mizGene:


I think he meant "two different visas" like student visa and visit visa..
I believe can reapply for a visit visa before the current on expires...your application form showing your travel date will justify the need for that.

Thanks dear

BoyDimples:
Good evening house,

Please I need advise ooh, my wife and I are inviting my 21yr old niece to come visit us in the UK for christmas and new yr, we are sponsoring the trip and we helping her with the form filling as well sha via whatsaap , so basically there is a section it does ask
"How much money are you personally planning to spend on your visit to the UK?" Basically wifey and I are the ones sponsoring it. My wife says put £100 there as she cant be expected to fly out empty handed. I'm like put Zero are we given her the £100?.
There is also a section who is paying towards the cost of your trip and this is where we put how much we will be putting( all together flights plus small spending money).

Please any advise will be gratefull. Thank you all.

Nothing wrong with what your wife said but make sure you indicate that you’re the sponsor. Attach your home deed to show she can stay with you guys, 3 months bank statement showing surplus money to show you can sponsor her, and your work contract or payslip to show you have a job.

Write letter of invitation too. Also if you have photo of you and her, attach. Niece is not a strong tie so better to give plenty documents that too little document. What you should worry about is how you’ll prove her tie to Nigeria and show that she will return.

Good luck .

Lexusgs430:


Two separate visas from the same country, cannot run concurrently...........

Really?

My Irish visa expires on Jan 7. I have a graduation on Jan 20. Can I apply in December for a new visa to Ireland even though my current visa wouldn’t have expired by the time of application?

The problem with Ireland is that they give the visa from the date it is stamped.

I promised to give pointers about tech occupations. Of course there are the core tech occupations like infrastructure manager, network architects, technical architects, developers (either front or backend), automation testing or even some data professions (these require sql, python, r and some familiarity with tableau, power bi, etc). As for manual testing, if you have experience with software and/or UX experience, you may easily become a manual tester (pays well).

I am not a pro in the above so I will leave it to the professionals to speak of. Out of all the above tech occupations, the easiest and most pragmatic to get into would be security manager (which requires little to no code, as your infrastructure staff would do the needed to help you) but security requires vast experience in the tech industry (that’s why I pity people with no experience reading cyber security).
Anyway the good news is, there are some professions that you can crack easily, these are:

Scrum master-- if you are a manager, cheerleader and teacher, you can do a scrum master course on scrum.org, watch looooads of scrum or agile videos on YT and go on some other agile courses to become a scrum master—m but prepare to start as a junior if you have never had the role before.

Product owner-- again read up about it, make sure you do your certification on scrum.org, then whatever industry you apply to, make sure it is an industry you have worked in very well because POs always need the experience to make good decisions.

Delivery manager—if you have worked as a Project manager before, just learn about agile (again scrum.org and many agile videos, change your mindset (no more controlled environment, you philosophy must be to fail fast) and then you can convert your title to DM- they pay well.
Business analyst, these are pretty popular, just make sure you have some certs and you have experience in the industry you want to work in. You can learn about BA in BCS or IIBA- pays well.

Product manager-- my favourite, well just be experienced in the product and have good enough experience in being a BA, DM or PO. You must be familiar with agile and product development life cycle.

Take these jobs, go on indeed, look up the jobs, then try and acquired whatever skill the jobs require within the next 4 months. Tune your cv to reflect the job spec, practice well so you have speak eloquently during your interview. You can also convert your job as an accountant, finance analyst etc to the above jobs, but you have to be smart about it.

LagosismyHome:


I believe that Tech pays higher than the average earnings so when you are climbing you be able to afford a comfortable life

However however.... I feel Tech is not easy to enter because it very heavily "relevant work experience driven ". So I am cautious about advising people into tech if they don't have relevant work experience

But.... if you want to start from the bottom / lowest level in tech and then climb up...ok as it then becomes easier if you want to go down this route and don't have experience

I liked your comment because I appreciate the honesty. Yes tech is not easy to enter if you’re not a hardworking person with passion or ambition. The only way to stay relevant in tech is to love tech and to be ready to study everyday (I have guys that live off github and YT)

So if someone is passionate about tech, they will make easy money in tech. If they can’t sit down and study, and be ready to start from the bottom- no need.

mdeeokoye:


Been a while, so from my experience so far.

