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“Aliko Dangote, has reportedly offered automatic employment opportunities to 30 FUTO students after they visited the Dangote Refinery and Fertilizer Plant in Lagos on an educational tour.”

Who got invited to join this educational tour? Without this information, non one can assess if this is a smart HR move.

Some frequent misconceptions concerning Germany:

- You hardly need any German to land one of those wonderfully well paying easy jobs.
- Getting here is the hard part, making it here is a piece of cake.

Please, please, please, don’t believe this kind of unfounded rumor.

Yes, if you’ve got the right paperwork, there are quite a lot of real hard minimum wage jobs available, think all types of cleaning, rubbish sorting, late night fast food cooking, delivery by e-bike. Such jobs pay enough to allow you to eat and pay for very simple accommodation, if you can find it, and that’s it.

For better jobs you compete with millions of well educated and trained locals who write and speak the language fluently.

Only study a subject that you master with great ease. Seriously. Don’t even think about trying something overseas that you barely manage at home.

If you want to find out if coding is for you and have access to a little equipment and bandwidth, there are plenty of free options. Just search for “free apps to learn how to code” and give it a try. Have fun, and good luck!

If it’s any consolation, this is not a Nigerian thing. Years back I had a card with this text on my office wall, to stop colleagues whining about how they can’t make ends meet despite our nice German wages. The card asks: Why do some people buy stuff they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress people they don’t even like?

Hi everybody,

On top of my ongoing 3 remitaunt projects in Lagos I’m about to sponsor the blocked account for an acquaintance qualifying for the so-called Chancenkarte that will allow him to look for work in Germany. He proposes to use Expatrio for the blocked account and health insurance. Anyone here who has done this and already transitioned into paid employment In Germany. If yes, here are my questions:
- Can you use the bank account created in the Expatrio process as current account for your wages or do you need an additional one without blocked account limitations?
- If your wage in Germany is below the treshold allowing private health insurance, did the health insurer in the Expatrio package allow you to transition to part-employer funded mandatory health insurance corresponding to you wage or did you end up paying both?
- Which SIM provider do you use for the phone where the banking app runs? Their contract very much highlights that your phone OS needs to be up-to-date. I assume there has been trouble in this regards, can you confirm and provide details?

Thank you so much for providing valubale information.

If all works well for my acquaintance and the sum now provided for the first blocked account stays available, there will be a next round in about a year. Please feel free to point me to people who fulfill all other requirements for the Chancekarte and only lack the funds for the blocked account. They might become the next person to benefit from these funds, but we need to get to know each other before, I need to be convinced they’ve got what it takes to make it on the German job market.

Reading some of the answers I wonder why so many people don’t manage to go check the definition of Amazon SDE II. Here is is, will sure reduce the number of potential aspirants:

“SDE II level engineers have gained experience with large codebases as well as architectural experience. As an SDE II engineer at Amazon, gets to work on the implementation of key features of a product and be a part of their launch as well. A wide range of technology is used by SDE II engineers like AWS ElasticSearch, Lambda, and so on.”

There’s this saying in Germany that translates roughly as “If work was fun, the bosses wouldn’t pay us to do it”. Customers and clients can be annoying, but IMHO that’s just part of the job. As long as the wage is ok, no problem.

You’re not alone, just look at this list of famous people who had to wrestle with the same issue

https://stammeringlife./famous-stammerers/

In the age of the smartphone and apps exercises are easy to find, e.g. BeneTalk Stuttering Coach. Good luck!

An assessment center is a nice way to test candidates and weed out applicants who are only good at talking. The procedure is well described here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assessment_centre

Loewe:
What kind of defamatory thread is this? Foreigners will read this and draw up silly, fallacious conclusions about our educational system and youth's mental capacity and tomorrow, y'all will claim Nigerians aren't being accepted in certain places.

Most of us are highly unpatriotic... This is a nonsensical thread!

Being a foreigner I can assure you my reaction is very different, more like “hey, same issues with some newcomers who struggle with the transition from university to employment, HR in Nigeria isn’t that different from HR in Germany”.

In a job environment, certificates are irrelevant. They only facilitate access to roles with a potential for career development (over years/decades of acquiring experience and improving skills). Next step has to be delivery, high quality on time. Otherwise the story ends, at the latest at the end of the probation period, 6 months in most contracts for graduates in Germany.

How long are probation periods for graduates in Nigeria? What proportion of fixed-term contracts do you have?

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Typeter2:
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All depends on his skills and confidence to be able to find yet another job in case the fintech fails. And on his financial margin of maneuver: With a family to provide for and a mortgage to service you can‘t take the same level of risk as a solo person.

A sociology degree leading to a job as a social worker, that‘s very Nigeria-specific.

In Germany and the UK, sociology is a very academic university course that might - in a best case scenario, with a cleverly selected subject for the masters thesis and a fine network - lead to all kind of management roles in e.g marketing or an academic career as a researcher with an option to move on to an even better paying job at a think tank or consulting firm.

Whereas social work is a very practical polytechnic course where you learn some law, administrative skills, basic psychology, didactics etc. to work in the social administration or for a charity helping clients sort out whatever type of issues they have. Quite a lot of jobs in different fields, education, childcare, health etc., but wages are at the low end.

If you compare to the health sector, the sociologist is comparable to the doctor, the social worker more like a nurse or midwife.

Many answers suggest some kind of entitlement for degree holders, that they will automatically get the corresponding, and hopefully we’ll paying, office / at least Junior management jobs.

This is certainly not the case in German, where I live, or France, where I’m from, especially in subjects with many more degree holders that well paying jobs. Arts and humanities are worst, languages not far behind, economics tricky enough to better have a plan b ready, especially if you lack connections.

Your typical sociologist or historian is more likely to assemble packages in an Amazon fulfillment center than to access one of the precious few paying jobs in his profession. And that’s ok, that’s why it’s called a market economy.

Chairing lots of meetings in a business context I can‘t help wonder how someone would expect to perform this role well without having had a look at the agenda beforehand. How come the absence of the order paper and the mistake of the clerk wasn‘t noticed earlier? No one looking at the agenda beforehand? Stupid question? Please do enlighten me, lots to learn!

Good advice in this thread. For Juice Jacking and iPhone you might want to read this

https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/12/prevent-juice-jacking-iphone/

In Germany, demand is high for all kinds of electronics technicians, lots of hardware needs to be installed and maintained. You typically need formal proof of qualification for the really attractive jobs, but small companies and temp agencies might be willing to compromise on both formal qualifications and local language requirements.

Good coders are of course also in high demand, but you’d better have a degree in computer science, experience and some local language fluency.

If President at 40 works in France, with a median age of 42, why insist on electing a senior citizen in Nigeria, median age 18?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

Don’t know about other overseas, but in Germany you usually start your PhD straight after completing your master. You apply and with a lot of luck and the right profile you get hired for up to five years by the corresponding university department. You don’t pay for a PhD, you get paid. But there is strong competition, your wife is bound to struggle after an 11 year break. But if she’s willing to try, LinkedIn IMHO is her first stop.