Must read for all FRESH GRADUATES.

     FRESH FOR GRADUATES LOOKING FOR JOBS

10 WONDERFUL FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SECURING  JOB.

FACT 1 : Waiting to be done with NYSC before you begin to seriously apply for a job is one of the greatest mistakes you ever want to make.

 This is one mistake many of us make or are about to make. You may nearly slap yourself if you wait till then. In fact before you finish NYSC you should have applied for at least 20 jobs and attended at least 2 interviews, that's the mindset of a serious job seeker. Except you have a job waiting for you somewhere.

FACT 2 : If you made a 2:2 or third class, you are in a more competitive market and so you may need a super strategy to standout.


 This is because the job market is saturated and so one way many employers try to streamline the number of applicants is by stating that they need 2:1 or first class only.
This should not be a source of worry but should be a reason why you have to up your game. You need to go for additional training that are relevant (mark the word relevant), add some more skill, make your CV on point and all your applications superb! You can't have a 2:2 and you are applying with different first class and 2:1 and you won't do something different. You just have to stand out to improve your chances. Also you should apply in more places to increase your chances.

 I will tell us two real life stories. Are we following?
 Have you heard of this man called Tony Elumelu? I heard a story about him. Tony Elumelu graduated with a 2:2. His first banking job. The requirement was a first class or 2:2. But he still applied. Tony Elumelu applied but added a cover note, explaining why he felt he was still qualified despite graduating with a 2:2. Guess what? He was hired!
I tell you the story of a friend of mine. The person is with a top multinational company right now. She made a 2:2, but contacted me before applying for the job. I gave her some advice, helped her with a "wow" CV and prepared her for the interview. The day she went for the interview, all the interviewers kept commending her CV that they forgot to look at her grade. She was moved to the next stage of the interview. By this time, they had dropped some candidates. She was called again for a second interview, this time around with the top managers. She was scared. Again, they started praising her CV. Asking her questions and commending her. At the tail end, that was when one of them saw the grade. They were like, you mean you finished with a 2:2? She said yes. Then she explained why. Because she was honest and had already won their hearts, guess what! Weeks later, she was called to resume work!
 This again is a fact many graduates and job seekers don't know!

FACT 3 : You don't always need to know anyone to enter a company

 I don't know where most young people got this mindset from. They just conclude that all jobs can only be gotten by connection. I want to ask you a question. If you owned a company and you want that company to really grow. As in, you really want it to move forward. Say the truth would you like to hire all your employee based on connection? Wouldn't you want to use common sense to ensure that you have 1..2..3..4 who are really really qualified? Because if all workers were by connection it means the company will crumble. It means they are not looking for skill. And you know what that means.. the company will fall!!!

 So because they know this, they can't keep giving all the jobs by connection. There is a place for skill, for those who are truly qualified. So the big question is..Are you among the few qualified?

FACT 4 : Getting into a company or organization is one thing, how you get in is another thing.

 This point is very crucial, please follow carefully!

 The route via which you enter a company goes a long way to determine your salary, your future prospects in that company, your promotion or even the benefits you will be entitled to.

 Its one thing to be working in shell or Mobil or Total, but the big question is how did you enter? You entered as what?

 Have you heard of any of the following terms: Graduate Management Trainee, Technical Trainee, Contract Staff, Intern, Outsourcing?

 Let me explain further taking the routes I mentioned above one after the other.

 Do you know that the best way to enter a multinational company (MNC) as a young graduate is either as an intern or a graduate trainee.

Let me explain. An intern is not yet employed. He/she will be paid, but is being trained to work. If they find you competent they can now fully recruit you to become a trainee.

Now if you must enter a company and you want to enjoy the highest benefits, try your best to enter the Management Trainee programme.

Those who eventually become MDs and Head of Departments are those who enter as Graduate Trainees.

They are the ones the company likes to send abroad to do one course or the other. They are the ones with the fatter salary. They are the big boys and girls. This is why they are usually few!

