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jaybee3:
Me sef go like follow you join the networking bandwagon

Bro, no story o. When you're in Lagos, we'll invite you as Guest Professional too one of our networking events. Make our people come learn something about international opportunities.

Caracta:
When are you going to invite the judges to this Networking Event?

@fynestboi, what's the winning prize?

Caracta:
You mean 2015?

Yes jare

Caseless:
See the crumbs these guys serve us in the name of journalism. So AKUME is no more Tinubu's candidate like they have made us to believe, it is now Lawan.
Kontinu!

Bro, you're not current o

Akume has accepted to be Lawan's deputy since at least 3 weeks ago!

Lawan is Tinubu's candidate since at least 3 weeks ago

Chiaka:
So only tinubu won the election. You should get over the dilution of Tinubu, Nigeria is not only Lagos state or all about SW and
that's one think Tinubu should know. Tinubu is no God, no single human being has the answer to all questions or solution to every problem. Nigeria cannot be successful if we try to side line or take advantage of other regions. Never!

Oga, without Tinubu's machinery, Buhari would not have won SW. Get that. Theye were the one that created the visibility. How many Buhari posters and banners did you see in the SW in 2011?

fkaz:
All Tinubu candidates will win: Ahmed Lawal for senate president and George Akume for deputy senate president. Femi Gbajabialamila for speaker house of rep, will all win their seat.

It will be difficult for PDP senators loyal to David Mark to support senator saraki, David Mark and his follower don't have choice than to support tinubu candidate(Ahmed Lawal) because David mark won't like to see senator Saraki as his senate president.

The cold war between Saraki and David mark is still there, Tinubu is a smart politicians, you need to respect TINUBU

Oga, if Tinubu is not jittery, he won't beg that other former governors prevail on Saraki to drop his ambition. He would threaten to meet him on the field.

This is looking like a lost battle for Tinubu. And what they did against Mulikat Akande in 2011 is now set to happen against them.

Tinubu should select his wars. Wanting to have hands in everything can be the beginning of his fall. This is looking like a lost war and it may be the beginning of his demystification.

Fynestboi:
As we all know that at the end of every competition there must be a prize, which I believe will serve as a medium of encouragement to all our participant.
First Edition witness such a huge success thanks to all our sponsors.... Jarushub consult, B. O. S. S(r231) , Inspire_m, Coogar, chaircover,) nd also our judges (jaybee3, mathewbriggs, Obinoscopy, Caracta, ujsizzle, greedie, tgirl4real, jarus) they all made the first edition a success all thanks to them.

However the second edition looks forward to much help and financial support from our audience that are ready to sponsor this online dream. An avenue to foster online cooperation intellectually among citadel. Last edition was not made public due to some reasons but we decided to throw this open to the whole of NAIRALAND community for more financial aid .....

Hence we solicit for sponsorship and donor. No amount is to small.......
God bless... .....
Thanks.

JarusHub Career Consulting is offering to give the following:

1, Hard copy of the book "The Road to Victoria Island" written by myself to the debaters of the winning school.

2, Soft copy (ebook version) to be given to each debater of second placed team.

3, Best debater to be invited to JarusHub Networking Event - an avenue to meet and dine with some Lagos professionals in a top restaurant in Lagos (We do every last Saturday of every month, and he's free to choose the month he wants: June to December 2015).

I feel Buhari should return the money to the woman

CHANGE IN AIRPORTS - overwork

bukatyne:
I thought Buhari said There is no office of the first lady

Is There nobody to manage the place? One of her kids? I think they will enjoy more patronage now.

They don't want that kind of patronage.

What a joke of a performance!

I don't have any question but let me make my comments.

I must confess I'm not very impressed with the presentation of the 3 debaters. Too many unpardonable grammatical errors, concord mismatch. I believe you all should take time to edit your posts well next time. If this was an award, I would have advised the organisers to keep the award and not declare winner. However, this being a multi-stage competition, a winner must emerge. That is the reason I will send the scores to the coordinators.

Reading nl comment.

Judge Jarus taking seat

Still on our JARUSHUB case study, the ratio of our rent to total investment remains high at 50% now because we have spent less on the other key component of the mix - publicity.

