When are we going to stop clicking these jobs sites? Will that day ever come? Clicking them may not be the exact problem, what infuriates is the helpless dependence that the applicant puts on the "submit" key viz a viz the painful fact that most of these sites are mere scams and NEVER get to make recruitment possible for any applicant.
But what is expected of a graduate apart from getting a job? Checking job sites is in the right direction you might say. Statistically, how many graduates have got jobs from these media?
You can ask around, how many got online jobs...It would be an understatement to say there are no jobs out there or else, how do you reconcile that people qualified with Doctorate Degrees applied to be drivers in Dangote's firm recently, how do we cope with some private schools charging as high as 650k for a session, only for their graduates to end up "clicking" job sites too.
Let us compare again...how many graduates with white collar jobs actually make more money than the roadside mechanic or the fashion designer down the street or even the bus driver on the high way?.
These days, academic success no longer guarantee financial success. What then guarantees success? Isnt it high time we channeled our skills into VOCATIONAL practises?. Those things that come to you naturally, things you are really interested in, those abilities you exhibit without stress, skills that you posses more than many people around you. Everyone sure has one like this. If you have not located yours and you think its too late to find it, then create your own business no matter how small. The only way to start is to start.
My dear reader, this is the job i advertised. The first step of being your own boss is to START STARTING.
Questions to consider..
Is formal education a right or a privilege?
Does formal education guarantee financial success?
Formal Education: Only way to financial success?
In Nigeria today, how relevant are certificates?
The floor is now open
We need education more than any other. We need †̥ make education a lucrative business. Vocational development is important but we should try á mix. Like incorporación iñto our educational sector. I'm thinkn of what we can do for nigeria and not what i can do †̥ solve my inmediate problem.
ReplyDeleteWhy will people keep on saying some nigerian graduates are unemployable? We have to ask ourself what is the figure of unemployment in Nigeria? And also what is the population of Nigeria?. Well said Nigerian graduates should look out for a vocational skills and make fortune out of it. Simmy d Style
ReplyDeleteIn fairness to myself,Ii I could turn back the hands of time I would withdraw all the cash used for my Education,take a little part out of and pay to learn a trade or even an handiwork,by now I won't have to still be carry papers about looking fro a white colar job from people not as learned as I am,but by the virtue of inherited property from an illiterate father or semi-literate father who did something with his hand.
ReplyDeleteEducation in our country now,has no Value,even when you go to school you end up walking round the dusty street of Nigeria,in search of a miserable paying Job,it use to be a right but now I see it as a priviledge
ReplyDeleteI graduated since 2005 and job hunting till today,a friend of mine who couldn't further her education to University,is now a fashion designer,with close to 20 apprentice graduate inclusive,am I bitting my finger?definitely,out of this same job of hers she has a building to herself
ReplyDeleteFormal education alone cannot guarantee financial success,we were told to study hard,get good grades and a good job would follow,but for many of us with very good grades it didn't end up that way. Those with parents and relative in well placed positions were lucky while quite a lot wasn't. Reacting to what Amaechi wrote above,I would do the same if I could turn back the arms of time,I would use that money to buy equipments for my the trade I learnt immediately after youth corp. Yes,I went ahead to learn a trade after youth corp because I knew I did not know any other thing expect Educational Management/Economics I studied in school,the content of our present education needs to be overhauled,engineering students need functioning laboratories,medical students need to see and use latest medical equipments,majority of them confess that they only see these equipments in text books,vocational education as well as creatives needs to be included into our educational system. Well,I've made up my mind,my unborn children will be better than me,they'll grow up learning various trades,their creative talents and abilities will be well nutured. If our educational system isn't good enough,we need to help fill the gaps in our homes,making sure that the younger generation don't depend soley on white collar jobs.
