anonimi:




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AZeD1:

For every vacant position in the civil service, you can be assured that you would get at least 50 applicants. So this advertised jobs, i willing to bet they got at least half a million cvs. The question is who is going to go through to cvs? Nobody is employed to go through cvs talk more of a civil service that is known to be lazy.

I am very positive that they did not go through all the cv's submitted so it might be possible that the OP's cv was not even opened, and they will be lots of qualified people who will think they didn't get in because they know nobody when in actual fact, nobody looked at their cv because they had already gotten the required numbers.

Is this fair, NO but the reality is going through CV's is not fun and nobody likes to do it so people take the easy way out.

TimmyPapa:

Wait interviews are based on mentality nd not mainly on grades.. if a 3rd class mentality fr a job is better than a 1st class den why nt giv it to wu can do it better.. nd evn dis is a country wir people's mentality are based on aving d best grades secures u job.. NO
Dats y most graduates in Nigeria cnt secure a job.. seeing dir grades as a guarantee to securing a job. in developed country ur ability secures job for u not Grade... have a change of Mentality an also GRACE speaks.. d G factor

SnowJay92:


Whatever happened to Applicant Tracking software....and see bro, if they just selected on first come first served basis, it's okay, if they randomly sampled from the bulk because they can't go through all the Cvs, fine....the lucky ones should have it. Why pick out only those whom calls were specifically made on their behalf? That is my point, not like i have any personal interest.

AZeD1:

There's someone on this thread that said he got through and he didn't know anyone. Not everybody who got through knew somebody.

SnowJay92:


You sound like you believe that rubbish, even if it was you doing that selection, would you randomly pick a third class you don't know and haven't tested ahead of everyone else? what would be your motive for that?

ksbusari:

What is this one saying? tell me hw dem take select the shortlisted candidates?

neoclassical:
I woke up this morning with the news that FCSC has shortlisted lists of successful candidates in the ongoing recruitment exercise by the Commission in various Federal Ministries.

Succinctly, I have a friend who studied Business Administration with 3rd Class, while I have Msc and Bsc (2.1) all in Economics. Both of us applied for the same position (SGL 09) in the Ministry of Trade & Investment. Perhaps, to my greatest perplexity, this guy's name was shortlisted while mine was conspicuously missing. Just a few minutes ago he opened up to me that the father made "some calls" on his behalf prior to this time.

For your information, we are of the same age bracket, applied for same position, from the same State. So what criteria could have been used to disqualify someone with Msc and Bsc (2.1) and someone with a 3rd Class was selected.

Holding other factors constant, I am so happy for him and I am so expectant that mine is coming. But this has kept me in an awe position, as the whole scenario depicts lack of correlation between merit and success in this entity called Nigeria.

WHAT A COUNTRY? So help us God!

LorDBolton:


Per The emboldened , i was told by asked by an ED during interviews why my grade wasn't on my CV ... Told him its cos of recommendations like yours .

He laughed and told me i was lucky to reach this stage , HR usually thrash CV with no grade cos they assume the person made 3rd class.

So i'm wondering why you will advice first class holders join to not crest their 4.5 on his CV , in recruitments there are usually "minimum requiremeNts" sef

So how's the recruiter supposed to know if u meet them? Psychic??

ofeshe:
Ogbeni shey 3rd nobi result nii. Abeg park well sidon dia dey wail on top ur 2.1 no go find connect

AngelicBeing:
@ The bold , may your prayers be answered, Let me share this with you for the sake of this discussion, l dont normally like talking about myself, with all humility , My friend l was super-patriotic to the cause of Nigeria as a nation before, l even lambast my family members and friends whenever they speak ill of Nigeria as a nation but they keep telling me that my eyes will soon clear, and indeed l saw it first hand when l first traveled out of Nigeria for a conference in Amsterdam- The Netherlands years ago and subsequently l have been to several other Western Nations before l finally settled down and call it eternal good-bye to Nigeria as a nation , when l returned back to Nigeria after the conference my mindset changed completely.

if you ask me, it is better to be a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th hand citizen anywhere in the West / a saner clime where you have equal opportunity to be anything you want to be, my first job in the West l was earning more than white Europeans who have been on the job for years because my organisation told me plainly that l brought a lot to the table than the white Caucasians, moral of my story is that Nigeria kills your potentials gradually, sadly the useless politicians we hail online send their wards / kids to the West to get the best and also get citizenship, Buhari just came back from England because our health care system in Nigeria is almost comatose, Nigeria rewards mediocrity, if you dont have connection even with your PHD in Nigeria it makes no difference and that was my anger when l read this thread before that girl came talking trash

GEJPosterity:

You won't see truer words than this on Nairaland.

Leave this country if you have any ambition! December will not meet me in this country.

May it be unto you as you desire, leave as fast as you can to fulfill your potentials, our politicians do not believe in anything called patriotism, even the last wife of the Emir of Kano is in England pursuing her studies and l can count several other big time Nigerian elites who are doing the same thing, they give their wards / family members the best education , they acquire citizenship and still come back to Nigeria to get the best jobs and someone is telling me to be patriotic to Nigeria, to each is own, l have called it eternal good bye to Nigeria, l can only visit and nothing more than that, just tell me one basic thing the masses are enjoying in that hell called Nigeria, nothing, you suffer to go to school, graduate with good grades and yet some egg heads are given juicer positions than you simply because they are connected to a politician, what a country

GEJPosterity:
If you have ambition in life, you won't even be applying for any silly Nigerian civil service crap shoot.

