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Career / Re: Recent Graduate Regrets: Top 10 Career Mistakes Made In College by yemmyma: 10:03am On Dec 26, 2012 |
MainAttraction: Logistics Engineering. So what are you planning for a grad degree? |
Career / Re: Recent Graduate Regrets: Top 10 Career Mistakes Made In College by yemmyma: 5:53pm On Dec 25, 2012 |
MainAttraction: I just recently (Dec 16) graduated with a B.S in Psychology and Biology, and it really is true that finding a job in this market is tough. I'm not in Nigeria, but where I live, entry level jobs for recent college grads are hard to come by. I really do wish I had paid more attention to the first point listed and searched for degreed jobs earlier. I would think differently about your situation. It is either the combination of your degree is giving you a hard time finding your true calling. Or Your location is not working for you. But then you are a new grad, so it is not yet a full blown disaster for you yet. I am saying this from experience. |
Career / Re: Recent Graduate Regrets: Top 10 Career Mistakes Made In College by yemmyma: 8:42pm On Dec 19, 2012 |
^^^^ Oga mi sir, I think you are right, but I will still disagree with you, reason is that for those stated up there, like six or seven out of them are relevant, how? Let's take them one by one: 1.I would have started looking for jobs earlier.How many people get good jobs without NYSC? Like who cares about a non-degree holder? 2.I would have actually networked. With who? IF only you went to Babcock, Covenant and the likes 3.I would have taken on a job or an internship in addition to my course-load.Well you faced the fact 4. I would have gotten more involved in career-relevant extracurricular activities.Of course! This will go a long way esp. When looking for jobs after school. It will tell employers somethings about the jobseeker. It is very simple to do. 5. I would have applied to more jobs, earlier. This with no 1 are quite tough anyway, but a trial might bring something positive. 6. I would have focused more on becoming professional.quote] 7. I would have done more to figure out what my career goals were. This is something personal, we can say personal discovery and development. [/quote] Maybe Guidance and Counselling section in Universities would help cure this horrible 8. I would have gone to the career center. 9. I would have kept better track of my achievements. Maybe a First class is enough? or debate competition, essay? 10. I would have focused more on developing relevant skills. Yeah, now possible in a more global environment. Thanks to computers |
Career / Re: Which Course Will You Discourage Your Child From Studying? by yemmyma: 3:11pm On Dec 19, 2012 |
Wallie: I guess I didn't answer the question! What if he blows up like Justin Bieber? or drafted into Barcelona's first team at 17 like Bojan? 1 Like |
Career / Re: What Is The Hnd Equivalent In Usa by yemmyma: 7:44pm On Dec 18, 2012 |
I have seen someone share his story on Nairaland about using his HND from Nigeria to continue to PhD after his Masters in the US. So i would agree that HND graduates from Nigeria don't have it that bad after all. Just run away for a masters program and kill HND stigma for life. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Career / Re: Which Course Will You Discourage Your Child From Studying? by yemmyma: 5:00pm On Dec 14, 2012 |
ayobase: Our elders have placed too much emphasis on education that we have no other direction to look at than go get those papers and feel bloated like AJ said. But things are changing. You can see that from the many stories about Nigerian graduates especially from abroad doing something other than that they studied at the University. That is called expression but we usually don't get it from a young age because we are not living in a secured society. As smart as Mark(facebook) was, do you think it would have gone down well if his parents were the average Nigerian? I have a cousin studying in the U.S and also making music. He has been tipped for greatness in the Nigerian industry but at the moment silent because he has to get that degree or else he will be disowned |
Career / Re: How Much is a Good Salary in Nigeria? by yemmyma: 4:45pm On Dec 14, 2012 |
Sagamite: Guy, you see some arguments are not easy to end. I will just have to agree with you after all. I too be London boy you know |
Career / Re: Logistics Or Supply Chain Management by yemmyma: 4:01am On Dec 14, 2012 |
^ Good to know. I Wish you good luck. |
Career / Re: How Much is a Good Salary in Nigeria? by yemmyma: 3:59am On Dec 14, 2012 |
