₦airaland Forum

SMJay:
Good morning Sir,
Can we talk outside Nairaland?

mayysen:
@Mrphysics, please can you forward the book to me too. I 'm in the process of career change to data/business analysis. Email is iyiolaolumayowa07@gmail.com

folash:
Mrphysics thanks so much.
File has been received. Can you please modify the post in which my email was quoted, and remove please?

folash:
Ok ..
Kindly please don't quote, as I would remove the email later

folash:
I'm just a green horn, and just about starting a career in it. I've been searching online for where I can learn the skills, but it hasnt really yielded much.
Hence why I'm asking for recommendations of where to start from the very beginning

folash:
I've sent you a pm

folash:
I know this is an old thread, but please can you forward the book to me too

hmlsolo:
Greetings fellow Nairalanders[b][/b]! Happy brand new year to us all. I got a bank offer for the role of a Marketer.

The pay is 80k, which is different from other available incentives. Considering the fact that Marketing Job could be very frustrating, I'm a little bit weary.

I am stuck in between accepting the offer, or focus on building my career. I'm very much concerned about self-development this year.

The marketing role aside from the tempting 80k pay as a new graduate, it doesn't offer much interms of self-development.

What are you takes, fellow NL. Should I accept the offer?

SMJay:
Why should she pay with her own money, I think she should report the employer to IRS anonymously. hmmmm and that would be how much?

SMJay:
Why should she pay with her own money, I think she should report the employer to IRS anonymously. hmmmm and that would be how much?

SMJay:
Nothing

emeritus007:
@Mrphysics.... Check this out

Rubbiish:
It is not matter of best car
I have been riding 06 corolla for years & I know a lot about that car. When it comes to speed, a lot comes into play, the weight, balance & engine size of that car will not allow u to maintain a 170. U can only tell this to people that are yet to drive a corolla. Not someone that has been using corolla for Benin to abuja for years. Max speed on that car is 180, so u can't run 170!

Itsrm:
140kmph is the same. Whether in a Corolla or a Ferrari

AbelAbdul:
Apapa Tin can after mile 2.

SMJay:
kindly look at the graduated table, is it not supposed to be 111k of 11% the answer you get(12210), you add it to 21k to get your annual PAYE

Oyindamolah:
My accountant says it wrong

Oyindamolah:
My accountant says it wrong

Oyindamolah:
My accountant says it wrong

Liebermann:
Fatimamk mrphysics dmainman

You guys seem to be privy to insider information. Have you heard anything about the timeline for the awardee list?

SMJay:
Are you sure about this calculations

Minnieny:
Fremaxx the Russian guy. I know say na Russia influence you to give ptdf the "Nuclear" topic that year . And they knew you will be very good in the field because u studied in Russia, yet they couldn't give you the scholarship. To me, I think Nigeria has not gotten to the nuclear space yet that's why they keep rejecting such topics.

I remembered you told me you and the interviewer dragged it to the core. You see ptdf ehn, they are very unpredictable. Until results are out before one can really know what they want.

Fremaxx:
The old professor is actually right for debunking your research proposal. Even with a nuclear waste management proposal, how does it relate to the oil and gas sector. There is no radioactive activity in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria. Even if you want to use a radioactive stuff, who would fund it?
I am sorry to say but you didn't choose a great research topic for ptdf.
As old as the professor maybe, I totally agree with him.
A topic in petrophysics would have been better than a nuclear topic. Nuclear in oil & gas. Do you know how regulated nuclear activity in Nigeria?
I had a similar experience with an interviewer in 2019, he told me that a gas condensate is for undergraduate research. I had to add a modern technology stuff to it before he could believe me. I didn't get the scholarship.

The purpose of the interview is to know who is actually interested in studying in his/her respective field relating to oil and gas in Nigeria. Nuclear is irrelevant in Nigeria.

Don't blame the interviewer.

Liebermann:
It seems there's a different batch of interviewers for the second week. I really don't understand the incorrigibility of Nigerian lecturers. It sucks that students have to learn from masochists who actively derive gratification from their failure. I think that's a very important dichotomy between Nigerian Institutions and that of other countries. Lecturers there want you to succeed. However, as far as this interview goes, you should be more concerned with the person entering the grades and it seems in your case it was the more affable panelist so hopefully he was considerate. I'm sure by then he would've known how truculent the prof was. Have a little bit of faith.

For me, It was the opposite. I wanted a two man panel, got the most feared three man panel at the center because of a notorious professor I overheard someone being warned about. I went in, I was polite, so were they. The professor was very quiet and seemed impressed but I'm slightly worried because the main panelist grading the interview was not very engaged. I spoke, they listened with very little push back and we had a very amiable discussion about a variety of issues in the energy sector. Not to draw the ire of the anti north conspiracy theorists here but we even spoke a bit of Hausa at their instigation.

At the end of the day I'm okay with the whole thing, it could've been slightly better because I didn't get to say everything I wanted to before being interrupted by new questions but it could've been a lot worse. In fact, they spontaneously assured me that the interview went well but in my mind I'm thinking so did that of many others in many centers around the country so I took it with a pinch of salt. We exchanged pleasantries and I left. A friend who got the scholarship told me as long as your programme is related to energy, they just want to hear how articulate you are. Like you, I have resigned myself to destiny. I have my CAS ready, and I have my contingencies ready. I'm prepared for whatever outcome.

ComradeTY:
You were in Abuja yesterday?

Many people don't have luck regarding all these professors yesterday... Nothing seems to be possible with them

hosey:
Nice write up.

You were lucky they asked you about your credentials, documents and work experience.
I think this really helped you clinched the MSc.

But in some centres, most people have all these but they were just asked one question and no one asked about their credentials. Looks like formality.

The panelists should be consistent. I agree with your Abuja suggestion. Good luck in PhD.
Hope you know PTDF have now agreed on giving "No objection" letter. This is unlike before.

tolaade1960:
You are very correct. The timing of interview is too long.

PTDF scholarship is not academic-based like Tetfund , it's tailored to professional/industry in oil and gas, so why using publications as metric for MSc .

On the issue of certificate citing either you are physical or virtual interview, it does not matter as they have your soft copies already. When you get the scholarship , they will still check and verify.