Asour:


You have a good profile.
Have you done your Professional qualification?

If not (maybe for funds) are you aware that ICAN gives scholarships to first class students?

Also you may want to streamline your pursuits. Too many pursued is none caught. I.e. You'll definitely lack depth in any one area.

Pick an area of focus for your tech interests. Be it Data Analytics, web development, Cyber security, etc.

For scholarships, You may want to be more open.
I.e. not just UK and USA. Good schools abound in much less popular countries. If you don't mind.

Russia has open doors scholarships into nice institutions like HSE University & St Petersburg state university.
Belgium has KU Leuven.
These are English taught programmes too.


Cheers.

Thanks brother, no i have no professional qualification mostly due to funds, i really want all these but i have been limited by funds so most of all what i learnt are self taut, even the web development i learnt it for free ,as for the area of focus i focus on mostly web development, i just felt digital marketing and creative writing will enhance my skills thats why i developed interest in them but i add them to my profile as additional skills, i really appreciate this feedback and i will look at the scholarships opportunities in Russia and other areas thanks.

7 REASONS WHY DEGREE HOLDERS ARE POOR?*

*Gbenga Adebambo*
The Guardian

BASICALLY, there are seven reasons why degree holders are poor.

*1. THEY DON’T THINK BEYOND THEIR CERTIFICATES*

Albert Einstein said, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” Have you ever heard creativity term “Think outside the box”? One of the major reasons why most graduates are poor is simply because they can’t see and think beyond their certificates.
I have seen engineering students work as bankers. I have seen medical doctors with great skills in web and graphic designs. I have seen lawyers that are very dexterous with finances. The list is endless!

The basic truth of life is that the skills that are needed to be much sought after and become more successful in life are not really found within the walls of the classrooms. Your certificate is just a proof that you are teachable, it does not suggest what you are totally capable of doing. You are full of possibilities when you think beyond your degrees and certificates.

*2. THEY PRIORITIZE THEIR CERTIFICATES MORE THAN THEIR GIFTS AND TALENTS*

I have often advised some of my colleagues, never to leave their gifts dormant while pursuing and hunting for jobs with their certificates. There must be a complementary balance in the pursuit of your passion and in the search for jobs.

Everybody is gifted for something, but the winning edge comes from our ability to work on our gifts and bless the world with it. The very best way to develop yourself is in the direction of your natural talents and interest. In order to live a fulfilled and impactful life, we need to work harder on our gift than our job. We need to discover our gift, develop it, and sell it. Don’t bury your TALENT with your certificates.

*3. THEIR CERTIFICATES PREPARE THEM FOR A WORLD THAT NO LONGER EXIST*

It has been found that most of the skills taught in schools are becoming obsolete in the present world. The world has changed a lot, and so are people’s need! It is imperative to know that the present form of university education does not prepare students for the future.

Graduates are becoming endangered species in the face of a changing world. Our archaic methods and approaches of learning are preparing graduates for a world that no longer exist, as we are churning out degree holders every year with certificates that have face value but no intrinsic worth. Most learning institutions are filled up with lecturers and pseudo-educators with lecture notes, methods and approaches that have lost relevance in a changing world.

*4. THEY KNOW LESS ABOUT THEMSELVES BUT MORE ABOUT THINGS*

Certificates and degrees don’t reveal people to themselves; they at most measure our IQ (Intelligent Quotient). I have often tell people that there is no Recovery without Discovery. A poor man is simply someone that has not discovered himself.

The more you discover yourself, the more you realize the treasures that are hidden deep within you. We carry inside ourselves latent treasures that can only be unveiled through self-discovery.

*5. CERTIFICATES AND DEGREES CAN KILL INITIATIVES*

Degrees and certificates can close up your minds to ideas while initiatives open it up. If you are not careful, your degrees and certificates can close up your mind. The purpose of education is to keep your mind perpetually opened towards limitless possibilities!

