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In our society today, there are no enough jobs to go around at the same time for all that are seeking for employment, but there is enough spaces for all to work at the same time. Few of the jobs that are available are seriously being contested for; it has now become the survival of the fittest.
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Great post, I give you thumb up for the write up, lots of job seeker do limit themselves focusing all their energy on jobs that may not come their way easily or are too competitive for them to beat down any competitor. While not find something that you have passion for and start doing ousomething about while still searching for job. Although I may not really blame them that much, I will put much of the blame on the educational system we run in the country, where we believe that just get a degree and you can work in any organization as far as you're Nigerian graduate. It's a wrong misconception that rub off the actual qualities in Nigerian graduate.
Nobody will teach you how to be successful in school, both relevant and irrelevant things will just be packed into your brain. Until you finish from school before you will realized that what is outside there is a different story story.
As the initiator of this post rightly said up there, look for where you can be helpful for the time being, do proper networking as this has the highest percentage of chances of getting a job, it's about 80% compare to the online job board everybody just focused and make it highly competitive.
For me, I will personally add this to it, don't underestimate your passion, what you like best, what you admire and desire, they are the sure-bet to make you successful in life. Don't wait until you have enough money before going after you passion, start small today and tomorrow you will look back and see that you've actually taken a giant step yesterday.
Where the world is going now, it will reach a stage where there will be no more job but there will be enough services, it's what you get to offer that will make you more money than you can think. Blue collar job is much more prefer this days than white collar job

Hmnnn! It is good to have such grade coupled with such numbers of years of experiences but that part of the country may not offer you that much opportunities, even those that are in area where opportunities abound ain't find it easy. But you can do yourself a favour if the job in not coming forth, use your knowledge as in Library and Information Science to look for area where you can be self employed. Look at the people around you and see what you can use that knowledge to help them solve their problem by searching for information that put an end to their problem. It is only in helping people that we can help ourselves to make money for a living. Don't get frustrated anyway for not getting the job you wanted, just keep a positive attitude to life and don't forget to pray for luck.

It was a day where all expectation were met. I really enjoy everything about the meeting except the cool that nearly make me grinds my teeth latter in the day, the AC eh! Thank to Peter, Oladele, Keji, Awwal, Prince, Lawrence, Emma, Bankz, Edafe, Ogomba, Olukayode, and others that contributed to the success of bloggers meet-Up.

Seun: Everyone is so young! Kudos to you guys.

True everyone looks but not age-wise, it is because of their passion that bring out the freshness in their face. Doing what you love and have passion for, will always keep you younger. That is the secret of their looks.

General Info on NYSC Certificates, Loss of certificate, Replacement of certificate, Error in name on your certificate, Exemption Certificate, and Exclusion letter
We appreciate all our esteemed Ex-Corps Members, Employers of labour, and Stakeholders etc. for their quest of knowledge regarding our mandate.
In view of this, the NYSC Website has been updated with explanations to your inquiries especially regarding how to go about when you are faced with:
1. Loss of certificate
2. Replacement of certificate
3. Error in name on your certificate
4. Exemption Certificate
5. Exclusion letter and etc

TO: ALL APPLICANTS
We appreciate all our esteemed Ex-Corps Members, Employers of labour, and Stakeholders etc. for their quest of knowledge regarding our mandate.
Below are the various requirements for any of the under-listed needs.

VERIFICATION OF CERTIFICATE
1. Write a letter of request to the Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Directorate Headquarters, plot 416, Tigris Crescent, Maitama, Abuja. It should be marked “Attention: Director (Corps Certification)”
2. Make photocopies of the Certificate(s) that you want to be verified, serially numbered with your marker or pen and attach them to the letter. Please note that these are the Certificates produced by the National Youth Service Corps:
· Certificate of National Service
· Certificate of Exemption
· Letter of Exclusion
3. Submit your letter at the Director-General’s Registry on the sixth (6th) floor of the complex, that is, Yakubu Gowon House – NYSC NDHQ and await your reply.

