Zenith Bank Is Exploiting Graduates

I believed you have better job doing that is why you are rejecting the offer, if not, I suggest you accept it and gather the experience needed for better offer in other banks.

Pls dear,
Continue with your current job and dont get trapped by the big name of Zenith Bank. If it doesnt worth the stress no need going there for Ovia's inconsistent policies. I pray that he will implement well in his Visafone business asap.

dear asaaju omo, its because of people like you that employers keep exploiting their workers. will you settle for less just because you are jobless? why can't you take a stand? stand for what you believe in. employers have no RIGHT TO TREAT EMPLOYEES THE WAY THEY DO IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!!overworked, underpaid and with no benefits, can 30,000 cover medicals in this country? these employers live in this our same nigeria and know how expensive things are ,so why the stupids offers.
      Instead of jim ovia to take care of his employees, so that morale and productivity will be high, he is opening branches everywhere, and opening visafone, as if nigeria doesnt have enough mediocre companies already. why wont you offer such a paltry sum of money, afterall he will have to pay new staff in all those gazillion branches, and desperate nigerians like you, wont mind, because a job is better than no job. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE'S MENTALITY??

guys pls for the fact there is a search for jobs doesnt mean we should just settle for anything. You are of value and that is why these orgs will always need you. How much is your value worth.
Dont get intimidated by the big names. zenith can afford to pay better and they can , they should live up to their responsibility.

30k per annum,  what is that

hahahaha I LAUGH

when I was not successfull at the inteview stage I taught that all was lost, less than a week I got employed at a job that does not suffocated me.

Doing what I want and not marketing because am forced to.

Thank God, Zenith bank decided to close the door, and he {God}opened the window.

Let me contribute my to kobos to this discuss

First when you are down and out (jobless) you cannot even think straight.

If you live in this naija my avice to you is take the so called trash of an offer,atleast you will eat and pay your bills,you can then start to look for another offer.You are better equiped because you have experience(which is not garnered in you fathers house).Also the employer should know that you cannot be 100% commited,that is the truth.

However if you've got something else doing,I say throw the trash back to Jim,let him keep his miserable offer.

I believe both ends of the divide make sense,depends on where you are at.

Peace out.

Hey girl, you must have a very well paid job to think zenith bank is exploiting
Do you know how many applicants would jump at the offer you got?
I do respect the fact that you have to take your position regarding the issue.
I agree with Kenyatta who said get the experience and move on to better paying banks.
I believe that is true if you want to build a career in banking.besides, there are banks paying less than you were offered.

Yes, I agree totally with firegirl. Zenith bank is indeed exploiting young graduates. Not all of you will agree with me but that's why there's freedom of speech and reasoning. Whether a recruitment firm helped her or not. That's not the issue. After all, I went through a recruitment firm and there was no slashing of salary. I have resigned and have no regrets at all. At least firegirl saw 75k in her offer letter. What about me? My offer letter read N2.6m per annum which means I should have 196k as my take home package. But did I ever see that? Hell no! Not even for a month. Instead they were talking about a slash and sent us letters saying they'll withhold N1.3m and may pay us based on our "performance". It was termed productivity bonus. Isn't that an outright breech of contract. Or is it because we seem desperate. God know the stress with the job isn't worth the money paid. I was a marketer and you know what i mean. Treking from door to door, looking for accounts as if we're the only bank existing while others are sleeping. And when you dont open any account on a daily basis, you're told your life history. But I'm proud to say my slates are clean and i left with my integrity unmarred. Well, I boldly resigned without any job waiting for me, believing that God who put me there can equally place me in a much better place. Zenith bank for me, was just a stepping stone to another level and an experience, if i may say, but never my desired work place or my last bus stop. I just got another peaceful job barely a month after i resigned. That's God for you and knowing what you want in life. Don't just settle for anything because you feel you dont have a choice. Or else, things will go for you that way. Accordind to my mom, she always tells us " everytime you go to a function and you're asked what you'll drink and you keep saying fanta, the day you'll ask for moet the whole world will cry blue murder." We should learn to set a standard for ourselves and not letting other do that for us. As Nigerian graduates, we know how stressful school was. Then we graduate to come and face "unecessary stress" in places like zenith as far as i'm concerned. Zenith only has the "big" name but come to think of it, are they really staff friendly? Jim Ovia may be the MD of Zenith bank but not of my life. God is the MD/CEO of my destiny. I rest my case.

NA God go save us in this country from the clogs of SLAVE DRIVERS called employers,  ZENITH BANK case na small tin ,

Thanks a lot Goldcircle for the complements.
Hope things change for the better for graduates in our country.
We'll get there one day. God bless.

@poeticsoul

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE'S MENTALITY??

Injuring our sensibilities in the ordinary course of what should be a healthy discourse is uncalled-for.
Try to advance your points without being unnecessarily aggrieved or aggressive.

make God dey look dem oooooooooooooooooooo.

@coolviv,
Thank God you got the job but i hope you won't have to go for money making ritual in order to meet up with your target !

ah ah,  akumbu, easy why u dey para for people. U are pouring too much vitroil on this issue, your remarks are just superfluous. pple i've read all responses to dis discuss and i think my standpoint sticks wit pple like chyzion who set visionary goals and target 4 themselves. i can understand the desperation of nigerian graduates coz am also part of them but do we really have sell ourselves short just bcoz of bread n butter. 75k is not a paltry amount but does it worth the job responsibilities attached to it. I say a big NO. little patience and perseverance are virtues worth emulating.

Jobs are not just about the pay but also the responsibilities, but a balance must be reached btw both. Coz in this part of the continent, the major motivating factor is money, through which most pple find job satisfaction. And in the present state of the economy, i don't think anybody will be satisfied with 75k per month working 12 to 12 inorder to meet some fictitious targets.

I rest my case.

i find what you say strange, I know a friend of mine who was a driver in my office but now works in zenith and is paid the same amount as you said "fire girl" are you sure it is not  a contract package you got? I have a feeling so. The amount is completely ridculous for an ET at Zenith bank.

Being following this thread, wasn't going to say anything until i read the above post.
I actually saw the letter, and it read 75k per month and 30k annually for medicals. No bank gives 360k for medicals(figures according to your calculation) for entry level. I just hope you wont be to disappointed when u get your first pay check.
On to the 266K per month basic salary(thats minus allowances),no bank pays 3.2million basic salary(again according to your calculations) to entry level. Some pay that as total package(including allowances), before zenith reviewed the salary(downward, now almost half salary is based on performance) it was paying entry level staff a total package of 2.7million(take home each month was 196k).
I don't know where you got your figures, i have friends that are ea's(Executive Assistants) thats the position you will be in a year from now and they take home 136k monthly. I hope you didn't join zenith for the pay you analyzed cos boy are you going to be disappointed.
Your Aunty that works in the civil service probably hasn't been as stressed up all her working years as you will be in the next 3months.
Am not  making any comment about the pay, to each his own. If thats what butters your bread, fine. Anyone who gets the offer and doesnt like it should not accept it if they dont want to. If you do, well thats your business. You aint forced to do what you dont want to.