EQUIPPED FOR GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT

By Allen Olatunde

INTRODUCTION

The true wealthy ones are not born but made. Even if one is born inside wealth and one does not make himself wealthy, the affluence is for a while. It will fly without prior notice. We work to provide solution and earn money. Some work for organization, a boss or with partner(s) while others control work because they employ service of workers. Some look/search for employment while others create employment. However, employment (being employed) is good as a basis for wealth making but not good enough to sustain wealth. Still, if you are looking for employment, I mean a gainful employment that will translate from known to the unknown, grass to grace, creativity to achievement, skill to commercialized innovation, employee to self-employed; then this seminar is for you.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

Gainful employment: is a legal term that was created to give meaning to the types of learning and training received from a higher education institute; it is directly applied to having a consistent job with regular pay. Gainful employment is most often associated with college graduates who become employed after they graduate as a way to measure or rank the college or university where they received their education and training. Note: As young people transit through various stages of education into the workforce, they face increasing hurdles to secure gainful employment and career opportunities. Today, seventy-five (75) million young people are unemployed globally and within the UK over a million 16 to 24 year-olds are looking for work.

Equipment: Necessary items: the tools, gadgets, or other items needed for a particular activity or purpose. Personal resources for success: the intellectual and emotional resources that enable somebody to succeed at a task or role in life. This later meaning will be in accord with this topic and the purpose of this seminar.

In summary, to be equipped for gainful employment means to have a stable and futuristic job that has a consistent or regular income/pay that can sustain living, and solve communal and others problems as a result of personal resources one has infused as knowledge during the higher education time, seminars, workshops or experiential opportunity within the school or others citadel of learning.


INITIAL DIAGNOSIS

To be equipped for gainful employment, there is need to know what you are in order to know what is needed or what to be removed. I coined this c test to x-ray your nature, uniqueness and other opportunities for gainful employment. It is called “Allen Avail-Proficiency Test” (AAPT) is a kind of test that analyzes your strength for better opportunities in life, even as a Christian. The word ‘Avail’ means benefit, aim, profit and usage – which stands for your value, while ‘Proficiency’ means skill, talent, know-how, expertise and ability – which also stands for inborn and acquired skill for better opportunity in life. It means the value of your inborn and acquired skill has for your life.
Allen Avail-Proficiency Test (AAPT)

It has four ways into the evaluation, namely; nature, mental, resources and Divinity. Before, you will know how and why you need to be equipped for more; you need self-evaluation on what God gave you and what you have acquired before now.

1.       Naturally, everyone has inborn traits (talent and habit), physique, personal uniqueness and temperament. These are things you discover as you grow and you have not thought of improving or adjusting to fit in for gainful employment.

Avail-Proficiency Test Questions:

·         What can you do best without any motivation or coercion?

·         What do you like to do above other things?

·         What can satisfy your interest even without any monetary gain?

·         What do you do that attract other people to you for monetary or admiration purpose?

·         Do you like or love yourself?

·         Are you pleased or got infuriated whenever people talk about your excesses and shortcomings?

·         Do you think before you talk or talk before you think?

·         Do you love to relate with people at first sight?

·         How social are you to friends and strangers?

·         Do you love to calculate all things for accuracy?

·         Do you prefer to stay alone and do things with others?

·         Do you lose heart when you are intimidated or accused?

·         Are you keen about new things?

·         Do you like your height, weight, facial look, body shape, or you dislike yourself at the front of mirror or when someone calls your attention to it?

·         Do you have some habits that negate your will?

·         Do you bother about creatures and their survival?

·         Do you feel emotional pain when someone feels hurt?

·         Do you ask questions to establish facts or just to keep quiet to keep company busy?

·         Do you love creativity on everything you see or imagine?

·         Are you lousy or reserved?

·         Do you always find a way to express yourself when others do not?

·         Do you know what you can do best?

·         Have you scrutinized yourself (personality) with the future?

·         Do you see where your strength can fit-in into any career, job or entrepreneurial opportunity?

·         How will you adjust, improve or deliberately nurture some features in you that can sustain your future?

Note: What you do naturally can earn you best output because you will not struggle. Gainful employment needs your best input to grow, sustain and develop. Your cool temperament, social look, unique appearance and deliberate commitment from within (without supervision or coercion) will earn you a space among your equal. Angry or intolerant person will not be employed for long and cannot hold a business for long. Then such person is not fit for gainful employment.


2.       Mentally, everyone has level of intelligence, creativity, mindset, planning skill and decision making (choice). These are what you have but will never surface until you deliberately search and put them to work. They will not come up until you discover there is need to use them. They deal with your reasoning. It is like Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test.

Avail-Proficiency Test Questions:

·         Do you know your worth, mentally?

·         Are you satisfied with your level of intelligence or there is need to improve on it?

·         Are you creative in nature?

·         How observant or interrogative are you?

·         What have you created or what can you create?

·         What takes over your mind always?

·         Are you always disturbed when problem persists without solution?

·         Can your mind think deep to solution?

·         Have you ever produced solution to problems and it works well?

·         How do feel when what you say or do solve problems?

