It is very frustrating nowadays in Nigeria applying for jobs. The issue has gone beyond the availability of jobs to having the necessary JOB EXPERIENCE and work qualification before you are even considered for an aptitude test. Just this year alone, I have seen more than 30 high profile vacancy advert with work experience requirement of at least 2 or 3 years. What does this mean for the young graduate with little or no work experience? In this article, I will attempt to show you how you can land a job of your choice by building a 3 years job experience in one year.

The next time you see a job requiring 3 or more years of work experience, and you are a fresh graduate, do not let it pass, Apply.
Here is how the Magic works:

1. Use Mathematics Law in your favour: In mathematics, the concept of frequency and time are related, and you can buy time by an increase in frequency. Let me break this down. The number of times you do a particular task (frequency) is the same as the duration of time you have done that task. So if company is advertising for a job that requires 3 years job experience in lets say Software design, a person who have done this just 10 times in 3 years can boldly apply. On the other hand you may have done this 30 times in a year. Your job experience is worth more than that of the other man. Using the concept of frequency and time, you are more qualified, and it is worth 3 years too.

2. Consider Volunteer Jobs: Once you have identified a sector that you may like to work in, you may consider taking up a volunteer job at a smaller or average firm in that sector immediately you graduate from school. Don't worry about the pay here. Your aim should be to build your job experience and your social profile. By the time you have gone to the youth service program (NYSC) and back, you should have gotten nothing less than a 2 year experience.

3. Don't forget prior experience: Now when applying for jobs seeking 3 years experience or more, do not forget to add prior experiences no matter how small they may have been. You were in the team that organized a mega program while in school, add it, you have worked in a restaurant to support your education, add it, you were in a position of leadership in a campus or student group in school, add it up. They will form more than a 3 years experience.

Source: http://www.thinkysolutions.com/2014/07/how-to-build-3-years-job-experience-in.html

nice one but most times how about the certificates to backup?

Experience is intanible. it is not a certification program. If you work with a company like MTN tomorrow, no one will give you a certificate when you leave

Mblem: nice one but most times how about the certificates to backup?

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You are totaly right. While i was waiting 4 nysc, i applied for jobs and stated the various positions i held in student organisations as my work experience and it did add balance to my cv as my interviewees where pleased to know that.

How and where can one get the opportunity to volunteer for Jobs in NIGERIA ?

9jaSceptic: How and where can one get the opportunity to volunteer for Jobs in NIGERIA ?

Exactly what i was about to ask. Everybody keeps suggesting it. Yet to find one

9jaSceptic: How and where can one get the opportunity to volunteer for Jobs in NIGERIA ?

Identify a company where the protocols are not too rigid, you can even write to them that you wish to volunteer to help them in a certain department of their company. State reasons why you are applying as a volunteer. if your reasons are good enough. you will be invited

Nice piece

mumu piece....




Most companies will tell you 3 years with VERIFIABLE EXPERIENCE, you know what that means?

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The issue of work experience is present in every country in the world. However there is a way round this. As a fresh graduate seeking work you can offer to do unpaid internships with a company no matter how big or small. Also remember on the C.V having 6 months experience at a company does not mean you had to be there Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. Your internship could be for a day or two in a week and it may be for half of the the day.You will then tailor your c.v to suit.

It's understandable that companies don't want novices as this slows down productivity and can be expensive if they decide to offer training. These are costs many businesses are not willing to incur. However a smart person who understands this can work it to their advantage.

When I graduated with my law degree here in London years ago I was feeling impressed with myself but by the time I had spent months getting rejected for everything from middle ranking to office administrator roles, I realised I had to go back to the drawing board as far as experience was concerned. And to God be the glory I am where I am today because of it. Good luck to you all.

good work.
fp wow!

Noted.

Bubewilson: You are totaly right. While i was waiting 4 nysc, i applied for jobs and stated the various positions i held in student organisations as my work experience and it did add balance to my cv as my interviewees where pleased to know that.

video or i dnt believe it.

hmmm

I. smell lies

Time na money

time matter alot

Ok

No matter wot rubbish u wrote there, u can't have an experience of 3 years in 1 year. That's how u write rubbish and think u're making sense.

So, if I'm working 8am to 4pm everyday, I still shld roll to a voluntary work jes to garner experience?
Why dnt u tell me to work 24hrs.

Time is time, experience is experience. No matter how hard u tried, u'll either say,
"I have 3 yrs experience as a marketer"
OR
"I have a year's experience as a marketer".

U can't be comparing urself with a hardworking man who works round the clock for3 yrs with u who had jst completed a year and u think u have a panacea to yrs of experience.
He had made mistakes u never made, he had learned the hard way, he had gotten himself sacked from a particular area, and had himself deployed to department he never thought of....

Dude, stop that rubbish....

You can only leatn some more, u can't steal the experience. You have to go right through it!

Its so bad dat even graduate trainee jobs now require 2 to 3 yrs experience
Atimes with postgraduate degree

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uhmm, i find your first point invalid, and rather misleading to a naive person.

The mathematical logic may be valid, but its application in this scenario isn't.
Working longer hours, and on more projects in 1 year DOES NOT equate to being involved
in the same activity at a less aggressive pace for 3 years.

'Experience' isn't simply measured by physical action, but the conventional and unconventional elements
which come with the territory, over 'time.' This can not be rushed.

It is considerably similar to developmental attributes of a 1 year old child vs. a 3 year old.

Nice one.....noted!!!

I do not think that these things will work in favor and you must wait for your relevant job, this is not only in Nigeria, but in many places of world the situation is same.

Bubewilson: You are totaly right. While i was waiting 4 nysc, i applied for jobs and stated the various positions i held in student organisations as my work experience and it did add balance to my cv as my interviewees where pleased to know that.

You are an EXCEPTIONAL Nigerian.
I hope more of our laid back youth will be inspired by your story.
Cheers.

Krucifax: The issue of work experience is present in every country in the world. However there is a way round this. [size=14pt]As a fresh graduate seeking work you can offer to do unpaid internships with a company no matter how big or small. Also remember on the C.V having 6 months experience at a company does not mean you had to be there Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. Your internship could be for a day or two in a week and it may be for half of the the day.You will then tailor your c.v to suit. [/size]

It's understandable that companies don't want novices as this slows down productivity and can be expensive if they decide to offer training. These are costs many businesses are not willing to incur. However a smart person who understands this can work it to their advantage.

When I graduated with my law degree here in London years ago I was feeling impressed with myself but by the time I had spent months getting rejected for everything from middle ranking to office administrator roles, I realised I had to go back to the drawing board as far as experience was concerned. And to God be the glory I am where I am today because of it. Good luck to you all.

Thanks also for narrating your story and hopefully we will learn that it is not how you BEGIN but KEEPING your focus on where you are going.

decode55: am I the only one that finds the title of this thread very funny?

I won't say funny.......I would rather say ATTRACTIVE in a COMPELLING way, which is not a bad thing. Or is it