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CamusMidas:
Your mate are getting straight A's and you dey shine teeth with that kind careless result.

Read all the posts, even for those people, straight A's didn't help. Can you show yours? Olodo rabata make I no shine teeth abi, if na u, u go die?

WAIT FOR HUSH-PUPPI .

bizzibodi:
Abeg who go teach me yahooism...d honest chaps are going extinct.

Evii:
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.

A good point
I had this bro that read mechanical engineering and he was even the one that motivated me into reading that same course but he has decide not to take any work dat has to do with self employment like being a mechanic or working in mechanic workshop
He said he wants to work in Big companies like BUA and Dangote
And dat is d same way I noticed other graduates see life
They just want it quick and hot
Nobody is willing to do anything little to start

DaveDGreat:
I no know if my own high compared with wetin I dey see here.
4.18 cgpa
B.Eng Chemical Engineering.
NYSC 2020
Na God just dey use small digital skill dey give me food but it doesn't come always. Sometimes, I just get tired but God dey sha. I have resolved to acquire more ICT skills pending when I go get job.
Abeg if my helper dey nl, make e contact me ooo. Sapa is real aswear

There are hardly jobs for people who read Chemical engineering. My advice,:
Since you know digital skills start looking for where you can work for free as an intern. Enrol in CXL institute- there is a scholarship. Check Ingressive for good now now. I think there is a scholarship too. Go to LinkedIn and myjobmag. Look at people who are working in tech. What skills do they possess. Begin to look for ways to get those skills. Be hungry for knowledge. Check out hubspot inbound marketing. Look for internships or offer your service. I promise you that within 6 months of dilligence you will have a good career

InvertedHammer:
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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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Exactly Jare
Some of us expect all these jobs to come and start searching for us
Even person wey read mechanical engineering say make God forbid bad thing if him ever work for ordinary mechanic share
Nobody wan start small

IS YOUR FRIEND FROM DAURA? NO CONNECTION OR COLLECTION?

Thermodynamics:
Honestly, the best thing to do after secondary school is to learn a skill, get properly established and then run part-time program in any university close by. In your own case, since you are already in School, it's best to learn a soft skill like ui/ux design or coding and make sure you are very very good at it before you finish NYSC. Just pray guy, a friend of mine graduated with a 2.2 and got a job in Lagos immediately after NYSC, that was the first job he has every applied for. He collected his NYSC certificate like today, saw the job advert on operamini new pop-up, he just edited someone's CV then applied next thing, they called him for a zoom interview and that was how he got a job in a telecom company.

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING, THAT MAYBE THE GUY IS INTELLIGENT, BROS, THE GUY IS JUST AN AVERAGE GUY, VERY VERY AVERAGE. YET HE GOT THE VERY FIRST JOB HE APPLIED FOR AFTER GRADUATION. WITHOUT COLLECTION, FOR THIS NIGERIA OH MORAL OF THIS TRUE LIFE STORY, ALWAYS PRAY FOR GOD'S GRACE.

chaiks:
Baba me and you same issue. I was lucky to get a fairly used PC recently. How do I get to know about the transcription job. Hardship don deal with me since graduating years back with 4.49/5.

. My advice,:
Since you know digital skills start looking for where you can work for free as an intern. Enrol in CXL institute- there is a scholarship. Check Ingressive for good now now. I think there is a scholarship too. Go to LinkedIn and myjobmag. Look at people who are working in tech. What skills do they possess. Begin to look for ways to get those skills.

Be hungry for knowledge. Check out hubspot inbound marketing. Look for internships or offer your service. I promise you that within 6 months of dilligence you will have a good career. Check out PMA scholarship.
You will get a job within 3 months and if you don't slack, you will get a better job within a year. I am telling you what I did exactly.

Hmmm

Why did you go to school in the first place if you can't make good grades?.. Waste of money. Those who have good grades and know what they are doing nko na two heads dem get? Make una dey deceive Una self there. It's not all first class and 2nd class upper holders that do read and pour.

Abbi if you self graduate with first class or 2.1 you go die? You be olodo simple you come dey find wetin to console yourself and to justify your terrible result . Nigerians and bad belle sha

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.

they don't connive with white guys,the blacks are the ones doing it.... Even in Nigeria companies they play politics against each other infact I heard about one incident in a company in Abuja this week.

There was a company in bayelsa that almost folded up because the employees were stealing money.when the employer brought in auditors to audit the accounts,some of them sent in their resignation letters and left immediately.

The chaiman partnered with some expatriates to manage the company for him.

arthurwillia:
Very sad
4.47 chai
So bad

Same as me

Jobs are for sale in Nigeria.First, you must have connection, then you buy the job.The prices range from N200k to N1m. Nobody want to know your grade.If you like have first class.You just stressed your self for nothing, rather we reward BBN that promotes immorality.

