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Searching for jobs everyday, and still no job, wont you be frustrated, are you not running crazy. cant you see that something needs to be done. Please wake up. Kindly view through this report, if you will probably gain something.
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LETTER TO NIGERIAN PARENTS
Friends,
Let me add the benefit of my time as a student and then resident in the UK - and I live in Lagos now. The first thing that I discovered about UK-born, white, English undergraduates was that all of them did holiday or weekend job to support themselves - including the children of millionaires amongst them. It is the norm ...

ARE you saying you started secondary school at the age of five? Please take your papers and leave." The human resources director stared at the interviewee in disbelief. The setting was the Human Resources Department of a manufacturing company. The young man being addressed ...

Every task has its own techniques and strategies to assure effectiveness and success. Even madness, they say, has its own methods! Job search requires certain skills, knowledge and techniques.

As I said earlier, the central issue is that many people lack job search skills. There are few things in life more important than finding a job that not only meets your financial ...

Looking for a job is not fun.
Not at all. If can be lonely, frustrating and discouraging. And it can be tough on your ego. But then, it is something nearly everybody past the age of consent will have to go through; at least once in a life time. And like most things there is a right way of going about finding a good job …….. well not exactly – if what you are expecting is a foolproof mathematical formula!

The more accurate thing to say is ...

This is the last of this series on master skills essential for a successful job search. The objective is for us to focus on potential sources of errors, mistakes and inadequacies of our job hunting. We shall cover the last two of 10 reasons that may explain why we are unable to get the job of our dream or any job for that matter.


Develop/acquire excellent interview skills

As often said in this column, there are basically five questions you get at job interviews:

• Why ...

I am sure you have wondered: why are you still unemployed in spite of your serious effort and strong desire to get the job of your choice? Many expect a simple, short and precise answer. Unfortunately there is nothing like that. The reason for this is that the employment process is complex, and usually in stages. And progress often depends ...

A new year is fast approaching and you need a new impetus for the ever-elusive job. The article is a help for developing a master strategy.

Just as you need different traps for catching mustangs, bears, and fish, you will need various strategies for hunting for an engineer opening, a psychologist assistant position, ...

There is a saying that it is easy to take a horse to the river. But what is not easy is to force it to drink water there. This saying is also true when it comes to achievement of success. It is one thing to try to motivate somebody to achieve success in life. But your effort at inspiring the person may not achieve results until ...

Project management, the process of guiding a project from the beginning through the middle to the end is indeed very taxing. This is because the project manager coordinates other professionals to achieve results. It is therefore a big intellectual relief that Paula Martin and Karen Tate, two project management experts, have proffered a solution in ...