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harriseen: @Makaz u mean u just got an invite? Wat time did d msg com in & when is ur intrview. @akinola hope diz are not speculations

Wednesday night against friday afternoon (today). Glad I'm still in lagos.

Interview invite!!!!!!! Finally! After I had forgotten all about the test! Wow! Keep hope alive people.

Cadbury equal chocolate
Chocolate equals valentine
This cadbury interview fit be next year things oooooooo! February! Just In Time for Valentine!

10 Reasons to Go to Work for
the Big Four
YOU’RE ON THE CUSP OF
ACCEPTING A GREAT JOB WITH
A BIG FOUR ACCOUNTING
FIRM.
You have an offer in hand, and your
whole family is proud. But you can’t
quite put your finger on why you should
accept the offer. What are the benefits
of making the decision to say yes, you
ask yourself. What does this mean for
my future? You’re not sure what kind of
lifestyle you’ll end up living. As you
consider what to do, more questions
come up than answers.
The challenge is that you’re making one
of the biggest decisions of your life and
you can’t figure out why you want to
say yes. You know that if you just had a
list of the benefits in front of you, you
could make a great decision. But the
real problem lies in the fact that you
don’t know if you should say yes. It
feels good to get an offer, but you’re
not sure if it’s right for you.
I’ve got the solution for you, and by the
time you get done reading you’ll know
ten great benefits of going to work for
the Big Four.
1. The name. If you ever decide to leave
the firm (and statistics tell us you will),
you will have a prestigious name on
your resume. It will vouch for your
credibility and ability in a way that is
difficult to measure.
2. The pay. Of jobs available to college
grads and young professionals, the Big
Four pay exceptionally well. There are
always higher paying jobs to be found,
but you can rest assured that you will
be paid well and live a comfortable
financial lifestyle as a result. (Always
subject to your spending habits.)
3. The mentors. If there is one thing I
found at each of the Big Four firms I
interacted with, it was great mentors.
In just nine months at the firm I worked
for I developed direct mentoring
relationships with three partners,
several senior managers, and managers
galore. If you’re looking for people with
great business experience, you can find
them everywhere in the Big Four.
4. The experience. Yup, the hours are
long, but they add up to an incredible
set of experiences that vouch for your
ability to perform and tackle big
projects. You will develop immense
business acumen if you put your mind
to it, and little can substitutes for the
raw experience offered by the firms.
5. Certification. If you’re in the running
for any kind of professional certification
and need real-world experience to
make the cert official, this is a great
place to bide your time. You might even
end up with a career out of the deal.
6. The training. The Big Four still invest
heavily in their employees from a
training perspective. They also offer
countless hours of online training on
everything from negotiating to audit
principles. If there’s one thing I miss,
it’s access to great training materials
(even if they didn’t always apply to my
job . Take advantage!
7. The other young people. The nature of
the beast means there is a constant
crop of young people entering the Big
Four firms. You will constantly be
surrounded by a group of peers that
you can relate to and build a career
with. Be sure to surround yourself with
the movers and shakers for an extra
boost in morale.
8. Build up savings. If you want to quickly
build up your savings and get on the
path to a healthy 401k account, the Big
Four are great places to make it
happen. Live off of half your salary (not
difficult) and sock the rest away. When
you’re ready to make a passionate
career move or start your own
business, you’ll be glad you got a head
start.
9. Make your parents happy. Let’s be
honest. If you want to impress your
relatives and make them proud, just tell
them you got a job at a Big Four firm.
Like it or not, the name carries weight,
even during the holidays.
10. Upward mobility. If you’re dedicated
to building a career in public accounting
or business advisory services, it can
certainly be done at the Big Four. For
high performers and ambitious
professionals, there is always a chance
to move up or take on more
responsibility.

