I want to use this piece to appeal to our dear parents/guardians, to please painstakingly pay attention to your children/wards' innate abilities....... If our parents are able to do this well, then they can harness those innate abilities which in turn, will be very useful to them and the society at large.... some parents/guardians are fond of cajoling their children to pick-up courses that don't align with their Innate abilities, because of a reason or the other....That's why Nigeria produces many intelligent but unproductive graduates....Atimes, half-baked graduates, that can do nothing......
I advise anyone who wants to gain admission into the Higher Institution, to first of all, sit-down and identify those innate skill(s) he/she has, before considering a course of study.... Aspiring-students should stop choosing courses randomly or any course thrown at them by the Higher Institution..... I was asking a little family friend the other day, which course she is studying!!!! She said " Aunty, am studying English" and i asked her to give me a cogent reason she chose the course.... Do you know what her reply was.... "Aunty, I didn't choose the course o, the course chose me" and I said, the course chose you, how? She said, "that was the only course available to me at that time".... She just wanted to enter the university on time, graduate and be addressed as a graduate, just like the others..... No, that's not the main reason, for Education... we really need to get it right now......
I was telling a friend the other day, that i need to propose to the next Nigerian president (Buhari's term is almost over) to Establish a High-Tech NIGERIAN SKILL ACQUISITION CENTRE, for both soft skills and artisan skills and related skills( This can help in attracting foreign investors, because they will know that we are also very good at our skills)...... Reasons being that, it is a good way of curbing, the increasing rate of Unemployment among our graduates..... Can I tell you? This unemployment menace in Nigeria is greater with graduates than non-graduates.... Do you know why?
The mindset we have in this country(including me, then) Let's go to the university, come out and get a high-paying job and become rich; that's all, but a non-graduate already knows that he/she has no employable certificate, so he quickly goes to learn a skill(s) and set up his life, while a university graduate stays idle for years looking for a white-collar job, which are limited....... White-collar jobs are good, if you can get one as a graduate but can i tell you something..... Both white-collar job and blue-collar job needs skills....
Have you asked yourself, why are you required to write these on your CV!!!!!! .............Your Skills, strength and weakness..... This is because once an employer employs you, what the employer is paying for, are your skills and the time you invest, using your skills for the advancement of the organization.... You see, either way, you need a skill(s)............ Let me quickly say this, for most people, once they hear " Go learn a skill(s), the only thing that quickly comes to their mind is blue-collar job skills( i.e. Artisan skills and related skills)...........Like the University under-graduate who lampooned those who tell students to go learn a skill(s) because of ASUU strike, to make the best use of their time........There are skills called soft skills, which one of them is DIGITAL SKILLS..... like; copywriting, content writing, digital marketing, photo/video editing, social media management, data entry, coral draw, digital research, editing/proofreading........just to mention a few, the list is very large.. You can be a good freelancer with these digital skills and make a lot of money..... When you have the required skills, you can be a remote staff( virtual staff)
Do you know a freelancing platform called UPWORK, FIVERR, etc... You can stay in Nigeria and be working for an International company and get paid in dollars.... Only few Nigerians have taken advantage of this, some don't have the required soft skills to work with them, because they easily hire the good ones...
FREELANCER..... A freelancer is one who is not employed by a particular person/company but can use his/her skills to work for many companies at the same time.... A freelancer charges, per job..... A freelancer doesn't have a permanent employer.... He/she is free to work for anyone at any time, so long as his/her strength can carry it........ I do your job, you pay me and I go my way, till you have another paid job, you want me to do for me.... That's a FREELANCER...
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