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eleli: Hello,I am a graduate of a reputable institution in nigeria.i graduated with a Bsc. Mathematics. I want to further my studies with a master's degree in geographic information studies. I need help with the right certifications to follow through in the information technology sector.i have been wanting to study ccna all along,a friend of mine who works with oando advised me to go for oracle database with linux.i am thinking of going into study it.now I am a little bit confused.i have little ideas from taking part courses in computer science in the university.can someone please advise me the right way to go about these certifications. ? as a kid, I always wanted to be a computer engineer.i still want to.i need to know where to start from,so I dont regret later.thanks in anticipation

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VIRTUAL MANAGEMENT AT ACCENTURE

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company, with over 129,000 employees in 48 countries. It specializes in helping businesses and governments improve their performance. Its information systems and business processes are designed so that consultants can work from virtually any location.

Accenture has no operational headquarters and no formal branches. Its chief financial officer lives in Silicon Valley, California, while the head of human resources is in Chicago and its chief technology officer is based in Germany. Accenture’s thousands of management and technology consultants are constantly on the move, on site with clients or working temporarily in offices that the company leases in more than 100 locations around the world.

When a new consultant is hired, Accenture’s system automatically sets up an e-mail account and instructions on where to pick up a laptop. Managers rely heavily on telephone and e-mail to keep up with their staff, and many of them are constantly in motion.

Everyday, Accenture employees log on the company’s internal web site, which they can access from anywhere in the world. They use this system to record where they are working, and to access email, phone messages and their files. The system enables them to share documents and other data with Accenture colleagues and to conduct videoconference­s when more face-to-face interaction is needed. If a consultant or manager is about to travel to London, Chicago or Beijing, he or she uses the system to find a cubicle with a desk in that location. Clients who call a manager whose home is Los Angeles are automatically routed t his or her current working location, even if it is several time zones away.

To print a document, a person uses the Accenuture internal web site to click on the country where he or she is currently working. This action brings up a list of offices. After selecting an office, the employee selects a floor, which brings up a floor plan of the building and displays all of the printer, it automatically prints the employee’s documents.
Employees can’t pop into co-workers’ officers for informal meetings. Participants in a specific project may be working from many different locations and time zones around the world, so scheduling phone conferences may require a few to give up some sleep. For global conferences, the best time appears to be around 1pm London time which is 9pm in Beijing, midnight in Australia and 5 am in California.

For executives who are constantly on the go, jet lag adds to the problem.

Accenture outsources about 82 percent of the IT it uses. It hires other companies to manage its network, computer centres and helpdesk as well as technologies used at specific locations. External vendors provide the support for Accenture’s PCs and conference call technology.

Accenture also outsources other parts of its business such as the management of employee travel. Its travel vendors are able to tract employee movements. When a major client in Copenhagen asked to see Accenture’s chief operating officer Steve Rohleder just as his plane was landing in Nice, France, en route from New York to India. Rohleder was able to change planes and head directly to Copenhagen.

Some problems, however, require Accenture managers and clients to “be there in person”. When London-based Adrian Lajyja, who heads Accenture’s financial services group, learned that a project team in the United States felt bogged down, he made an impromptu visit to their work site and staged a three-hour meeting. Personal contact is especially useful when a sensitive personnel matters must be addressed or when employees need extra motivation and encouragement during hard times. That means more travel and conferences around the clock for Accenture virtual executives. During the last economic slowdown, for example, Lajtha held 280 meetings in 18 months with groups of the 12,000 employees he oversees.

Despite these challenges, Accenture believes virtual management works. The company doesn’t have to maintain overhead costs for large headquarters, which it believes would amount to much more than its extensive travel expenses. Managers see many benefits to spending time in the field where clients are located. Managers meeting with lower-level employees who work with the clients obtain information that would not be available if they remained at headquarters. And their presence helps cement client relationships. Almost 85 percent of Accenture’s one hundred largest accounts have been its clients for 10 years or more.

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On my way to owerri nw curently plying enugu ph express way. (11am 29th mar 2013). Noticd young men perhaps enugu locals sellin 'fleshy' cashew. We pulld ova n bougth a small paint measure container worth cashew@ N150. Smh in dismay. If dis wer abroad, a juice processin plant wud b situatd der (nearnes to raw materials) and finl products exportd to big mkt (africa espcialy nig). Nigerian youths n aspiring entrepreneurs, wat can we do abt dis oportunity? Shud we keep screemin 'no jobs'? I dare us to act now!

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In this context, it is assumed that the traditional rites has been duly carried out.

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Im a young female Nigerian graduate facing reality after leaving school some years back.

Iv come to realise a hard fact: The Nigerian school system has merely equipped us to deal with a world that no longer exists. The limitation of the system has produced dysfunctional graduates (including you, yes you!). A former minister of education recently said that Nigerian graduates are unemployable.

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The Nigerian Entrepreneur seeks to help empower the average Nigerian undergraduate/graduate to actively participate in today's ever-changing and competitive global economy.

The school system has merely equipped us to deal with a world that no longer exists. The limitation of the system has produced dysfunctional graduates. A former minister of education recently said that Nigerian graduates are unemployable.

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IDEALISM VS REALISM
(Overcoming the limitations of the present educational system)

The school system has merely equipped us to deal with a world that no longer exists. The limitation of the system has produced dysfunctional graduates. A former minister of education recently said that Nigerian graduates are unemployable.

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Understanding the changes in the Nigerian economy & workplace

1. There are fewer jobs in the workplace to cater for the Nigerian undergraduates and graduates. This situation is caused by the following factors.

• Corporate restructurings have thrown many employees into the labour market. Example is the reforms going on in the banking industry, which have left many bankers jobless.

• The government recent move to sanitize it workforce will lead to hundreds of thousands losing their jobs.

• Jobs are created at a slower pace than the rate at which it is being destroyed. Probably the only job you will get is the one you create.

2. There is no security in the workplace again.

• The more security you seek the less freedom you find.

• One of the most secured places on earth is the prison; the inmates are secured but not free!

• Only what you can control its outcome and destiny is secured.

• The only way to secure your future is to create your future. The only secure job is the one you
create.

• The example cited in B1 shows that security is gone.

3. The system no longer respects certificate but certified minds.

• It is what you have in your head that determines whether you get ahead.

• The richest people in the world are school dropout. They dropped out but today they stand out! They all have certified minds. E.g. Bill GATES, Michael DELL and others.

• “PhD’s are good, but Ph Do’s are better.”

• The current system requires people with practical skills and not impracticable theories learnt in schools.

• A certified mind has the following characteristics: quick to think, ability to generate ideas, visionary in thinking, versatile in learning and decisive in execution.

Understanding the Power of Change

• Change is the only permanent thing in life.

• The only way to win the race of life is to learn to keep pace with change e.g. the story of the lion and gazelle in the Serengeti Plain of East Africa.

• Those who resist change lose charge.

• To keep growing you have to keep changing.

• Change is what makes life dynamic.

• Change is the difference between the present and the future. In other words, the future is birth in the womb of change.

• To prosper in a changing world requires that you anticipate, prepare for and embrace change. You must see the future before it occurs.

• John Sculley said, “THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO SEES OPPORTUNITIES EVER BEFORE IT OCCURS”.

• There are a lot of changes in the Nigerian workplace and the economy today has made many of our youths irrelevant in the present system.

• These changes are not just peculiar to this country but they are the emerging trends in the global economy today.