Amazing. Well done

jtech17:

Let give the honour to Aunty Aphrodite... shes a tech emancipator

You that have tech in your name nko ���

Please all hands on deck o. I’ll be expecting to read yours.

IamE:
Dear @Katherine98
@Aphrodite007
@jtech17
@mdeeokoye
@fatima04
And all tech enthusiast willing to start or further their career in UK..
Aside Nursing, Tech seem to be the next big thing and most of us who have a little knowledge about it do not know how to fix ourself into thé system..

Please if you are viewing this and you already in the UK tech space, your contribution is needed too.

Can someone please create a thread for this purpose. my account is quite new and may not be able to create a thread.
Thanks @justwise

One day when I have time, I’ll detail some of the occupations and post here. That should help and guide people.

Alwaysachick:


Hi dear, this your post just dropped my morale. My husband got an offer to study at your side. Computer science (advanced study) I will be joining as dependant. But me I can't stay up to 2 or 3 months waiting for job o. Will loose my mind worse not getting a job at all.

I’m trying to understand what was doing me the day i typed “job shortage”. I meant “worker shortage”. My brain said one thing and my finger typed another. That’s why asked why he wanted to come to my side since there are loads of jobs.

Tech is good. Someone posted a twitter name for you to follow. The twitter person posts about tech careers. Use that as a stepping stone then follow people with that same career on LinkedIn. Follow loads of Tech Recruiters too.

Look for the job you want and paraphrase the familiar job skills into yours. Trust yourself, you’ll be fine. Unfortunately this is a faceless place and I’ll like to remain faceless.

Santa2:


@Aphrodite007 Madam this not for you naa. You already are an oracle in this area, A goddess for that matter

Haha I was thanking you on other peoples behalf now I fit also dey find mentor or new career line

Oracleforce:



Really...
...Just came to the UK this month and have been searching for a care worker or any maniac job

Pls is there a student at Teesside University Middlesbrough or someone who can help me, with a Student part-time job...I need to work to be paying bills here...and to balance up my student life here
I have been applying for small jobs, no one has called yet....pls if you have direct contact with some of these organizations or you want to leave your small paying jobs to bigger one's, you can link me up....pls DM me thanks

It takes time to get a job, be patient ok. I didn’t get my job when I came as a student until November.. and most of my friends didn’t get until January.

Be patient and keep looking. Find your seniors who are Nigerians, make friends with them. They should guide you.

Santa2:
For those looking to break into tech, you could follow teneika askew on twitter, she provides insight on the different pathways you can follow, and how each aligns with your skillset and personal attributes. It might not be mentorship but it sure is something.

This is fab. Thanks for sharing it.

IjJudy:
I am a woman O, please I need mentoring too.

I need help too. I just arrived last month, student visa, a PGC course in education. I decided not to go for MSc cos I have a UK MSc degree (a UK school overseas campus). Both my MSc and BSc are IT related and I have some IT experience too.

Which of these two is a better pathway to follow long term, IT or Education (teaching)?

You could try teaching. I don’t know much about that. If you get bored of teaching and want to enter the industry again, you could do any certification you like, watch loads on videos on it and try your luck. There are loads of IT jobs, just pick the one that suits you the most

captainhoo:


Thank you but I saw different person, Is it the one in a group called learntor?

IMS

jtech17:
if we are men nko... aunty Aphrodite... wat shud we do na..

She runs a women's group to empower more black women.

Thehilah4jesus:

Please l need you in my life....God!!!! I will help me realise my dream of switching career to Tech and l will be eternally grateful to you.l need mentorship so badly.l will appreciate your response.thank you

.

AirBay:


She can go for her PhD in canada.

I thought you were talking of job opportunities and not further study.

She can do her PhD in uk after MSc but she cannot practice as a BMS.

Also with just a MSc in BMS in UK, she cannot practice as a BMS in canada.

Exactly.

KOVIC19COVID20:


You know you can change it right?
Create a new email account e.g AphroditeAphrodisiac007@gmail.com
Then log into Nairaland using your ‘usual’ method.
Go to your profile.
And change email address to your new ‘Nairaland email address’s.

Hahahaha that email eh haha! Yeah I know I can change it, do you know how lazy I am?

captainhoo:

Can I pm you please?

Please ask here dear. The email attached to this account always snitches on my real identity, so I don’t do PMS.

Blessings001:
Good day all.