·         Are you motivated or coerced to do things?

·         What can motivate you to produce things that are needed around you?

·         Are you calculative in business?

·         Can you plan feasibility studies for a business?

·         Have you ever started a project, business or a concept and ended well with applause, monetary gain or satisfaction from yourself?

·         Have you failed before?

·         Have you taken risk before?

·         How risks reliable are you?

·         Do you think well before taking a decision or you think after decision?

·         What are your responses to output of your decision?

·         Are you a genius or multi-talented?

·         Do you plan to commercialize your gift, creativity and innovation for human consumption?

Note: Your creativity will make way for you, when you work with someone or self-employed. It is like brand or concept that will distinguish you from others. Ideas rule the world today. Solution of our nation, communities, families and individuals resides in us, I mean in our mind. If you know yourself and can develop good thinking tank, you will become hotcake in your working place or in your personal business.


3.       Resourcefully, everyone has opportunity of having education (formal or informal), books reading, exposure, personal discovery, technological knowledge acquired and experiential information. These are acquired skill from someone to grow what we are and we can be.

Avail-Proficiency Test Questions:

·         Are you educated? By this definition, an educated person is a someone who knows something about everything and everything about something.

·         Are you technologically educated?

·         Are you commonsensical (logic) in nature?

·         How vast are you in field of learning?

·         How much do you know about getting gainful employment?

·         Do you have current and up-to-date knowledge of your environments and its opportunities?

·         Are you educated by certificate or by skill and integrity?

·         Do you read books often or seldom?

·         How many books have you read that had contributed positively to your life?

·         Do you read newspapers and other books that may indirectly be relevant to your field?

·         Do you read to acquire or read for fun?

·         Do you read “Do-It-Yourself” books to practice some skills on your own without tutor?

·         How much of yourself can you say?

·         Are you still the same with what you were five (5) years ago? If yes, you are obsolete already.

·         Do you really know your strengths and weaknesses?

·         What device or technological gadgets can you operate easily without a tutor?

·         Have you ever thought of converting your acquired knowledge on technological gadgets to economic value and solution mechanism?

·         Are you teachable or too blunt to learn from others?

·         Do you find it easy to ask for help when you need it?

·         Do you share what you know with others?

·         Do you store/acquire skills you have opportunity to learn for future purposes?

·         Do you find it easy to attend seminars, workshop or training for the purpose of acquiring more skills?

·         Do you pen down your discoveries for further research?

·         Do you think commercialized innovation when you read, study, interact, create, brainstorm or attend seminars?

Note: All these resources are not yours when you were born. You deliberately go for them to fulfill purpose. Acquired skill makes your certificate authentic. Your acquired skill will solve what your portfolio cannot do. It will grant you more income and reputation. Don’t wait for the time opportunity will come, prepare and plan ahead for opportunity as you acquire needed and extra skills.


4.       Spiritually, everyone has given his/her life to God through Christ should have access to God, revealed things, wisdom, direction, intuition and caution. These are what we do not have and what we cannot acquire from anyone, except God.

Avail-Proficiency Test Questions:

·         Do you know your worth as child of God?

·         Do you have access to the revealed things (Deut. 29:29; Dan. 11:32b; Isa. 45:3)?

·         Do you experience inspiration to do something unusual?

·         Do you speak words of wisdom that solve situation?

·         Do you have boldness to start a thing with God’s courage?

·         Do you have direction whenever you call on God for it?

·         Can you boldly say God answers your prayers with real testimony?

·         Are you gifted – writing, singing, acting, counseling, visiting, helping, etc.?

·         Do you have visions, fulfilling dreams or revelation in His word?

·         Does God control your excesses with inner caution?

Note: If a man has natural endowment, rational approach to things, even possesses knowledge acquired through diverse trainings and does not have what God gives, the man is not fit for gainful employment. In anything, we start with God and must also end with God. Competence without godly character forms corruption. What the brain of genius cannot discover, it is easily given to the children of God as reveled things.

If you can answer these questions sincerely, you will discover what you have as dynamic, resourceful and graceful child of God with future. Self-evaluation is the first sincere approach to gainful employment.
WHAT CAN STILL EQUIP YOU FOR GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT? OTHER FACTORS

1.       Knowledge/Information

2.       Creativity

3.       Research for new ideas

4.       Character


Knowledge/Information

Final product of Knowledge is information and more information makes up knowledge again. Information is formed by the numbers of data you get from reliable sources, classrooms, online, books, outdoor events, tutors, experiences, seminars, etc. Knowledge can save forty (40) years of your life from stress and struggle with four (4) hours of privilege information. No one is born with knowledge. We live to learn and store up. You can have right information that translates into knowledge through constant and consistent LEARNING. There are seven (7) ways of learning. You can learn through observation, interrogation, research, apprenticeship, participation, meditation, and reading.

·         OBSERVATION

When you keenly and purposefully watch a thing without questioning or participating; therefore, observation has occurred. Observation injects interest into the mind to take more steps into the reason for what is observed. Learning through observation can be used in the classroom during practical session, lecture, exposure, studying a business idea or when an incident occurs with amazement to everyone. You will not just watch to please your eyes alone but to feed your mind with possibility of stopping such occurrence in the nearest future with possible solution that may earn living also for you.