ReplyDeleteCertificate is now a mere paper,nobody acknowledges it except it is a man know Man,this country has totally lost its standard for Education,I have 2 degrees but all is a waste,I have applied for jobs severaly all to know avail,they accept people into schools to release them into the market and make them nuisance,its a pity,this write-up made me shed tears and for once I asked myself when I would actually stop clicking Vacancy sites knowing fully well the 90% of this sites are scam
ReplyDeleteThis is something to ponder on really,since I read this post in the morning,I have been engrossed in deep thought of my life,I am a certified called to bar lawyer working as a marketter in printing Firm with a miserable income on 30,000 naira per month,its really disheartening,I can't explain how I feel,but I really need to get back to the drawing board of my life,seriously
ReplyDeleteFormal education is not and will never be the only way to Financial success,I just started a business on sales of recharge card by the road and as a graduate of Accounting I have made more money in 2months that I never made with my certificate,it pathetic but its true,Bonded Home u have said it all,Kudos to you and your team
ReplyDeleteAm sorry to ask this question,Please where are the jobs in this country? Are people not retiring,its alarming and annoying,how people go about job hunting yet they would say no vacancy,mchhheeewww I SHAKE MY HEAD,I think I would rather become a militant so I can be payed for causing trouble to the country,I and sick and Tired of all this,this is absolutely Unfair
ReplyDeleteHmmmm,Bonded home this is a topic to ponder about,I am a trained 2.1 Economist but I am in the 4walls of a low class secondary school as a teacher with a salary of 19,000,a wife and 4 children,this is my only source of income,I just started learning shoe making would be done learning in no time,my Boss could make a shoe for almost 13,000 and he gets such jobs on a daily basis and he eventually makes close to 250,000 before the month ends,I have wasted my life all this while,Education is nothing anymore
ReplyDelete2weeks ago I was oportuned to witness a scene of a supposed celebrity who was caught taking a one way road,he seriously harassed this police officer and even slapped him for attempting to stop him,after series of calls by the celebrity,the police man was all apologetic,pleading to save his job,my point is this,if it was a graduate who committed this crime he would have been rotting away behind bars without fair hearing,If I had my way and turn back the hands of time like ameachi said,I would do a lot of things the other way round,certificate doesn't help,you can imagine a gateman of one of the companies I went pushing me because I wanted to submit my C.V
ReplyDeleteI make hair for a living and I make close to 30,000 a week,120,000 per month,I fix nails and lashes for a weekend I make close to 15,000,I have no regret doing this at all
ReplyDeleteI have made my mistakes and yes I have learnt from it,my kids would be educated quite alright,but Non of my kids would spend their holiday outside the walls of learninng handiwork
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ReplyDeleteLet no one tell me that Education is a right. if it is a right, how come it is one of the most abandoned sectors in the country? ASUU strike, Adamant government and docile students. after dem go say Nigerian graduates are unemployable? if you have the opportunity ti go to school and be educated, see it as a means to an end. as an opportunity granted to you, not a right...
Hmmm its a serious one here. Unemployment is a time bomb awaiting to blow up..thats what someone said. The painful part is that graduates just go to job sites and assume that the job would come knocking, forgetting the man know man syndrome, the favouritism and nepotism part of our recruitment process here.. While they pay money to get on the internet, upload their cv'S , THE REAL OWNERS OF THE JOB THEY ARE APPLYING FOR WOULD ALREADY KNOW THAT THE THE JOB IS HIS. Instead of waiting endlessly and helplessly, people should diversify.. look inwards and grow those skills in them that can also fetch them money.. Its not a big deal to say you are a graduate anyomore . Its a big deal to say.. the guy is doing well.
ReplyDeleteHold on peeps, what difference is it if you learn a trade and you are unable to establish it because of finances or you have a skill and the environment is not conducive enough to groom it?
ReplyDeleteI have a younger brother who finished from Uniben, read Accountancy, graduated with a 2.1 but would be heading to canada to do a course in fashion designing because he can sew very well. he learnt how to sew on one of those long breaks. Now he makes al his shirts, suits and trousers, he even makes for people and collect very good money as a student.When he gets to Canada he wants to get into full time fashion designing not Masters or whatever...i envy him a lot. i keepo wishing i acquired a skill too.
ReplyDeleteI like that part where names were the blogger compared graduates to roadside mechanics and tailors down the street. The truth is very bitter, but its the truth. they make more money than people who work 8-5 on VI.
ReplyDeleteMehn , this is a nice one. i actually clicked believing i was going to see a job. This message sank in veru deep. Well Done bondedhome. well done. Its food for thought. i ll think over it.
ReplyDeleteDear blogger, are you saying no one ever got a job through any online agency. i know so many that have jobs today gotten through online agencies.
ReplyDeleteI am a masters degree holder,my Landlord is a Mechanic,been working for years nothing to show for it,certifications has failed in the country,being educated no longer guarantee making it in life,if you ar lucky enough to in the Kabal or related to the kabal of who is who the good for you,but when you struggle to fund yourself through school without any help then aside from receiving help from God be ready to live a frustrated life.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous,I think you should read the write up properly,what the writer is saying is that learning a trade or even acquiring skill pays a lot and saves you from the trouble of getting into the hands of scams repeatedly,believe it or not 90%of those online job sites are not geniune,I am a testimony to that.
