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AjalaJ:


Most Nigerians don't like reading and that's why an average of them have poor mentality. It's one of the reasons why most are poor, in spite of their shabby education, which is acquired to get a job anyway, not to get real knowledge to liberate themselves.

I remember my old friend from Edo State. He said: "If you want to hide a secret from the black man, put it in a book."

Earning a cheap bragging right on a copied work is a no no brah!.

scobaba:
I did Accountancy in School, made good grades, went on to become a Chatered Accountant during Nysc. I was ready for the market out there. Got calld for virtually all the companies i apllied for. KPMG( a top Accounting firm), Guiness, MTN and a whole lot of Banks.

I served with Oceanic Bank then and got retained by them, i stayed back and that was where my mistake started from. I spent 7 yrs doing customer service and cash management.

No matter how good you are at branch banking, its Zero experience.

Though i later got a job in the oil and gas sector in Finance Department. I will call it a miracle. I was just lucky they started with a GMAT test which saw most guys with the experience rhey really wanted failing. So when it got to interview time, the 7 of us that passed the test dint have the requisite experience, so whoever spoke well had a better chance, i spoke well and got the job along one other guy.
Both of us came from the banking industry and had to take a 6 months freshers course even if we had worked 7 years each.

The subsequent year, the company dint conduct test, they did straight interview and picked 3 guys who had 5 years experience in core Accounting. They came from Price Water House and KPMG. They resumed and got 2 steps ahead of me.

I sha thank God i got what i got. I had to learn every on the job. excel, power point, Sap and Other Accounting software. It was not easy at all.

I still maintain that switching from Branch Banking to any other field is difficult. no experience in banking.

There is actually no ease of job mobility from the banking sector to another sector because branch banking is non specialised and can be done by anyone. Those with better chances are the headoffice staff who are in specialized roles.

That is why you were seen as a beginner despite your years in d banking sector.

This is scary for me as I seem to be threading this part .

However, Thank God you actually got a break and you can still build yourself up in your new field.

Goodluck

Ademat7:
Probably not graduating earlier.
Projected to grad by 20 but did @23+service lag time making 25

Graduating early does NOT have any impact on how successful you will be in the future! So what is the point? I had a mentor who got delayed in school because he flunked some courses and had to graduate a year after his mates had passed out of school. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise. It was during the era of the GSM start-ups with MTN, Celtel (now Airtel) etc. just coming up. He got recruited as a trainee project manager after youth corps, with one of them. His friends who had graduated earlier still sat at home for 2 years looking for jobs!

laudate:


Graduating early does NOT have any impact on how successful you will be in the future! So what is the point? I had a mentor who got delayed in school because he flunked some courses and had to graduate a year after his mates had passed out of school. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise. It was during the era of the GSM start-ups with MTN, Celtel (now Airtel) etc. just coming up. He got recruited as a trainee project manager after youth corps, with one of them. His friends who had graduated earlier still sat at home for 2 years looking for jobs!

Hardfact! Got your point

unclezuma:


Studying engineering instead of psychology.

I'd like to think this wasn't a mistake. Many of us never really had enough awareness of our true career interests & the options available at the point of choosing uni courses. Perhaps you never knew enough about Psychology at the time, or never appreciated it as something you'd like. If you still have strong interests in psychology, you can still study and practice as a professional psychologist.

I studied environmental mgmt, only to find a new and stronger passion for career guidance, I had to go back to school, now I'm practising and I'm loving it.

majorbravo:


It seems Engineers are not given the priority by government in Nigeria. Why should an Engineer be jobless in the 21st century?

I don't think its just in Naija, its everywhere. The fact is, the opportunities are fewer than the engineers, unlike some European countries where they are actively looking for trained engineers because their economies depend on manufacturing, large scale production etc, until our economic sectors like power, manufacturing, agric etc, begin to grow, there may not be more opportunities for engineers in Naija.

Another food for thought. Some graduates have gone for useless courses and they're now regretting it.

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AjalaJ:


Most Nigerians don't like reading and that's why an average of them have poor mentality. It's one of the reasons why most are poor, in spite of their shabby education, which is acquired to get a job anyway, not to get real knowledge to liberate themselves.

I remember my old friend from Edo State. He said: "If you want to hide a secret from the black man, put it in a book."

ituglobal:
Another food for thought. Some graduates have gone for useless courses and they're now regretting it.

Only those with shallow minds think like this. There is no course that is useless. You can always use one course as a stepping stone to get into another field or discipline.

scobaba:
I did Accountancy in School, made good grades, went on to become a Chatered Accountant during Nysc. I was ready for the market out there. Got calld for virtually all the companies i apllied for. KPMG( a top Accounting firm), Guiness, MTN and a whole lot of Banks.

I served with Oceanic Bank then and got retained by them, i stayed back and that was where my mistake started from. I spent 7 yrs doing customer service and cash management.

No matter how good you are at branch banking, its Zero experience.

Though i later got a job in the oil and gas sector in Finance Department. I will call it a miracle. I was just lucky they started with a GMAT test which saw most guys with the experience rhey really wanted failing. So when it got to interview time, the 7 of us that passed the test dint have the requisite experience, so whoever spoke well had a better chance, i spoke well and got the job along one other guy.
Both of us came from the banking industry and had to take a 6 months freshers course even if we had worked 7 years each.

The subsequent year, the company dint conduct test, they did straight interview and picked 3 guys who had 5 years experience in core Accounting. They came from Price Water House and KPMG. They resumed and got 2 steps ahead of me.

I sha thank God i got what i got. I had to learn every on the job. excel, power point, Sap and Other Accounting software. It was not easy at all.

I still maintain that switching from Branch Banking to any other field is difficult. no experience in banking.

pls can you help on how to get a job in an oil and gas company. Am asking on behalf of an architect I know with 5years job experience in Property department of a bank. Thank you