Fred Smith saw an opportunity for overnight delivery of anything anywhere in the USA, and ultra-fast delivery anywhere in the world, FedEx was born. It will be interesting to know that Fred Smith got a grade “C” in a Yale economics class for an idea that the professor belittled as unworkable.
Fred Smith’s company became the first American business to make over ten billion dollars in annual profit. Beginning with just 186 packages delivered the first night, FedEx now delivers in over two hundred countries using over 6,030 aircraft, 46,000 vehicles and 141,000 employees.

*6. DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES POSITION YOU TO LOOK FOR JOBS AND NOT FOR OPPORTUNITIES*

Our certificates and degrees prepare graduates to look for jobs and not open our eyes to life-changing opportunities. You are not poor because you don’t have a job; you are poor because you are not seeing and seizing opportunities.

Being POOR is simply Passing Over Opportunities Repeatedly! What keeps people ahead in life is not their education or degrees, it is simply the opportunity that they seized. Jobs may be scarce but not opportunities.

As long as there is a problem to be solved, there will always be opportunities. It is a waste of our education, exposure, and experiences if after we graduate from school, all we think about is searching for a job. An enlightened and educated mind should be able to see and seize opportunities.

*7. CERTIFICATES AND DEGREES PREPARE PEOPLE TO LOOK FOR SECURITY AND NOT TO TAKE RISKS*

We must be willing to make mistakes and take breakthrough risks. Taking risks and learning from mistakes help us in knowing what works and what does not! When Thomas Edison was being questioned by a mischievous journalist on how he felt for having failed for 999 times before getting the idea of the light bulb, his response stunned the whole world when he confidently said, “I have not failed 999 times, I have only learned 999 ways of how not to make a light bulb”.

Many graduates and degree holders are becoming progressively poor because the skills required in the modern world to get rich are not taught in schools and institutions.

By 2025, we’ll lose over five million jobs to automation. This means that future jobs will look vastly different by the time many people graduate from the university.

*Future jobs will involve KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION/CREATION* and innovation, and people that are only equipped with skills found in the classroom will definitely be a misfit in an ever-changing world. Skills like critical thinking, creativity, people’s skill, STEM skills (e.g Coding), complex problem-solving skills etc. are central to living a more comprehensive and productive life.

THEREFORE, in conclusion, my humble and candid advice to graduates and students in institutions is to think wide, deep and outside the box. Take voluntary jobs, and don’t be afraid to navigate fields that are different from your field of learning. Your future career will require you to pull information from many different fields to come up with creative solutions to future problems.
Start by reading as much as you can about anything and everything that interests you. Once you get to college, consider double majoring or minoring in completely different fields. Trust me, it’ll pay off in the long run.

Don’t limit yourself to the classroom. Do something practical. Take a leadership position. Start a business and fail; that’s a better entrepreneurship. Contest an election and lose. It will teach you something political science will not teach you. Attend a seminar. Read books outside the scope of your course.

Think less of becoming an excellent student, but think more of becoming an excellent person. Don’t make the classroom your world, but make the world your classroom. Step forward and try something extra.

Invest in something you believe! Real financial security and freedom is not in your job, but in your passion, gifts, talents, and your ability to see and seize opportunities.

Hassanmaye:

Do what with a system no be someone who has computer skills can operate a system and get money, if I ask you now what he will do you will say, affiliate marketing, freelancing
( very difficult to get the job, too competitive, they don't even give Nigerians the job now, or May be you May say, copy writing all na the Same.

He said he’s about to lose his job because he doesn’t have a system
That’s why I said he should save for the system sir

dinodangana:
I wasn't on a 2:1 sha, but a strong 2:2 if there's anything like that, lol. Graduated 6years ago in Accounting, took 2 years to finish both MBA and ICAN simultaneously. Attended lots of interviews, basically NGO related, reached the last recruitment stage in most of them but always ends up unsuccessful, the regret mail I got last week was most painful but lass lass all man get him own time. Thank God I'm not a lazy man depending on corporate jobs sha, right now I Fry and sell masa(waina) while trying to gather funds to get a car for bolt

wow you are a great guy, hopefully you will get to where u desire cheers!