Please can you continue to live in Uk even when your visa has expired?

Or will one be deported?

1. Yes you can but you shouldn’t.
2. If/when you get caught, you’ll be deported.

davda202:
Hello all.

My wife and i are planning to come to the UK next year September.

She's coming for study while i work.

Speaking about work, I run a business here in nigeria in the Digital marketing space.

It won’t affect you if you continue your online business, the repercussion may be taxes.

You can look through indeed.co.uk for marketing jobs here, while you start an online business for yourself here.

I hope your wife gets a job in her field after her degree- most friends of mine that did biomed left the country after school. But she may have the luck she needs to practice. Make sure she registers to be able to practice here- I heard the masters doesn’t auto grant her her “licence to practice”.

Irenenwaka:


Ahh ah everyone needs mentoring.. by the way @aphrodite007 please do u have any suggestions on how to ace those hire vue based interviews…i detest them ���

I realised i am usually more tensed than in face to face interviews.
I heard some people actually prefer it …smh

I have one coming up on Monday, i have thinking so hard hehehe @Aphrodite007

You just have to be natural, smile, have a positive attitude and be engaging.

Try recording yourself first on your own, before you do the real interview- it will help you see how you come off to the Hiring Manager when they watch it later.

I found this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2VnJOw5Cd0

wonlasewonimi:


Wait, let me check.. I am like bobrisky

dupyshoo:
Thanks so much. Well done for helping others.

Will add her on LinkedIn.

Most welcome.
Pls can you edit your comment and remove her name. Cheers dear

wonlasewonimi:


I'm in dire need of mentoring too oo

Are you a woman

dupyshoo:
Please can you elaborate on the kind of help you offer? I know a lot of women that need help. Maybe I can direct them to you.

I myself also need mentoring

I like to encourage women into tech and help them with their journey but because I do this for free, I’m not always available and don’t take too many people on. I just stand as support, someone to rub mind with, cheerlead and help plan career. There’s another lady that helps, I don’t believe she charges (she may), I got her permission to put her name here but I need to respect her privacy so I keep deleting it.

dustydee:

No nah, I am trying to change career that's why. I have been lucky so far in my current field.
I do mentor people too but mentor pass mentor especially when the mentor is a goddess.

Hahaha this one made me blush

AirBay:
But wait o, @dustydee na M... baba no vex o, your name sounds F to me just like @Aphrodite007 sounds Hermaphrodite....

How did Fela say it: trouble dey sleep, yanga wake am

dustydee:

I understand. Thank you so much. I will contact her.

Modified:
Wait o, do I come across as a woman?
No wahala sha, I guess she'll be expecting a woman so perhaps it might not work but thank you so much.

Oh wait. Oh I’m so sorry. Dustydee sounds so feminine. My apologies. Unfortunately we really don’t help men. No vex. You can still send her a message, she might; she really might.

dustydee:


But to cheer you up, some online applications do ask "diversity" questions which includes your age range, gender and race.

@Aphrodite007 you no wan mentor me ba

Hahaha you’re not serious. Yeah it’s a no-no. Haba dusty I spent my day running round looking for how to get you help. You know this is a nameless place and me I like my id hidden, so I had to find another way for you to get the help you.

I’m always so proud of women that want to change careers and I’ve finally found someone for you- had to ask for her permission.

dustydee:

Please how can I join your mentorship club? I need a mentor badly. I am trying to change careers at the moment and think I have some skills but need guidance to put it all together.
Is it ok if I contact you?

I’ll reply in the next one

LagosismyHome:


I agree with everything you wrote... this hussle no easy at all . Finding job is a full time work

This flowing with their jokes and banter is not easy for everyone but in my experience time helps..... When I first came I just couldn't flow, you throw one at me , if you are waiting for response... o boy I was like brick wall. I just smile awkwardly . I just couldn't respond for a while. With time I got better and as I like money pass anything (lol) , I had to teach myself that to climb to the top , there no other way than to follow with the jokes, banter, conversation and all. Me I want to climb to the very top as that the only way I know how to make money. I am not business oriented, just salary oriented

Today I flow as if I was born and bred but I smile to myself and look back. It wasn't always like that , neither did it come naturally to me.

Everything you’ve said is golden. Proud of your journey as well. This is the reason why I said all interviews you get is worthy of celebration because you’ll learn with each one. Well done