GLOBACOM (CONTRACT STAFF) is accepting CVs. HND IS N50K, BSC is 62k. Dress corporately and drop your CV with a passport photo at No 54 Saka Tinubu street, V.I, Lagos.
Yes, I got the message too and just like you, I went
On getting there I thought it was unemployed youth rally day.
There were over 4000 unemployed youth soldiers armed to the teeth with their credentials
Must have scared GLO as they said we should disregard the message.
While there, I decided to have fun….
And so I was doing my journalist work…
As I wondered in the midst of the soldiers…
A thought creeped into my head…
‘if Glo was actually recruiting why out of the thousands of us would I be hired?
Is it because I attached my hottest passport (seriously, if you were GLO you would give me the job because of this)
Or is it because I have a BSc hons from Covenant University
(If u see Covenant University students there, it was like Tuesday chapel service)
Or is it because am hardworking
(Uhm! Am sure if Glo said the job was to rebuild the office from scratch so many people would willingly do it.)
So why?
Why would the employer see me and say Eureka!, we have found what we looking for?
Why out of the several millions of unemployed graduates should I be picked?
What makes me different?
Am thinking….hope u r too…
Someone once said 1 machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men but no machine can do the work of 1 extraordinary man.
6 months after NYSC, am still searching and hustling in the Market
I don’t mean Balogun market; I mean the Labour market,
A market where there are far more sellers (graduate) than buyers (Employers)
A market where the Nigerian factor has confined us to (Go to school, get good grades, get a good job)
Within these 6 months, I have written test and gone for interviews about 101/2 times. Am sure you are wondering where the half is coming from. Well the half happened today…
I was invited for a chat/test and after the Lady briefed us about the job, about half of us stood up and left.
I walked out not out of pride but everything about what she said screamed ‘this is it, I can’t take it anymore’
It doesn’t mean because am looking for a job I got to take just anything especially if there is no future in it, especially if it is really not going to be adding to me; if I won’t really be developing my skill set…
Am not saying am looking for a multinational job (if it comes, GREAT!!!); am not saying am going to stick to only what I read in school. NO!!!
School was a preparatory ground to all I could do.
School is like a mental gym. It offers you the ability to improve your thinking and not to be trapped in what you studied.
I may not be sticking to just communications but am not taking just anything because whatever I do today should be the details of my larger picture…
And so am asking:
‘Where should I draw the line between starting small and settling for less’?
‘Or is there even a line between this two’? Am I just creating it?
‘Is it any job that comes my way I should take simply because am looking for a job’?
I didn’t plan for this. No one told me about this. The initial plan was simple and great….
Go to school to be a graduate and acquire a certificate
Get a good job preferably in a bank or oil company
Buy a car
Get married
Bear children
Live my life……
No one told me there was a ‘break’ between becoming a graduate and getting a good job.
No one told me I was going to make www.Jobberman.com my desktop screen saver…
No one told me that Tuesday Guardian newspaper was going to be my second Bible (Ehn, PWC is recruiting o…apply sharp sharp.)
No one told me I was going to be the copywriter and editor of ‘My CV Publications’….
No one told me I was going to lose count of the copies of my CV I had sent out…
Life was painted rosy especially when you finish from a school like mine…
No one told me about ‘The Time Between’
Now am caught in the crazy world of job search….
Am getting depressed as no job is forth coming…
Eating to stupor and adding weight, did I just say, ‘adding weight’ (I wish I could but I also thank God for His Grace of not adding weight in my life)
As all this thoughts fill my head, my mind wonders to Silifat who finished with a first class and is still at home and then I switched to Mary who came out with a third class and also still at home and me in between them….
We are all caught up in the same crazy world….
As my mind continued to wonder, my frustration deepened and then I screamed,
‘Why all this empty time’?
‘Why all these months of doing nothing of value’?
Without words, a stream of memories began to flow into my thoughts…
I remember the day I spent with a sick loved one…..
The day I met over ten new people in one outing…
The day I had to choose between paying for my BIS and buying a book…
The extra time I had spent in church activities…
The time I had helped my mum do something really important to her on a Monday morning…
How I had effectively planned my day so I don’t die of boredom…
How I have lived on N500 in a week…
How I have begged for money from one person several times in a week
The number of friendships I have rekindled…
The number of books and articles I have read…
And then I realised that every time I flipped through the dailies in search of job, I learnt something new…
I realised that every second I spent on the internet, twitter and facebook, my social networking skills got better…
I realised that every time I edited and upgraded my CV, I became a better writer…
In fewer words, I realised that the TIME BETWEEN had made me a better money manager, a more caring friend, a better time manager, developed my ability to sacrifice, made me a more devoted Christian, expanded my knowledge and network base and my persuasive (begging) skills have developed
The time between had really not been an empty time, I have been developing skills and preparing for the challenges that may arise even when I have a job.
And although this time between School and Job, hope & Fulfilment, Dreams and Result, Planting & Harvesting, still tries my patience; I have learnt that nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely…
