sure

I detest 'employeeship' with a passion. For me, being my own boss is the destination.

congrats

Sure

Congrts OP, just the type of insights needed by job hunters

Hommies, pls I need y'all to help me clinch the crown.
Pls open the link and like my pix....tnks much

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Yep, I got mine few years ago without connection.
Na Godwin though!

Yes! slave jobs.

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SYSTEMATIC diligent approach to EVERYTHING in life pays off always.

Thanks OP for sharing and congrats.

Let those who will learn from your experience and APPLY it through rigorous dedication do so!

Great..nice to know
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@OP. This is inspiring... More of this on front page... May God open ways for all job seekers.

omusiliyu:
True talk... Like 1 out of 100.


1%

maybe 0.001% and even at that.

they will soon say people get visas without having any money in any bank account.

please let me know when that happens.

Wish you success

Yeah I m a witness to dat. never knew anybody where I currently work

My testimony is on its way!

You and your friend are smart. I've always maintained that if you're a graduate and you're still unemployed after two years of graduation, you're not smart.

Congrats

Congratulations.

Your testimony is heart warming.

Please, ensure you work hard.

God bless you.

I applaud your creativity OP. Weldone!

Sometimes its what you know not who you know

I tap into this grace and wisdom..... I need a change of job before the year runs out.

ajasa4link:
As we all know the unemployment crisis is very much real and giving many a graduate headaches everyday applying for jobs online, sending CVs and not getting replies etc. However people are still getting out of the job hunting market everyday(just like I did last month), so I will like to share my story with those still in the market and they can learn one or two things from it.

Right from the moment I graduated from school I've always be an optimist that I won't be staying at home months after service hunting for jobs, even when the reality of the labour market has not dawned him. I've been on nairaland since 2009 as a registered user and not visited the jobs section until the middle of my service year earlier this year, and I started coming in to read interview tips, aptitude test tips and other educative tips. Then the reality of the labour market hit me when I started reading about people lamenting about not getting jobs two years after nysc even after graduating with 2.1,but being an optimist I reassured myself am definitely not going to stay that long before getting something worthwhile doing. Immediately I sat down and planned how that was going to be a reality.

Fast forward to July 2, POP came I collected my discharge certificate and as part of my plans to get a job as soon as possible I left my PPA in kebbi state that night(yes I served in kebbi where I stayed 10 long months without travelling once as part of saving for the great journey ahead after service) and got to Lagos the next day in the evening. The weekend was used for resting and updating my cv and applying for the few jobs I can apply for online.

The next week the journey started in earnest and I entered the streets with a friend of mine who also just passed out. We first got a list of the companies in our field of study, their addresses, we zoned them and made as much copies of our CVs as we can. So if we go to V. I today, we make sure we drop CVs in in as much companies we can locate in that area especially the head offices where their HR is dominated. We faced different challenges like gate men not even allowing us to get to reception, while some receptionist collected the CVS grudgingly as if they will never get it to the HR.
However,it all started paying off when we started getting invites for tests and interviews some of which we passed and others we never got feedback. Any day we go to write a test or attend an interview, we make sure we drop CVs with other companies in that area immediately after the test thereby saving money we could have used to come and drop the cv another day. While writing this tests, I was connecting with people collecting numbers so that they can share vacancies they hear of with me via whatsapp. Note I got some offers too, but mostly marketing and I have determined never to take a marketing job, in fact my was after 3 months of job search and no job I will go for teaching job since I did that during my nysc days and I even got a recommendation letter from my employer which was even a unity school. So I declined the commission based marketing jobs.

Fast forward again, a friend one day asked me for an advice concerning two different offers he got from two different companies Willing to employ him and just like a typical nairalander I asked HOW DID U APPLY?..
Then he gave me the game changer, he went to the regulators website i. e the regulator of all registered companies in our field, copied the names of the MD's and each MD's phone number and sent them text msg telling them he is a graduate of..... University, studied....with....grade and willing to learn and work under him.
Immediately I saw the intelligence in this idea because he has beaten all protocols, all obstacles on his way and has gotten into the heart of the MD. So after giving him the needed advice, I borrowed his wisdom and also followed his path, both enough credit and started rolling out the texts. The next week I was invited for a chat /interview with the MD of one of the firms,where I did well and promised to get back to me. The next two weeks I went for another chat/ interview with one of the MD's which later turned to a 3man panel where I was seriously drilled and asked every possible question concerning my field which I was grateful for because I dusted it all and left their jaws dropping. The MD told me he doesn't attend to CVS sent to his email, but the text msg got him. He was like, I need to see this guy who has te balls to try to access him directly. Then the MD asked me if I sent to other companies the same msg I sent to him and I admitted I did,but it was only to the top players in the industry because it was a did a stratified sampling in selecting them. Then we discussed pay and he said I was asking for too much for someone who has only theoretical knowledge and no practical experience. He even said if I wanted to marry with the money to which I politely explained my t-fare is much and I want to save towards my professional exams which is highly expensive. He now asked me the delicate question if I should not be contacted any further if they are going to pay lower than the minimum I gave. Then I told him provided the job gives me a prospect of a career growth and an opportunity to learn under one of the major players in the market, I can always improvise and live with the little difference that will be in the pay. I was told I will be contacted on their decision. I went back to my job search both online and offline and I've even done medicals in another company but not yet given offer, then I got a call two weeks after the interview with the MD to come pick up my offer letter and resume tomorrow. I was somehow discouraged since I know the pay will be lower to the one I already did te medicals, but I just braced up myself and said I should go for their offer first since I haven't gotten the other offer yet.
Lo and behold, the offer was much more than what we even discussed during the interview and my hand was even shaking to sign the offer letter.
Immediately I resumed, I was happy I went, because up till date I haven't gotten offer from the other company till now, probably they are still doing some in house things.
But the main point of this whole epistle is u don't need to know anybody to get a job, if u know ur God, u are intellectually rugged, and network with friends and arm yourself with as much information as possible then you will be out of the job search market before u know it.

Bro congrats...hw about i have ur no...lets relate on whatsapp. we did a familiar job assessment centre

ajasa4link:
Any day we go to write a test or attend an interview, we make sure we drop CVs with other companies in that area immediately after the test thereby saving money we could have used to come and drop the cv another day. While writing this tests, I was connecting with people collecting numbers so that they can share vacancies they hear of with me via whatsapp.

Talk about diligence! you really personify it and God also made a way for you.
Congrats for the new job and all the best in your career.

Your determination & believing in God have yielded positive result for you. Good concept. Congrats OP.

Congratulations OP. this will inspire many others.
I have worked now with 2 multinational companies without knowing even the gatemen.
Testimonies abound! Don't lose faith, wonders happen.

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Always pray to God for divine connection and u will see the favour of God anywhere u go. God Bless U All.

Depending on what you call jobs. Graduates around me are being paid 25k. That's not a job to me

The humans of Nigeria:
When it work for them,it will be as if others are not trying.

For those of us who haven't gotten jobs, no be say we like to sit down for house so no cast us like say we lazy abeg. Before you got the job, would you have been able to make this statement with 100% conviction that you don't need connect to get a job?