Skills, needed to prepare for the marketplace?

I will be talking mostly to the student here on this platform, it also applies to others too but majorly on students, let's begin;

I was in class yesterday when one of the courses we are doing this semester is talking about PERSONAL SKILLS which the outcome of the topic says NEEDS TO ACQUIRE SKILLS TO SURVIVE THE FAST CHANGING WORLD. The lecturer called out a guy to talk about the challenges he has encountered so far with the course of study, he said a lot of things but it was that all I could see him repeating is about the salary they are being paid to people who offer the course after they graduate and also clause attached to it before applying for the job.

He said he might not practice his course because they give those who apply for the job N30 000 ( naira ) that's $60 with 3 years experience, he wonders how a fresh graduate will survive like that after graduating. Well, he is right but should I cover my face if I tell you that I have not thought of that in my life, all I do think about is that I wi surely see a job when I graduate if at all I didn't practice my course 😅😅😅😅. I know it's not easy out there but my faith has paved way for me, I believe.

What am I saying in essence, for you to start thinking about getting a job after graduating, what skills have you learnt? The lecturer said a lot of things and one of the things he said is that we should learn skills that will give a solution to a particular problem that have been affecting people in that field for a long time. It's painful that many graduates just go to school to school without learning any skills while in school, they just graduate hoping that only their certificate will save them.

The world is changing at a fast pace and we should also change with it without lacking in anything. Nigeria my country, for instance, I can say there is no job out there for fresh graduates and the only job you can see is a teaching job which they will pay you with a small amount of money. You can only get a good job if you have people at high places ( connections ) or by God hand of miracle, I am not saying your first class or second class certificate won't work for you but it is very rare and it is not common at all.

In Nigeria, it is advisable that every graduate should have skills in hand before they graduate cos that's what they will survive on before they finally get a job. The president once said it, he said all students should have handiwork before they graduate, handiwork like fashion designing, barbing, hairstylist, make up artist, shoe cobbler, e.t.c. All these works will make them survive even without a job for years cos they are what people can't do without in a day.

All these skills are tools that we will take along when we are graduating from school to the marketplace, the marketplace here means the industry where we find ourselves. The skills are what we will rely on when job searching fail us, they will serve as our job, we might end up not looking for a job when we start it and many might turn it to a side hustle along with the job they later get.

I hope you can grab one or two things from this article, watch out for tomorrow articles cos I will be saying something that will really help every one of us here. I will have to put a stop to this writing, I have tried doing justice to it. My day was really busy and I am very tired while typing this, I will read the articles I can before I sleep off, I am anticipating a programme that will come up tomorrow with my friends about the promotion and adoption of bitcoincash in my school. We gather ourselves together to tell people about the benefit of bitcoincash, I will update everyone about it tomorrow, I believe it will turn out great for us.

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1oth December 2021.