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xfire:
Wow...this thread has gone a long way. I have been away from Nairaland for quite a while.

darellrivers - Congrats!!!!!!! I wish you a sweet, blessed and glorious married life. I am happy to hear about your marriage. I was not invited though. lol

All enquiries directed to me either on nairaland or shall be attended to. However, I need time to catch up with the thread first. New posts, threads and updates coming in the days to come.

kaycodes - great job here. I have seen some of your efforts here. kudos.

bigdreams - keep dreaming BIG! Thanks for all your support to others.

To all; Never give up. Keep pushing hard. The surest and easiest way to fail is to give up. Keep all hopes alive.

I will be giving out free airtime for job seekers / underemployed persons to aid them in their job hunting pursuits. This will happen from time to time. Please be considerate. LOAD ONE AND LEAVE THE REST FOR OTHERS TO BENEFIT:

MTN N400: 8939 7264 2669 2082

MTN N400: 8234 6128 0004 2609

GLO N500: 12344 98434 28272

AIRTEL N500: 2579 8002 1895 2622

ETISALAT N500: 91106 40762 29064

Cheers.....!

Your boy is loyal oh....

I have learnt a lot from Nairaland, it was from Nairaland I heared about Linkedin, I kniw how much using that social media has changed my life.

Information is power, thank you for creating such a vast wealth of knowledge through this thread....

justi4jesu:
@Gagzee


@Kingsley

Ring, Laptop and Laptop Battery shipped from Ebay

Please let me know when the items arrive, someone is waiting for something oh.. I need to get my timing right..

justi4jesu:
@kaycodes




#103,270 Credit alert and 3 items purchased from Ebay.

Oya wey the first 40k... ;DD

Send am give me sharp sharp.

Lexusgs430:
Hurray!!!! The light of windows 10, finally going to shine down on kaycodes!!!!

Na force na

If na only me I for nor even look am sef.

justi4jesu:
#40,000 credit alert received

1. http://www.ebay.com/itm/231707622050?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

2. http://www.ebay.com/itm/370834295309?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&var=640277478219&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
Size 11.

3. http://www.ebay.com/itm/GENUINE-9-Cell-97WH-Battery-For-Dell-Latitude-e5420-e5520-e6420-e6520-M5Y0X/272020900853?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D33430%26meid%3D7f5f9c2ae34d4bbb9607508b4651e2bc%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26mehot%3Dfs%26sd%3D191703396533
Let me know the cost.

And please break the shipping cost down.

I know it's 55 USD for laptop alone.

chuksmad:
Your complain of low RAM of 6g is a surprise to me. I use 2g RAM and Intel 2.7ghz. My win10 upgrade is working so fine. You may check other causes of your complain but not the RAM functions

My system does a lot of multi tasking, with minimum of 10 Chrome Tabs open, Remote desktop, and other tools and processes in the background.

2GB RAM doesn't even cut close in a windows 7 system.

However My windows 7 handled it fine. Upgraded to 10, and somehow an unknown process just seem to start eating my RAM.

A better OS like all programs should eat less not more.

Well, I'll still have to install windows 10 As I have to start support users of the system soon.

What can I say, I may hate the OS, but I got to live wiith the flaws... Damn

justi4jesu:
How much do I bid. You can give an estimate now and not waiting until it's 20mins to end. You can increase your bid when it's 10 or 5mins to end.

Place the Max bid on 300 USD

If any one beats that, then use 320 USD as your highest

Thanks.

Can you confirm if you got this message in time?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitude-E6530-15-6-Intel-Quad-Core-i7-3rd-g-nVidia-GPU-8GB-RAM-500GBHDD/121799258368?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D33430%26meid%3Da4c06ad6c60242ef9c5ce13b87233e64%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D6%26mehot%3Dfs%26sd%3D181909617099&rt=nc#viTabs_0

Here is the Laptop as discussed.

Please lets liase on BBM to get this laptop
I missed out on a great deal the other day because I was waiting.

Lets see if we can win this.

Let me know when it's 20 mins to end.

I'll advise how much to bid then.

justi4jesu:
$2000 @210 PayPal funds Available for Sale. Contact on my profile.

Madam u don reach here

[quote author=justi4jesu post=39100623][/quote]http://www.ebay.com/itm/331680656901?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Please put this item on your watch list., if the bid is sill within my budget before it ends by 12:15PM WAT, I'll credit your account with the required half payments. I pray you're not too far from your phone when the time comes.