 The truth is not every one can enter as a graduate trainee, but aspire to do so, there is no harm in aiming big!


 A technical trainee is usually for all the technical work. They usually like to take HND and OND for these roles. They believe they have the technical knowledge

 The only thing is that, they are not paid as much as the Graduate Management Trainee

 Then for contract staff, that one your salary is smaller. You are on contract and so your contract can end anytime, and you end up jobless again
Outsourcing - The company hires another company to do something for them. so you are working with company A, Shell hired company A on contract. so shell will pay your Company, then your company will pay you.
 so you see, i am in shell, i am in shell...The right question is how did you enter shell? And whats your role in shell?

FACT 5 : When applying for a job in which you were given an email address to forward your CV, there are seven points you need to note.

 I. Your CV should be in pdf format- it should not be in word because it can scatter when opened on the other end. Except you were specifically told to send it that way.
II. You should ALWAYS attach a cover letter. Listen to me they may not say it but it¡¯s a secret why they screen candidates out (it should be in pdf too)
III. You must have a subject and the subject should state the position you are applying for.
IV. Your email must not be empty! It's a sin, many make that mistake. Your email should have a catchy and stimulating body which is similar but more straight forward and direct like the cover letter
V. Your application must have a complementary close (and optionally a picture which you insert through your email complementary close setting)
VI. You must do a proper search of that company and the role you are applying for.
VII. Try to use a computer not a phone. The greatest error you want to make is having the employer see things like sent from my blackberry Z10 or sent from my tecnoc8. That shows how lazy you are and how you can't make the extra effort of applying with professionalism

 I have seen a lot of graduates err in this regard. They keep saying they have applied everywhere but they never get called. It is because your application was shabby and not pleasant to your employer.

Fact 6 : Cc vs Bcc

-How many of us have seen this stuff in our emails?
     -who knows what they are used for?
 Okay, let me explain.

 Cc stands for "carbon copy." Anyone you add to the cc: field of a message receives a copy of that message when you send it. All other recipients of that message can see that person you designated as a cc: recipient.

Bcc: stands for "blind carbon copy." Anyone you add to the bcc: field of a message receives a copy of that message when you send it. But, bcc: recipients are invisible to all the other recipients of the message including other bcc: recipients.

 Now what is the importance of this knowledge of Cc and Bcc?

 Sometimes if you are being referred by someone to apply for a job, you may sometimes need to put the person that referred you in copy to further strengthen your chances. Its more like a referral.

If you want the person you send the application, to know who referred you, you use Cc, if you want to code it you use BBC.

FACT 7 : Most of the available jobs are not usually advertised
 No matter how thoroughly you search for job openings on online job portals,  job agencies,  newspapers ads or even on the company's website -  whatever jobs you find that way is only 15 percent of what's available. only 15 percent!!!

That's because 85 percent of jobs are never publicized. This is absolutely true,  and done for good reasons.

The employers try to avoid the painful and costly process of sorting through the thousands of mostly crappy applications that follow any publicized job opening,  so they would rather use other means of hiring the right people that don't require public advertisement.

 The fact that you don't see any job openings doesn't mean a company is not hiring. So you can connect directly and can convince the company that your are the right person. You will be hired whether or not any job was advertised.

 Again I must say... This doesn't mean jobs are not advertised at all.

 Now there are three key people whom, if your CV can just get to them, they have the power to get you employed.

 1. Heads of the department, unit or team in which you wish to work
2. The HR Manager
3. The CEO, MD or founder of the company

How then can your CV get to them? There is what they can targeted emailing.

FACT 8 : Doing a Masters immediately after NYSC is very dangerous for some categories of people!

