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Read more on the genesis of the railway project
http://www.laurestar.com/2016/07/honour-to-whom-it-is-due-as-president.html

Take these facts

http://www.laurestar.com/2016/07/honour-to-whom-it-is-due-as-president.html

@nitrogen

Are you a math major? Beside I will be glad to have a contact with you.

Thanks for your all time contribution

nitrogen:
Oga Tanimola22, despite the fact that someone is a badass financial modeller, business, derivatives and bonds valuations expert, CFA candidate (finals), learning programming, can work his way around all these Monte Carlo simulation, bayes theorem stuffs. It's still a tough deal, if I may say.

What do you think?

Kindly adjust your achievements, placing the recent ones at the top.

Tips on Getting Your CV Through the Door

Fact: the best candidate may never get the best job.

One thing I always see recurring throughout my career is how some CVs wrongly project the candidate. It is sad when people invest so much time getting good grades in school or build track records that is expected to thrust their careers and after all that effort, their fate is tied to a badly written CVs that gets thrashed within seconds.

To make this clearer, consider an example, using two candidates (A and B) that work in the same firm with the same benchmark. For the sake of this write-up, let’s say employee “A” in a high performer (who always over-perform his targets) and employee “B” is an average performer (who never meets his targets). Who would you recommend to be called for a chat if you had only one option?

Candidate A (performed 130% of target):

Experience: Sales and Marketing Manager

Summary: Identifies business opportunities by identifying prospects and evaluating their position in the industry; researching and analysing sales options.

Candidate B (performed 75% of target):

Experience: Sales and Marketing Manager

Summary: Part of a team that sold more than 20million units of XYZ product in 2015

I would recommend Candidate “B” because it would be interesting to find out more about how he sold 20million units. Eventually, I may not follow through on the recruitment but at least he got the chance to impress me. Employee “A” may be called in but it is mostly based on chance or abundance of time on the part of the employer or because no else applied. You will be amazed how most top companies end up with a lot of average performers due to this misinformation from candidates.

When your CV is thrown into a pool of 1,000 qualified candidates, and the employer only had to sieve through to understand, the little things count. I employed a candidate recently that blew everyone in the interview panel away. Before then, when I got the CV, I literally thrashed it and informed HR not to call him in. Fortunately for me, he had already been called before the HR associate read my email. This candidate was amazing during the interview but judging by his CV, I would have thrashed it again if we had to go through the process all over.

When I started out looking for jobs, I didn’t have the best of grades, neither did I go to the best of schools but I wrote a good CV and for most of the time I had to send it out, I was given a chance to impress.

Here are some tips on how to ensure your CV always make it through the sieving

Ground rule: employers hardly read half the things you put on your CV. Two things matter to me when I am recruiting: first is the candidate’s education; second is what he does currently. If none of those two interest me, I won’t read anything further.

Find a punch line: when I receive a CV from a candidate saying he is an analyst, I know for sure that he will be involved in analysing data. I know the sales representative will be sourcing deals. So it is irrelevant saying that in your CV. Employers employ not because of what you do currently but because of what you have done. They are interested in the values you bring to the table. It is important you can say this in a direct and short sentence like Candidate B above. In general, try as much as possible to modify your CV to suit the role you are applying for.

When a CV is longer than 2 pages, more than 60% of the information in it is irrelevant.

Spellings and other mistakes are a big NO. It is the easiest way to kill a good CV so proof your CV before sending it to any employer

Unless cover letters are required, DON’T send it. No one reads them unless they are trying to judge how you express yourself (but that is just my opinion)

Stay away from blank emails. A lot of time, I get CVs from candidates who just forward you CVs that they had forwarded to 100 other employers without any message in it. Or just a blank email with a CV attached. Not even an FYI. This is quite unprofessional and may be counterproductive.

Get a professional email: a lot of us opened emails a long time ago and may have used some slang or a nickname that projects our image then. As much as you can try, get new emails to put on your CV. These sorts of emails IDs (such as sexy1267@xyz.com) may hurt you so stay away from them.