ReplyDeleteThis era has taught me a very big lesson. Acada is not enough. Acada is okay but it has to be merged in equal proportion with a skill, a craft,a nutured abilty so that when certificates are failing, your skills will bail you out.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who is still depending on "submit" botton as the blogger called it, is hoodwinking his/herself. Majority of those who have jobs would do anything to even get out of the jobs. They claim they are being enslaved. While it is ideal to work with your hard earned certifecate, it is wide also that you develpee that skill that you got without a certifecate. The God-given skill that can provide for all ur needs. I am a qualified teacher and im also into herbal medicine.
ReplyDeleteAdigun O
Education at childhood stage is a right that the child should enjoy.while he is being dependent. But furthering Masters, Doc..*nd all might just be a luxury
ReplyDeleteMetuh
They say a certain % of Nigerian graduate are unemployable,I don't disagree asuch,we have a lot of half baked graduate everywhere
ReplyDeleteSome of us are sitting on the bench of our certificate or skillz-i think its good we had or have them but the state of the states has not so much been helpful. This is where to avoid sitting on this benches when they might not b workin for us and to avoid bein d one pointin fingers and makin blames on others for our shortcomin, we just must go inside us to uncover some natural gift in us, nourish it, believe in it, fall and rise wit it, be dogged, it can tak u frm ur bench to ur benchmark wit patience and presistence. Welldone bonded my broda and peace my people. I have been try to do stuff here but i need to do right. I fell for d concept-it can only get bigger as we are waitin for d mag, radio and t.v circulation. Success!
ReplyDeleteEducation is a right for every child,then a free will as they grow,let parents learn to groom their kids with skills too not just the western Education,its not paying off,only a few benefits from it mostly the "Man Know Man graduates"
ReplyDeleteIf the government have failed in boosting our Education standard,ad also failed in increasing Job opportuinities,Then I have a suggestion let them create a course in institutions where the student can go on a compulsory 1year Skill acquisition training by so doing they aint just collecting money to Educate the masses for nothing,I said for nothing because what is the essence of paying so much To acquire education and come out jobless.
ReplyDeleteThe way things are going in the country whre certificate have been reduced to what the yorubas call pkali...and pkali has no signifance without Man know man...any one depending on formal education would be too shocked that they just cant get jobs. Go after ur talents, abilities and interests too.
ReplyDeletei am aware that most of those common jobs on VI pay like 90-100k after tax. i know a mechanic who says any month he makes 150k, it means he was being too cheap with his customers. can you imagine? just imagine it? and many graduates would be made to beg for less than that in a month. ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteThis call is not just a graduate matter? its a concept that should be wholisitically captured in the nations academic process. If talent promotion is emphasised and catered for, you would be surprsed that we would not be depending on job sites. Your talents would just create all the rooms for you. money, contacts, fame and everything you could not have got from a paid job.
ReplyDeleteOne of these foreign artisites, was it ChrisBrown or i realy said people who are salary earners should not buy his album. thats it not fair on them, that music is a want and not a need. tha if they must buy his album, they have to be people who depend on other sources than salary paid jobs.
ReplyDeletethis is a young man that makes money ffrom his talent
the relevancy of certificate in Nigeria is now just on lips, except you are in an academic environment.
ReplyDeleteFormal education is surely not the only way to success, infact, its one of the ways not to make money.
ReplyDeletePeople should learn to combine vocations with acada
ReplyDeleteI think at every point, educattion is a right to every living being. thats why Late Obafemi Awolowo made it free for all
ReplyDeleteIs it too late for a graduate to start doing something vocational?
ReplyDeletesubmit key..lolololololololololol
ReplyDelete@blogger.ur list would not be complete if you dont mention people like Fela Anikulapo kuti. A man who studied music instead of medicine. He is one of Africas greatest of all time.
ReplyDeleteVery few people can actually boast that the got jobs on merit in this country
ReplyDeleteAll the jobs na man know man jobs whether you are qualified or not? just know Oga at the top. but seriously, na lie i dey yarn?
