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Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Toeyean1507(f): 12:01am On Jan 03, 2015
Lordseyad:
Proudly Statistician--


Statistics- facts from figures
U can say dat again!!! This is d 1st time I'm meeting a fellow online.............#Team facts from reliable figures
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by olympus121: 12:03am On Jan 03, 2015
gameboy727:
Outside Naija these are hot courses.
That's true but in Naija those courses are just there for one to hav a degree. There is no enabling environment to put all that into practice here.
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Nobody: 12:04am On Jan 03, 2015
kristein:


and by the way am still an undergraduate(studyin accounting in one of prestigious versity) ..but i am more experience and enlightened about this whole write up of mine
ur skul and level?
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Nobody: 12:06am On Jan 03, 2015
Toeyean1507:
U can say dat again!!! This is d 1st time I'm meeting a fellow online.............#Team facts from reliable figures
which facts gan sef.....shuuu!!! U guyz bin screaming facts from figures lataaro #e don do na

#Proudly_Economist
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Toeyean1507(f): 12:11am On Jan 03, 2015
bolukaz:
Another proud ASSONite here bro
I think we've got to start an online Asson meetings. Yet anoda fellow? Its indeed a good year
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Toeyean1507(f): 12:17am On Jan 03, 2015
donPhill:
gat u dere boss....
Am studying maths/statistics presently
proud of my course
U are so lucky,bro. That's one of d best courses one can actually study. Do endeavor to familiarize urself wit software packages such as SAS, E-view, MATLAB, STATISTICA, SPSS, EXCEL, ORACLE and d likes. U'll thank me later

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Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Toeyean1507(f): 12:23am On Jan 03, 2015
ALKARULEZZ:
which facts gan sef.....shuuu!!! U guyz bin screaming facts from figures lataaro #e don do na

#Proudly_Economist
Lolz. U just can't understand d feeling man. I mean,u studying a kinda course in which ur source of livelihood is guaranteed as long as u r focused even b4 graduation! Talk of Statistics and u'll be correct!
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Nobody: 12:42am On Jan 03, 2015
Toeyean1507:
Lolz. U just can't understand d feeling man. I mean,u studying a kinda course in which ur source of livelihood is guaranteed as long as u r focused even b4 graduation! Talk of Statistics and u'll be correct!
did u just mention 'guaranteed'?

Oya, wahtz d guarantee? (Let's st@ 4rm here)
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by MRLANNISTER(m): 12:45am On Jan 03, 2015
POO angry
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Elizabethoni(f): 12:52am On Jan 03, 2015
kristein:
of recent...about a couple of days ago..I basically made a write up of the best top 10 courses and hot cake in nigeria as at today..

but I have finally,come up with another write up of the top 10 worst degrees with lowest potential for employment in nigeria as at today

certainly,there is no degree that guarantees one job in & by itself however given the current economic situation and the fast pace of economic and technological shift in the continent and nigeria in particular there are degrees you would be better off not investing your time and resources to acquire as opportunities affected in those areas are increasingly getting eroded...if however you have a degree in any of them and finding it tough to make career headway it's time to put on your thinking cap
1 General Arts;
this cover anything from art history to painting/sculpture in the western world and developed countries having a degree in the arts could fetch one decent job opportunities several years ago..after the depression however with many european economic still sttuggling to recover it's becoming increasingly tough to find opportunities for majors in such areas like archeology,painting/fine art,history et cetera.

the opportunities for these sort of degrees are shrinking and people with the academic credentials thinking to get themselves a job in related field would have to do a cot of innovative and pro active thinking.
career counsellors advise those who want to study such things as art,dance,and music to have a specific strategy...sometimes a way out could be getting a higher degree(such as masters).

2 Humanities and liberal Arts;
if you love sitting and thinking about the intricacies of life and expounding on theories of existence or analysing political theories and events there may not be enough opportunities to do that in real life with your philosophy or political science degree to earn good money..
Humanities and liberal Art degree courses like Anthropology,political science,philosophy and many more do not give the graduates who passes them specific in road into the employement market..unlike professional courses like engineering,and the business field having a degree in any of the humanities may not really point one to a specific career direction.

3 Education;
unless you are willing to take higher degrees and pursue teaching opportunities at higher levels of the education ladder having an education degree is hardly going to get you the best jobs.
the only ways a graduate degree holder in education will do better is either to go for higher qualification and try to break into higher level teaching or do a career switch entirely and go for higher qualification in a different field that has more career prospects.