Overall, the important factor is for you to project yourself as an interesting person that the employer would like to meet. Like any good presentation, you have to keep your employer wanting to know more about what you have on your CV. Think of your CV as the back cover of a novel written about you; if it is interesting enough to make people want more, they will buy the book and read. If they get disinterested, they only have two choices: read the book because there is no other book to read or drop it and leave. Don’t be the candidate that was called in just because there was no one else to call or the candidate that was dropped without a chance.

Next: I will be writing on how to ace any interview and get the job 100% of the time.

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You have an edge to be part of all opportunities others are eyeing.

We can discuss this out especially if you are still schooling.

Mosesbutez:
what are the job opportunities for a MATHEMATICS graduate (B.sc)

Who is the maker of the videos because their are some boring ones which I will not like to watch again?

اللهم اغفرله اللهم ارحمه

nitrogen:
Go by air, road journey is rough and tiring.......takes a day while it's just 45mins by air.

From experience.

Hope this isn't coming at the wrong time?

All the best.

Thanks for your reply.

Thanks for this post.

I am sending a you PM for my qualification as regard this opportunity and your best advice as I yearn to be Quant in the couple of years to come.

tanimola22:
Good luck with that. If quant finance interests you, make sure you graduate with the very highest first class degree that you can get..Then learn very well at least one programming language. I recommend C++, Python and MatLab...These are programming languages very popular with quant modelling teams at many banks..During your NYSC, spend time to prepare for and blast the GRE, then apply to the top US schools - think Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Caltech etc. Also apply to some mid-ranking schools as safeties. With your first class honours degree and good GRE scores and given your ethnicity, yes I say ethnicity, and ultimately God on your side, one of those good to excellent schools will accept you for a PhD in Mathematics or Mathematical Finance or even Physics if you want. In your second year while doing the PhD, some of the big banks or asset managers will come to your school if you attend one of the top schools. From there, you can interview for an internship and when you get it, then that will set a foundation for a very lucrative career in the future.

All the best.

johnduomiller:
For CFA level 1 Schweser is more than enough, provided you do it seriously.
This might help you . https://prepsmarter.com/blog/from-novice-to-mastery-in-minutes/

donkunzman:
Best thing is for you to find what works for you, I've had the luxury of time while studying for both levels. So I've always been able to go through the curriculum and use Schweser where the curriculum is verbose and confusing, and solve MANY exam-like questions under exam conditions - sort of.
Make a note while studying so you will be studying your notes when you're done with the curriculum or whatever third party material you're using. Helps. Generally, whatever study skills you've adapted yourself to in University should suffice.

permsec:
Thanks bro.
You are far too kind.

Wishing all good preparation mode that yield excellent ahead of the upcoming June diet.

Please kindly share your experience or perception in going by road or by air for the exam discussing possible challenges and advantages in any of the means either the one you encountered or heard from others.

Thanks

Aibee21:
Yes i got one,
New Frontiers Learning Centre,
20b, Amodu Tijani off Sanusi Fafunwa. VI.
Have you gotten one?

dhtml18:
It is possible, but I will advise you to write your WILL before you embark on it.

There are quite good number of videos on YouTube that walk you through.


check phpacademy series you've your solution

Cul4real:
Please help, my wife is pregnant and tested positive to HBV, I need your advice.

At first, be psychologically positioned as there's no cause for alarm since you are aware of it.

Make your next active move to medical consultants to seek their technical knowledge on this because this a special case and briefing of what has been recommended to others will less helpful as individual is peculiar to his case although we have a common ground.

usaration:
I'm on livolin. And I've been asked to go do HBV DNA at yaba. Is the test expensive?

