Dear Nigerian Youth:

The toughest challenge employers are facing right now is where to locate 'the right' employees. We've been trying to hire three new staff for over a year. I've interviewed quite a ton of graduates of law, accounting and other social sciences. 99% of BSc Accounting holders are UNABLE to use Microsoft excel spreadsheets. The majority of law graduates could not write coherently, and have no legal research experience outside of their final year projects. One graduate of English/Literature has not read any book outside of the recommended texts in school. 99% of job seekers have no writing sample, no published product or past work that is independently verifiable. That means, Nigeria's biggest problem right now, isn't unemployment, but unemployability.

Sometimes, you meet a job seeker with a charming personality, and you try to stretch the rules a bit. You request for his/her Facebook profile to get a sense of his/her interests, passions and extracurricula engagements. You only find posts about sex, sex, sex, sex, boyfriends, girlfriends, crushes, and more sex. What a turn off! Well, I've got some news for you: You cannot sex your way to a prosperous future. You cannot Bleep your way to greatness. The CEOs of all Fortune500 companies have sex too. CEOs of the WB, IMF, UN, CBN, AfDB etc are all having sex too. The difference is that they spend their times productively, and regard sex as a purely private activity.

I just crossed the border control at Schipol Airport, self-service passport control machines have replaced hundreds of personnel that formerly handled that activity. I just stayed in multi-storey 5-star hotels where machines have replaced the need for human workforce. So, in the nearest future, if you have no talent, skill, or knowledge of comparable standard to these artificially-intelligent machines providing high-quality services, you'd be left behind. Far behind. Your prospects of breaking the shackles of poverty and joblessness will get thinner.

Please, invest in yourself. While waiting for that job, learn something new and hone your skills. Volunteer your services. Consider doing some unpaid work. Write more clearly. Read more. Reallocate the money you spend on expensive weaves and phones to prepare yourself for the future. That added value you bring can make you stand out from the crowd.
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Think about it! Happy Sunday...

True tho#but still any spot in your organization?give me a trial#entry level

I am available sir... A trial will convince you

True Talk OP. but that is for those looking for Jobs out there, as far as I am concerned I don't think Dangote needs to know how to use excel. Our current president and state governors don't know shii abt excel, even the so called lecturers in school can hardly use excel.
Youths should go and think of what will bring them money.
I know a friend Ymodulus he doesn't need to be employed. he told me he can't sit in one office and follow procedures, today he is happy with himself.

If you think you can do it you are right, if you think you can't do it you are also right.

Alot of Nigerian youths have nothing to offer in the real sense, there future as being bleeped off by the society, the useless federal, state and private universities in Nigeria.
The university System in Nigeria is a scam, a total waste of time and resources. Our universities are non to celebrate incompetence, unemployment and poverty due to zero skill, increase cramming power, graduants with good grades that are of no use to themselves and the country.
There are plenty of jobs in Nigeria but we only have few Nigerians competent enough to handle the available jobs, this is why the country depends on the so called Indian and Lebanese expatriate.

Most people in this generation hardly read or go and learn some skills

Nice post

Employ me nah,although na third class I get for civil engineering... from university of benin..
Even If nah 30k or 50k..I go collect

Abeg oh make una come oh! Bicycle from Daura done jam buhari to death oh. Buhari na suya he dey sell now for Coven 2

Now A days having a degree means nothing most of this company are looking for people with Masters and PhDs and a age range of 25 - 30...

Its yeah u right. But to even find volunteer jobs to gain experience is not even available. Please if you can help me with engineering internship job in port harcourt. please PM me.

Yep, you're right Op. But even those with greater skills are still finding it hard to secure a job.
Yes, being versatile increases your chances of getting employed but sadly in this country it is not a guarantee.

Thank God I'm self employed. I advise you all to be too

michael142:
Abeg oh make una come oh! Bicycle from Daura done jam buhari to death oh. Buhari na suya he dey sell now for Coven 2

Emmafrancis:
A president that cannot die for his country, is that one a
president?

Wetin Op dey talk and wetin u a dey yarn no rhyme at all. Maka why?

Well said, its like there is a big market for finishing schools/centers where graduates can undergo a 3 weeks intensive course.

Hmm, words.

Did you just say " you can't sex your way into the future?" I know you are not referring to most Nigerian girls....the system encourages them to maintain their current status of " having a bright future behind them." Still in doubt? Ask Miss Cucumber!

It's well

Fact But #SelfEmployed lo sure ju

400k/month

It's well.

Check my signature.

Op please give me ur Facebook I'd...! I want check something!

the country is not helping matters......

they are ready to work but no job, everyone must not be an interprenurer...

Please, inform them.

In addition, every step of theirs ought to be in good order. Package yourself enviably and that starts from your CV. You may view some samples that'll certainly be of help to you here (observe the Layout and Content closely): www..com/cv-samples/

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Chidexter:

Wetin Op dey talk and wetin u a dey yarn no rhyme at all. Maka why?

Wetin concern you? Abeg farm for your own farm.

In this era, some graduates still consider owning a laptop as luxury and not necessity. I have some friends during NYSC whom I advise to get laptops, they refused and lavish their allawes savings. I know what they are passing through now, that you can hardly secure a good job without adequate ICT knowledge is another challenge.

Hmmm, youths don suffer

Emmafrancis:

Wetin concern you? Abeg farm for your own farm.

I no get land

lol


i dey chop my binary. bleep ya all with your non existent jobs

Half University graduates in Nigeria and from Nigerian universities are blockheads.
A secondary school level graduate from China is way smarter than them from all angle
They are not entirely to be blamed, the education system has not improved a bit since the Northern military rogues took over Nigeria.
It's has been strike upon strike since then.
They build new schools everyday while abandoning the old ones.

The graduates show certificates that tell people they finished from so so school, what they actually learnt from the school never really mattered to them.

My younger sister, a graduate took my mother's money to do MMM. How she could not see the red flag amazes me still.
This is something an illiterate trader from Onitsha told me he never invested his one naira on, because he simply didn't see how a system that doubles your money without doing anything could last long.