VTJN:
We are littered all over the state of the federation. I also came out top of my class. But i don't decieve myself i have no one to run to concerning job. Getting a job on merit isn't feasible anymore in this clime. Particularly, government jobs.

I recently got a transcription job. I'm likely to lose the job due to my inability to get a system.

I'll be rounding off my service soon. Yet no job in sight. Got some cool business ideas, don't have access to loan

Got no connection, nothing nothing

I'm losing my mind seriously

Guy, u must stand strong to face life challenges, u mustn't give on yourself, we know how naija dey but God can still make way for u

hyzich:


If you are a true first class student and you know your onions, trust me getting job should not be hard. I made first class and i have gotten more than 6 offers in the past 3 years, infact i just got one with almost 500k net but contemplating on accepting because i am enjoying my current place and i have not spent upto 6 months.
If you actually worked for it and you are smart getting job to manage should not be hard. I am not there yet but i know with time i will.
Don't lose hope and keep trying every opportunities (business).

My friend shut up, if you have any sense you won't be spurring this garbage.

Is first class or second class upper a SKILL?

dettolgel:


Bro find English taught MSc program in Schengen area. You find school with tuition as low as 500 euros. Process you visa get there do menial work to pay rent and fees. Finish either find work there or apply for PhD or another master in US and port. Then build your life from there.

My people perish for lack of information.

Wow I’ve not heard of this before oo
Can we talk more please, drop your email please

Goodvibes007:

Lol.
The thread somehow feels like a pity party.

It is well.

It is, both you can't rid the Nigeria factor from making it one.

heniford2:
Amen oh can you hack account if yes, hack buhari account

e go good now send me account details

mslilybeth:

Send me an email

I'm sorry i couldn't send you a mail. The mail with my account isn't functional. Please could you put down your number or e-mail so I could reach you? Thanks.

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If you are an unemployed first class graduate, it means that you don't deserve it because you didn't learn anything. Craming and vomiting the contents of books is not intelligence. Define education.

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Just to add to the positive response the boss in the house said, if you know your onion you willl surely get a job.

Most of the first class folks commenting here are only suffering from lack of knwoledge or inability to see beyond because of their environment and most don't have a linkedlin account and some who have don't know how to use it what they are good in is Nairaland, facebook, or WhatsApp, some do not even know what Indeed is all about and yet they are expecting job to be advertiser on newspaper or nairaland.

Secondly, on every company there's what we call careers, look for a company of your choice navigate to their careers and send them a cover letter and your cv. With time you will be call.

Meanwhile, gmat, shl, dragnet test should be prepared for especially those in the age range if 22-26, while those above those she range should augment their skills by getting a professional course like Ican irrespect of your field.


Little cent for now.

Lastly, if you have passion for Ict go and learn software engineering as soon as possible he get why, IT is where the money is now. .


Let me see this to it, USA is there prepare for GRE and TOFEL and you are out of this country on Scholarship, there's a thread that help on how to go about it on nairaland.

What a thread!

GboyegaD:


Glad you understood my line of reasoning. On the topic, one of my concerns is the mindset we usually have. I am talking from my experience and it has always played out.

People need to think beyond nepotism which is now the order of the day and tell themselves that they will get their desired jobs without any man's help. That is the start of getting a job.

Which other mindset wan help the common man before?

I had 2.1 in civil engineering in 2011. I worked in a media organization for one government for a period of 6 yrs. The appointment was terminated in 2018 after the end of the tenure. The problem now is that all my experience has been in a media organization not in a construction firm.