40k as at last year

[b][/b]Saturday, April 30, 2016
Farooq A. Kperogi at 12:00 AM
Urgency of Reforming Nigeria’s Primitive Postgraduate Education
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter: @farooqkperogi
Postgraduate education is almost dead in Nigeria. That is why the vast majority of Nigerians now go abroad to earn postgraduate degrees. Only severely underprivileged people—or people whose work and family commitments make it impossible for them to leave Nigeria—enroll in Nigerian universities for postgraduate degrees.
Every day on my Facebook news feed, I see scores of Nigerians celebrating their master’s or Ph.D. graduation from foreign, usually Asian, universities. Malaysia has especially emerged as a destination of choice for Nigerians seeking postgraduate degrees. Malaysia probably now attracts more Nigerian postgraduate students than Europe and North America, and may in future produce more Nigerian master’s degree and PhD holders than Nigerian universities.
It is easy to see why this is happening. Asian universities are well-run, efficient, comparatively cheap (cheaper certainly than European and North American universities), and infinitely better organized than Nigerian universities.
But, most importantly, the Asian universities that Nigerians are increasingly turning to are not plagued by the primitive, anti-intellectual Nigerian university academic culture that detains postgraduate students in school for years on end just for the hell of it.
I know several people who took nearly a decade to earn a master’s degree. Getting a PhD is even worse. Some people spend up to two decades just to earn a Ph.D. And the delays are not the consequence of academic rigor; they are inspired by the twin evils of rank laziness and “intellectual hazing.”
Many supervisors of postgraduate theses and dissertations in Nigerian universities are so disinclined to intellectual exertion that they take months, even years, just to take a look at their students’ theses or dissertation proposals. When they eventually do, their feedback is often so perfunctory as to be almost useless.
Postgraduate supervisors who don’t needlessly detain their students because of laziness do so out of a perverse desire to “haze” them. People think of hazing as typical only of military training institutes and of secret society organizations where recruits or initiates are often harassed and hectored by being forced to perform vicious, humiliating tasks.
There is a barely talked about but nonetheless pervasive and insidious culture of academic hazing in Nigerian postgraduate schools, too. Postgraduate supervisors intentionally hold up their students because they want them to “value” their degrees. They take unconscionably long time to give their students feedback, not necessarily because they are lazy or busy, but because they don’t want their students to go away with the impression that postgraduate degrees are easy to come by.
I have heard heartbreaking stories of supervisors who turned their supervisees to domestic servants, of supervisors who emotionally and sexually abuse their supervisees, and of supervisors who demand financial gratification from their students to guarantee a speedy turnaround in their degree completion, which often never happens.
And it’s a vicious, self-replicating cycle: mean-spirited supervisors haze their students because they were also hazed by their own supervisors in postgraduate school, and students who manage to survive the intellectual bullying of their supervisors internalize the intimidation and inflict same on students who have the misfortune to come under their intellectual tutelage. And on and on it goes. But even supervisors who earned their advanced degrees abroad sooner or later get sucked into the primitive academic hazing culture.
I can’t put my finger on when this culture started, but it has been around for a longer period than most of us realize. I met an extremely intelligent man here who told me he abandoned his PhD in Nigeria after nearly 10 years of trying because it became apparent to him that his supervisor had determined that he would never graduate, however hard he tried. He said he went to the supervisor’s office, abused the hell out of him, and stormed out of his office, slamming the door violently as he left. And this was about 30 years ago. So, this isn’t a new thing.
Now, let me be clear: there are still many postgraduate supervisors in Nigerian universities who are conscientious, ethically sound, and hardworking; who don’t exploit and intentionally delay their students’ graduation. There are also a few universities and departments where students earn their postgraduate degrees, especially master’s degrees, in record time. But, frankly, these are becoming exceptions rather than the rule.
I have several friends who are either helplessly stuck in the morass that is Nigerian postgraduate education or who have totally given up on it after years of bootless struggle. This can’t continue. It just can’t. Without sound postgraduate education, we can’t train the next generation of professionals, and our universities will collapse.
Universities in Asia are taking advantage of Nigeria’s dysfunctional postgraduate education to lure knowledge-thirsty Nigerians to their schools. Before it gets to a point where no one goes to postgraduate school in Nigeria, the Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission must intervene to salvage what remains of Nigeria’s postgraduate education.
For starters, greater systemic accountability should be built into postgraduate mentorship. Supervisors should be required to give periodic updates on the progress of their students. For instance, there should be a system in place to account for why students enrolled in a two-year master’s degree program, or a five-year PhD program, fail to graduate after their expected date of graduation. There should be sanctions—and redress for students— if it is established that a student is held up either because a supervisor was being lazy or because he was hazing a student.
This is particularly imperative for doctoral education, which has virtually collapsed in Nigerian universities. People should enroll in PhD programs with the expectation that they will graduate in record time if they work hard enough, and that they don’t have to submit to intellectual intimidation and extortion to graduate.Saturday, April 30, 2016