We had some funds, we were faced with option of spending it on office or publicity. We ranked our priority and realized we should set up an office first, because if we spend 1m on publicity, people will be eager to know where are these people, Hope they are not scam etc. In Nigeria people still have some skepticism about online patronage except you're a well established brand like Jumia or Konga or Nairaland.

If you spend money to advertise your offerings, where will people come for your services?

Our model is different from hotels.ng or jobberman, because their services are strictly online, unlike us that have products that require physically meeting clients.

That is why office is critical to us at this phase.

lordhugo:
Wonderful points sir!
Ikeja you mentioned? Too expensive for a startup with "Limited funds".
To avoid financial bottlenecks, a 2-3 year plan should be drawn up and scarce resources cross refrenced with scae of preference.

You said Ikeja is a "fairly competed" location. If by that you mean competition is high, why should i a small startup drown in the cacophony of the bigger players?

In my opinion, a Surulere or Festac should create a right balance between Capex and Opex (capital expenditure and operating expenditure) and a fairly large " educated and unemployed" customer base.

More people residing in Victoria island already hold jobs.
In your words, "Sellers go to where buyers are".

THE BUYERS FOR A STARTUP CAREEER ACADEMY ARE IN MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES IN DENSELY POPULATED AREAS.

....and that is being practical without throwing theories out the window.

Happy democracy day to you sir.

We never thought of and we would never consider VI. VI is not for startups, but already well established companies.

I think Yaba, Surulere and Ikeja are ok for startups, but I think Yaba is the best for many reasons - it is closer to both Island and mainland, somehow central, a large concentration of middle class, hub of higher institutions (UNILAG, YABATECH, FCE etc).

Plus there is location economies due to its closeness to many other startups. Mark's Hotels.ng is there, Insidify is there, Jobmag is there etc. I can easily walk into any of them to have a chat with the founders and strike networking relationship etc

See the list of notable startups in Yaba according to Wikipedia

Braintem.org
500 Shops
Autobox
Asa
Beat Traffik
Budgit
Church+
Efiko
Hotels.ng
Jobs in Nigeria
Kaymu
Konga
Meditell
Insidify
Passnownow
PushCV
Prep Class
PrivateProperty.com.ng
Prowork
Talking Bookz
Traclist
Truppr
VacantBoards
Wecyclers
Tutor
Washist.com
Waracake.com
Wayopedia
Photographers in Nigeria
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabacon_Valley

So I don't think it's a coincidence.

LordMecuzy:
Good Day Nairalanders,

I'm almost rounding up my MBA (Masters in Business Administration) studies here in Nigeria.I've asked several people about the possibility of an MBA holder to go for a PhD in management but I've not gotten a good positive or negative answer.. Pls can anyone here be of help to me? I need so much informations regarding this issue.

2) Aside an MBA degree, (As a management student) which other Masters program is highly profitable in the corporate world especially here in Nigeria because I'm planning to travel to the UK next year for another Masters Degree, but I'm kind of confused which to apply for after I'm through with my MBA here in Nigeria...

Advice.......

jarus, xfire, lalasticlala

What is your career plan?

lordhugo:
Mark is correct. Pretty substantial capex and capex growth has exceeded cash flow growth all the while.
Importantly, just as cash flow growth is slowing so too is capex growth (as the rented office isn't generating revenue) and, in the absence of a pick-up in demand, return on investment (ROI) will be hampered.

Invest in the value and content not the facade.
A little longer at your old office or home would not have hurt.
Business development and research is key.

Thanks for your comments. But I do disagree with you both. And I think it's because you don't understand the business we're into.

We never had office until now. We just floated around. Meeting clients in restaurants, etc.

Remember I said it's a career consulting startup.

Most of our flagship services were those that can be done without the clients having to see us physically, e.g CV writing, sale of books, etc.

Now, when we decided to introduce a new set of services, most notably interview preparation and Career Academy, there was no way we could have done that without an office.

For interview prep, it has to be physical. You can't do that by email or over the phone. You need a place to meet your client for that and it doesn't speak well that you meet an interview client in a restaurant.