4 Religious studies;
Given the way churches and self styled pastors are springing up in every nook and cranny it should appear that splurging money on a religious studies degree will present the holder with bright prospects...however nothing can be further from the truth..except you are willing to plunge in and open your own church down the street,becoming a quran clutching preacher et cetera...there are hardly any existing opportunities for you to explore if you have a religiouss studies degree and wish to exploit opportunities there in.

5 Mass communication;
In considering mass communication we had a struggle with choosing a few other courses ahead of mass communication but at the end the argument was too much against mass communication degree.
the increasing introduction of media technology is eating away at the former strongholds of mass communication graduates..reporters and journalist find the rug being gradually pulled of their feet as bloggers and writers who hitherto knew nothing about mass communication.

take over the business of news discovering and sharing newspaper and television are no longer holding the baton in exclusive control of the media business...for mass comm.majors who wish to find and pursue the right career day need to understand the change in mass media and communication tools and acquire the right skills.
other worst course are;
6 botany
7 social studies
8 english literature
9 zoology
10 forest and wildlife management(wonderwhat you wana do with these,mayb you will use the certificate for cutting of woods in the forest)

For ur info,Mass Communication is not just about newspaper and magazine; it iS broad...we have advertising,Public relations,journalism,Integrated Marketing Communication ,Book Publishing under mass comm...these fiels are very lucrative...I don't understand why this topic is on Frontpage when ur so ignorant and typing jargons...
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by irewolepeter(m): 1:25am On Jan 03, 2015
Noooo, how will you tell me Education has a low potential for Employment
Come and prove that to me
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by bobolizim(m): 1:26am On Jan 03, 2015
Cutehector4u:
Nonsense....my president studied zoology...
ndhe ended up lecturing...d question is,y didnt he work in his field rather dan lecturing??
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Sarhamsyn(m): 1:29am On Jan 03, 2015
if u study zoology one day u'll become 9ja President jus lyk GEJ.
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Nobody: 1:37am On Jan 03, 2015
You have 1000000% chance of employment if you study Computer science tongue Fellow Naccosites make una flex joor.. Na our age
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Mujinho4b(m): 1:51am On Jan 03, 2015
Guy!! U no get work... Mtvheew .. Waste of mb.. Education wey dy get work die...
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Nobody: 2:07am On Jan 03, 2015
Sarhamsyn:
if u study zoology one day u'll become 9ja President jus lyk GEJ.
let's be truthful... One in every million get to be a president sad
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Rapsodee(m): 3:32am On Jan 03, 2015
Akposy:
Stop all dis rubbish post
Am a proud Botany student and i can proudly tell u dat without plant dere is no life!
We plant scientist improve lives by making research on various plants for medicinal and forensic usage.
All flesh is grass
Which school are you pls?
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Akposy(m): 3:36am On Jan 03, 2015
Rapsodee:
Which school are you pls?
Delta state uni (delsu)
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Rapsodee(m): 3:41am On Jan 03, 2015
Akposy:

Delta state uni (delsu)
Oohk...thanks.
rep OAU....same course!
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Rapsodee(m): 3:44am On Jan 03, 2015
maximunimpact:
Its a shame that somebody will waste valuable time listing hot and cold courses in our institutions, of what value is it to those who studied the aformentioned courses? Should they denounce their degrees and take a course in medicine? Is that what ur point is? Its people like u that think education is all about getting employment, education is suppose to build an individual into creating something new, creating jobs, bringing innovations and improving the society.

You that composed those unprofitable list above what did u study in school? What are u doing for a living? Are both answers related? If yes then you are lucky, if no u better start telling ursef the truth.

In ur low thinking mentality of unemployability based on discipline, has the word ''enterprenurship'' simply dissapeared? I believe u are educated that's why u can post stuffs about education, but by posting above, u have not helped anyone out there.

What we should be talking about now is not about getting a job, its about creating one, the government are trying to disemphacise employments for the youths, they have started insinuating that youths should be instrument of job creation, instead of people like the OP that I assume is a youth to encourage job creation, he is preaching the old age sermon of ''go to school and graduate to get a job'', our society is indeed moving faster than u can imagin, people have started discovering alternatives to writing great CVs, they have started accepting CVs!

OP u need to wake up, wake up from the myopic view of the ''job hunt'' strategy to innovation and creation of jobs. That job u maybe doing now was created by someone, and u are satisfied been a subordinate for life, that's modern day slavery, simply because u red medicine does not mean u have to remain an employee of an hospital, a medical doctor can digress and do research in order to creat solutions for the so many uncurable diseases flying around.

