Masters Degree Or Work Experience To Work In Nigeria

My brother go for the experience  if you live abroad,  It is only in Nigeria that company look for degree,  abroad it is what your experience can offer the company. If you have all the degree no experience,  Yellow and black (TAXI) is your best choice.  Many Nigerian abroad have alot of degree but no experience. Oyibo only want people with experience,  that why most Nigerian return home after they finish school over here. because they can't find find a job here , since they lack experience.

Look while I work in Nigeria, in the same company.I got paid more money than people who had higher degree in that Nigeria company because I was more valiable than them to the company.
Look let me give you an example,  let say I join transcorp today,  I have a background in telecommunication,  I would not accept any pay less than Tom Isegohi  the MD who is the boss, because i believe I am more value to the company than him. Look I have a better understanding than the man in Telecommunication. So if the comapny want tomove forward what they would look over here is who is of more value and more use to them. They have to weight, my experience compare with a PHD in telecommunication with no experience ,  PHD is useless  without experience in the field. Transcorp failure is because the company boss Tom Isegohi  lack experience in Telecommunication. And transcorp would continue to fail until they remove him. You can not put "WELL CONNECTED OR MAN KNOW MAN" over experience.

Look Nigeria have had problem because we ask people with PHD to solve our problem. They may be book smart.  People with PHD have no work experience. They just have theory of how thing can work,  there is a different between book knowledge and pratical experience. So when you  appoint a PHD holder to become a minister or head NEPA or transcorp he can not perform well and fail because he lack experience since he was a TEACHER all is life. Look PHD holder are TEACHER. you can not compare someone that teach 18 years olds with someone that have experience in a field.

Nigeria have made a mistake by alway putting Prof in heading ministries. They all fail because they have alway been TEACHER all their lifes. and Prof lack work experience and that is what you need to move a company or ministries  forward. The best prof of electrical engineering with no work place experince can not fix NEPA problem,  It about skill and experience.  Your master degree would only be good if you want to teach. most time it is not needed. Do you want to become a TEACHER. 90% of prof in Nigeria lack work place experience , so how can they solve work place problem. With calculus? or with  almight formular??? If I am Yar Adua I would appoint people with practical work place experience as minister. Not TEACHERS.

Nigeria companies need to follow the rest of the world. It is what a man can do for your comapny and not degree he or she has.??  PHD with no experience is useless to a company.

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well i think its still a matter of who get leg pass for niaja, but lets PRETEND we are in a society where people actually get what they really deserve , then i would have to go with the masters degree and less working experience because believe it or not a masters degree give u a defined perspective regarding your job where u want to go and basically acilitiates a faster career growth,

But well this is Naija,,,all na leg, ok most of the time

u jst dey yarn dust egbon yii, what u mean by earning more than the CEO? You DEY CRAZE?

Moreover,experience wuld b more attractive here in Uk because d country is fully developed.Everything works perfectly, They have the professionals to handle things, Nigerian  professionals here are being trained by them so wetin u dey talk,

Nigeria will respect sm1 with certificates from here because they kw u are well grounded, Nigeria's still a developing Nation so people from abroad will continually be appreciated because of d exposure they r bringing into d country.(no b small tin nw). A UK graduate see things from different angles. The level of reasoning go dey very high, Ability to turn a local firm to a Global company dey because of the exposure,

Wats d value of your experience if u dnt av d potential of exposing your organisation to the larger world?

abeg kip quiet dere!!!!!

It depends on the type of work. If the job requires practicality then candidate B will fare better. HE has actually been there

i think guy option B stands more chance because of the years of exp. but if they r both opportuned to be in the same company, guy option A will earn more and be on a higher level than guy option B

I'll hire them both 

lets see what the HRM proffessionals have to say

u will have 2 konsidar d breeding ( i.e what skools hav dey atended) the organisations dey hav woked 4, is it kompatible wit yr kompany's structure, their strengths & wiknesses, what do u want in a kanditate. Well all of this mite not count in a naija kompany because, its all about one kanditate outdoin the other, but if u ar considerin a multi-national org, den what u hav 2 offer koms first.

in nigeria the use and importance of education, training and experience where not fully explained to us by the british when they came to nigeria until most recently.

1 certification and technical schools and polytechnics give your direct hands on capabilities to work for emplyers or to go into working for yourself

2  degrees give you the ability to do research and to more effectively manage the money and resources in a particular area.

3 in short you are suppose to first get certified before you get a degree

4 expereince is something you are to be getting from day one meaning if your parents where pharmacists and you used to follow them to work and you learned a few things from them you are as good having some experience!

5 its best to combine all these experience, education and certification together

6 another thing you will need is mentorship i.e someone in the same career who is senior to you who can guide, support, teach you, be your god father etc

7 almost everywhere in the world now certification, license, chartered status are what governent and companies are requiring from lawers, doctors, IT/telecom, bankers,accountants, project management etc

however ive noticed that the richest of all don't have any of these things but experience. e.g  dangote, bill gates, john d rockerfeller etc

I agree kitty but a lot of people don't understand this until they make the mistake and then learn the hardway or they can learn from the mistake of others.

oh yes and another demension is the God factor without which all efforts are futile, so he should always be remembered!