Farooq A. Kperogi at 12:00 AM
Urgency of Reforming Nigeria’s Primitive Postgraduate Education
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter: @farooqkperogi
Postgraduate education is almost dead in Nigeria. That is why the vast majority of Nigerians now go abroad to earn postgraduate degrees. Only severely underprivileged people—or people whose work and family commitments make it impossible for them to leave Nigeria—enroll in Nigerian universities for postgraduate degrees.
Every day on my Facebook news feed, I see scores of Nigerians celebrating their master’s or Ph.D. graduation from foreign, usually Asian, universities. Malaysia has especially emerged as a destination of choice for Nigerians seeking postgraduate degrees. Malaysia probably now attracts more Nigerian postgraduate students than Europe and North America, and may in future produce more Nigerian master’s degree and PhD holders than Nigerian universities.
It is easy to see why this is happening. Asian universities are well-run, efficient, comparatively cheap (cheaper certainly than European and North American universities), and infinitely better organized than Nigerian universities.
But, most importantly, the Asian universities that Nigerians are increasingly turning to are not plagued by the primitive, anti-intellectual Nigerian university academic culture that detains postgraduate students in school for years on end just for the hell of it.
I know several people who took nearly a decade to earn a master’s degree. Getting a PhD is even worse. Some people spend up to two decades just to earn a Ph.D. And the delays are not the consequence of academic rigor; they are inspired by the twin evils of rank laziness and “intellectual hazing.”
Many supervisors of postgraduate theses and dissertations in Nigerian universities are so disinclined to intellectual exertion that they take months, even years, just to take a look at their students’ theses or dissertation proposals. When they eventually do, their feedback is often so perfunctory as to be almost useless.
Postgraduate supervisors who don’t needlessly detain their students because of laziness do so out of a perverse desire to “haze” them. People think of hazing as typical only of military training institutes and of secret society organizations where recruits or initiates are often harassed and hectored by being forced to perform vicious, humiliating tasks.
There is a barely talked about but nonetheless pervasive and insidious culture of academic hazing in Nigerian postgraduate schools, too. Postgraduate supervisors intentionally hold up their students because they want them to “value” their degrees. They take unconscionably long time to give their students feedback, not necessarily because they are lazy or busy, but because they don’t want their students to go away with the impression that postgraduate degrees are easy to come by.
I have heard heartbreaking stories of supervisors who turned their supervisees to domestic servants, of supervisors who emotionally and sexually abuse their supervisees, and of supervisors who demand financial gratification from their students to guarantee a speedy turnaround in their degree completion, which often never happens.
And it’s a vicious, self-replicating cycle: mean-spirited supervisors haze their students because they were also hazed by their own supervisors in postgraduate school, and students who manage to survive the intellectual bullying of their supervisors internalize the intimidation and inflict same on students who have the misfortune to come under their intellectual tutelage. And on and on it goes. But even supervisors who earned their advanced degrees abroad sooner or later get sucked into the primitive academic hazing culture.
I can’t put my finger on when this culture started, but it has been around for a longer period than most of us realize. I met an extremely intelligent man here who told me he abandoned his PhD in Nigeria after nearly 10 years of trying because it became apparent to him that his supervisor had determined that he would never graduate, however hard he tried. He said he went to the supervisor’s office, abused the hell out of him, and stormed out of his office, slamming the door violently as he left. And this was about 30 years ago. So, this isn’t a new thing.
Now, let me be clear: there are still many postgraduate supervisors in Nigerian universities who are conscientious, ethically sound, and hardworking; who don’t exploit and intentionally delay their students’ graduation. There are also a few universities and departments where students earn their postgraduate degrees, especially master’s degrees, in record time. But, frankly, these are becoming exceptions rather than the rule.
I have several friends who are either helplessly stuck in the morass that is Nigerian postgraduate education or who have totally given up on it after years of bootless struggle. This can’t continue. It just can’t. Without sound postgraduate education, we can’t train the next generation of professionals, and our universities will collapse.
Universities in Asia are taking advantage of Nigeria’s dysfunctional postgraduate education to lure knowledge-thirsty Nigerians to their schools. Before it gets to a point where no one goes to postgraduate school in Nigeria, the Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission must intervene to salvage what remains of Nigeria’s postgraduate education.
For starters, greater systemic accountability should be built into postgraduate mentorship. Supervisors should be required to give periodic updates on the progress of their students. For instance, there should be a system in place to account for why students enrolled in a two-year master’s degree program, or a five-year PhD program, fail to graduate after their expected date of graduation. There should be sanctions—and redress for students— if it is established that a student is held up either because a supervisor was being lazy or because he was hazing a student.
This is particularly imperative for doctoral education, which has virtually collapsed in Nigerian universities. People should enroll in PhD programs with the expectation that they will graduate in record time if they work hard enough, and that they don’t have to submit to intellectual intimidation and extortion to graduate.

