TOPCRUISE:

God will make it happen. Prayer and dedication is the key

Yea definitely bro.

BiggyB242:


I'm not against buying and selling, she was talking about capital; rendering services you don't need capital not all though.

we are saying the same thing, you told her about rendering services and i seconded your point by saying that even the buying and selling is "a goal" if she knows what she is doing as a graduate.

Nigeriahomebiz:
Hello Nairalanders,

This post will be controversial but my assurance is that I am merely sharing facts with you. This post is not for everybody but for those who are not desperate to settle for less by becoming underemployed in a job they will resent, otherwise my apologies if you find this post offensive. You shouldn't read any more.

I do realize everybody's circumstance is different and so I am willing to say for those who are destined to work under a boss, don't see this as me trying to discourage you from searching, it is more of a wake up call than a grim reminder of what the job search and employment in Nigeria really entails. Here are 5 reasons why I believe the self-employment path is a better option than the job search/paid employment.

1. High Competition for few Job Slots
This is for freshers in the job market or recently laid off former employees. Even a Master's degree cannot guarantee an entry level position these days. The labour market is just too saturated and competitive. Last year nearly 1 million Nigerians entered the labour market (900,000+). Here is statistics from NBS 21 million Nigerians were unemployed as at July 2018. The economy grew by less than 3% last year and will not likely fair better which means much less than 400,000 jobs will be created this year by government and companies. This means that the jobs are just not there and even when you find them they aren't anything near a decent working experience. It will be like trying to push your way through a stampede just to grab a paltry prize that anyone close to it can snatch at anytime.

2. Low Return on Time and Effort Invested
If you start your job search today, how long will it take you to get a job and start earning a salary? Let me help you out with your guess, more than 2 years. That is the mean time the average employable job seeker takes to secure employment. But if you were to commit 6 months to learn a marketable skill, you could become self-employed almost immediately (I have been making a decent income for 5 years now going to 6 years after quitting my job thanks to a marketable skill I acquired prior to my employment and in fact it was what earned me my job in the first place, not my computer science HND).

3. Most Meaningful Job Vacancies are already taken
Can someone please remind me the last time they saw mass recruitment into CBN or heard of FIRS job vacancies posted in national dailies? Well chances are that a lot of newly employed persons in these very high paying organisations have been called privately and recruited. The less prestigious employers are inundated anyways with too much applications that they have their own databases of candidates who they will readily contact by email, sms or phone calls when there are any openings.

4. Most Employers use networks and recommendations
Employers are becoming weary of employing people they will still need to train after employing and so they opt for those who have proven work experience and skills, because it saves them costs. What are the chances that you fall into their network or may be recommended to the them by someone in a respectable position you know?

5. Career Advancement and Prospects
Let's say you get employed eventually, what are the prospects on the job 5 years down the line compared to a self-starter that aggressively improves his productivity, constantly seeks self improvement and has bagged considerable productive habits that have shaped his work ethic?

Those are my 5 reasons and I am so eager to hear objections and contributions. Waiting on you Pals!

what is ur skill op

Osnami:

Please, I want to learn Digital Marketing online or in Abuja if it will be offline, please where can I learn this?

Visit or google for them. They have a branch in Abuja as well. They are running a 50% promo until 18th already.

[quote author=Nigeriahomebiz post=83125490]Hello Nairalanders,

This post will be controversial but my assurance is that I am merely sharing facts with you. This post is not for everybody but for those who are not desperate to settle for less by becoming underemployed in a job they will resent, otherwise my apologies if you find this post offensive. You shouldn't read any more.

I do realize everybody's circumstance is different and so I am willing to say for those who are destined to work under a boss, don't see this as me trying to discourage you from searching, it is more of a wake up call than a grim reminder of what the job search and employment in Nigeria really entails. Here are 5 reasons why I believe the self-employment path is a better option than the job search/paid employment.

1. High Competition for few Job Slots
This is for freshers in the job market . OP you are right.just that you HAVE not thrown light on what seems to be the major problem of freshers FUND RAISING and....

drehdinho:


Nice. How much do you average per month?

My target was to just surpass the minimum wage per month so, $95 to $125 was kind of okay. But this month I am likely to hit $300+

ictjobber:
Entrepreneurship is unnecessarily hard in Nigeria

Many factors fight entrepreneurs in Nigeria including the government. Save your money commot from this hell of a hole.

spafu:

My target was to just surpass the minimum wage per month so, $95 to $125 was kind of okay. But this month I am likely to hit $300+

That's cool. I have a wide knowledge about the service you offer.

I just don't like the niche because of its lowly priced services.

I wish you the best of luck. Enjoy.

BiggyB242:



Acquire a skill, you render services not buying and selling.

you still have to pay to acquire skills

nakaman:
you still have to pay to acquire skills

okay, oya go find job now.

drehdinho:



That's cool. I have a wide knowledge about the service you offer.

I just don't like the niche because of its lowly priced services.

I wish you the best of luck. Enjoy.

Thank you. Yes, it is lowly priced but I believe with more sales and positive reviews, one can increase his price.

xcabczyxabczzzz:

Not with this mindset obviously.

i don't get it

Your whatsapp number, @MMElliot?

itsme01:




i really hate people with fixed boxed up mindset

The day you stop searching for job because you listen to many unfurtunate half baked entitled graduates thats when you shot yourself dead in life

while enterprenuership always appears lucrative to outsiders, it takes some level of discipline and finacial capacity that you can only get after working in corporate nigeria to start..

how many people have the discipline to manage time, source for fund, manage fund, create product and service, market it and expand without having major work experience from an organised sector?


..

Please before you call some people "half baked graduates" try and read what you just wrote up there.

Saintinoo:

Please before you call some people "half baked graduates" try and read what you just wrote up there.

I read it and so? if its blunders with the write up, Use English Language don't make a graduate .. many other skills do

Quorax:



you can start by offering services... Offering services is the fastest way to raise money, smarter way is offering the service to get paid in dollars and I know a few Nigerians who do this.

Learn skills that can aid you to raise this money by buying some courses on udemy.com. I suggest digital marketing and the likes.

Turn around and use that knowledge to help companies in UK, US, Germany when you become proficient in it. You can go a step further by doing some consulting with same knowledge.

If you do consulting and get paid $500 a week/ client, how many can you do in a month?

Don't doubt this figure because someone once contacted me and he paid me $500 bucks just for few hours of my knowledge in a different field, not digital marketing.

While most of you clinch to this watery excuse about capital, 90 % of you can't make anything meaningful when they eventually get the capital because your foundation of business is faulty.

I started my movement with Nokia C1-01. Google that phone and get an idea.

The question is how bad do you want it?

Chai! This talk touch me.