Position: A Departmental Store in Port Harcourt needs the services of a Floor Manager for immediate employment

Qualifications: B.Sc Mgt or B.Sc Admin

Sex: Male or Female

Age: 28 – 35 years

Experience in management of supermarket will be an added advantage.

Contact: Interested candidates should send their CVs to info@virtuezng.com and use the position as the subject of the mail.

P.S. This advert is urgent and will be filled as soon as we get the right candidate. The preferred candidate should also be resident in Port Harcourt city.

Just yesterday, Thursday, February 26 2008, the passing-out ceremony for the 2008 Batch “A” corps members was held all across the 36 States of Nigeria and the FCT, as tens, if not, hundreds of thousands of fresh Nigerian youths completed the one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps scheme.

Marching into the LABOUR market

In Lagos alone, about 7315 corps members successfully passed out. I was able to catch a glimpse of the figure in Enugu on TV, over 2300. You can imagine what it would look like in other parts of Naija. The question on every lips is: “where are these ones headed”? Simple answer – the already oversaturated LABOUR MARKET. And trust me, most of these ones will end up just like their predecessors; those that get employed get what I call “misemployment”. Don’t worry, I’ll explain that much later. Then, the over 80% that don’t get to find anything tangible in the next couple of years qualify for the breaking news vacancies.

Hey! Don’t think I just made that up. I was discussing with a friend two days ago, and he told me how a friend of his was codedly offered employment at a militant base. Boy! The money was good. Did the friend take the job? If na you, you go collect am? However, I’m afraid, if we don’t do something now, sooner than later, such headlines will be commonplace in our media and you’ll find parents telling their long-overdue unemployed children: “you sef, u no dey see ur mate dey make am for militant base? Abeg jooo, go submit ur CV”. May that not be our portion, in Jesus Name.

Howbeit, the issue I am addressing here is the Number 3 Key Area I mentioned in my very first post. Please if you have not read that post, go back and do so. The Pillar of Problems – Your Employment. Of course, we all know what the pillar of a building does. Infact, the major problem in this aspect is that more and more people are getting “misemployed” than those who are unemployed. That’s a fact. That is why today we no longer here of job satisfaction. People just get employed for one reason -paycheck at the end of the month. Doesn’t matter whether where you are working has nothing to do with your chosen career path. Who even has a career path – less than 1%. And that’s the bane of our problems.

Well, these are the issues we will be discussing in this category soon and we’ll be proferring real solutions to this problem. Meanwhile, we will commence building from the very first phase – The Soil Analysis – Your Mindset.