10 Reasons Not to Go to Work
for the Big Four
YOU HAVE A JOB OFFER IN
HAND FROM A BIG FOUR
ACCOUNTING FIRM…
…You can’t quite put your finger on
why you have a sinking feeling as
you open the official job offer you
just received in the mail. You know
you should be excited, but your gut tells
you something different. How do you
make the right decision?
Here’s the deal: you’re scared about
what your future will look like if you
don’t take the offer. I know, I’ve been
there. You know other people would
have killed for the position, but it still
feels wrong.
The real issue here is that you know
the job and company aren’t right for
you, but you feel pressured to accept
the offer anyways . You need a way to
articulate the reasons why you don’t dig
the place and you haven’t been able to
come up with the solution.
To get to the right answers, you need to
understand why you don’t like the job
beyond “it doesn’t feel right” so that you
can explain yourself to others in a
positive manner.
HERE ARE TEN REASONS NOT
TO GO TO WORK FOR THE BIG
FOUR:
1. The hours. If you know anyone who
has worked for the Big Four, then you
know someone who has gone through
periods of living in the office. The hours
can be grueling at times, and as you
move up the org chart it tends to get
worse. If you don’t dig long hours, don’t
put yourself in the position.
2. The work itself. The work at Big Four
firms is highly analytical and
occasionally monotonous. Checking
boxes and retrieving documentation
can only be interesting for so long.
Make sure you understand what kind of
work you will be performing before you
take your offer. If it’s not what you’re
looking for and it doesn’t build a skillset
that allows you to make the impact in
the world you envision, say no!
3. The travel. Depending on your role, it
is quite possible that you’ll spend more
nights in hotels than in your own bed.
It’s not true for every role, but the
travel can get old after a while –
especially when you’re seeing the inside
of office buildings instead of the local
attractions.
4. Excel. Almost any job at the Big Four is
going to require some serious Excel
skillz. If you dread work in excel or you
don’t want to be the resident whiz kid,
this might not be the field for you.
5. The structure and defined upward
mobility. While there are plenty of
opportunities to move up within the
firms, there is a well-defined structure
for getting up the ladder. Some people
are able to buck the system and move
up faster than normal, but you can
expect a pretty consistent experience:
1-3 years as a staffer, 2-3 years as a
senior; 3-5 years as a manager; 5-7
years as a senior manager. And that’s to
get to partner. Something about the
defined time periods drives me nuts,
but it might work better for you.
6. Your responsibilities. For many entry
level roles, your work will be very
defined. You will not be asked to use
much creativity or get outside of your
box very often. If you’re not cool with
defined work flows, this might be a
tough place to thrive. (Exception: some
advisory services, including consulting.)
7. Your (lack of) desire to develop
expertise in the field. Read: lack of
passion, interest, or purpose. If you
don’t have a passion for accounting or
an interest in becoming an expert in the
field, why would you waste valuable
years of your life investing in that field?
If you can’t connect the impact you’ll
have through your work to your
personal purpose, you can count on
running into a lack of fulfillment.
8. Getting pigeon holed. One of the
favorite lines of Big Four recruiters is
that you can create any kind of career
you want by moving between service
lines, exploring different industries, etc.
The reality is that this is much more
difficult to do than they say at recruiting
events. You run a real risk of getting
pigeon holed into a specialty that
doesn’t get you excited. Bummer.
9. Your values and strengths don’t
align. Take a close look at your
personal values and your natural
strengths. Do your values align with
those of the company and the people
that work there? Will you get to use
your natural strengths in your work
everyday? If the answers are no, then
you won’t be fulfilled. That’s true at the
Big Four or anywhere else.
10. The lack of time to do what you
want. The corollary to the long hours is
the fact that you won’t have the time to
do what you want or develop new
hobbies. You’ll sacrifice time with
friends, family, and doing what you love
in favor or working long hours during
busy season. The trade off is good pay,
good experience, a prestigious name on
your resume, and several other
benefits. You’ll have to decide what is
most important to you.

Use this site to read. Goodluck.
http://www.indiabix.com/online-test/categories/

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Thanks Xavier. i tried d link. I'm for 9am. Imagine I didn't know before. Advantages of Nairaland.

OkaiCorne: Check your mailbox for the materials. Please help me distribute it. I've got limited internet access. Sorry for the inconvenience.

pls could you forward d material to me? amyphyll@gmail.com thank you

That time ehhhhh! Before I can sneeze self, d page had closed, that time was up.

Not everyone passed the personality test. I just got info that shortlisted candidates were given new distinct passwords. And test is next week wednesday, so guys, dust your gmats.

Expensive72: Stop talking shit about what u don't have a clue to, Eze-ego is fro Uzoakwa in Ihiala LGA not okija, & His money is never diabolical He was into importation of electronics in large quantity which he sales in wholesales & retail. He halfly based in lagos & broad .
He was a philanthropist, a generous man who feels the pain & sufferings of the less privileged ones in the society.
For more than five yeas He payed the fee for child delivery of pregnant women in OUR LADY OF LORDS HOSPITAL IHIALA. What he did for that shot time that he lived was so numerous to mantion, is it the widows that he builded houses for, is it the ones he was paying they school fees,or the bags of rise he shares every Christma,or the money He sprays every were he goes, or the Road that lead to his place that he tied & put street light.
He was so rich that no car that reigned that time that he doesn't have, He has fleet of cars numbering more than two hundred. He died in motor accident while coming home in December,He left behind His wife & three children.
May He find peace anywhere he is today.

What else do pregnant women deliver apart from children? He really shared bags of rise and builded houses? Then he tied the road leading to his place? Are u for real? Wow! Christma must have been fun.

Steve remmy: Has anybody been invited for test

Still waiting

Good luck to d successful candidates. Though I banged my interview, I see it as a learning process, to perform better at the next multi-national-corporation interview I attend. We win some, we lose some. All follow join for "job experience"

stellayt: You are invited for a markrting
interview on Wed, 19/6/2013, by
12noon prompt. 115 Adeniyi jones
Avenue, Vulcanizer B/S, Ikeja.
CLOVERHILLS.
pls is dis scam You are invited for a markrting
interview on Wed, 19/6/2013, by
12noon prompt. 115 Adeniyi jones
Avenue, Vulcanizer B/S, Ikeja.
CLOVERHILLS.
pls is dis scam

It might not be. After all, they have already told u it's for "marketing". So u Don't have to over stretch ur imagination. Just get ur slippers ready to waka round Lagos.

Walahi! Oneal has Changed their name. I almost went this morning. Here's the message:

OWL Jobs
You have been invited for an oral/written interview on monday 17/06/2013 by 10am @ nos 1 babatunde strt, off ogunlana drive, surulere, Lagos

U dearies all saved my TP

Owls Job
You have been invited for an oral/written interview on monday 17/06/2013 by 10am @ nos 1 babatunde strt, off ogunlana drive, surulere, Lagos

Got that Last Night. Same company as Streco or Oneal. Yes. Same. Pay for lincence thing.