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If you have been unemployed in Nigeria for years now, or you are a recent graduate but haven’t found a job, or you are one of the 7 out of 10 Nigerian graduates that are unemployable, hopefully this article would provide you with successful tips to becoming an “employable person”.

Ok. The education system in Nigeria did not prepare you enough for the job market. Perhaps, you didn’t benefit from proper career counselling/guidance and you have made the wrong career choices. That’s one of the reasons that this blog was created to serve as an online career centre for Nigerian undergraduates, graduates, jobseekers as well as professionals who need the right directions in their career future.

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Most Nigeria job seekers are anxious and uneasy when it comes to discussing job salary. Some lack the right negotiation skills needed to discuss pay during job interviews. As a result, they have either lost the opportunity of a job offer by showing that they are money-driven or have paid the price for their ignorance by accepting an employer’s offer.

Negotiation skills are very important in your job search process, and it’s unfortunate that most Nigerian jobseekers did not learn how to negotiate salaries in the job selection process. In this post, I’ll be discussing ways you can be successful when negotiating your job salary, either during a job interview or when you need a pay raise in your current company.

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The new webspace, Web 2.0 has changed the way business is done, consumers are satisfied, employers employ job candidates and jobseekers apply for jobs. Now, jobseekers can publish their CVs online in a visual format that transforms the way resume data is presented, accessed and shared.

Some Nigerian web 2.0 companies are poised to adopt these technologies to help professionals publish their CVs for free. One of them is cvcrib.com, where Nigerian professionals can build and share an online resume with their own web address. The signup process is fast and easy. Check it out here…

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You’ve probably heard or read about online job scams around the world. Unfortunately, most people around the world believe that a larger percentage of email job scams originate from Nigeria. While this theory cannot be proved, jobseekers need to learn how to protect themselves from online job scams, rather than worry about where a job scam email comes from.

In this post, I’ll be discussing top 5 secrets you should know about online job scams and how you can avoid or protect yourself from them.

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Job hunting can be very tasking and frustrating. Jobseekers could easily get tired and give up. If you are reading this post, you might have applied for jobs and didn’t get an interview. Or you had an interview but wasn’t given a job offer. In fact, you’ve tried all you could, but without success.

What should you do?

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