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Oil and Gas jobs

2009-09-08T03:07:00.001-07:00

This is to inform you that the 2009 NNPC/ESSO International Postgraduate Scholarship Awards is out. It is aimed at providing the intelligent minds the ability to develop their skills and get exposure to interact with professionals in the western world. It is also aimed at providing indigenous capacity for the Oil and Gas sector of our economy.

The following students where considered successful in the 2009 Edition.

2. Iheanacho Bright--------------------------------UK ( 12 MONTHS)

3. Akpan Patrick------------------------------------UK (12 MONTHS)

4. Ogbuagu Frank-----------------------------------UK (12 MONTHS)

5. Bello Ibrahim-------------------------------------UK ( 12 MONTHS)

6. Esharefasa Ogaga--------------------------------UK ( 12 MONTHS)

7. Bukola Ololade-----------------------------------UK (12 MONTHS)

8. Arenrin Babatunde-------------------------------UK ( 12MONTHS )

9. Aina Temitope------------------------------------UK ( 12 MONTHS )

10. Nwosu Chinedu-----------------------------------UK (12 MONTHS )

11. Ogunbanwo Olufolake----------------------------USA (24 MONTHS)

The fact that your name does not necessarily mean that you are not brilliant.; It means your are yet to be awarded if you stay consistent in your hard work. Success is a journey. It takes only the deligent and the patient to get there.

Strategic Development

2009-09-05T04:18:00.000-07:00

Our concept of Self-Development:

Self-Development is taking personal responsibility for one's own learning and development through a process of assessment, reflection, and taking action.It is a conscious effort and must go beyond wishing or circular education. This is an activity that you must engage in if you must stay ahead of your career, pass your examination or even maintain your career success.

Many of us have only allowed the university setttingg to determine our self development course. If the University curriculum can misdirect you if you completely give yourself to it. Remember, every individual has a unique prefference though we may be in tthe same department. Two students may be studying a particular course, yet they end us developing themselves into different career.

Stategic Development Considerations :

Assess your current skills and interest through and document them. Youn can do this through career tests or through computer programs that analyze skills and interests.

Write a personal vision and mission statement.
Many of us can rarely describe our mission and vision for action. To be successfull in your career, you must be firm at your personal strength and weaknesses and moreso, have a documented vision.

Develop a personal development plan that identifies your learning needs and goals.

Find a mentor who can provide you with support, advice, and assistance in your career direction.

Become involved in professional organizations.

Read professional journals and trade magazines to keep current on the latest developments in your field.

Job Opportunity for Lawers

2009-09-04T05:09:00.000-07:00

Everybody will always have opportunity, but goldmines like this doesn’t come always. That is why you must relax, take a cool position and consent to this offer.
A law firm in Abuja and Lagos is in search of competent individuals to fill the following positions:
(1) Lawyers:
Individuals who fall in this category must have at least two years post qualification experience in general and commercial practice. Individual successful in this job listing will be opportune to work in Lagos

(2) Office Administrator:

Qualification includes experience in Law firm accounting and computer skills
All enquiries should be sent to
enquiries@chancery-solicitors.com

Architectural design jobs

2009-09-04T05:05:00.000-07:00

This is to notify everyone that the Universal Basic Education Commission is posting a vacancy for the position of Architects, Quantity Surveyor and Research Officers.
Qualification:

Fresh graduate with a bachelor degree or equivalent.
Years of working experience is an advantage.
Method of Application:

3 copies of application letter
3 copies of CVs.
3 passport photos on each.

FORWARD TO:

The Executive Secretary
Universal Basic Education Commission
7 Gwani Street, Wuse Zone 4,
P.M.B.5058. Abuja
Closing date for this application is six weeks from this notice.

Computer Engineers needed for immediate employment!!!

2009-09-04T05:02:00.000-07:00

The National Orthopaedic Hospital , Enugu is declaring vacancy for the post of a computer Engineer.

Qualification for this job positionsinclude:
A bachelor degree in computer engineering
Must be a member of a professional body in COREN, MCP, etc.
Application must be sent on or before six weeks of this notice

ADDRESS TO:
The Medical Director
National Orthopaedic Hospital
P.M.B. 01294
Enugu.

Jobs advertising Marketing

2009-09-04T01:50:00.000-07:00

Hi friends,

30 people needed for a sales executive in a London marketing company opening its branch in Lagos.

*You can make over 10,000 daily working with guaranteed satisfaction.
_No qualification necessary
_No experience necessary
You will have the opportunity of receiving full training before work resources.

APPLY TO:

London marketing company

3rd floor 42 oluwn st.Ikeja Lagos,

08083900600

Distance education university

2009-09-02T03:17:00.000-07:00

Hello Friends!

It is obvious the academic scenery we are experiencing in this part of the world. Do you know what? It’s not enough complaining about the problems in the educational sector or blaming anybody for them. Brian Tracy in his publication “4 Steps to Super Attitude” suggest the following tips to help you survive any crunch, whether financial or academic:

 Focus on the future

 Focus on the solution

 Look for the good in every experience

 Look for the valuable lessons in every condition.