Sagamite: This argument would have been made easier if we had data to look at. But i'd be surprised if the U.K. is really up there as you have explained looking at the average. |
Career / Re: How Much is a Good Salary in Nigeria? by yemmyma: 6:37pm On Dec 13, 2012 |
Sagamite: Well depends on how you look at it. Some very strict countries have unions that determine what you earn in a particular field. Be it recent graduate or not. But then, as wage disparity is very big in the U.K. some people have to be at the receiving end of the problem. |
Career / Re: How Much is a Good Salary in Nigeria? by yemmyma: 4:18pm On Dec 13, 2012 |
Sagamite: I am asking you because you used the U.K as the benchmark for salaries in Europe, which should not be so. |
Career / Re: Which Course Will You Discourage Your Child From Studying? by yemmyma: 4:11pm On Dec 13, 2012 |
AjanleKoko: An aberration from the average Nigerian mindset. I actually think that is the way to go. All this Engineering, Medicine, Accountancy thing even kills creativity from young age. |
Career / Re: Which Course Will You Discourage Your Child From Studying? by yemmyma: 4:10pm On Dec 13, 2012 |
AjanleKoko: An aberration from the average Nigerian mindset. I actually think that is the way to go. All this Engineering, Medicine, Accountancy thing even kill creativity from young age. 5 Likes |
Career / Re: How Much is a Good Salary in Nigeria? by yemmyma: 4:08pm On Dec 13, 2012 |
Sagamite: Is the U.K the whole of Europe? |
Career / Re: What Do You Do For A Living ??? by yemmyma: 4:05pm On Dec 13, 2012 |
jp philips: too much questions bro.. you wan choke am? |
Career / Re: Logistics Or Supply Chain Management by yemmyma: 7:21pm On Dec 12, 2012 |
Yvete: Hi Yall, Why does your MS have Technology? How is it different if it were Supply Chain Management or Engineering? Would you want to enlighten me? |
Career / Re: Where Is Ajanle by yemmyma: 7:13pm On Dec 12, 2012 |
AjanleKoko: lol... has he been dreaming of you? |
Business To Business / Re: Starting A Supermarket/pharmacy Store In Benin City by yemmyma: 3:18am On Nov 26, 2012 |
So where did you finally settle for your masters? |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: State University Graduates Vs Federal University Graduates, Nigeria by yemmyma: 10:41pm On Nov 03, 2012 |
Both of you should stop this puerile altercation. At least now we know you both attending universities from God knows where in the U.S. Just go settle this over a bottle of beer somewhere and move on. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: PhD, MBA Holders Apply As Truck Drivers At Dangote Group by yemmyma: 9:43pm On Nov 03, 2012 |
Frank-C: You think most of the guys rushing to the UK left their jobs in Nigeria? A lot of these people apparently could not get a job in Nigeria. So don't use one Airtel guy as an example for the sorry state Nigeria finds herself 1 Like |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: State University Graduates Vs Federal University Graduates, Nigeria by yemmyma: 8:53pm On Nov 03, 2012 |
hardbody: Another Masters degree in Ignorance? Dare i say that comment was dumb |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Six Years After School, No Job Yet. He Is Frustrated & Confused, Pls Advice Him by yemmyma: 4:57pm On Nov 03, 2012 |
I feel for you Op. Since i can't say how you fared with your interviews and tests, it is difficult to come to a conclusion on your job chances. Have you tried other things like studying for a masters? maybe it will improve your chances in the labour market. Best of luck! 2 Likes |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: State University Graduates Vs Federal University Graduates, Nigeria by yemmyma: 4:44pm On Nov 03, 2012 |
Welcome to Nigeria! My advice to you, keep applying for jobs and don't turn a blind eye on a Masters degree abroad in fact aim for schorlarhip, partial or full from a good school. When you are done with your masters, they won't look down on you anymore. As for which is better state or federal, you definitely won't win those folks just trying to make themselves happy. 3 Likes |
Career / Re: Would You Work In Iraq For 10 Million Naira A Month? by yemmyma: 3:04pm On Oct 25, 2012 |
ruffgem: Please everyone i am a nigeria right now i am in iraq but in the hotel since i came here i have not have Are you for real or a joke? You don't look like you need a job anyway. |
Career / Re: ' What role can A Bsc Building Technology Holder play in an oil company?' by yemmyma: 2:59pm On Oct 25, 2012 |
AjanleKoko: lol... |
Career / Re: Let's Discuss Salaries by yemmyma: 9:41pm On Oct 24, 2012 |
Wallie: "Having money isn't everything, not having it is." Kanye Maslow said it all. People will always want more. Nigeria is one of those countries where been average is getting dated. |