So fellow nairalanders don't be discouraged by what OP said if ur discipline is listed above, u can challenge ur gots and creat something, so that people like the OP can beg u 4 a slot in ur business, and because dats his desire in life, he will be ur servant and u will pay him peanuts.

Last bullet: it is not about what u read in school that matters, its about ur personal talents that u developed over the years, most graduates did not study their dream courses, therefore we cannot base our personality and career based on the fact that we read one course or the other. I wish all of us a prosperous 2015!

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Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Akposy(m): 3:47am On Jan 03, 2015
Rapsodee:
Oohk...thanks.
rep OAU....same course!

Great! Wich level
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by drehdinho(m): 3:48am On Jan 03, 2015
Aitee1:
Op it pays to be verse in all areas...if you don't have an idea of how useful forestry and wildlife is to our environment don't make a mockery of it...tree conservation has a greater part to play in everyday life. Just do some research. Those in the north can even testify to that fact first.

You are here making jest of those that read such course is it not Nigerian govt that careless about environment? Go to the western world and see how the white treasure their environs!


Infact the Op seem not to think deeply before coming up with this discordant and shabbily written article.
Getting a job is not always going to be based on the career. Although one of those salient factors. The real thing the employer needs is wether you can deliver and increase his production. And if someone who studied Yoruba can proof to any employer that he's more than capable,he gets the job. It's as simple as that.
For your information Op, where I work,based on my qualification,I don't worth it. But I got the job based on my ability.
Stop discouraging people and stop making irrelevant propositions.
If everyone goes for professional course do you think other areas left unexplored won't leave a dent mark on the Nation's economy?
If not for the poor,goaless and selfish government we have, discrepancies ought not to have come to play amongst careers. Even common bricklayer has his own part to play in the economy of a nation.
To all my undergraduates ,please make sure you face your studies very well,what is worth doing at all ,is what is worth doing well.
And in anything you do always involve God. Because it's by His grace and power one gets favour from mankind.

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Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Rapsodee(m): 3:53am On Jan 03, 2015
Akposy:


Great! Wich level
Just entered...
2nd semester!
you?
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Akposy(m): 4:11am On Jan 03, 2015
Rapsodee:
Just entered...
2nd semester!
you?
200lvl first semester...did u fill botany or jamb gave u?
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Rapsodee(m): 5:29am On Jan 03, 2015
Akposy:

200lvl first semester...did u fill botany or jamb gave u?
was given!
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Idpotter(m): 5:59am On Jan 03, 2015
Lordseyad:
Proudly Statistician--


Statistics- facts from figures
Proudly statistician 2 bro..May God c us tru n bless us wit it

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Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Emblj: 6:38am On Jan 03, 2015
It is a great mistake to consider any course inferior or having less employment opportunities than others. All courses r important. It is a matter of the VALUE u can add to ur course of study through problem solving by providing solutions to someone's challenge that makes u employable - self or paid.
Even when u study d so called "hotcakes" & cant bring any value to it. U r guaranteed to a perpetual job seeker. Mind u i studied engineering & and am gainfully empoyed doing well .
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Nobody: 6:54am On Jan 03, 2015
kristein:
of recent...about a couple of days ago..I basically made a write up of the best top 10 courses and hot cake in nigeria as at today..

but I have finally,come up with another write up of the top 10 worst degrees with lowest potential for employment in nigeria as at today

certainly,there is no degree that guarantees one job in & by itself however given the current economic situation and the fast pace of economic and technological shift in the continent and nigeria in particular there are degrees you would be better off not investing your time and resources to acquire as opportunities affected in those areas are increasingly getting eroded...if however you have a degree in any of them and finding it tough to make career headway it's time to put on your thinking cap
1 General Arts;
this cover anything from art history to painting/sculpture in the western world and developed countries having a degree in the arts could fetch one decent job opportunities several years ago..after the depression however with many european economic still sttuggling to recover it's becoming increasingly tough to find opportunities for majors in such areas like archeology,painting/fine art,history et cetera.

the opportunities for these sort of degrees are shrinking and people with the academic credentials thinking to get themselves a job in related field would have to do a cot of innovative and pro active thinking.
career counsellors advise those who want to study such things as art,dance,and music to have a specific strategy...sometimes a way out could be getting a higher degree(such as masters).

2 Humanities and liberal Arts;
if you love sitting and thinking about the intricacies of life and expounding on theories of existence or analysing political theories and events there may not be enough opportunities to do that in real life with your philosophy or political science degree to earn good money..
Humanities and liberal Art degree courses like Anthropology,political science,philosophy and many more do not give the graduates who passes them specific in road into the employement market..unlike professional courses like engineering,and the business field having a degree in any of the humanities may not really point one to a specific career direction.

