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dacillin:
Gudday Engr. In d house, pls i need ur candid advice. A brother of mine who jst made his WAEC papers want to study Engineering courses.
Which of the engineering field he shld study?
Most especially, d one he can easily gain employment with or establish his own

He should follow his bliss.

@Dacillin, he should go for civil or computer or electrical engineering. But I prefer civil engineering.

oyeshina:


My dear prospective corp member, optimize any opportunity to get your project management professional (PMP) training during your service year. It's mostly subsidized for NYSC. Do the training and write the exams immediately.

Bros job will start looking for you.

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Easier said than done, i did many during my time, till now no job!

oyeshina:


My dear prospective corp member, optimize any opportunity to get your project management professional (PMP) training during your service year. It's mostly subsidized for NYSC. Do the training and write the exams immediately.

Bros job will start looking for you.

This is my widow's mite info...

Thanks a lot for the advice!. I really wish to get a "PMP Training" and I think I'll adopt ur advice and work to get the training during my service year, but the problem is finding a good institution that offers the training course(s). Will appreciate it if u could recommend one or two reputable institutions to get the training, that is if I'm not asking for too much.

Once again, Thanks for info, and God bless!

professional course is better

I think it'd make more sense if the people suggesting that going for professional courses would be more profitable, go a step further by suggesting such courses and reputable institutions responsible for the certifications.

Cc Mbkite

dacillin:
Gudday Engr. In d house, pls i need ur candid advice. A brother of mine who jst made his WAEC papers want to study Engineering courses.
Which of the engineering field he shld study?
Most especially, d one he can easily gain employment with or establish his own

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dacillin:
Gudday Engr. In d house, pls i need ur candid advice. A brother of mine who jst made his WAEC papers want to study Engineering courses.
Which of the engineering field he shld study?
Most especially, d one he can easily gain employment with or establish his own

Mechanical/Electrical Engineering because these two can work in any Engineering companies. But others cannot do so.

Pls wat certifications can a chemical engineering graduate apply for

Haven read this post carefully, I have noticed that a lot of people commented based on what they heard and not what they have experienced.

It is on record that Nigeria has a very high unemployment rate. This has made it very difficult for any young graduate out there to say with certainty where they will work after NYSC. So what you see is DPR is recruiting everybody applies, NNPC is recruiting everybody applies, DANGOTE, Nestle, name it. So it has become very difficult for Nigerians to really know what they can do after graduation. Only a very few of about 2% knows what next after NYSC.

There are some few truths I have seen in my experience in the oil industry.

Your undergraduate degree/diploma grade matters and it MUST only come from your hardwork in school - I don't care whether you believe it or not.

You must know that experience is different from masters degree and it cannot be bought, you can only earn it over time.

At one point in your career, you will need an advanced degree be it MSc or an MBA or even a PhD or DBA. This is what the information age has made it to be.

Your career growth is directly proportional to your networks, competency development, professional certification, professional association memberships.

I have seen some questions about what to advice a young student on which course to choose. Is good you said "advice". There is a misconception that once you study say Chemical engineering, or petroleum engineering, Shell will employ you immediately. These are wrong notion we breed into the minds of our young ones and it leads to frustration immediately after NYSC.
TELL THE CHILD TO CHOOSE A COURSE HE CAN BE PROUD TO PRACTICE UNDER THE SUN AND RAIN. Also technology is driving the industry crazy, so IT will always be a leading sector to work.

There is no shortcut to success, you must be ready to work hard and work smart.

For you asking whether to go for Masters for Professional Certification, you will need both in you career at some point, so consider your pocket, if you are married, then think twice, consider other options., like online distance learning.

For the young chemical engineer, I happen to be one - Chemical Engineer;
This is my story, see if you can learn anything from it: graduated with HND in 2008, served 2009-2010 (NYSC), did AutoCad, PDMS while serving, joined one of the multinational oilfield companies in Port Harcourt in December 2010 after a very though aptitude tests and all day interview that ended around 9pm on 6th November 2010. I have gotten my COREN in 2016. Note that since 2010 after that AutoCAD and PDMS training class, I have not used them professionally because the company I worked don't use that in their engineering designs and operations. I also have a Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Piping Design Engineering and an Executive MBA in Project Leadership and Management, including a couple of professional certifications and professional memembership/fellowship in engineering and management associations in UK, USA, Canada and Nigeria.


So as a young graduate, any certification or professional course is to make you look better than your peers who are also competing for the same job with you. It is not the ultimate destination, once you start working professionally, you will discover the field you are employed in and now be in a better position to know the specialist professional certification to go for that will accentuate your experience and validate your competence.

I hope these my points will guide most of us who at crossroads.

God bless Nigeria!