It’s never a solution looking for people to blame, but for the way out. This is why I bring to you notice a way out of this educational crunch.

 Do you need a well recognized university degree in your career pursuit?

 Do you want to study in a conducive atmosphere like Russia, devoid of strikes?

 If you have 5 credits in WASC or GCE, then you are qualified for this offer.

Offers include admissions in specialties such as: Medcine, Engineering, Architecture, Economics, Law, etc.

To get a one-on-one counsel to maximize this opportunity, you can contact:

Elim Educational LTD.
68 Bangbose Street, 2nd floor.Lagos Island, Lagos.
Or
119/121 Ago Place Way opp. Spring Bank, Okota, Lagos

Tel: 08023654088, 01-9504961, 07042147060, 07025682967, 08073304733

online scholarship

2009-09-02T02:54:00.000-07:00

Information Technology sector has been one of the highest niche and employer of labor. Rarely is there any career or field that lacks IT application. Recently the Nigerian Bar Association has gone ICT by partnering with IT expert to launch the Digital Bar Initiative, to create a portal for the association which will enable proper organization and management of the association’s portfolio. Many more companies, professional bodies and government agencies have not only realized the importance of this emerging boom, but have began to tap from this resources. Companies are employing the services of website developers, database administrators, Internet security managers, etc. to achieve the corporate mission.

This is to more reason individuals should embrace every opportunity to harness any training in Information technology to leverage their professional career in this competitive age.

The latest of this opportunity is the IT scholarship ready to be awarded by Nigerians by Meridian Technologies whose service is exclusively into IT training solutions. This scholarship is on courses ranging from:

 Oracle- Database 11g and 11i Financials
 MCTs – Window server 2008, Net framework, SQL Server 2008
 CISCO- CCNA,CCNA- Security, CCNP
 Sun Microsystem – SCJP, SCBCD,SCWCD
 CompTIA – A+, Network+, Security+, Server+, Linux+

You are also opportune to take your TOEFL exams with their assistance.

With Meridian Technologies, you can experience the world class testing environment. To enroll, please forward your application to the contact below

Contact:

207, Muri Okunola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. Nigeria

Tel: 01-810884445, 7758898, 07098141775

E-mail: vi@meridian-nigeria.com

careers graphic design

2009-08-29T06:02:00.000-07:00

My Dear!
I'm always delighted to bring great career updates to your notice. Let me tell you how my friend discovered his career in graphics design. Different people, different stories.

My friend was born into a family a three to a man called Olu. His father was into painter and sculpturing. When he was seven, he will always accompany his dad to execute painting job for people and design of banners. He grew up with this experience and had always dreamt of assisting his dad to build a bigger painting shop for his dad. According to him, everyday he comes back from school, the first point of call is daddy's shop.This passion continued so much that when he was fifteen, he was already an expert in cutting of stencils, making sketch, and producing fantastic banners.
After a few years during the inception of digital banner printing, he realised the opportunities he will maximize in gaining a computer training in graphics and programming. Today he has not only developed a career in graphics, he is also a certified programmer.

Growing with passion:
Some of us have so much ignored the trade and skills we have learnt from our father.To this young friend of mine, "The skills and trade that has made me today are the once I have learnt from my father. The passion that has kept me going, were instilled by father; The path that has brought me success today was lightened by my father.' he said.

Growing with such passion can be a vital tool.How much of your father's trade have you adopted? How much do you know about the career you want to adopt today. Choose a career today that reflects your passion and prior experience and be ready to embrace career success. Never choose a career you know little or nothing about. More of this will come your way in my next post. Stay blest!!!!!!!!!!!

Interest inventory career

2009-08-28T03:35:00.000-07:00

Hi friends,

This is another opportunity bringing to you other ways of discovering your career.I hope by now, you are retrospecting on your family trademarks as indicators of your career options.Here are other ways of identifying your career options.

Personality Review:

This involves exploring the opinions of your parents, peers, and mentors about your strength and weakness. I know that many of us are yet to adopt this approach. It is not enough getting angry with people, when they tell you your weakness or get over excited when they celeberate your strength. Rather than just indulge in these, take a responsibility of writing these opinions on paper and have a weekly review to assess how they conform to reality.

Your strength is an indicative of your skills, while your weakness indicates the nature of network you should adopt. Afterwards, assess which career options matches with these skills. Also take into consideration the opportunities around you that you can maximize with your skills. More to this take a sheet off paper or prefferably, a notebook and write these opportunities. This will help you develop a strong consciousness of their existence. Thereafter, you can make plans to experiment to confirm how concrete these opinions work. It's not the time for fantacy, but responsibilty. It time to adopt these tips and get the best of life.

More of this will come to you tommorrow.

Vocational assessment

2009-08-27T04:14:00.000-07:00

The journey to self discovery is a pertinent journey everyone must undertake. It involves unravelling your true worth, value,personality and career. It also involves understanding your weakness and strength and how to use them as tools to make a better personality and career life for yourself.

Discovery in this context may involve much more than employing career assesment mechanism to identify career options that best fit your personality. It involves much more than discovering your career life.

