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Jobs/Vacancies / Dont Attend Any Interview Until You Know These Fatal Mistakes You Must Avoid by hollyfield: 5:21pm On Mar 22, 2011
Often times young people attend for interviews and return with a lot of expectation but begin to wonder when they never get to hear again from their potential employers.
There are a lot of people out there going after the jobs that are available so you must know that 'when you are competing with top talents there's no second chance to make a first impression'
The following are some of the fatal mistakes you must avoid at job interview
(1) Attempting to interview without preparation
(2) Annoying interviewers by answering a question that was not asked.
(3) Providing verbose (too many) information- you must be brief, thorough and straight to the point
(4) Failure to listen to questions.
(5) Boring interviewers with your personal tales of woes-ie your problems, reasons you havent got a job etc
(6) Having no knowledge of your job requirements
(7) Having no knowledge of your prospective employer. The internet or any medium can provide this effectively.
The last two are dangerous and may show you as unserious fellow when you cant answer convincingly when questions are asked in this regards.
Best of Luck
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Why Nigerian Youths Are Not Getting Employed Easily by hollyfield: 4:24pm On Mar 12, 2011
A very wonderful observation from Dazz4me but the issue again is, are there no jobs in the land? a recent survey did reveal there are over 60,000 jobs in the banking and telecommunication sectors not filled because a lot of young people do not have industry skills to fill them.
A lot of outfits are springing up today to help re-orientate young people on how to get jobs of their choices. The Ibukun Awosikas of this world are getting involved.
Point two, is there any company that have the capacity to employ everyone at the same time? the obvious answer is an emphatic no!
Point no three, let's look at the game of football, in every competition, be it the world cup or UEFA Champions league a lot of teams get involved knowing that only one winner will emerge.Shouldn't the the weak ones resign to fate knowing that they cant win but fact is everyone wants to win but what separates everyone is the stuff they are made of.
Let me tell you everyone cannot be employed because not everyone is employable.
Your concern should be if they want to employ one person why not me? that's why you are on forum like this to get ideas. Thanks

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Jobs/Vacancies / Why Nigerian Youths Are Not Getting Employed Easily by hollyfield: 2:46pm On Mar 10, 2011
It is quite worrisome these days to see the level of unemployment rising in our beloved country while there seem to be no end in sight. Granted,companies are limping and unemployment is on all time high for sixty years- world over. My concern however is that a lot of people are still getting employed everyday. So why are many complaining while others are changing jobs at will? It is very simple there are certain fundamental ingredients of job hunting that a lot of people do not possess, so you see problems such as:
poor scripting of CV
not knowing how to search for job appropriately
not knowing how to answer simple questions
poor projection of yourself as a brand
making fatal mistakes before the interview panel etc

You must know that as much as employers are looking to employ people they are also looking for how to eliminate a lot too. Sound funny doesnt it but that's true so you must learn to impress your potential employer in five seconds and make him want to call you again. So how do you do this?

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Politics / Re: Presidential Debate - Battle Of The Campaigners by hollyfield: 11:13am On Mar 04, 2011
People should not forget what buhari stands for he scuttled our democracy in 1983 and thereafter IBB came in and the rest they say is history how can he aspire to be a president in a democracy he never beleived in?
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Important: Notice to Jobseekers by hollyfield: 11:02am On Mar 04, 2011
For me I think verifying the profile of the agencies is very important. some are out there to cash in on the gullible public however there are some genuine job agencies around. Best of luck

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