4. Other information to note:
(a) Ensure to reflect your e-mail address
(b) Ensure to reflect your telephone number and
(c) Ensure to reflect your traceable contact address on your letter to us.

PROCEDURE FOR THE COLLECTION/REPLACEMENT OF CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION
In accordance with the National Youth Service Corps Decree 1993 section 2 subsection (1) it is stipulated that;
‘’With effect from 1st August, 1985, a person shall NOT be called upon to serve in the service corps if, at the date of graduation or obtaining his diploma or other professional qualification’’-
1. He is over the age of thirty (30) years
2. He has served in the Armed Forces of the Federation or the Nigeria Police Force for a period of more than nine months; or
3. He is a member of staff of any of the following, that is,
4. The Nigerian Security Organization or
5. The State Security Service, or
6. The National Intelligence Agency or
7. The Defense Intelligence Service or
8. He has been conferred with any National Honour.

These categories of persons are therefore exempted from service and issued with the Certificates of Exemption.

LEGIBILITY:- Nigerian Graduates either home or oversea trained who have the stipulated qualification of (B.SC, B.A or HND) from approved or accredited Institution by (NUC, NTBE or NCCE) are eligible for Exemption Certificate however while foreign trained graduates must submit their Certificates at the Mobilization Department for Evaluation.

PROCESS OF COLLECTION OF CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION
1. HOME TRAINED GRADUATES: The process begins from the Corps Producing Institutions i.e. the tertiary institutions attended. The School submits the master list of their graduates alongside with the Senate approved result to NYSC.
A print-out is processed by NYSC classifying those to be called up for service and those to be exempted. This print-out is sent back to the Institutions for verifications and corrections after which they are returned to NYSC as an agreed/corrected document.
With the print-out, the Certificates of Exemption are produced, documented and sent back to the Institutions for issuance to the appropriate persons.
Please note: Collection of Certificate of Exemption for home trained graduates is only done in the Institution of graduation and not in NYSC office.

1. FOREIGN TRAINED GRADUATES
1. The process begins with the evaluation of credentials and other related documents i.e. International passport. After the evaluation of credentials the foreign trained graduate is then registered and this is physically done at the NYSC directorate headquarters, Abuja.
It is at the point of registration that the classification of who to be called-up or who to be exempted; is determined.
2. Certificates of Exemption are therefore produced for those exempted from service.
3. Such Certificates of Exemption for foreign graduates are to be collected at the NYSC directorate headquarters at the stipulated time communicated.
Please note, that collection of Certificate of Exemption is grouped under the three batches of the service year, depending on the date of registration. This equally would be communicated to exempted graduates at the point of registration.
NOTE: Collection of Certificate of Exemption is strictly with identification such as International passport and the bearer MUST BE PHYSICALLY PRESENT.
CORRECTIONS/COMPLAINTS
Issues of complaints and corrections for home trained graduates are to be routed through the Institutions of graduation. The school then forwards such cases with necessary attachments such as photocopy of print-out to NYSC for the purpose of rectification or further necessary action.
Foreign trained graduates are to submit handwritten application with the attachment of photocopy of International passport – data page and original Certificate of Exemption to be addressed to the Director-General, NYSC NDHQ, Abuja, indicating their address and telephone number.

REPLACEMENT
In the case of loss of Certificate of Exemption, the following steps are to be taken.
Home Trained:
1. A letter of notification/request routed through the Institution of graduation and addressed to the Director-General, NYSC.
2. Police Extract/Report
3. Court Affidavit
4. Where available, a copy of the lost Certificate of Exemption
Foreign Trained:
1. A letter of notification/request addressed to the Director-General, NYSC.
2. Police Extract/Report
3. Court Affidavit
4. Photocopy of International passport
5. Where available, the copy of the lost Certificate of Exemption
It is in policy the Scheme does not reprint lost or burnt Certificates. Letters of Confirmation are issued in places of lost.

