Why Nigerians Don't Get Jobs When They Apply

Good point there,sweetheart. by d way,are u behind d concept of "mind juice"?

@diyobw
you are right. I have been privileged to audit applications for employment and I can say it is that BAD. Even graduates that with First Class degree certificates commit these faux pas.

There was this guy that applied for the job of a MARKETING MANAGER, going through his CV, the guy read Biochemistry and has worked for a pharmaceutical company all his life.

There is nothing that reflects he has ever been into marketing professionally in his CV and the SHOCKER is his career objective: HE WANTS TO BE THE BEST BIOCHEMIST IN THE WORLD. Yet he is applying for the job of a marketing manager in an IT Firm.

The very babe.

@ notchi
Am glad to hear that! that's why we are here

@ G-reycells
Thats another good example. later he wld complian that there are no jobs in nigeria.  

@ cream well said
Degree no mean say you sabi !
  Ask bill gate!

I agree with you. But your posts read like what secondary school pupils would have written.

English grammar is more than writing a sentence.

See the picture below. The picture came from the HR department of a big bank in Nigeria.

No, it’s not a political rally, neither is it a Refugee Camp nor did it happen in Rwanda .
It is very much a “Nigerian Thing”.
 
 It's a picture of applicants scrambling to write an Employment Test (Intercontinental bank)@ Fototek Plaza, Opebi Ikeja, Lagos. Nigeria .
Police had to disperse the mammoth crowd with teargas!

Thanks for those tips, it will realy help many applicants. But talking about grammar, what about all those unusual antonyms, analogies and the rest we come across in aptitude tests. I guess that just as companies use them to prone down the number of applicants, applicants are now using grammar as an edge over one another not bearing in mind the other side of it.
ALL WE NEED IS JOB, may God see us through. Amen.     

that picture dere ! na wa oooooo haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaa damn blame our foolish leaders haaaa

In my own view, i think why Nigerians dont get jobs is that Most of them cant even claim their Certificate apart from there is no Job oppurtunity in this country, we rather see some graduate who cant even speak fluent and correct english Some can speak and cant even put them in writing, Some will come out in Upper class Lower Class but can never defend their Result.

and besides every thing base on corruption, U have nothing on your head u have money and know people forget it u are on the line,
and at the same time u have somethibg in your brain no money at the same time u can still have more chances to get a job.

I think only God can intervain in this country.

oh the irony 

@birdman you DAAARE challenge my use of the word "Reconcile", and how i used it in that particular text? the use of the word is suggesting to the person to"be at peace" "settle" or "reach agreement" with himself, and not to extend himself to words he's not sure about.

Indeed i am convince that you are a Birdman, as a result, you have a birdbrain!!

at Orikinola,
thanks for the pics---NA WA O EVERYBODY WANTS TO WORK IN A BANK---

The internet is available if a person needs help fixing up their resumes. There are a million sites which have useful tips. I think pple are just plain lazy, lack knowledge, or just don't care. The only place one may give out generic cv's are at a career fair, otherwise if you know what company you want to interview for you might as well put in the company's name!

there are a lot of stuff they are not teaching us in Nigerian Universities, When I make money i'm going to send peeps overseas to American and European universities!.

Wao,

I am glad to know that people would
have started realising their mistakes
about applying for a job now.

I once wrote a series of free reports that
talks about getting a job because I discovered
that most people think having a good grade is
the only criteria to get a job.

Getting a job requires very reasonable preparation
which most people do not do.

The free report I mentioned above is titled

"Important things to know to get a good job
faster and easier."

To get access to it, send an email to jobs4u@freeautobot.com

Send me a mail if you think it is great.

Check my blog for more
http://job-employment.blogspot.com
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Oluwatoyin.

be a while but i still see this mistake so i decided to wake up this sleeping thread.

Like someone sent in a CV apprently with the wrong Telephone no. Then instead of sending in the an edited CV.He sent this:
subject: pls edit for me
Body of the mail:my phone number to hIS NAMe Mentioned's c.v is 0802********* pls edit

My question? who will stress themselve to manually change that?!
The applicant even if shortlist'd will not see the light of interview.

Please anyone wonder'g why they are not getting jobs or with advice join in here!
You will be amazed!

I look after all our recruitment. Laast   time we had 60 applicants for one job.

How to get your application thrown away:

1) Dont bother to check your CV for spelling mistakes and silly errors. You should always do a spell and grammar check. For some of our jobs we don't need perfect English, so we don't mind a little bit of mixed up grammar from someone who isn't English, but you can do basic checks. Another thing to check is your work history dates -so many people get these muddled up (2 full-time jobs with overlapping dates, for example).

2) think you are emailing one of your friends when you email your application. We want to see you can write a business email and that we can trust you to communicate properly with our client. Emailing 'Hi, pls see my CV, I want to work 4u' will get you nowhere.

3) think we are here to do you a favour. Don't tell me you want the job because 'it would be good experience for me and I can learn a lot at your firm for my career'. Who cares? We want to know how we will benefit from you, not the other way round. I am not your auntie who just wants to help you.

How to fail an interview with me:

1) Don't look smart and professional.  We are a firm of accountants. We wear business suits. Turn up for an interview in an open necked shirt, no tie, lots of gold jewellery and a big grin - you are not trying to pick up a woman in a club here, we don't want you if you don't understand how to dress for work.

2) Be late.

3) Tell us you are expert in all computer programmes we need, then be unable to do the simple IT test we give you.

4) Misbehave on your way to the interview. You never know who will see you. At out last interviews, we ended up with 3 good people short-listed and would give the job to one of them. The best person was then discounted because I'd seen him spitting in a really disgusting way on the pavement outside our offices.