GNwafor:
Haven read this post carefully, I have noticed that a lot of people commented based on what they heard and not what they have experienced.

It is on record that Nigeria has a very high unemployment rate. This has made it very difficult for any young graduate out there to say with certainty where they will work after NYSC. So what you see is DPR is recruiting everybody applies, NNPC is recruiting everybody applies, DANGOTE, Nestle, name it. So it has become very difficult for Nigerians to really know what they can do after graduation. Only a very few of about 2% knows what next after NYSC.

There are some few truths I have seen in my experience in the oil industry.

Your undergraduate degree/diploma grade matters and it MUST only come from your hardwork in school - I don't care whether you believe it or not.

You must know that experience is different from masters degree and it cannot be bought, you can only earn it over time.

At one point in your career, you will need an advanced degree be it MSc or an MBA or even a PhD or DBA. This is what the information age has made it to be.

Your career growth is directly proportional to your networks, competency development, professional certification, professional association memberships.

I have seen some questions about what to advice a young student on which course to choose. Is good you said "advice". There is a misconception that once you study say Chemical engineering, or petroleum engineering, Shell will employ you immediately. These are wrong notion we breed into the minds of our young ones and it leads to frustration immediately after NYSC.
TELL THE CHILD TO CHOOSE A COURSE HE CAN BE PROUD TO PRACTICE UNDER THE SUN AND RAIN. Also technology is driving the industry crazy, so IT will always be a leading sector to work.

There is no shortcut to success, you must be ready to work hard and work smart.

For you asking whether to go for Masters for Professional Certification, you will need both in you career at some point, so consider your pocket, if you are married, then think twice, consider other options., like online distance learning.

For the young chemical engineer, I happen to be one - Chemical Engineer;
This is my story, see if you can learn anything from it: graduated with HND in 2008, served 2009-2010 (NYSC), did AutoCad, PDMS while serving, joined one of the multinational oilfield companies in Port Harcourt in December 2010 after a very though aptitude tests and all day interview that ended around 9pm on 6th November 2010. I have gotten my COREN in 2016. Note that since 2010 after that AutoCAD and PDMS training class, I have not used them professionally because the company I worked don't use that in their engineering designs and operations. I also have a Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Piping Design Engineering and an Executive MBA in Project Leadership and Management, including a couple of professional certifications and professional memembership/fellowship in engineering and management associations in UK, USA, Canada and Nigeria.


So as a young graduate, any certification or professional course is to make you look better than your peers who are also competing for the same job with you. It is not the ultimate destination, once you start working professionally, you will discover the field you are employed in and now be in a better position to know the specialist professional certification to go for that will accentuate your experience and validate your competence.

I hope these my points will guide most of us who at crossroads.

God bless Nigeria!

very helpful

God bless you.

Mbkite:


very helpful

God bless you.

so in essence what you are saying is that before job hunting young graduates should decorate themselves with as many relevant certifications as possible just to have an upper hand during job hunting.
Pls sir I would like you to guide us specifically on which certifications to go for so that work done would not be zero when one do a certification that works against you instead of for you. I studied Elect Engr.
Thank you

ok

chiben1983:
Professional certification far far better.i was lucky to come to Qatar with free visa through my friend.what helped me was my discipline in school mechanical engineering. I met an Igbo pastor who works with Qatar petroleum he took interest in me. We were talking one day , he asked me what did I study I told him mechanical engineering. He asked me what can I do , said I had experience in power generation.he laughed and said to me electricity is stable here you can not get nothing.He said to me have you had about project management I said yes . He said to me he is mechanical engineer and a project planing and control engineer in QP. He said I will teach you project management and how to use premavera oracle project software.he did and now proud mechanical engineer in project management. Am now working with a well known company in Qatar as planning engineer.with salary of 1m naira a month if converted with free transport and free flight to and frow annual vacation. Nigerians control safety work here with NEBOSH.

I also studied mechanical engineering, will like to connect with u. Please help a brother.

Good day friends,
I've read through the posts and will give the best answer I can.
If you want to go into academics, go for masters.
if you want to practice, go for professional certification.
Professional certification may be more expensive but it allows time to gain experience on the job. In practice, theory in school matters less. note that I didn't say theory doesn't matter o.
That means you must be working. if you don't work on gaining experience but after certifications it may not be worthwhile because engineering recruiters expect some level of experience wether paid or not.
I am personally enrolled in professional masters in engineering management specialising in Project Management in one of the universities. Professional masters are designed to enable working class peeps attend classes with convenience of weekdays or part-time. multiple trainings in popular certifications are moduled into a professional masters of engineering program thereby more cheaper and no need for terminal upgrade found in certification programs.
note that a proper professional masters of engineering programs are real engineering practice based with less of the usual theory
I hope this was useful.