COLLECTION/REPLACEMENT OF CERTIFICATE OF NATIONAL SERVICE
“A” Modalities for the collection of Certificate of National Service
1. Certificate of National Service is issued to State Secretariats at the Directorate headquarters through the State Certification Officers thrice a year for delivery to deserving Corps members.
2. Only Corps members duly discharged from National Service and Certificated on presentation of letters of clearance from employers, CDS Inspectors and I.D card are issued with Certificates.
3. Those who benefited from WAP loan facility are issued theirs on full repayment of the loans.
4. Corps members with pending disciplinary case(s) are not certificated until he/she is cleared.

“B’’ LOST CERTIFICATE OF NATIONAL SERVICE
In the case of loss of Certificate of Exemption, the following steps are to be taken.
1. Police Extract/Report
2. Court Affidavit
3. Letter of Introduction from where the Ex-Corps member is discharged i.e. State of Service
4. Where available, a copy of the lost Certificate
It is in policy that the Scheme does not reprint lost or burnt Certificates. Letter of Confirmation is issued in place of lost.

‘’C’’ ERROR IN CERTIFICATE
Upon noticing any error on your Certificate, return it immediately to the State Certification Officer for possible correction where the error is traceable to NYSC. Certificates are produced based on what the Ex-Corps member penned on the format during the orientation exercise.
In case you are to proceed to NYSC NDHQ for collection of corrected Certificate, the following are required of you.
1. Letter of Introduction from the NYSC State Secretariat addressed to the Director-General.
2. Handwritten application.
3. Valid I.D Card

NOTE: Certificate of National Service is not issued by proxy.

MODALITIES AND STEPS FOR ISSUANCE OF TEMPORARY LETTER OF EXCLUSION
1. Graduates of various Institutions who have completed their part-time programme and have obtained their Degrees/HND/Certificates or Professional qualification as regulated by NUC/NBTE or evaluated by the Federal Ministry Education with effect from 2001 to date are eligible to be issued Letters of Exclusion.
2. Application for the issuance of Letters of Exclusion should apply to the office of the Director-General and attach the photocopies of the following:
3. Degree/HND/Professional Certificate or Statement of Result
4. Means of Identification e.g. I.D cards- Driver’s license, International passport
5. One passport photograph
6. Physically present himself at the National Directorate Headquarters with the following documents;
· Original Certificate and or
· Original Statement of Result
· Identity Card, Driver’s License or International Passport
· One passport photograph.

7. Applicants to report to the Exclusion Division of the Corps Certification Department, 48 hours after submission of application for necessary attention.

MODALITIES/STEPS FOR REPLACEMENT OF LOST LETTER OF EXCLUSION
1. Presentation of Letter of application for replacement attached with the following documents.
· Police extract
· Court Affidavit
· Photocopy of lost original letter of exclusion.
· Where the above (c) is not available, the applicant must furnish the department with the date of issuance and certificate number.
· Original copy of his/her Institutions Certificate of graduation.
· Identity card or driver’s license or International passport.
NOTE:
NYSC Original Letter of Exclusion is not replaceable hence client will only be issued with letter of attestation/confirmation.
CORPS CERTIFICATION DEPARTMENT of NYSC
DECEMBER, 2012.
Source:GENERAL NYSC CERTIFICATE ISSUES

Hayjaycity: You have only succeeded in making baseless points to support your claim, I wonder how your lecturers scored you in your examinations, when you were in school. Go and do something better with your cafe time.

Oh! don't get it wrong man, are you one of the people that don't want job seeker to write there own CV? It is possible that you don't even have one and if you have? Some write it for you. I only laugh you at your statement quoted above there. Tell me the baseless point in that post bro. My lecturer don't score me at all, they just promote me and because of that don't be jealous of me. God help you.

