Benprass:



To begin with can I be your friend?

Thank you for saying the truth!! Every Tom and dick is saying get a skill, is only by skill alone you need God Intervation they are so many skillful youth out there no job.

The funny part is that they think is easy to start up something with your skill

If you no get God and connection you are on your own.

Devilagentcap:
Hmmm. Listening

Don't mind the name please

Please, who can lend me 100k for business and I'll pay back 10k/month for 15 months.
That's my contact

Or 50k, pay back 10k/month for 7 months. Please

Holluwatarhyor:
I'm a civil engineer and into building construction,I get my jobs through referrals..99% of jobs in Nigeria is through one connection or the other, especially government jobs.



The jobs that people gets mostly without connections are low paying salary jobs.

We like deceiving ourselves in this country,all the people talking about skills here,do you know how many graduates out there with skills that are now into operating of POS,UBER, BOLTS and so on

Klass99:
Without connections, I do it by using valuable resources available to me like;

1. Career sites (My Jobmag, Hot Nigerian Jobs, Certain twitter handles etc)

2. Lovely individuals in my life (siblings, former coworkers & friends) who send me job ads, they think I qualify for or should try out. Note: They don't have any connections to these jobs or within the organizations either. I still have to go through a legit recruitment process.

3. My God and my creator. I don't pray insisting that I must get the job, I humbly request He does what is best for me, because He is a better judge of what I need, than I am.

4. Then I get to work doing my part diligently, by applying for advertised jobs, following application rules, being responsive to follow up emails from recruiters, preping well for interviews, showing up and doing my best.

I work to impress but I also make sure an employer impresses me, interviews are always a two way street for me, where I am assessing an employer back as much as they are assessing me. It is not every interview invitation I accept or honour, if I do my research on a company and I don't like what I see, I nicely decline an interview.

ImaIma1:
First one

My friend sent in my CV and I was called for an interview. The HR manager who was conducting the interview studied French and I had done some months in a French school which was on my CV. She switched the interview to French and I was responding same. Others on the panel were just watching us .

After the interview, someone on the panel said I should rest assured that I had already got the job. And I got it.


Second

It was a full time writing job and I was given a test with a topic to write on. My article was preferred by the senior writer who was supposed access us. But apparently, the group head was threatened because I was going to be working with her husband (that was what I heard later).

So, they went with someone else against the senior writer's recommendation. A month or 2 after, I was called to come resume. They had fired the group head and in turn fired the person she employed. I resumed immediately.

geelite:
I was working as a security in the company. Meanwhile, my salary was 25k. 2018,one of their worker resigned and they were trying to fill the space.. i met with the operational manager and i told him that I am a graduate. he didn't believed until he asked me to provide my certificate. i presented it and the man was shocked. God so good. they did not interview me. they employed me immediately all because i have been working with them for over three years. now, my salary is 350k. glory be to God

pocohantas:


Keep your God and your connection to yourself,

I haven’t had any need for both at ANY level. Not for admission, not for my job. So yes, there are people that got their jobs without CONNECTION. You people should stop discouraging job seekers!

DreamersVille24:
A very good thread like this but so few viewers.

Truth is that your mindset can make or mar you in life.

If you believe that you will get a well paying job without connections immediately after your NYSC AND work towards that goal, it can be achieved. At most you spend a few months at home but you will reach that goal.

If you believe nobody gets a well paying job in Nigeria without connection, you're less likely to work towards getting such jobs and you will definitely not achieve that.

If you believe you can you're right. If you believe you cannot, you're also right.

Pick your poison wisely

Meanwhile follow @Career_LinkNG on twitter for VERIFIED job vacancies.

All the best to every job seeker out there.

adekS1:
I think this is a good platform to share this testimony.
It happens that almost a decade ago,l just came to Lagos as a Medical lab Scientist,trying to manage at a place to keep body and soul together,60k the pay.l kept on creating other time to search for job opportunities in health n submit CVs randomly to big hospitals l know around.managing with an uncle who left his apartment for another but avnt pack fully,l and rat became best of frnds in this face me l face you room.have to endure this situation. My gf then technically break up cos he couldnt cope wt such room,happy she did later.
One particular day l was about to submit CV around some big hospitals in Lagos,that is how l had a terrible accident while trying to highlight from d Red BRT.I slip n av to b in the middle of two brt buses am highlighting from n an on-coming blue brt.its just by the grace of God tyre didnt slam my head.had little bruises n trouser torn.this accident happen around that side wen one is abt to cross to oshodi on ikorodu road..
With this incidence the only option left is for me to go back home but l told mysef l won't, it must av been am closer to getting sumtin good for that to happen.
I dust mysef up,move around,submitted one or two CV that day,few weeks later one of the two places I submitted cv n license call me for interview.
I cn remember we were 11 in number,this big hospital just need one Scientist o with specialty in Haematology of which we all Haematology Specialist after their shortlist.
Interview started with written,question plenty but l told myself this is my opportunity to make sumtin better for myself,with anger mixed wt determination to succeed l wrote the written exams.By the grace of God 5 of us scale through to next round.
Next round was practical,l did it to d best of my ability.
3 of us scale through...
And finally On to Oral interview..

After a month of this l was called just like a dream to come n pick my appointment letter.

You can know book and not make it,so Jesus did it!

fikayormi:
I’m sure there will be some people like that , I mean those that got their job without connections or prior work experience.

They might be the minority though, but abeg make una come teach us how you do am .

It is by pure luck or some manipulations

Let learn some things from you

Jeezuzpick:


Simple.

Some won't accept it, but it's true.

I was praying about my career with my wife one day.

Just out of the blue, I opened LinkedIn later that morning and saw that one man checked my profile.

I checked his and made a connection request which he quickly accepted.

Shortly afterwards, there was a message from him asking for my CV, which I sent immediately.

A short while later, I got a call. It was him. Before the day ended, there was a job offer.

I never knew him from anywhere, never heard about him or his company, but that job is currently changing my life.

Holluwatarhyor:
I'm a civil engineer and into building construction,I get my jobs through referrals..99% of jobs in Nigeria is through one connection or the other, especially government jobs.



The jobs that people gets mostly without connections are low paying salary jobs.

We like deceiving ourselves in this country,all the people talking about skills here,do you know how many graduates are out there with skills that are now into operating of POS,UBER, BOLTS and so on

Benprass:



To begin with can I be your friend?

Thank you for saying the truth!! Every Tom and dick is saying get a skill, is only by skill alone you need God Intervation they are so many skillful youth out there no job.

The funny part is that they think is easy to start up something with your skill

If you no get God and connection you are on your own.

Sified:
Behind every "First day at new job" post is probably hundreds of applications sent, scores of interviews attended and evenings of depression

Holluwatarhyor:
sure,we can be friends

CaptainStephen:
I have never needed connection for anything in life, from gaining admission to study medicine and leaving during my 200 levels for NDA.

All i did was prepare enough and leave the rest for God.