Teachers Service Commission is set to employ over 10,000 teachers later this year. The commission is then expected to announce vacancies in both primary and secondary schools. This is normally following by candidates submitting applications to the various schools before interviews conducted.
The cost of doing this applications is sometimes involving. This ranges from photocopying the many documents and transport cost of distributing them and even attending the interview as well. According to TSS statistics, there are over 300,000 jobless trained and registered teachers in the country.
According to TSC previous employment case study, presumably this are the groups that stand at high chance in upcoming recruitment using the claimed 2020 TSC score sheet provided below.
| YEAR OF GRADUATION | MARKS |
| 2008 and before | 60 |
| 2009 | 55 |
| 2010 | 50 |
| 2011 | 45 |
| 2012 | 40 |
| 2013 | 35 |
| 2014 | 30 |
| 2015 | 25 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2017 | 15 |
| 2018 and above | 10 |
Here is the subject combination and the year of graduation likely to be hired in the coming mass recruitment
Mathematics/Chemistry 2017
Mathematics/Biology 2017
Mathematics/Business Studies 2016
Mathematics/Physics 2017
Mathematics/Geography 2016
Mathematics/Computer 2019
English/Literature 2015
Kiswahili/CRE 2015
Kiswahili/History 2015
Kiswahili/Geography 2015
French/Any 2018
Chemistry/Biology 2018
Physics/Chemistry 2019
Biology/Agriculture 2018
Geography/CRE 2015
History/CRE 2014
Geography/History 2016
Geography/Business studies 2018
However, geographical factors can play a role to alter this information. In most Kenyan cities and big town there are many unemployed trained teachers as compared to up countries. Occasionally, here applications surface with even 3 year of stay after qualification more as compared to other normal areas. This is usually witnessed in Nairobi, Mombasa and even Kisumu.
Apart from the above score sheet, new recruitment guidelines released by TSC, qualified teachers who have masters and those with first class honors will stand high chances of securing TSC jobs.
Furthermore, tutors teaching subjects combinations like Physics/Chemistry, Biology/Agriculture and Chemistry/Biology are easily absorbed by TSC since they are few.
The TSC employment exercises are conducted with the highest degree of transparency and accountability as provided by the Public Officers Ethics and TSc code of Conduct and Ethics 2015. The successful applicants are selected based on merits and according to the length of stay since qualification.
Good, must the TSC consider those qualified and have stayed out for long? Or are they going to employ asper the credentials presented to them?