Time To Change Your Mindset

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Every day, I get messages from my facebook friends telling me that they are searching for "good and well paying jobs" and requesting me to help them in their search or recommend them for one job or the other

I surely have nothing against anyone who is out there searching for a good job especially if they have been properly trained for such jobs.

However the truth of the matter is that while the Nigerian Educational system produces more graduates each succeeding year, the job availability is on the decline each succeeding year.

The time was when any good graduate would even get a job before he is through with his final degree exams.

In those days, Employers of labour used to visit Institutions of Higher learning to interview prospective employees.

And the successful employees not only get good and well paying jobs but they also get pecks of the job including a house and a car.

That was when there were just 43 million Nigerians with less than a million being graduates.

But in our time, things have not been the same again and would never be.

As at today, there are at least 210 million Nigerians with over 50 million graduates and still counting, the majority of whom are Youths (16 - 35).

The Education curriculum is skewed towards producing employees and that is the challenge that most young people have because they are brain-washed to believe that once they have a certificate, then they would surely have a job.

Having a certificate is no longer a pre-requisite for obtaining a job, rather having skills now supersede.

So, if you have been working in the belief that because you have a certificate, therefore you must have a job, then that is a very wrong notion and the time to change your mindset is now.

No Government in the world is able to employ all its employable citizens; and even with the Organized Private Sector being actively involved in employment, it is still not possible to employ all those who have certificates.

It then means that anyone who has a certificate should do better to acquire some other skills aside his or her certificate that would put them on a higher pedestal for employers.

But while waiting for employers to show up, any right thinking unemployed young person should get busy instead of sitting at one corner and complaining about the state of joblessness because I must tell you that there is no such thing as a "state of absolute joblessness".

Joblessness is relative in that it is a choice that we have to make.

So, if you find yourself in a state where you have a certificate but not a job yet, then get busy, join online businesses, start offline businesses, get involved in volunteer jobs, participate in Community activities --- whatever else you do, just get busy.

Your state of "busyness" pays great dividend.

If you are challenged on how to get busy when you have no job, then speak with me, I would be more than willing to lead you along.

Time lost can never be re-gained!!!!

Dr. Jerry - the First: JP

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