3 Education;
unless you are willing to take higher degrees and pursue teaching opportunities at higher levels of the education ladder having an education degree is hardly going to get you the best jobs.
the only ways a graduate degree holder in education will do better is either to go for higher qualification and try to break into higher level teaching or do a career switch entirely and go for higher qualification in a different field that has more career prospects.

4 Religious studies;
Given the way churches and self styled pastors are springing up in every nook and cranny it should appear that splurging money on a religious studies degree will present the holder with bright prospects...however nothing can be further from the truth..except you are willing to plunge in and open your own church down the street,becoming a quran clutching preacher et cetera...there are hardly any existing opportunities for you to explore if you have a religiouss studies degree and wish to exploit opportunities there in.

5 Mass communication;
In considering mass communication we had a struggle with choosing a few other courses ahead of mass communication but at the end the argument was too much against mass communication degree.
the increasing introduction of media technology is eating away at the former strongholds of mass communication graduates..reporters and journalist find the rug being gradually pulled of their feet as bloggers and writers who hitherto knew nothing about mass communication.

take over the business of news discovering and sharing newspaper and television are no longer holding the baton in exclusive control of the media business...for mass comm.majors who wish to find and pursue the right career day need to understand the change in mass media and communication tools and acquire the right skills.
other worst course are;
6 botany
7 social studies
8 english literature
9 zoology
10 forest and wildlife management(wonderwhat you wana do with these,mayb you will use the certificate for cutting of woods in the forest)


I don't think you has job experience mostly from the Human Resources aspect, because this can only be determine by human resources staffs as they are more equipped with the statistics. Though by my experience, what you wrote here is completely wrong and doesn't seems you knew much about labour market
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Microtee(m): 7:27am On Jan 03, 2015
happykidArotiba:
av u graduated?
Nt yet.
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by maximunimpact(m): 7:32am On Jan 03, 2015
kristein:

that's an encouraging fit..i am really impressed with your able fit not being a deterrent to my fellow nairaland..

according to me,i never said anything about difficulty in abundant earning in my write up in the aforemention(try to improve yourself in quality interpretation and not jump into conclusion in a haste)..

what i said was that"any affected individual that eventually find herself in the aforemention should prolly strategize a good and impressive innovation"...because unlike other profession who hardly hunt for job many years..and dont pretend you know nothing about what's going on in labour market this 21st century..

your encouragement is quite welcoming and of ease but try to be realistic sometimes!

and by the way am still an undergraduate(studyin accounting in one of prestigious versity) ..but i am more experience and enlightened about this whole write up of mine


Wow! Accounting undergraduate? There u xposed ur ignorant in the labour market, what u are been taught in skul have little to do with the reality in the labour market and u probably have no idea how it works in the real world.

U are trying to make an impression about courses that are more profitable and viable if that's what u mean, as an accountant, u can work anywhere, just as an engineer can be a civil defence or banker.........if I have blamed u b4 pardon me because I didn't know I was trying to argue with an undergraduate who still depend on somebody 4 survival.

A guy like me have been in the labour force 4 over 6years now, I graduated and served 7yrs ago, I wasted a year looking 4 a job.....until I realised that I can creat one.

The whole story changed when I saw the inscription on an NIIT office: ''when others were looking 4 job, I have thousands of job to chose from'' when I saw that in entered for enquiries.

I was amased when I saw that I can make a career out of the ICT world. Today am a programmer, web developer and graphic designer, something that has nothing to do with what I studied in the university.

Not just ICT, we in Africa are lucky that aside from oil, other sectors are unexpoited, areas like agriculture, medicine, environmental studies, community development research, etc.

I bet u will not understand now because u are still an kid, but when u grow up u are going to find out that studying ''accountancy in a prestigeous university'' in ur own words does not guaranty u will be an accountant in the future. So have an open mind and be ready to learn.

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Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by chibyz(m): 7:41am On Jan 03, 2015
:Dnonsense post why dont u give ur reason on english literature.i guess u dont ave wat to say.anyway am studyin wat i love not because of the money or job,but bcus of my passion for it.that is why u will see our leaders eating our money bcus they go there for the money not for d work.proudly art n humanities.up masscom.work for what u like not d money
Re: Top 10 Worst Degrees With Lowest Potential For Employment In Nigeria Today by Akposy(m): 7:46am On Jan 03, 2015
Rapsodee:
was given!
good..greatest NABOSite

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