I have others lined up, so if this does not work we can get something that does before saturday. I'll be watching it as well.

Thanks.

coderXO:
From company to payoneer to your dom acct in Nigeria correct?

Yeah

HisVine:
Sir, I've applied and I've gotten a reply from them inviting me for the next phase of the recruiting process. I hope I scale through this too, though I have a very good LinkedIn profile. But, the issue now is that... I'm a student. Hope this won't affect the expected level of productivity and efficiency after been offered the job? Your candid advice is needed sir.

I believe these are work from home opportunities. I also believe as a student you can manage yoour time properly.

Nigeria and US have different tme zones. You just need to make some sacrifices in terms of time.

Afterall time na money..

coderXO:
Sorry I don't get it.

You get a wire in $ from Payoneer?

Or

You get a wire from the company in $ via their own bank?

My company uses ACH payment platform to transfer the funds directly to my bank account.

They have a deal with payoneer, as their third party service provider.

Am not sure how it works exactly though.

Anyways I always get alerted by Payoneer that my company has made the payments.
So I guess payoneer is like the record keeping party and my online bank, since I don't have a US bank account.
Payoneer does not charge me any service fee whatsoever because I really do not use any of their service.

When I get the alert it shows my company HR department. That's all I really know.

coderXO:
Mine are wire withdrawals. Freelancer charges $25. Then after that, I get hit another $25 somewhere in the line.

Maybe that's why. Mine is direct to my dorm account from the company. No charges from the company or payoneer, but the banks in-between say they will not let me go unless I bless them with $20 every week. Wetin man go do na, man must wack

I saw this thread and I knew I needed to share this. In case most of you missed it, these are some life changing advice. Ignore them at your peril. If someone had told me this sooner, I wouldn't have to learn it by myself and go through all I went through.

https://www.nairaland.com/2668937/6-mistakes-likely-make-between

Do have a lovely day.

coderXO:
GTB also charge me $25. How is yours $20?

I dunno maybe it depends on your source of payment. O think there is a sharing agreement between the sending bank/company and your receiving bank. Initially when I felt I was being robbed I called the payment platform which was payoneer. So after some digging they said the charge was around $10 then they said $15 I just hissed and drew my own conclusions. It's amazing how tech support suddenly goes dumb when you're asking about money.

Bottom line is that you get charged to get the money but I really don't know why yours is $25 bros that money in 9yrs na over 500k oh.. Chai it is well.

Redstone:
Still available for the lucky buyer. Call now for negotiations.

Which year model is this?

So no seller in PH..

Na wa for this town..

Hi all,

So my Dell gave way yesterday. I need to get a replacement before saturday.

If you got a fairly used Apple Macbook pro 2014 edition, please let me know. Hit me with your specs and offer.

Drop the details here and i'll contact you.

i am in PH, so except you have a way to meet me for inspection, don't bother if you are in lagos.

coderXO:
GTB own is also $25

Well $20 is charged as Telex each time I get my Inflow.

I really don't know who gets the money anyways, I stopped caring months ago.

SpeedyConnect:
With respect, I hate the fact that you are evading the operative question, which is

'' How do you get to the interview in the first instance so as to prove your worth and showcase your skill given that firms like KPMG ,in the main, take applications online and will emphasize 2:1 on the website.
So how do you scale through that stage and be invited first to an interview if you don't have the 2:1 of a First but have good skills.
Thanks.

Hate what you want, I am not here to give you a magic wand, on how to be called for interviews.

How many 2:1 get the job after being called for interviews?

Or can you point to any company that has ever said "Hey we employed this dude because he had a 2:1"

So no one is avoiding any questions.

Read my answers one after the other, maybe then you might get something out of it.

Skills differ, and the way I display mine might and will be different from yours.

Find what works for you, there is no magic to success, you have to keep working at what you love to do.

There are two ways to most big firms, Graduate entry, and Experienced hire.

There are also plenty of firms without grade restrictions that still offer a decent pay.

Study your industry and know what works and what doesn't but one thing that works in all field is experience.

I know peeps who came out as mechanical engineers, with poor grades, they went and did apprentice-ship with Heavy duty truck mechanics aka Diesel techs, for about a year today the story is different. While peeps were advising him to do PGD and masters, he realised that practical experience will be of more benefit than PGD in a technical course like mech engr. How Mr A navigated the waters of job search will be different from how Mr B did it, but take two things seriously,

1. Your Network.
2. Gain some form of experience.

Again this advice should not only be followed by guys with poor grades, this is actually what every graduate irrespective of your grades that wants' to succeed should do. While waiting for your dream job/career, continue learning your craft, all it takes is your determination.

