Books by Kim Kiyingi
From career-launching guides to literary fiction — real insight and real stories from 20+ years in the trenches of talent, hospitality, and human ambition.
From Campus to Career
How to Find and Succeed in an Internship Anywhere in the World
Your step-by-step guide to landing your first internship and kickstarting your professional journey. Whether you are a university student or recent graduate, this book walks you through everything — from crafting a standout CV to acing interviews and turning an internship into a full-time offer.
Written by an HR Director who has sat on both sides of the interview table, this is the insider playbook most career books refuse to give you.
- Identify and target the right internship opportunities worldwide
- Build a professional CV and cover letter that gets noticed
- Interview strategies drawn from an HR Director’s perspective
- Networking tactics to access the hidden job market
- Turn your internship into a permanent career offer
What readers are saying
“This book is a must-have for everyone — whether you’re looking for an internship or already working, because it explains career growth in different sectors worldwide.”
Verified Amazon Reader — November 2024“Packed with practical tips and valuable insights to navigate the transition to my dream career.”
Verified Amazon Reader — January 2025
The Iron People
A Dual-Timeline Literary Novel Set in Wartime Ukraine
Spanning 2022 to 2035. When Russia’s bombs turn her hotel into rubble, Lena boards a converted freight train and starts cooking — serving 127,000 meals across a country on fire.
Eleven years later, a thirteen-year-old girl finds her mother’s logbook and retraces the route, station by station. A story about resilience, love, and the line between legend and lived experience.
- A sweeping dual-timeline narrative of resilience across two generations
- Set against the real backdrop of wartime Ukraine, 2022–2035
- Explores the line between legend and lived experience
- A story about feeding strangers when the world tells you to stop
The Layover List
A Slow-Burn Romance Across Dubai, Istanbul, Athens and Lisbon
Maia Santos has been trying to make it as a travel content creator for fourteen months. She has 47 followers and a spreadsheet she cannot look at directly. Then she films the most honest thirty seconds of her life in a hotel corridor in Istanbul — and by morning it has 4,000 views.
Three airports. Seven cities. A business lounge where they talk for three hours and she does not once reach for her phone. A story about performing less and living more.
- A slow-burn romance set across Dubai, Istanbul, Athens and Lisbon
- A travel creator learning to be seen without a camera
- A man who watches from a distance and crosses continents for a glasses case
- About the gap between what we post and who we actually are
The Erasure Games
Book One of the Erasure Games Trilogy
Every citizen in the HRAR has a compliance score. It follows them from birth. It determines everything. Athena Osei has spent her life learning how the system thinks.
What she does not know is why she was chosen for the Erasure Games — eighty days, thirty candidates, six behavioural categories. One objective: prove you are not a liability. The candidates who pass always come back different. Athena intends to pass. She is not willing to pay that price.
- A dystopian world built on compliance scores from birth
- Eighty days, thirty candidates, one objective
- A candidate whose answers are too perfect — whose compliance looks engineered
- Passing costs something. Athena refuses to find out what
A Contract in Kindness
A story about compassion, professional boundaries, and what happens when workplace kindness becomes a liability. A Contract in Kindness explores the quiet cost of empathy in high-pressure organisations.
Questions about Kim Kiyingi’s books
What is From Campus to Career about?
From Campus to Career is a step-by-step guide for university students and recent graduates. It covers how to find internships worldwide, build a CV that gets noticed, prepare for interviews, network effectively, and turn an internship into a full-time offer. Published by Austin Macauley Publishers (2024), available on Amazon and the publisher’s store.
Where can I buy Kim Kiyingi’s books?
From Campus to Career is available on Amazon and Austin Macauley Publishers. The Iron People is on Books2Read. The Layover List and The Erasure Games are available on Bookshop.org.
Is From Campus to Career only for students?
Both students and recent graduates benefit from it. The strategies for CV writing, interview preparation, and workplace navigation apply to anyone in the early stages of their career, in any field or country.
What genre is The Iron People?
The Iron People is literary fiction — a dual-timeline novel set in wartime Ukraine, spanning 2022 to 2035. It follows Lena, who serves 127,000 meals from a converted freight train during the war, and her daughter who retraces the route eleven years later. The novel explores resilience, love, and the line between legend and lived experience.
How many books has Kim Kiyingi written?
Kim Kiyingi has four published titles: From Campus to Career, The Iron People, The Layover List, and The Erasure Games. He is currently working on additional titles including A Contract in Kindness.
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