Real Life Experience: 5 Hours, The Interview (A Must Read)

Dear GetaJobHQTalents,

The importance of adequate preparation before an interview cannot be overemphasised.  Like we always state, "Your interview doesn't begin when you come face-to-face with your interviewer, it begins when your interviewer takes the first look at your Curriculum Vitae.

Please take time to read the post below by Bayo Adeyinka, a Human Resource Professional with one of the leading firms in Nigeria.

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Five Hours

The Interview

Each time I conduct interviews, I usually end up shaking my head and lamenting about the state of education in Nigeria. Our tertiary institutions are churning out graduates who are mainly unemployable. Earlier today, I interviewed almost 50 candidates and by the end of the whole session, the only conclusion I could arrive at was that we have a BIG problem.

In one particular instance, I was alarmed when I read the CV of a particular female graduate of one of the Universities in the South West. It was full of outlandish errors and so I asked her to spell a few words. She spelt the word 'redeemed' wrongly four times before she got it right the fifth time. On her CV, she described herself as one of the officials of the church fellowship when she was an undergraduate but she wrote the name of the church wrongly. She couldn't spell the word 'corper' despite trying more than five times. Yet, during her national service, she taught pupils at a school. I underlined about 10 grammatical errors on her CV and showed them to her. She couldn't even determine where to use apostrophes.

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A lot of us have had it rough in this aspect of our job search (let's be honest here o, my people...lol). We have had to re-do our CVs times without number, with each change as a result of a colleague's own that we peeped at and admired, or from lessons learned from CV writing articles, classes, seminars etc. Your CV tells a lot about you in your absence and can, to a large extent, get you the desired attention that you need to move to the next stage of the recruitment process.

Job Vacancy At Marcel Group

Marcel Group of Companies is one of Nigeria’s largest privately owned, homegrown enterprises. The group has a diverse portfolio of companies that is supported by a strong workforce whose objectives are to assist its clients to achieve their growth aspirations by providing intelligent Engineering Services in the Oil and Gas sector, Strategy Blueprint in Logistics and Haulage and Estate Management; delivering expertise and business operation improvement capabilities for a better tomorrow.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Opening At Stonebuilt Global Concepts Limited

Location(s):          Abuja                                          |           Job Type:              Full-time

Qualification:      BA/BSc/HND                             |           Experience:          2-3 years

Deadline:              27^th January 2016

Stonebuilt Global Concepts Limited, a construction, design and trading company based in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria due to expansion seeks to recruit suitably qualified and highly self-motivated, talented young individuals to work in her Business Development Department in the capacity below:

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Company Information

We are Consolidated Breweries Plc, Nigeria’s third largest brewing company and the producers of quality brands “33” Export Lager Beer, Turbo King Dark Ale, Williams Dark Ale, More Lager Beer, Hi-Malt and Maltex Non Alcoholic Malt Drinks. These brands have a wide distribution footprint and great consumer following across Nigeria. We are recruiting for the position of :

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