Learn a freelancing skill (article writing, graphic design, web development etc) so you can gather some small change, then get yourself a passport and fly your young and useful ass out to somewhere you have a chance of becoming something in life. Because in Nigeria, you are guaranteed to be a nobody. You will be poor, frustrated and mistreated until you are old and useless and you will die anonymous and frustrated.

Leave this useless country while you still can! Even a dustbin man in Cyprus has a far higher standard of living than most "rich" people in Nigeria. When you leave Nigeria and discover that roadside gutters are meant to be covered, and they are covered pretty much everywhere else, then you will realise that even the people you look up to in Ikoyi and Lekki and Maitama and Asokoro are living like a bunch of fukin 18th century slum dwellers.

You will have no idea just how useless this thing called Nigeria is until you leave. When you leave Nigeria and discover that even Angola and Uganda have constant electricity and far better transport infrastructure than whatever you have seen since you were born in this shithole...when you realise that 3rd and 4th tier Chinese cities you have never heard of like Nanjing have monorails, subways and well-planned architecture while Lagos and Abuja don't even have painted lines on their potholed roads...when you realise that people born in poor countries like Laos and Cambodia and Vietnam are still 3 or 4 times better off than you, and that the poor people working in sweatshops in Vietnam make a lot more money than you with your BSc and MSc that you had to bribe or sleep with lecturers to get...when you realise that the entire economy of Nigeria can be destroyed by just bringing down 3rd mainland bridge, and yet the pillars supporting it at Yaba are already shedding concrete and about to fail...and the government knows, but they're waiting for a disaster so they can award themselves the repair contract...

When you realise just how viciously, monstrously, deliberately USELESS this thing called Nigeria is, you will carry your last N30k and get yourself a passport.

Humans beings are not supposed to live like this.

GEJPosterity:

The tragedy is that I bought into the lie. I had a good life in England, but I convinced myself that I could be a *First Class Citizen* if I was in my own "country". The problem is my parents worked very hard, so I never experienced Nigeria in the way that I am experiencing it now. This place is the most useless place I have ever been to - and I have a full passport. My biggest regret is not taking the opportunity I had to become a citizen elsewhere some years ago, because now the procedure for gaining permanent residency is turning my hair white.

I never expected that this is what my "triumphal return" to what I thought was my country, would turn out like. I had no idea Nigeria was this functionally useless and empty. Nowadays even the word "Nigeria" seems like a meaningless term to me. It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't evoke any positive image. It's just a sea of hopelessness and wasted human potential that someone painted green and white. I see no redeeming features whatsoever.

If I ever have any kids, I will raise them to think of themselves as Canadians first and foremost. Whether white people like them or not, whether they discriminate against them or not, at least on some basic levels, their lives will always be better than those in Nigeria, just by virtue of not being in Nigeria. That is the most damning thing to be said about Nigeria. I'd prefer to raise my kids in a racist environment than to raise them inside this big unwashed sewer euphemistically known as "Nigeria".

Complete nothing of a country.

l can relate with some of the issues you raised here, after a brief stint in the West for studies, l came back to Nigeria, l lived for 2 years then and those 2 years, it was like a fish removed from the ocean to live on land, l didn't need a soothsayer to tell me to run, l packed my bags , bought my ticket and vamoosed , l only visit for maximum 2 or 3 weeks, l can never, ever live nor settle in Nigeria again, not in this generation maybe in the next world to come but if l have a choice , l will tell God , please dont ever send me to Nigeria again , those who wants to be patriotic can continue , l wish them good luck, it is not too late for you though, just arrange yourself, plan and leave as fast as you can before you waste your talents, potentials etc in that hell called Nigeria

neoclassical:
I woke up this morning with the news that FCSC has shortlisted lists of successful candidates in the ongoing recruitment exercise by the Commission in various Federal Ministries.

Succinctly, I have a friend who studied Business Administration with 3rd Class, while I have Msc and Bsc (2.1) all in Economics. Both of us applied for the same position (SGL 09) in the Ministry of Trade & Investment. Perhaps, to my greatest perplexity, this guy's name was shortlisted while mine was conspicuously missing. Just a few minutes ago he opened up to me that the father made "some calls" on his behalf prior to this time.

For your information, we are of the same age bracket, applied for same position, from the same State. So what criteria could have been used to disqualify someone with Msc and Bsc (2.1) and someone with a 3rd Class was selected.

Holding other factors constant, I am so happy for him and I am so expectant that mine is coming. But this has kept me in an awe position, as the whole scenario depicts lack of correlation between merit and success in this entity called Nigeria.

WHAT A COUNTRY? So help us God!

neoclassical:
3rd or 2.1 apart, so in your thinking a 3rd Class holder should be selected ahead of a Masters degree holder ?

tobiasbeecher:

You graduated with a 2.1? That means you can't speak good English and I'm sure you didn't merit it. That's the truth.

royalsweetness:

He didn't even graduate with a 2.1. Mrdashing10 why are you telling bold lies forgetting you have your real pic on your dp, you had a 2.2 and is it in your dreams you are almost getting the ICAN?

mrdashing10:

Clean your mouth

royalsweetness:

You are the one that need to clean your mouth. I know you from school nah, you were in my set and you are still using the same nickname you used in school, plus your picture is on your dp, you can't come here and be claiming 2.1 just so that you can blame Nigerian government.

mrdashing10:

Lmao. who be this abeg?? scroll through the thread, shey na me dey find work wey I go blame government?!!
Okay! I am yet to collect my statement of result.. I had spillover!! I will be writing some courses this semester. Are you happy

royalsweetness:

OLANIYI1985:


PLS before you jump into conclusion, there is batch B and C recruitment as well, so there are more people going to be interviewed there names come out next week.