Our career academy also involves physical presence as it is a classroom situation. There is the option of renting halls of hotels etc, but that's actually more expensive than renting an office.

Plus, we also got an employee to do the running around and he needs an office to report.

Hence, our decision to open an office. And that has cost us close to N1m.

Now, our next focus is publicity, massive online and offline publicity but we are lean on finances now. So we're taking it slowly.

Hi Mark,

Do you mind sharing your turnover figure (or rough approximation) in the last 3 years?

Have you broken even?

Do you have some entrepreneurship and startup websites/blogs that you can recommend? Currently, I read Entrepreneur.com and Forbes.

Don1Dee:
True that Jarus!

I operate in the education niche through edugist.org, same problem...we're not hungry for knowledge, insight, analysis and personal growth related information, at all. As a jarushub loyalist, the poor or lack of engagement by readers baffles me, considering the intellectual prowess of your contributors. And these are busy guys and 'BIG BOYS'.

The articles I least expect are where I get comments in edugist, usually questions.

I once wrote an observation about an event I attended at Four Point hotel, days after, a senoir staffer of the coy that orgnised the event commented and mailed to meet me. Today, I do business with them. When Malala visited Nigeria, I reported it and she commented. During the Save School Initiative, aside reporting I wrote my opinion...UN convoy on education and former UK PM, Gordon Brown and her wife had to argue on my opinion via comment. To Nigerians, there are making the blogger a favor.

It get discoraging at times.

One of my writers, who holds a PhD and works in Shell Houston, reduced the frequency of contribution because of poor engagement by readers. I more or less propped him to continue writing.

Imagine, a foreign professor from Germany once contacted him for an article he wrote. The man disagreed with a couple of points he made in the article and sent a lengthy email for robust engagement with my guy. My friend was impressed and didn't know his readership traveled that far.

Yet, people here, who are our major target audience, hardly bother to read talkless of commenting.

I have lost a couple of other fine contributors due to lack of comment/engagement on their articles. It is discouraging.

Simple: tech awareness is still low in Nigeria.

As a career blogger, I also noticed that people don't comment on articles that are academic and technical.

Many of the guys that contribute to my blog got discouraged from writing because of low engagement their articles attract.


Another thing I noticed: In Nigeria, people see bloggers as no-do-gooders. They just don't want to associate with blog.

Also, people here are usually uncomfortable to comment on blogs. I was surprised recently, when after reading an article a contributor to my blog wrote on James Lafferty, former CEO of CocaCola West Africa, BAT etc, the man himself showed up (God knows how he saw the article - maybe through Google alert) and personally commented. I can't imagine a Nigerian Bank MD commenting on a blog!

markessien:
1. I would code all day

2. I was designing the product

3. I am talking to people about what they are doing.

Do you think someone that is not an IT geek, or that doesn't know how to code can succeed as internet entrepreneur?

Our office is also at Alagomeji in Yaba. I see majority of Nigerian startups prefer their offices in Yaba, now styled Silicon valley of Nigeria.

Good to see you here, Mark.

I have read about you and your startup in the last two years and I'm impressed.

I also recently floated a startup, JarusHub, a career consulting startup.

I got three partners, and I the lead partner.

We have put close to N2m ($10k) to it to date (we rented and furnished our office for close to N1m).

We prefer to grow organically, but we don't mind external funding as our expansion drive is limited by finances now.


What is your experience sourcing fund?

What is your revenue model?

Man on a mission!

JARUSHUB MOCK ASSESSMENT CENTER FOR THE FORTHCOMING NLNG - TIMETABLE

LAGOS - 1st Session
Sunday May 31, 2015
2-5pm
Venue: JarusHub office, 59 Queen Street, Alagomeji, Yaba, Lagos

ABUJA
Saturday, June 6, 2015
1 - 4pm
Venue will be announced as we're still making arrangement

LAGOS - 2nd Session
Sunday, June 7, 2015
2-5pm
Venue: JarusHub office, 59 Queen Street, Alagomeji, Yaba, Lagos


PORT HARCOURT
Saturday, June 13, 2015
1 - 4pm
Venue will be announced as we're still making arrangement