This does not in any way support poor grades, rather we are just tryinng to point out the fact that your grades are in no way a correlation to your success in life, especially not with the kind of educational system that is obtainable in Nigeria.

darellrivers:
kaycodes

Yours really is an inspiring story. Thank you so much for sharing.

Of Course, getting good grades can help get your CVs noticed, it is definitely no GUARANTEE that you will get a job or be more "successful" in life as a whole. Those of you still in school, do not, ever despise or look down on anyone you "think" you are "smarter" than (who even defines smartness self?). Although I made stellar grades in school, I am one who strongly believes that grades are not always a true reflection of a person's abilities.

Wish you all the very best through life

Thanks,

Unfortunately, I was one of those who always asked "How do people fail?"

Life taught me some lessons. I am glad I went through all that, today I am better for the experience.

Happy Married life, hopefully I'll join you soon.....

Remain blessed.

Well, anyone wanna buy dollars GTB, $700 let me have your rate.

PH only inside any GTB bank.

coderXO:
So I went and opened an SC domiciliary account.

Received my first inflow, and my money was $25 short again like with the other banks.

My understanding was that they are their own intermediary bank and thus this $25 that banks have been eating off me for years will come to and end.

GTB own na $20 and I still dey para put

deewon56:
GOD BLESS YOu sir, YOU said it all. Pls sir what advice can YOU give me i study mechanical engineering in one of great polytechnic goin to ND2,i intend to go into automobile engineering as a career sir what advice can YOU give me to make my dream come to pass thou i have no skill experience yet i will be glad to your respond

The trick is to start early. You still got time, how passionate are you about cars, can you drive? It's not about having a fancy idea of what you wanna do, you must be really into it.

As a student of mechanical engineering, you're in the right path, academic wise. When you go for your IT, visit an automobile shop, I mean like a mechanic shop. If you get the opportunity to do your IT in a top notch automobile company, then you're very lucky but if not, then our local Kazeem's won't be a bad idea either. Now you have to couple your practical study with online resources. Learn the basics, and then apply your engineering knowledge to solving problems. Now if you spend one year, at a mechanic's workshop, you would have gained valuable knowledge and skills. If you visit automobile blogs, sites, and get books on engine repairs to add to your knowledge, you would have learnt what an average roadside mechanic would learn in 3yrs.

By leveraging your engineering knowledge and your Internet skills, and your practical traininig, you would already be ahead of your course mates that went to a fancy company where they never did anything of real importance.

Study about various cars, and know what makes them different, their pros and cons etc. The key to becoming the best in any industry is by learning your craft. People will pay for what you know, but you must learn, learn and learn.

Pyroxene:
. Thanks I ll appreciate it a lot. I was unsuccessful in the first exam, I had challenges during writing the test network downtime and light too. But all that has been sorted. I will like to start again. Will look forward to your guidance Mr kaycode

Send in your application again. it will be considered as a fresh application.

Pyroxene:
Can I reapply if I was not successful initially? My system was bad and internet was fluctuating? Somebody !!!

Yeah you can always reapply, question is what stage were you rejected. Let me know maybe I can offer some guidiance.

kaycodes:
http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qdR9VfwS&s=LIz1159&nl=1&page=Job%20Description&j=o4Rl1fw1

Okay guys, please check this out.

Advice: Re write your CV to reflect your interpersonal skills, and please add your skype accoun to your details as well.

If you've got some customer service skills, do try this out.

Peace.

On second thought am gonna share the link to all the available positions.

These roles are mainly Remote positions so you can work from anywhere in the world.

If you've got concrete IT skills, then consider yourself a great candidate for most of the roles.

Wishing you all the best.

Remember this is the information age, focus on skills.


Finally on these jobs, no one wants to see your results or grades, just make sure you highlight your skills very well, and use the right keywords on your CV, otherwise the ATS will overlook your profile.

I'll await your success stories.

http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qdR9VfwS&s=LIz1159&nl=1&page=Jobs

http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qdR9VfwS&s=LIz1159&nl=1&page=Job%20Description&j=o4Rl1fw1

Okay guys, please check this out.

Advice: Re write your CV to reflect your interpersonal skills, and please add your skype accoun to your details as well.

If you've got some customer service skills, do try this out.