Career / Re: ' What role can A Bsc Building Technology Holder play in an oil company?' by yemmyma: 1:28pm On Oct 22, 2012 |
The first thing i learnt when i started my B.Sc was where i can function with the degree i was working towards. This includes the industries where i can work and the various titles that i can hold with my degree. So i am here thinking this should be same for you. |
Career / Re: Blue-collar Job In The UK Or White-collar Job In Nigeria? by yemmyma: 7:36am On Oct 21, 2012 |
@AJ, we are on the same page in some your assertions. My point is, most guys complaining about the U.K in some cases are really not appreciative of what they have got. I know Nigeria cannot solve all our problems just the same way there is no room for all of us abroad. But i disagree on the 3 points about how Nigeria is not an exception. The most important thing is to have a vision, work towards it and see it to fruition rather than incessantly whine over an already structured and unchanging system. |
Career / Re: Blue-collar Job In The UK Or White-collar Job In Nigeria? by yemmyma: 2:24pm On Oct 20, 2012 |
^^ A good view from deenee but as the title only mentioned the UK, i think there is no need to go further in comparisons to other EU countries but i will give it a shot. The U.K. is the only country amongst other high ranking European countries where you pay as much as 9,000 pounds a year as tuition fee. House rents in the U.K especially in the highly populated areas like the London radius can also be expensive. Transportation is not the cheapest as well as their energy bills. Now, wage earnings in the U.K is not necessarily different from what is obtainable in other countries like Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Nordic etc. When you assess these countries i have listed, there is no single one of them that charge a tuition fee of 2000 euros a year from their students. And also their students earn monthly stipend from their respective government to study. If you were a parent living in these countries i have listed above what you will find out is that, most of your earnings will go into housing, food and transportation. You won't need to worry about tuition for your child in a year. Lets take it that you earn 2000 euros net and your wife earns the same. You have a rent or mortgage of 1500 a month to pay as well as car. 500 for transportation and food. You still have 2000 euros left from one parent. Let us divide this 2000 between the partners. Now, the system works that both parent contribute to the family. A Nigerian will send money home every now and then, travel almost every year to Nigeria, acquire a land and start a building project and pathetically in some situations send money to a girl friend. All these i will consider as part of ones savings and not necessarily liquid cash. But you hear all these rants from Nigerians that you can save more in Nigeria is not well thought out. I am saying this because i think we as a people are always asking for more when necessarily we have not done much for ourselves. What major manufacturing is going on? what innovative things are we exporting to the world? have we earned the most from our natural resources? What about the money lost to corruption? You imagine me earning 1 million naira a month in Nigeria where the vast majority of the populace with a meager salary always complaining about how they can't pay their wards school fees, house rent and so on. That is not the Nigeria i will want to live in. Of course, if there was a sincere effort by the government to reduce the sufferings of the very poor, i may want to care less. Like one poster said in one of the early pages, the individual decision is more emotional than rational. You will either prefer to live in peace than to witness all sort of chaos in daily life. You will either not want to worry about people suffering than want to be the millionaire among a bunch of unfortunate denizens in your community. |
Career / Re: Blue-collar Job In The UK Or White-collar Job In Nigeria? by yemmyma: 1:15pm On Oct 12, 2012 |
flexyonline: Definitely not, we all want to do in Nigeria what we can't do elsewhere. |
Career / Re: Blue-collar Job In The UK Or White-collar Job In Nigeria? by yemmyma: 1:42pm On Oct 11, 2012 |
obadiah777: LOL SERIALLINK WETIN DEY SHELE How can you mention someone who got seed funding worth 2 million pounds from friends and family to start a business? How many returnee can raise a tenth of that amount? They will rather give those back home money on their arrival in Naija. 1 Like |
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