I want to categorically state it here that, CV template will hurt more than it will help you. Curriculum Vitae can be found in every nook and crannies online with just merely typed “CV template” on Google search. Millions of pages will be displayed and you will be happy that you are going to find one CV template that you will just do some little editing on it and put all your information. Gbamm!

You might be wrong, unknowing to you most of those CV template you find are not good for you at all. Follow me now as I listed out top 9 reasons why you should not use online CV template and just one reason why you should make use of them. Here they are:

Top 9 Reasons Why You Should Not Use Online CV Template
1. Most of the online CV templates are outdated; they have been created over ten years ago and are no more relevant in today’s job hunt.

2. Using them will restrict you to follow their pattern which is not good for you at all

3. Using online CV template can never bring out the best in your and will never do that for you.

4. Don’t even go near the ones that has table in it; it will frustrate your life and leave you with disjointed CV and regression.

5. As different job require different CV template, it will take you long, long time to be able to make another CV for different job application and that is why lots of graduates use just only one CV to apply for all available job vacancies out there. Nobody will employ you with untailored CV.

6. Using online CV template will never make you to stand out because that is exact template most people use for their CV. This means that you’re not creative.

7. Online CV template will not help you to keep up with the industrial trend. You will always be a laggard, outdate, uninformed and not current at all. What work today may not work tomorrow.

8. Online CV template will miss-represent you and you should be aware that your CV is the real you represented on paper. You don’t waste your year in higher institution, so why must you get yourself misrepresented with online CV template.

9. Recruiters or Employer easily found out that you make use of pre-formatted CV which will put you in a disadvantage for the job you’re applying for.

The Only One Reason To Use Online Cv Template
1. Use them to guide yourself, to practice and learn how to write it independently on your own. JUST USE THEM AS YOUR GUIDE.

Your resume speaks for you when you are not there to do the talking. Your resume should play up your expertise and qualifications, but at the same time it communicates softer qualities such as your style, attention to detail, ability to communicate, English skills and commitment to quality.
Source: Nigerian Job Career

I read so many people's comments here with dismay. It is time for us to grow up in our thinking; two wrong head can never make one right head. For the fact that many don't use CV to get job doesn't remove the important of CV writing. Don't be caught on aware please. You may not have anybody who will connect to any better job but you have your CV which is the powerful instrument you possess. Do you part and let God do His own part too. I have seen where people are sent packing because of the wrong way they enter into their well-paid job simply because the person that link them up to the job is no more in the company.

I know that we Nigerian can survive in any given lucrative job and that account for why someone that studied Arabic is doing well in the banking system and also a friend of mine that studies Yoruba is doing wonderful currently with MTN now. But we still need to play our part.

Just little correction in what she posted above, don't pull down your educational qualification if you're not that experience (Fresh Graduate Take Note). But if you're highly experienced, your experience comes immediately after your profile, this is because the more experience you have the lesser your educational qualification. That is why you will see those lucrative jobs in managerial position requiring for 10 to 15 years plus experience, they know that many possess the educational qualification but how many got such experience as still want to change job. They need your experience more because you'll bring in great innovation in no time into their company.

The important of CV cannot be overemphasized. And if you're one those that still believe that CV don't work here in Nigeria, you better not even prepare any CV, don't even go sch at all and wait for God grace. DON'T BE LAZY! If you don't know things please ask question. Nobody will punish you for asking questions.

The bottom line is that, your CV speaks so much about you and your cover letter is your sales copy, is your advertising copy that tell employer to come grab you before anyone else does because you're too hot right now.

bgates: GOD BLESS U ALL FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS....
I HAVE LEARNED ALOT HERE....WE have lots of INTELLIGENT NIGERIANS..
PLEASE ATTACHED HERE IS MY CV...PLS PEOPLE HELP ME GO THROUGH THE CV..and make your SUGGESTION
also pls if u know anywhere I CAN SEND IT TO FOR JOB PLS LET ME KNOW.
THANX

Your picture should disappear from it, it is only in France and Germany as far as I know for now that make use of picture in their CV. The employer may not like your face o Lol.