ReplyDeletei know many guys who have gone after their dreams and at first when they continued with it and we kept on going to school, it looked like they were set for doom. to be precise, i had a friend who dropped out of school and started doing this bus conductor job, it was awful and shameful back then in secondary school days. but he said he liked it, he didnt distant himself from us because of that, we were te ones trying to run away from him. Well to cut the long story short he proceeded.and guess what m when i was a coprer in Abuja, he housed me, fed me and even told me if i wanted to work in his transport company as manager i can but the manager is a tout, ishld be careful of him. HE HAS A TRANSPORT COMPANY NOW, EVEN THOUGH ITS STILL GROWING, HE WAS FAR FAR FAR MORE PROSPEROUS THAN A BLOODY CORPER LIKE ME. I learnt from him that if one follows his dream, be certain.. you ll surely make it big, it may tarry but it owuld surely break through.
ReplyDeleteNosa Kingsley
Literacy without skills (people, technical or vocational) is of little value. Illiteracy without skills is a tout! Literacy with skills isn't a guarantee for success if it doesn't posses character. Illiteracy with skills can only promote the individual as far as character can take him. Education is a formal way for the individual to construct his own character and adapt it to his skills. Thus, the literate individual can choose to be rude or polite, lax or driven, slack or passionate, lazy or smart, fail or succeed. Education gives you the right to make a choice. It is a plus. Wonderful article I must say! Nice read! www.twitter.com/Im_yearn
ReplyDeleteAgreed if they say certain percentage of graduate are unemployable,if that's the case let everybody acquire.a skill get formal educated and use the knowledge to boast or set up him or herself not. Stuggling to work and help groom another man's investment,its high time we get back to the drawing table of thought as for me I have gone back already
ReplyDeleteWhy won't they say we are unemployable,why,afterall they end up doing the man know man connection and render every other person not fit for the Job without giving a little opportuinity
ReplyDeleteThis people are heartlessly wicked,how do one explain thet every vacancy I see has 5-10years working experience,when I have not even gotten 1yr experince,it simply tells me that no new person is involved as an applicant,they are people who are already active in the maket,its so not fair,Equiping yourself is the OPTION B in this nation
ReplyDeleteWe have so imbibbed the white Man's culture that we forget who we are,once upon a time this whites came into our country because of the Natural resources we have but now we are decieving ourselves doing formal Education,what happens to the skill of Palm oil making,Palm wine,hair making,basket weaving, e.t.c a lot of them am not saying formal Education is bad but let us apply our thinking Faculty to whatever we do,the so called western Education is not evenm recognised totally buy the whites,they see all we do as inferior,yet we push ourselves into it....
ReplyDeleteHave been asking myself why I need to go to school when a Mechanic is the landlord or Degrees holder,ok as if that is not enough,I ask myself again why I need to go to school when my friend who couldn't further her Education to the university went into acquiring skills in baking and pastery making,why do I really need to go to school when the criteria of becoming a Governor is a school cert.A school ceryt earning millions upon billions,well I am already a graduate,but in all I see no sense in becoming a graduate,its just for the recognission sake,which isn't there anymore
ReplyDeleteFrankly speaking and talking from experience.most unemployed graduate find it hard to think of learning trade,selling things on the road side or even becoming and apprentise to an illiterate mechanic,tailor or even electrician as a result of the bruised Ego of I am a graduate,I was once in that position and I tell you hunger made me break loose out of such stupid ego,now am better of because I own a business with which I cater for the family
ReplyDeleteThank you bonded home for the vacancy
ReplyDeleteLearn a trade now? wouldnt that be difficult? i l rather start a business
ReplyDeleteYou never start
ReplyDeleteIts easier said than done. Before ones talent become really valueable to commercial standard, mind you it must have been under nuture since childhood or somthing. Ask anyone who survives byu their talent today, they would tell you they started from their childghod days.
ReplyDeleteTo start with, that Nigerian graduates are not employable, whose fault is that? the students, ASUU or the govenrmrnt? or even the selfish employer that is trying to justify his non-employment policy to further enslave those working under him.
ReplyDeleteTHIS IS SIMPLY INSPIRING, THOUGHT PROVOKING AND DECISION LEADING. Bringing us to simple realities.