LAGOS - 3rd Session
Sunday, June 21, 2015
2-5pm
Venue: JarusHub office, 59 Queen Street, Alagomeji, Yaba, Lagos

LAGOS - 4th Session
Sunday, June 28, 2015
2-5pm
Venue: JarusHub office, 59 Queen Street, Alagomeji, Yaba, Lagos

Please call Mathew on 09092989936 to book a slot or send email to jarushub@gmail.com

ABOUT JARUSHUB CAREER CONSULTING (JCC)
JCC (www.jarushub.com) is a registered career consulting startup run by experienced Nigerian professionals who are proven in their own fields. With office in Yaba, Lagos, the firm is the first in Nigeria to render interview coaching services. So we are the market leader in this field that is still new to Nigeria, while it is already advanced in other countries (Example: http://www.interviewgold.com/#a_aid=wiki1908&a_bid=106f4753)


OUR RECORDS
We have prepared candidates for interviews of top companies like PwC, KPMG, Oando, NNPC to mention only a few, and our success rate is encouraging as a good percentage of candidates we prepared aced the interviews/assessment centers.

Some testimonies:

Hi JarusHub,


“I want to thank you for your encouragement and coaching which were very instrumental to getting my new offer from PwC. With just two meetings you were able to transform me from a scared/worried person to a very confident candidate better able to communicate my skills. Also thank you for helping me with those hard questions . Your coaching was priceless and I will continue to recommend it to others.


Thank You.”

http://www.jarushub.com/jarushub-interview-preparation-service-jips/

A good number of the candidates we prepared for the recently concluded Oando Assessment Center also aced the exercise and got to final stage (competency-based interview) which result they are still expecting. We are hopeful that they will made that too.

OUR STRENGHT

While we are home and dry on interviews in every sector of Nigerian economy, our biggest strength is actually the oil and gas industry as our Chief Coach has more than 7 years experience in this industry, and knows the industry like the back of his palms.

Our deep network, which we deploy in researching the recruitment process of companies, is another major strength.

HOW DOES THIS NLNG ASSESSMENT WORK?

Simple: everything you will be required to do on that day will be practiced with you! We have prepared samples of group tasks, case studies, analytical presentations etc, which you will work with. For group work, you will be divided into groups and do group tasks. We will start by teaching the tips in each stage, and thereafter we will divide you into groups and watch you do group tasks, and we will assess you and give you feedback on areas you need to improve on, etc.

There will also be mock interview with you and you will be corrected on areas that need working on. There will also mock presentations.

In short, it's just a rehearsal of what you will do in this stage.

DOES IT GUARANTEE SUCCESS?

We wish we could say yes, but unfortunately, we can't. But what we know is you will have value for your consideration. The success rate so far of people we coached is encouraging. In actual fact, we've never coached anyone for companies like PwC and KPMG and the person failed. The only person we have prepared for NNPC so far also passed. We wish to have a decent success rate in this NLNG too.

WHAT THE ARE THE ADVANTAGES?
Getting familiar with how assessment center works
Improving your confidence
Getting familiar (and working with) with people that may end up as your team members in the real NLNG assessment
Again, it's like a mock exam. We all know the merits of mock exams.

FEE
N5000. And that's actually cheap. In advanced countries where this kind of service is common, people pay as much as $330 (N66,000). See an example here (http://300financegurus.com/coaching-page/)

Dfavouredone:
Those interested in a Mock test in Abuja on 7th of June; please could you kindly indicate your interest so we get a consensus and enable Mr. Jarus to firm his plans.


Jarus, please that number isn't going. Keep saying, 'the number you re calling is not available'.




Got Cherez in.



We can make the require number of 8 and do a mock AC at Abuja.

Emmaville is in also.

I am in too. I think that make us three thus far.

E be like say fuel dey affect my boy's phone

Keep trying the number or send email to jarushub@gmail.com

prelinctus:
Mehn, this jarus guy is really gonna make millions these next two months. . This business seems to be a viable one.

I wish.


But far from that. Our PH and Abuja sessions will barely cover cost of flight and hotel.

And we paid close to 1m to rent an office in Lagos!