choosing to move rather than needing to. Expect the first engagement to test your commercial judgement more than your technical skill.

Look for three things: a company you can identify and locate, a named consultant who tells you which client and which role before asking for your CV, and a willingness to confirm representation in writing. Agencies admitted to Recruiter are reviewed and identifiable, which is the point of admitting them at all.

Three months is late but recoverable; six is comfortable. Publish your availability date as soon as the end date is known, because a company planning a January start is looking in September. The professionals who never have a gap are almost always the ones who started early, not the ones who searched hardest.

Work from a day rate, not a monthly salary equivalent, and price the gaps in: unpaid weeks between engagements, your own tools, your own training, no paid leave. Compare against the senior ranges published in Market & Skills Insight rather than against what you earned as an employee.

Ask which client, which role, which duration, and whether they already hold the mandate. Confirm you are authorising this one submission to this one company. Duplicate submissions to the same client by two agencies damage your candidacy more than they help it, and you are usually the last to find out.

Be precise instead of broad. A junior profile that says exactly what you have done, verified, beats a senior-sounding one that cannot survive a technical conversation. Use readiness guidance and certification to close the specific gap the role names, and apply for roles scoped to your actual level.

SAP contracting rewards depth in a module and evidence you have survived a real implementation. Get onto a programme in any capacity, learn the delivery rhythm, then specialise. Functional and technical leads in this space sit at the top of the Kenyan rate ranges for a reason.

Yes, and it is one of the faster-growing routes for Kenyan professionals. What international clients need is confidence in identity, references and eligibility, which is exactly what verification is for, plus evidence you can operate across time zones and invoice cleanly.

It depends on the direction you have chosen, which is why Contractor ties certification to a professional area rather than listing everything. As the ecosystem grows and MyResource sees what companies are asking for, those recommendations can follow real demand instead of guesswork.

Prepare for a commercial conversation as much as a technical one: scope, availability, rate, notice and how you handle handover. International panels also probe communication and autonomy hard, because nobody is going to supervise you daily. Guidance sessions cover this specifically.