Are you currently a student, wishing to get a good job soon
after graduation? Are you already a graduate seeking employment or striving to
land your dream job? Either way, you need to digest this post. The facts are
now fully established on great mistakes students and even graduates make, which
causes them to remain unemployed for so long. After some thorough research conducted
widely with students in higher institutions, fresh graduates and successful
career persons, it has become evident that the mistakes that cause unemployment
are made while still in school.
To build a successful career starting from your days as
student, there is need to avoid such mistakes as shall be listed here.
LACK OF ENTREPRENUERSHIP OR VOCATIONAL SKILL ACQUIRED WHILE IN SCHOOL
Many students are rigidly tied to their conventional academic
curriculum laid out by their schools. Most times, there is no room for the
acquisition of skills or develop entrepreneurship tenets. The truth is that the world is shifting away from white collar jobs or
salary jobs, while tending to job creation and entrepreneurship. Failure to
impart into one some vocational skills or entrepreneurial skills only leaves a
fresh graduate at the mercy of unavailable white-collar jobs or salary jobs
that are never forth-coming.
Learn a skill while in school – tailoring, computer repairs
and maintenance, website design and management including blogging skills, catering
and baking services etc. this makes you a two-edged sword which assures you of
a greener favor market after graduation.
STUDENTS DO NOT LISTEN TO RADIO, WATCH TV, READ PAPERS FOR NEWS AND OTHER CURRENT AFFAIRS
Information is power. Success does not only come from passing
your exams in school and coming out with some first class results. Recall that
upon graduation, the Vice Chancellor or the highest authority as the case may
be usually pronounces the graduates as “having been found worthy in both
character and learning”. This is to say that there is need for an all-round
development – academics, character formation, socials, current affairs etc.
It is revealing to know that most questions thrown during job
interviews are current affairs based. When you develop the habit of listening
to the radio, TV, read newspapers even as a student, it polishes your ability
to speak good English grammar as well as makes you knowledgeable of events
happening in the society.
Sadly today, students do not feel the need to listen to the
radio. Even those who own TVs only utilize them to watch movies and other
entertainment programs. An average student in Nigeria may not even know when
the Presidential elections would hold in 2019.
MOST STUDENTS DO NOT VALUE THEIR INDUSTRIAL TRAINING (IT) EXPERIENCE
It is in the curriculum of virtually all higher institutions
in Nigeria that at least once in a student’s academic calendar, there must be
an industrial training IT attachment. Some universities in Nigeria send their
students on a 6 months IT, while polytechnic students proceed on a 1 year
industrial Training.
Unfortunately, most students do not observe this scheme while
some do not take it seriously.
Experiences gained during IT could be the saving grace of a
fresh graduate. Some students who do well in their places of IT are usually
highly recommended by such organizations, highly placed persons and in some
cases are asked to come back to continue working with them after graduation.
Students must begin to think beyond their days of comfort as
students. What happens after school? This should be the thought of every
student starting from their first days in school. Laziness has no place in
forming you into that successful employee or entrepreneur you wish to be. Just begin
NOW!!!
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