I know some people want to add something to their 2:2 or to their courses because they may not have studied some kind of courses that are very well appreciated in Nigeria
-But Masters immediately after NYSC is not for everybody.
i. If your family is broke and waiting for you to come and help them out
You would rather take that job, start looking for certifications, then you can sponsor yourself for masters.
ii. If you are like 24 and above, doing a masters immediately may not be advisable. By the time you are done they tell you not more than 26 years old (so you have no job experience, and you have lost on the age side)
-If you must do masters, do your calculations and consultations well. Don't be a copy copy! Don't follow crowd. Understand why you want to do it.

FACT 9 : Some of your CVs never get read by the employers
Some companies use what is called an optimization software to scan through thousands of CVs looking for keywords. Any CV that doesn't have some keywords they are looking for get trashed.
Only after they finish optimization does a human being now start looking at the CVs remaining one by one.

Finally... FACT 10 : Getting a job is a full time job!

Allow this point to sink into your head! If you are unemployed right now, you need to employ yourself into a new job called - GETTING A JOB

 When something very important to you gets missing in your house, how do you search for it please?

 You check under the table, inside your room, the toilet, u call ur uncle, u turn everywhere upside down!

is that correct?
 So why is it that when its time to look for a job we do it with some lackadaisical attitude?

 My dear, Nigeria is hard! To get a job, you have to be violent about it. You have to attend seminars, ask questions, apply here and there..as in let it be serious!

 You don't get a job by watching Africa Magic

 You don't get a job by going to cinema house every weekend

 You don't get a job by knowing all the telemundo series.

No way! Getting a job is serious business.

Sentiment apart,

Every recent graduate in the business of getting a job in this era needs:

1. A Good smart phone (no matter how cheap)
2. A good monthly data plan (not all this 100 naira per month subscription) plus good Internet connection.
3. Access to power supply for minimum 2 hours daily.
4. Network with "correct" groups.
5. A laptop once in a while (could be your own, your neighbors own or you go to cyber Cafe).

Shell or Nestle or whoever won't hear you were broke and so you  couldn't come online to see their post for a vacancy that suited you.

Every millenio needs to see this !

RITUAL KILLERS BURNED ALIVE AT AMADIYAH LAGOS

This tragic incident happened at Obadeyi  Ajala around Amadiyyah bus top in Lagos state along Toll gate. One of the culprit that was caught prove not to die when attacked by the area boys in the area. He was beaten to confess where the rest of his crew member were but he refused, he said “I WILL NOT TELL A WORD ABOUT THE REST OF MY CREW”. He proved to have ritual powers and has a traditional content called “ADO”, which was swallowed by the man. After swallowing the content he said “I cant not die even if u beat me from now till tomorrow, nothing can kill me”. The angry audience set him ablaze after hearing such words from him.

Before the culprit was caught, one of the LAWMA official overheard a woman and her daughter shouting for help when she quickly rush to gather her colleagues and other people nearby in the neighborhood to hear the noise and check where the noise was coming from. The people later discovered and underground dungeon beside the road and saw where the noise was coming from and caught one of the ritual killer trying to harm the woman and her daughter. Other loops was discovered from the path which some other ritual killers were also caught and they confess to be 28 in number working together. People living in the area is calling for help from the government to send security officials over to the area so that the neighborhood can be in a calm state.

Reported by : A witness member living in the area.

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Godwin Isenyo, Kaduna

Tragedy struck at Ungwan Gwari community, in the Kaduna North Local Government Area of Kaduna State, on Thursday when a six-year-old boy was killed following torrential rainfall in the area.

It was gathered that the rain also destroyed the victim’s parents’ house in the community.

The downpour, which started on Wednesday with intermittent breaks, became worse on Thursday and wrecked havoc on buildings in the area, leading to the collapse of the six-year-old boy’s house, while the occupants were asleep.


The rain, which lasted for over 15 hours, according to a source, weakened the foundation of the mud house, leading to its collapse.

The source said, “The six-year-old boy died due to the impact of the building collapse on him while he was asleep.

“However, the boy’s mother and other siblings escaped before the whole building collapsed.

The deceased’s sister, who gave her name simply as Aisha, said their mother and a sibling were injured during the incident, adding that they had been taken to an undisclosed hospital for medical attention.