I graduated with 2:1 4.36,No job I have been doing some businesses

Thermodynamics:
Honestly, the best thing to do after secondary school is to learn a skill, get properly established and then run part-time program in any university close by. In your own case, since you are already in School, it's best to learn a soft skill like ui/ux design or coding and make sure you are very very good at it before you finish NYSC. Just pray guy, a friend of mine graduated with a 2.2 and got a job in Lagos immediately after NYSC, that was the first job he has every applied for. He collected his NYSC certificate like today, saw the job advert on operamini new pop-up, he just edited someone's CV then applied next thing, they called him for a zoom interview and that was how he got a job in a telecom company.

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING, THAT MAYBE THE GUY IS INTELLIGENT, BROS, THE GUY IS JUST AN AVERAGE GUY, VERY VERY AVERAGE. YET HE GOT THE VERY FIRST JOB HE APPLIED FOR AFTER GRADUATION. WITHOUT COLLECTION, FOR THIS NIGERIA OH MORAL OF THIS TRUE LIFE STORY, ALWAYS PRAY FOR GOD'S GRACE.

Wow!
I'm motivated and inspired.

I was actually learning web development.I learnt HTML5,CSS3,I was learning javascript when the owner of the laptop collected it back.Ever since then,I couldn't lay my hands on a laptop.


Grace will find me in Jesus name!

Please DM me if you reside in Lagos. I will invite you for an interview.

Obasempiree:
I graduated with a first class in accounting and finance and finished my nysc 3 years ago, since then i have attended interviews but to no avail, but immeidately i finished nysc i started trading forex while looking for jobs, i also involved myself in my friend's entertainment start up 2 years ago as a web administrator on his website, travelled with him regularly for shoots even without pay, i also learnt digital marketing certified from google to improve my SEO skills, i took alot of courses on how to code and build websites which i do today, i equally write books though i do this passively, am still hopeful i can have a tech start up soon which is far from what i dreamt of when i was studying accounting and finance in school, but where i project the world is going to or still get a job and open it later in the future as clients on web development do not come very often. i just love learning, i applied for a few scholarships over the years but still no reply, God will do it for me.

BREYZ:
Omo, stop talking about certificates and double your hustle ooooo

We are trying o. But it's not still working out. May God show us mercy.

TempUser:
Am I qualified?

4.21?

There's only one rule, which is - Survive.

Most first class graduates Lack adaptability, they strive better in a controlled environment like a school where events are controlled , where life gives you lessons before the tests, and where everything is measured by ability to cram and pour.

Sorry to burst your bubble guys, but out there in the real world , life gives you tests and then you learn the lessons, you have to be adaptable to survive and it's a jungle , you have no academic adviser or welfare officer to report issues to, you are all on your own.

First class is meant to give you and advantage, but if you come out and still struggle in life , yiu have a first class in study not building real practical things , better drop your paper and hit the streets.

Vikelo1212:
We are trying o. But it's not still working out. May God show us mercy.

Amen oo

What I shaa know is that, I have found myself in Nigeria. Thank God I didn't find myself in Afghanistan, ki laba ma So

But never would I come here again, apart from naija oo, US ni o or whatsoever.


I'm not coming here again

dettolgel:
Poland for instance nope. I know that German ask for it some Belgian schools do ask as well.

In my opinion if you can you should because it will give an edge over someone that didn't. In the past they don't ask for it but since our people and Chinese students started using fake degree most schools started asking for it.

Check out this thread

https://www.nairaland.com/2272115/polish-student-visa/157#97525254

Ok thank you very much
So you are certain German Alaskan for ielts right?

apharm:
Same as me

Pain is not good
We will make it
Only then will it go

bimbod:
4.21?

For the semester, CGPA is @ 3.63 with just a semester to print

TempUser:
For the semester, CGPA is @ 3.63 with just a semester to print

not bad... you should be proud of getting 2.1

TempUser:
For the semester, CGPA is @ 3.63 with just a semester to print

not bad... you should be proud of getting 2.1

You said you don't have a job? I am laughing really.

Have you tried networking? May God open more people's eyes in this country.

Enough said.

How many lawmakers have 1stclass? Yinmu ****

VTJN:
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?

I have a 30k job already from playing the piano in a church. I plan to look for any job especially a teaching job, while I buy a laptop and learn data science full time

I fwy here my brother

I graduated with upper credit, equivalent to 2:1, finished NYSC in year 2017.
Applied did many interviews, even paid for help while pusueing placement at a particular firm, but all to no avail.
I was introduced to freelance (Fiverr n Upwork) But police harrassment now and then still forced man out, because on each occasion they refused to accept Fiverr n Upwork are legit online market places, any dollaractions to most of them is scam, plus policy changing now and then on both platforms.
Eventually, I had to think of other thing and embraced learning tailoring, and this is still what son of man does,may God help and bless Nigeria and her youths.

Chigorkizz:
Am interested

Okay
Mail me
For my whatsapp number

legallyminded:
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Hope it's not connected to Internet fraud. Because your moniker and profile are suspicious

LoL
It's legal
But not avaliable to nigerians