Job Seekers On Nairaland: Let's Get Organized

Hi seun,

I must confess you're an angel sent into job seekers world like me. were else do we get poeted about the happenings in a job seekers world? Nairaland.

I would like to have your personal e-mail address so i could be more of a part of u & thats if u wouldn't mind. please. i need a job

Thanks for your response Ladapo. However, you have not let me know why as an employer I will agree to reserve some space for nairaland users simply because they are nairaland users.

I quite agree with you that one of the reasons (not the main reason though) employers use recruiters is to relieve themselves of the burden of going through the rigour of recruiting process when they have other important thins to do (this is not to say recruiting is not important). You do need to understand that employers do not reserve any job space for the recruiters. They use recruiters to look for suitable candidates. Employers that take recruitment seriously do not go through just one recruiter. They use at least two recruiters for the same position. Also note that these recruiters can only recommend candidates for the position and it is left for the employer to conduct final interview and select the candidate of choice. Infact, in my recruiting experience, I have on several occasions, turned down all the candidates recommended to me by recruiters for lack of adequate experience or ability to do the job.

The fact that you are planning to have a website where employers will be able to advertise free of charge is an excellent idea but it is not enough reason why they should reserve job spaces for you in return. I will rather pay to advertise and employ the candidates of my choice than advertise free and be obliged to employ whoever you send to me.

Thank God this idea is brought up, Kudos to you all, am very glad to read this.

We should get together , I think that will be the first step, we have to know each other, do a formal introduction, we can be really organized, who knows, we can get an office and employ some nairaland members to be there, we use it as our secretariat, how about this?


Let's get to know

I completely agree with six sigma. Ladapo and his fellow supporters should know that no employer of labour in this country gives a dam about unemployed graduates talkless of 'reserving' job spaces for so called nairaland users. Ladapo, seun and co you guys are still naive to the facts on what is happening in the nigerian labour market.

Sigma,

Am not sure Ladipo nd other like me are supporting/encouraging this forum 2 mandate recruiters/employers using us.  No but the forum will
help to create more awareness to them;
help us to be more organised as we pursue same goal,
help us to assist one another as much as we can;
it will also be an avenue to diseminate job information faster and so many other thing.

If we come together, we get to make more friends, if one gets job and there is another job opening is d establishment where/she is, he can easily contact d nairalanders and fix in a member or more.

So, lets give it a thought!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

teena

hello housemate;
 the idea seems real and so also with every suggestion.if i may add an issue of these nature require an ideal forum were all interested nairaland job seekers can convienetly assemble and tackle these matter with great concern.
 i want say i commend the originator of these idea  .keep up the good work .bravo

[NICE IDEAL,PLEASE  LET BE FAST WITH IT,I BELEIVE IT WILL WORK,FOR ME I NEED A JOB.PLS LET ME HEAR FROM You,

Hi Ladapo,I think if you can pull this off then it would really be nice.Dont take notice off those that do not support it.I need a job and anything that can bring that for me,iwould at least  give it a try.concerning us meeting together that will also be nice.so do keep us posted ok thanks and take care.

Hm.

Six days and counting, and you guys are still only talking about this?

Anyway, here's an employers POV:

There's an advantage to posting my job ads on a message board instead of publishing an ad in the newspaper if it's cheaper, and it'll get me near enough the same amount of responses.

However, I'd value the service more if it helped me screen out unsuitable CVs, because if everyone responds, then I'm wasting valuable time trying to figure out who is suitable and who isn't.

As to reserving a percentage of offers I have - there's a problem with this. It implies I should employ someone not because they are good enough, but because they come from a particular 'group'.

[i][/i][left][/left][size=8pt][/size][img][/img][table][/table][sup][/sup][tt][/tt] that sounds nice.i think we should all try to help eachother to get somewhere. i also think we are one family though not the same blood,we don't leave under the same roof but nairaland has brought us together and that  makes us one.

Hello People,

Now that everyon has agreed, can we start acting. Enough of the talk, I hope I am not rude.


First, for those of us in lagos, let's break lagos into these locations;
1. Ikorodu-ketu-Ojota and Environs.
2. Ikeja-Maryland,Ojodu and environs,
3. Surulere-Yaba and environs,
4. Lekki-Victoria Island, Ikoyi and environs


Others in the other states,regions and abroad can break their environment into locations and agree on where and how to meet.

Anyone can suggest where each location can be meeting and let's have our first meeting. If you can not be there for 1 reason or the other, just be sure you will get to know about whatever we agreed on. I have made my first contact with  ITJobs (A consultancy firm in Ojota) .

Let's work it out-NOW!

is ok i think we have to meet it is becoming a miss 4 nigeria youth after school no job

Thank God this idea is here.all that is left is actualisng it.we should be talkng about the meeting point because its not posible we gather ourselvs on a street of lagos and be discussing our future.

Attention all nairalanders:

May I crave your indulgence to let you know that all things been equal, we should be having our first physical meeting on the second saturday of July, 2006.

Though, I am still working on the modalities of the meetin,the proposed venues are;

Maryland secondary school premises or the Ikeja millitary cantonment secondary school premises, Ikeja.

Time is 10 a. m to 2pm. We are going to consult the people in charge of the schools and work out the possibilities of the venue.

 It is also my intention to invite, the consultant, Micheal craig consulting to advice us and possibly get her to be commited to our belief.
so, endeavour to come around with your CV and possibly a token of 300 or less so we can pay for the venue and possibly be using such venue for a longer period of time.

Please, this is tentative, I will still be meeting with the consultant and the school in the next week.So, I promise to keep everyone posted.

Please noone should pay anybody any amount of money, as I will not be liable for any payment made to anyone. As soon as the venue is confirmed, just have the suggested money at hand so we can hand it over to whoever is in charge. And please, may I suggest we all come with one form of Identification or the other for security reasons.

Note: This is going to be our first meeting so, it is not going to be a sectionalised one, you can come in from any part of Nigeria to attend, if you can.

from Ladapo-08038478454

hope this no b another charade guy,abeg thread sofly o moni is very delikate to pat wit at crucial x, please think of somtin better o,i no want hear say na 419 deal o

WHITE ELEPHANT PROJECT I TERM THIS,
PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR JOBS,YOU THINK ANYBODY WILL SUBSCRIBE TO PARTING WITH EVEN A KOBO,
You SHLD KNOW THE NAIJA FACTOR.NOBODY WANTS TO BE CHEATED,BUT WE DON'T MIND CHEATING OTHERS,
LADAPO, You BETTER START HAVING A RETHINK OR LOOK INTO OTHER ALTERNATIVES,
NAIJA UNEMPLOYED OR UNDEREMPLOYED ARE THE MOST SENSITIVE PEOPLE TO JOIN ISSUES WITH WHEN IT COMES TO MONEY