Here is a unique strategy of identifying your career path :

Identify your family trade mark

I have discovered that in the course of administrating career test for some families that almost all the members of a family displayed similar career options. It is in this note that I concluded thaat every family has a trademark which must be identified by individuals in such family. I know of a families in my area who is noted for a partcular proffession. for example: The production of fishing net, repairs of cars, wrist watches, etc. If you are about to make a career decision or start of a career, identify the predominant ancestral skills in your lineage and the contemporary career options it can best fit. There may be many of these skills; So identify the ones you have passion and deveelop it.

In my case, my father has been a prolific writer engaging in tract writing for my church. Though his work did not go beyond this sphere, I grew to identify it as a family skill I admired so much. I started by looking out for careers that involves writing, proofreading, public speaking, interviewing, etc.

This assisted me so much helped me identify careers such as editing, publishing, journalism, etc.It has work for me and can serve same for you. I published my first book during my teenage life andd I'm still publishing now. It can work for you.

More updates on how to discover you career will be published subsequently in my post. I will you a happy career experience.

How to choose career

2009-08-25T03:10:00.000-07:00

If you are to choose between a job and a career, what will be your choice? If you are choose between a certificate and a skill, what choice will you make? If you are to choose between experience and money, what will you go for? To some, jobs in Nigeria will do, while for other jobs in Canada will do. It is funny to note that many young people are oblivious of what it takes to stay ahead of their contemporay in their quest for career advancement, neither are they aware of the considerations to adopt for a blissful career future.

You need a career first, then a job!
A "job" is a position held by an individual in a company. whether a driver, cleaner, messenger,it is a position. Anybody can find a job, but takes time to find a career, and develop it to have a high market value.

It is on this note that I bring to you this advice: CHOOSE CAREER!
Here are few career guide to adopt in your career advancement.
If you must ever choose a job, choose jobs in career.

1. Follow your passion.
Your passion is a reflection of your values.What's really important to you? What turns you on? What do you like to do so much that you would almost feel guilty getting paid to do it? These questions are designed to help you get at one of the key elements in career choice: values. Your values are the emotional anchor of all that you do. Satisfying careers are built upon the notion of a high correspondence between one's personal values and the work they will be doing. Begin your career search by sorting out your values and writing them down as clearly and succinctly as you can.

2. Evaluate and Identify your skills and talents.
A skill is something you've learned to do. A talent is something you've been born with, or at least that you seem naturally qualified to do. It's important to recognize the difference between the two. You may be skilled at something and still not find it interesting. Chances are, however, if you are naturally talented at something, there will be a correspondence between that particular talent and your values. Put another way: you are more apt to enjoy doing what you do well naturally than what you have simply been taught to do.

3. Identify what is high on your priorityand activity list or preferences.
From early on, we approach the world with certain personal preferences--how we perceive others, how we think and make decisions, whether we prefer concepts over people or vice versa, and the extent to which we are comfortable with uncertainty in our lives. For many, these preferences operate at a subconscious level, but they strongly influence the way we function with others. Some questions may help: Do you regard yourself as highly intuitive? Are you outgoing or reserved? When faced with a decision, do you rely primarily on facts or feelings? Your answers to these questions can tell you much about the kinds of work you will find interesting and challenging. One way of sorting this all out is by taking the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator a self-assessing instrument that helps clarify these issues. If you haven't taken it in the past year, or at all, I strongly recommend that you take it and include your results in your career deliberations.

4. Experiment.
There's no substitute for experience, the more the better. It's probably safe to say that nearly every career looks vastly different from the outside than from within. If you're new to the job market or if you are considering a career change, get out and talk to people who are actually doing it. Take a job in the field or industry and see for yourself if it's really all you thought it would be. And don't rely on a single authority or work experience. Within the bounds of the area you've picked, try to get as much and as varied experience as you can. If you're committed to finding out about a certain career, you may want to consider volunteering in order to gain work experience. That way, you'll be able to test out whether it fits your values and preferences. If you aren't getting paid to do it, chances are you won't stay with it unless you like it.

5. Adopt strict professionalism.
In this high tech information world, there is an incredible pressure to specialize, to know more and more about less and less. That's dangerous, because it increases your chances of being obsolescent immensely. Many people lose their jobs and scuttle their careers because they have gradually developed tunnel vision about who and what they are and what their capabilities are. The old debate over specialist versus generalist is being tempered by a new term: the generalist/specialist. That's the individual who has been able to grasp the large picture while, at the same time, becoming expert on several of its parts. That's what becoming broadly literate is all about. Learn as much as you can about what interests you and about the jobs and careers your're considering--not just what those involved are currently doing, but about where the industry or profession is heading.

6. Don't settle for money first, but a career personality.
If you're at the top of your class graduating summa cum laude, you may be able to combine both in a single package, but for most new entrants into the workforce, it's a matter of priorities. A good way of sizing up several opportunities is to ask yourself: "Which position will offer me the best chance of becoming excellent at what I do?" And that may not be the one that pays the highest initial salary.

Doing this will place you on strong footing in your career. Iwish you the best in your career.