Source: The Punch

We kidnapped students, killed, sold parts for N15m – Suspects

The abductors of the female students of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo State, on Thursday confessed that they kidnapped, killed the students and thereafter sold their body parts for N15 million.

The three suspects who were arrested by the men of the Ondo State Police Command last week made the confession when they were paraded at the command’s headquarters of in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

The suspects said they kidnapped, killed and later sold the body parts of two students of the institution, Miss Oladepo Blessing and Oluwasemilore Mary who were earlier declared missing.
According to the police, the decomposing body of one of the victims was later recovered where it was buried by the suspects.

The suspects are: Alfa Abdurafiu Tijani, John Adenitire a.k.a Emir and Fisayo Fasanu a.k.a Abore.
One of the suspects, Tijani, confessed that they abducted the students after they (students) had boarded commercial motorcycles in front of the school.

He said they were working for one Mr. Shile in Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State.

Shile, according to the suspect, allegedly dealt in human part business for ritual purposes. Tijani said he had not been paid for the last service rendered before the arrest.

He said, ” We have kidnapped three female students, we killed them removed their left breast and left arm and we sold them for N5million for a pair of left breast and left arm.

” We have somebody that sent us. He is Shile, he is leader of the group that collected the body parts from us. But he has not paid us yet for this last service.”

Parading the suspects, the state commissioner of police, Mr. Gbenga Adeyanju, said the suspects would be charged to court very soon.

source: The Punch

AFRICAN PENTECOSTALISM HAS GIVEN BIRTH TO A NEW BREED OF MENTALLY LAZY CHRISTIANS WHO SEE GOD AS A REWARDER OF MEDIOCRITY.

''Africa is currently experiencing another form of slavery through Pentecostalism.

We are now mentally lazy and our ability to reason scientifically has been incapacitated.

The African pastor wont talk about Usain Bolt or Serena Williams. The African Pastor wont talk about Steve Jobs or the young people in Silicon Valley reshaping our world.

They won¡¯t talk about young American scientists spending endless hours in search of a cure to a disease that's predominantly in the Tropical African Region.

The African pastor won't talk about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie or Ben Okri. In every corner of the world, there exist young men and women who have defied all odds and become successful through hard work, creativity and dedication¡­.

The African pastor won't talk about them, neither will he ask his members to emulate the spirit of these individuals.

He would rather talk about sister Agatha who got a job she WAS NOT THE MOST QUALIFIED FOR because she prayed and fasted in line with their church programme or brother John a millionaire because he used all his salary as a seed in the church, or Papa Miracle who he laid his hands on and 3 of his children got admission in the university, or Mama Esther paid her tithe and her business started growing everywhere across the nation with no business plan, just boom, everywhere.

This has led to a new breed of mentally lazy young people who now see God as a rewarder of mediocrity.

To the African pastor, the only way to prosper is by paying your tithe and ' seeds in the church. So they will never talk about those, who have through hard work and dedication placed themselves on the world map.

No­..the African God only blesses the first 30 people that rush to the alter to drop $100 as seed.
The African God abhors hard work and creative thinking, he only gives to those who sow seeds and offerings¡­..and those who shout: ¡°I am a millionaire¡± every morning and do nothing the rest of the day.

You want the Almighty to come down and help you use the talent He gave you and bless you because you are going to church to shout: Daddy I receive it, these are all jokers.

Can someone tell these jokers that irrespective of your creed, faith or religion, blessings and favours follow you once you start using your talent and become useful to your society?
The Bible tells the story of the Talents.

Use it. Blessing is already bestowed upon us. When we use it positively, we ask the Lord to bless it. The Bible says His Grace is sufficient for us.

The Western world and Asians are excelling and dominating the world.
Let no Imam or Pastor manipulate our minds while they themselves drown in amassing wealth and luxurious splendour, while our people are living in abject poverty.

KM.
Be Wise. Worship of God is from the heart.