Put your email and phone number under your address above,

Remove the personal information asap

Rearrange your CV by putting you either your qualification or Experiences first. Education if you have less experince and experience not relating to the company you're applying. New graduates are always advise to put their educational qualification first with CGPA if you have more than 3.0

Nigerian now have beging to adopt UK and other developed country concerning the listing of personal information like date of birth, religion and the rest because of discrimination issues. Just remove that personal information completly and replace it with personal profile if you know how to write it to grab employer's attention otherwise just ignore that part.

Focus on one type of bulleted list you use there (., -, *)and remove your skill from the from. it should be ability and skill

The way you write your skill is too generic, modify it toward the company's positional job description you're apply for.

You've succeeded in listing responsibilities in your CV and not achievement. Nobody want to see your irresponsibility, all recruiters want is your accomplishment or achievement. Listing responsibilities only mean you just do only the job you're given without doing anything extra to earn applauds from your employer.

Remove your reference and make your CV one page bro. Your reference don't make meaning at this state now because employer will not consult them without your consent. Wait until you get to the interview stage, that is when they will have your time to look for such thing.

Just take your time to rearrange everything.
All best bro.

You need to tailor your CV to the specific job you want to apply for, this your CV is just a generic one that does not meant for a particular job position. No employer will call you with this type of CV, that is the truth except through divine intervention.
Things to change in your CV
1. Your Objective statement can’t caught recruiter’s attention, you need to redefine it and tailor it toward the specific job you’re applying for. If you cannot do it well, it is better to ignore it because that is first thing employer will see and it can determine where your CV will be place. (of interest or not of interest)
2. Your name, address and your email are not well-aligned, please try to justify them instead of the right align I can see in there in your CV.
3. Your font size is not consistent apart from your name which is expected to be of larger font, every other font there should be the same. Writing with different font shows that you’re not organized. I would advise you to use Verdana with 10 points or Times New Roman with 11 or 12 points. Leave spacing with 1.0. From your CV here you have up to 4 different font type or face (Cambria, Calibri, Bookman Old Style, verdana)
4. Please remove the personal data because it is not necessary, it just eaten up space in your CV. Employer need to see the information that will help them sort out CV as fast as possible within 20 – 30 seconds. Except otherwise stated you don’t need them there
5. I can see that you use chronological type of CV format which is good for someone with less experience but the way you arrange your educational career is not too good, it even eat up much space in your CV, and those spaces could have been used for some more important information.
6. With your experience level, you CV should not be more than one page. It is advisable not to have more than one page when you have an experience that is less than 5 years. This is the reason why you need to match your CV with the available job position and remove any qualification that does not go with the job you’re applying for.
7. In your experiences listing, you’re only telling recruiter your responsibilities or duties in those places where you’ve worked. Employer aren’t interested in your responsibilities or duties, they are only interested in your accomplishment in those places. You achievement will draw their attention toward you. Use keywords that are related to that company you’re applying for job when you’re trying to write your accomplishment stated and make sure you quantify them. You teach student, how is there improvement level and by what standard. E.g, When you got to that School the number of students that pass commerce with B’s & A’s increases to 75% when compared with their previous results in that school.
8. Your personal skill look too generic, ability to , ability to, ability to, are generic statement, try and modify them with the company keywords.
9. The whole of your CV need an overhaul, I cannot do more than this for you my dear sister.
10. If your CGPA is above 3.0, don't forget to list it but if it is below don't bother yourself about it. Your qualification matter because companies list it as part of their criteria for employment, although not every company does that but for the one that do it, is just to screen candidates out of the huge number of people that apply for particular position.
God will help you and me too, your job is on the way.

Just preview your attached CV now, I see many things that are wrong in there, if this is the CV you actually submitted to all job opening out there. I have no time now but surely will come back to highlight some of the things you need to improve on. Hopefully before tomorrow morning.