A big thanks to all the contributors.

I will be glad for a structured detail of SAP training, modules and building the professional pitch in making acareer as SAP consultant/specialist/expert.

In addition, I seek your clarification as regards the different packages-FICO AI ARAB HR CRM .... if they are embedded in single learning trend or they are different standalone entities studied base on their demand and interest.


Regards

Saperp:
If you are looking to start any project in SAP as a fresh consultant always look out of Nigeria, you may be lucky to get something outside, and join different SAP group and forum it really help a lot to learn more and meet people.
I understand the feeling when someone paid lot of money to learn SAP and he or she is finding it difficult to start work as a SAP consultant.
If you are looking for SAP functional module and vedio for self study, you can contact me for more information.
Email; saperptrain@gmail.com
Cheers

countsparrow:
Thank you for your concern, this is my mobile number 08135278456.... Although i am in a whatsapp group already and i guess it is the same as the group you are suggesting. The admins are Obinniah and Yinka Falua... Just dont know how to get across to people who could help, but i dont mind if you can share ideas with me...

crispgg:
Send your mobile number to me, Ill ask that you be added to an SAP Forum on Whatsapp. You will be able to network with SAP Consultants from Nigeria and you might be able to get a job via that means.

sammyscholar:
Hello sirs. Pls I am a final year student of Procurement and Supply Chain Management.
I would like to have the knowledge of SAP MM module preferably. pls how can go about it. Can I do a self-study? I do I get certified? Pls I need your help.

sammyscholar:
Hello sirs. Pls I am a final year student of Procurement and Supply Chain Management.
I would like to have the knowledge of SAP MM module preferably. pls how can go about it. Can I do a self-study? I do I get certified? Pls I need your help.

Fosi:
Hi All,
I know this thread is not as active as it use to before............
I want to do self study for SAP Extended Warehouse Management. But, i can seem any SAP material (SAP EWM 100, SAP EWM 110 and SAP EWM 120).
Please, if you have a copy that you want to share...........contact me pls............
I have SAP materials for SAP TMS (transportation management system) 100, SAp TMS 110, SAP TMS 120 and SAP Event Management materials which i can exchange with you.
I need the EWM material desperately........
Thanks

qeemus:
Hi all,I'm interested in SAP travel management,recently I came across a huge pack of materials in my office.My problem is that the whole thing is confusing,I don't know where to start from.Below is a picture of the pack.