Peace.

Yeah I get your point, I faced all that as well.

What, I just want others to take note of is that, poor grades ain't the end of the world.

Recruitment processes are the way they are, and things might not change for a long while.

However, you need to study the system and find a way round about it. If you can tell yourself the truth, and figure out why you failed
in school rather than blaming lecturers or the very corrupt system, you stand a better chance of getting things right.

Now to the part of my writing letters to the CEO's I knew it wasn't gonna be easy. I searched for the company's CEO on Google, then I found out the way their company's email was formatted. Gbam, I created their email addresses, and it was correct. So I sent the email out, and some bounced back of course then I would reverse the first and last name, and it would go through.

Here were two things that happened from that experience.

1. The CEO of Addax forwarded my mail personally to the head of HR. she called me and quoted the title of my piece, I said yes, I wrote that. She asked me some questions and said, "Well if you had gotten some years of experience in the oil and gas sector I would have been able to fit you in. Anyways send me your email and I'll talk to a few people" This gave me hope, not because I got the job, but because someone up there who didn't even know what I looked like, saaw my piece and took some interest, no matter how little, now that gave me hope.

2. I got contacted directly by the vice president of HR for Schlumberger on LinkedIn, and she said "Hey kingsley, Paul Kipsgaard, forwarded your email to me, now (Paul is the CEO of SLB) while I have no doubt that you have what it takes, it won't be fair to leave all those who have met the minimum requirements" Men I was thrilled. Now for the VP HR of SLB to take a tiny time to view my profile and write me a personal note, that was something else. I was inspired. I made more effort to develop myself, and I got better with time.

Today the story is different. Am not exactly where I want to be (cos I really like to aim high) but yeah, I love my job, and I work with the best team in the world...

So yeah, there is hope, but only if you are ready to work at it.

Finally don't ever ever ever forget the God factor, remember the race is not to the swift neither the battle to the strong, it's the Lord that showeth mercy.

Peace

AltarBoy1:
Read my post well... Like I said, except you have legs or you have a friend that referred you to the firm. Most employers won't give you the chance to come and showcase your skills when you don't have the minimum requirements for the job advertised. No one is saying skills is not good, but if you no get the result, its a set back go a good candidate.

Again I reiterate, skills matter more.

I don't understand what people mean by having long legs, in my job search I discovered two important factors.

Experience counts a whole lot
Networking is very essential.

Securing the first job is usually where the challenge is, but securing experience is quite easy.

I don't know the industry you work in, so let me not speculate, but if you're still a student, irrespective of how wonderful your results are, start learning some real life practical application of your choosen field. Develop the needed skills in your choosen job/profession.

Network and get to know people within the industry and human resources field.

What people refer to as "Long Leg" is actually a very vital part of job searching, ignore it at your own peril. It's actually called networking.

I got a friend who just got a job in a multinational firm through someone she met at a seminar who she didn't know from Adam.

We keep having this stereotype of how things work, and dish out advices we have absolutely no idea about, that's my point here (Misconceptions).

Let me paint a scenario here as an example.

A young graduate with a fantastic result, keeps applying for positions within the customer service industry, now this graduate has anger issues, and has failed to work on it over the years. After passing all the written tests and exams he/she gets to the interview stage, and knowing our Nigerian HR personnel with their knack for trying to corner you he is asked a very annoying question (remember he is applying for CUSTOMER SERVICE) he gets pissed and gives the reply that might be expected in such scenario. He will loose the opportunity, because he lacks the NEEDED soft skills.

I am very confident that results play a minimum role these days in regards to your earning potential. Once you are willing to start from somewhere and gain experience 2.1 2.2 3rd class soon becomes rather irrelevant. It's all a matter of time.

Now to those who came out with 3rd class and 2.2, listen everyone will tell you to give up, some might even tell you to go back and write Jamb, listen to them at your own peril.
What you must understand at this point is that the system will never give you a chance, rather you need to find a way around the system.

People will pay you for the value you bring, find a way to add value to yourself, and you will find a way out.

I once wrote a letter to 23 CEO's of all the top firms I wanted to work in guess what, I got a call from the Acting HR Addax petroleum, their MD actually asked her to give me a call. Yeah, I didn't get the job and guess what? It wasn't because I did not have a 2.1 it was because I did not have the experience.

Your opinion is your's; reality is another thing entirely

Have a nice day.

rotexteymie:
Yaaayyyy......Arsenal!!!!

Arsenal still get fans