ReplyDeleteFormal Education can never be the only way to financial success, some of us are eating from skills we developed and picked up on the streets...formal edu wold only help u widen ur horizon
ReplyDelete@Ibeh, you are funny, may be u are one Igwe's son and you dont live in Nigeria, you only visit once in a while and you dont know the reality on gorund
ReplyDelete@ ibeh,I shake my head for you,its better late than never
ReplyDelete@brown everybody is guilty from parents who don't give their children proper upbringing,no adequate time spent with their children,because they want to meet up with societal demands to,the students(kids)who would rather club all nighr and sleep in the morning hours,then sort lecturers to pass,then the Government who would embezzle funds meant for lecturers increament,you see? Its a circle as long as parents don't pay attention to their growing kids,the kids become irresponsible and eventually become clubbers(irresponsible) then they would keep sorting and since the lecturers aint payed properly by the gorvernment sorting will continue from generation to generation,AMEN
ReplyDeleteWhen I think of Nigeria,water run away me eye ahey ahey water run away me eye,water happens to the picture of luxury created to make us believe we would have jobs after school
ReplyDeletePaying for something that no longer has value,if we pay so much to go to school,yet we come out living a miserable life because of no Job,the what is the essence of studying,its either govt does something or the so called Education sector should be scrapped,what cogent explanation does the govt have to give as to why they haven't fulfilled the agreement with ASUU for God knows how long,yet a woman in power has the go Guts to buy 2cars for 250million immmediately after a plane crash,pathetic if you ask me.
ReplyDelete6years ago,I quit trying to enter intothe University because I couldn't bribe my waythrough to gain the admission though I merit it,I decided to learn pastries and all catering stuff,presently I have a catering school sometime I servive close to 6-15 weddings weekly,plus govermental. Functions in Port-harcourt,I had intention of furthering my Education,but as it is I have a means of income so Education is secondary,afterall God said he would bless the work (HANDWORK)of our hands,I have close to 200 student presently graduate included
ReplyDeleteEducation should be a right,But in Nigeria its a priviledge
ReplyDeleteThank you Bonded Home after I read this write-up on monday,which knocked some senses in to my brain about stronge realities,I have Decided to start a weekend tailoring class that would help me boast my passion for Fashion,my training starts this saturday...God bless you for this reality you made us realise on a platter of Gold
ReplyDeleteThis is much more than Vacancy
ReplyDeleteThis is an eye opener,reality hitting
ReplyDeleteSome people never had the privilege to be sent to school in the first pace. talkless of it beceoming a right.
ReplyDeleteBeing in a graduate in Nigeria is not such a prestigous thing anymore. as graduates are like incissors while Masters holders are the premolar and doctors are the molar. but in this country we hacve seen when molars applied for jobs that are supposed to be for incissors...
ReplyDeleteAcquiring a skill is as important as getting educated in the four walls of school.
ReplyDeleteMost garaduate jobs now pay like 80k-90k and if you leave in Lagos and you work on the Island, get ready for tp and all those other funny spendings, meanwhile, the local mechanic or the tailor or even vulcanizers make more than 90k monthly. e get as e be my ppl.
ReplyDeleteAre we saying people dont succeed with only their formal education? what of medical doctors?
ReplyDeletethis got me thinking mehn...God help us
ReplyDelete@Blogger, very nice one.
ReplyDeleteSome of these job sites are scams. they take people;s details and some even generate fake and purposeless job interviews. Someone has to do something about it.
ReplyDeleteThis is a massive write up,but the truth still remains that most of our youth who go about shouting no job are those you find on Porno sites instead of getting attracted to sites like this where they see what reality they need to face about life,they are actually doing more harm to themselves than good,thank you bindedhome for saying the truth the way it is
ReplyDeleteNigerian graduates are no longer prestigious.its just the system. everything is not working. this is a very good advice tjat is offered here. for some of us its a bit too late.
ReplyDeletewelldone
Take it or leave it, time and chance happeneth to all. whether educated or not.
ReplyDeletehaven't we seen many people who tried following their talents and had bitter tales to tell. i know many footballers who would never ever become professionals. really? no be beef o. Baba God go sort everybody
ReplyDeletei really appreciate this one, bondedhome. very nice one. this is the kind of things i really want to read online. Education is great, the four walls is very great, but truthfully, sometimes, one was better unlettered. For instance, i am from a polygamous home and my step brothers all as we were made to believe were not bright enough to pass exams so they dropped out and went into glass fittings. they learnt it and did freedom, which we all attended, i did attend as a corper, funny enough they still envied me as a graduate. Without any hard feelings, as i write this moment, my elder step brother is building his own house in Mowe, while i am still purchasing Tuesday Tuesday guardian in search of another job. its shameful. we cant just sit back and leave everything to chance.
ReplyDeleteI keep advising every young man that leaves school or going into school to say no t corporate slavey and face reality
ReplyDeleteyou can never be reach working for anybody,you will only be comfortable,so stop corporate slavery and empower yourself
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