God will make a way. Be positive

VTJN:
We are littered all over the state of the federation. I also came out top of my class. But i don't decieve myself i have no one to run to concerning job. Getting a job on merit isn't feasible anymore in this clime. Particularly, government jobs.

I recently got a transcription job. I'm likely to lose the job due to my inability to get a system.

I'll be rounding off my service soon. Yet no job in sight. Got some cool business ideas, don't have access to loan

Got no connection, nothing nothing

I'm losing my mind seriously

Hassanmaye:

You Said he should get a system,do what with the system if he don't have the skill,

I wasn't the one you quoted and rather than expose yourself more, take your time to read through again, understand the conversation, then comment.

hyzich:


If you are a true first class student and you know your onions, trust me getting job should not be hard. I made first class and i have gotten more than 6 offers in the past 3 years, infact i just got one with almost 500k net but contemplating on accepting because i am enjoying my current place and i have not spent upto 6 months.
If you actually worked for it and you are smart getting job to manage should not be hard. I am not there yet but i know with time i will.
Don't lose hope and keep trying every opportunities (business).

Thanks for your kind words. Congrats for the new offer.

Obasempiree:

wow you are a great guy, hopefully you will get to where u desire cheers!

Thanks mate

CamusMidas:

Which other mindset wan help the common man before?

As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. I wouldn't say more than this.

VTJN:
Lagos State, badagry precisely.

which part of Badagry, l may know the face behind this Monika

VTJN:
System failure

Greed has eaten deep in us. We all know the right things to do. But that dirty traits in us won't. I'll rather hoards millions/billions of money in local/foreign currency, have litters of cars, houses, landed properties, look so Porsche. Just name it. We have friends, families, neighbours who are needy. Blacks are greedy. The whites did exploits us. Your fellow blacks are the ones conniving with those whites running factories/industries right here to pay her fellow blacks meagre income. Our security personnel are their escort. They sometimes follow one way that you and i dare not follow. We go to their country and we're being treated with disdain.

We are our problem.

you have a point bro.

urchcoded:
I can relate to your last two lines. Knowing that you have no connection whatsoever could be depressing and that's me right now. I'll also round up my service by october.

Moreso, if you're from a poor background. If one isn't careful, post-nysc depression will definitely set in.

Bro October is around the corner. What are your plans? What are you considering as alternative, if job isn't coming?

viyon02:
which part of Badagry, l may know the face behind this Monika

Lol

Along Morogbo environ

Olumaeme:
I honestly cant understand how someone will graduate will first class and be jobless.
Well, Most times, the naija education system rewards only people who can just memorize and then pour down on exam days while most of them are not intelligent.

One time i was working somewhere and was on an interview panel only to see a guy who had Second Class lower but cant express himself correctly.

The Problem is not that there are no jobs, the problem is that, there are not enough skilled graduates to take on lots of jobs.

If you graduate with first class, what do you have upstairs? I graduated with 3rd class and have never been unemployed and have never gotten a job through connection.

I saw jobs online, apply and get them.

is this a generilization or what... So that something is unemployed means they didn't Worth their first class or cos you were lucky means other's shut up... Na wa oooo

GboyegaD:


As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. I wouldn't say more than this.

Bros calm down with this toxic positivism stuff, it is good to think positively but there should be a limit to it when you have to face reality, and reality doesn't care about a feeling. Everybody has plan until life Punch them in the face.

As I said, one has no option but give positive mindset a trial when you have nobody out there looking out for you but that's not just it, you have to bring in your best to the table.

4.46 xtry education ABU

Am here too and would need job info and leads. I would not mind the location either. God help us all.

GboyegaD:


Why do they have to? Aren't all in the set of being jobless? This unnecessary segregation is a part of our challenge. Anyways, I hope this thread serves its purpose.

Don't mind them.
As an employer, I can't even consider somekne with such a crass mentality.
Imagine reasoning

I’m jobless I need FG job if you have any confirm link I can pay for it thanks.

For someone