Three Exhorters

It is reported that ʿAbd Al-ʿAzīz b. Abī Rawwād – Allāh have mercy on him – said to a man:

Whoever does not take exhortation [and is not effected] by three things, will not be exhorted by anything: Islām, the Qurān and old age (graying).

Ibn Abī Al-Dunyā, Al-ʿUmr Wa Al-Shayb #40

Jazakumullakhayra.

Thanks for sharing.

Mathematics is a tool of learning which on its own being studied and also is applied to various facets of field of knowledge. So with little comprehension of what's been done in other fields, mathematicians will usually have a place to contribute their analytic skills in these fields.

zakari123:
i am pound to be an active JCI member,service tp humanity is the best work of life.in JCI we lean,play and network.

I will be glad for your enlightenment on ways to be a member.

oyebimpe1:
Dear Nairalanders,

Please i need a very good topic for presentation at my workplace.it could be any topic. i dont mind having materials with the topics. thank you

Kindly visit themuse.com and many other sites. Moreso, risenetworks.com.ng has some interesting contents.

Mayorbombay:
Hello Olasclef, you didn't get anyone to respond to your question...now i need the same question answered. I am having a test with them for tomorrow. How did yours go?

sleeknaija:
I once did their test around june/july, can't rilli remember. Their test is basically quantitative, verbal reasoning. Its in 2 parts but the second aspect is the toughest. Just go tru ur gmat very well, dats my advice.

olasclef:
I got test invite from above named company. The test is slated for tomorrow. Venue is their lekki office. I will appreciate any info/contribution from anybody that have written the test before. Thanks

I will be glad for your insight on the test and interview sessions with the firm.

obajoey:
I had a test with them last month, but what I noticed on this forum is that it seems I was the only person [quote author=beau49 post=33806541]Alright....thanks

that had an excel test. Am I wrong pls?[/quote]

lillya:
Initially It was through Jobberman then I met someone that works there on social network and he helped me submit my cv.

krie00707:
It is important to know the salary structure o...anyone with that info?
Had the phone interview days ago, went well

I will be glad for your hints and helpful guides on test and interview sessions you guys had with the firm.

Regards

Ariel20:
Scheweser, but go through all the summary pages of CFA original material and practise all the blue-box questions and practise questions

Thanks for your support. How's your exam?

That's great.

One should just learn from the lessons of competition and never forget the fact that "what is yours will be yours even when you perceived to be denied of it and what is not yours will never be yours even when you thought your are readily ripe for it".

habillion:
And if life is a competition, what then is Grace? Are you just new to the competition? Where's your present position? These things never get too personal.

adenuga360:
Never judge anyone for his decisions. This is a competition! no matter how nice we are in this group, the fact still remain that we are competing against ourselves. I wish everybody well.

I assume its a game of time and perfection. If we both score 35, I might be picked because I did my own test earlier. If you are waiting to get all the information concerning the test, be ready to pay the extra price of getting a higher score above all that have already done theirs.

My advice is that everything you need to pass has been talked about on this thread. Use the little info you have, trust in God and do your test.

I remain silent till the next stage; I pray I make it thru

paulbets:
thanks, i will try it on friday. Regarding your questions, i have no clue.

K

paulbets:
Pls house if i write the test this week friday, will it be too late?Pls house if i write the test this week friday, will it be too late?

Please ensure you complete your assessment/s by 26.02.2016

Are we not attempting more than a test before the date by virtual of the construct above?

Is the test to be written in their office inclusive?

JARUSHUB:
You should actively research businesses before putting down your money.

I will be glad if you can explain to us a framework of business research.

QuantAnalyst:
I just PM you sir.

OK Sir

analystk:
Thought you said you'd send me sms with your own number. I didn't see that. That's why I didn't send any. Please sms now and I'll reply

Ok

I have been expecting your SMS as we discussed on phone.

analystk:
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