·         INTERROGATION/QUESTIONING

When you are inquisitive about something in form of questioning, then interrogation is in process. Anyone who wants knowledge will not watch alone. If he/she has opportunity to ask question, he/she will go ahead before others. It is a pity today in our schools that only few students ask questions during learning time. I discovered that a student who asks questions is always ahead of others. Questioning is a skill of the mind. You have seen a picture which is not really clear and to get it right, you ask questions that will cause the teacher to speak more on the subjects. We should not always accept all things; hook and sinker. Questioning can be in form of probing, querying, examining and inquiries on why, how, what and when of a subject matter. There is no harm in questioning. However, you must be constructive and intelligent in your approach as you question anyone, for respect is reciprocal.

·         RESEARCH

This is a bit close to interrogation but farther in term, time and results. Research for more information may last many years, just to formulate data to solve problems. The researcher will go extra mile to expose what, where, why and how of a thing. The picture you see will prompt you to go on. Research has challenges that can halt the process, but a mind that wants to solve problems will not stop. Solution to our problems is not far from us. Only a person with entrepreneurial look can see it. When last do you think about what you use daily and how you can reduce the cost through your invention? Africa is a dumping ground for other continental products. We buy, use and trash after use. We cannot even manage our waste. Other advanced countries do research, discover, produce, sell, use and recycle their trash for another products. I wish my audience will have mind for invention through research work. You can start with what is available around you. Learning through trial by error ends with great invention. Just believe in yourself that you can do it.

·         APPRENTICESHIP

It is the act of bending or bowing low to learn under a person for a duration agreed by the parties. In a unique situation, there is always intelligent variance; all fingers are not equal. If you don’t mind, you can derive your intelligence from others who know the subjects better. Anyone who wants to learn will see others as blessing in disguise. You can be an apprentice at home, in the school under a teacher, or in an innovation school under an instructor.  Africa peculiarity and beauty is looking up to students with extra skills above academic gymnastics; who is entrepreneurial in nature. What you don’t know, you don’t know. And what you bend to know will become part of you; it is a matter of your mind.

·         PARTICIPATION

When there is collective effort in discovering data with the expert. The novice will be allowed to do the miniature work while watching the professional doing the core ones. Participation breeds collective results. When you want to do it alone, you may not get it all. Those people who invented some gadgets did not monopolize knowledge, they shared responsibility in teamwork. An example is Wright Brothers who invented Airplane together through participation.

·         MEDITATION

The act of ruminating on what has been observed, questioned, researched, participated and read in calm and solitude mood. What you feed your mind is what it shall meditate over. The principle of regurgitation in ruminant animals can help in learning through meditation. Whenever a sheep finds a pasture, she will be happy to eat as much as she can. She will swallow grasses with little chewing. After a moment of ups and downs, she will find a conducive environment to regurgitate. She will bring back the food, bit by bit, into her mouth for rigorous chewing and digestion. There is need to observe quietness for thinking over the data. I learnt that most inventors/entrepreneur spent hours in their study rooms to look over, study, think, and mediate on possibilities and later try the outcomes. You need a study room where you analyze your thought over the day. Your study room may be an open air space with quietness, in a park, a garden, library, or waiting room. Meditation goes with act of jotting/writing. When you mediate, you must pen down your thought in black and white for our memory is not a computer that keeps many files. The more you read, think, and think over your write up, the greater it becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them.

·         READING

This is an act of gleaning data and information from written books. When you sit back to read from books, you sit to learn from those who are dead or alive, far or near, in a solitude and readiness to change, you learn more. Learning by reading should be at least one hour every day. Reading is easy and simple if you possess mind for learning. Reading a book brings the author closer to you. You are in the mind of the author when he/she wrote the book. Reading transfers mind-to-mind knowledge.
Creativity

“What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it. What another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself thus make yourself indispensable.” Gide

Creativity is the first power God put in the mind of man. Yet many people wonder if they have any creative abilities at all. Have you one time looked around you and appreciate the good state of art man’s creativity has done? And this is just the beginning. Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence. The more complex the world becomes, the more creative we need to be to meet its challenges.  As we grow, knowledge grows even faster than age. It will come to a time when African graduates will not get white collar job until he/she is able to design and develop creative and feasible ideas that will boost CV? Your certificate may not grade your true creative power until you do something.

You are creative. Only try to discover yourself. How? Accept yourself as God calls you —“You are wonderfully and fearfully made.” Believe that all things are possible. Discover the problem. Do not be intimidated by the weight of the problem. Analyze your views. Research for likely problems with their solutions. Gather your thought together. Have time to think over each idea. Always test-run your ideas. Keep learning —you need to build on some people’s foundation. At the end, something new will show forth. Create conducive environment for yourself; for creativity and innovation are enabled by environments that engage with diversity, celebrate complexity, and value collaboration. Know that creativity is individual, collective, developing, and interpersonal; it stems from internal and external sources of inspiration and is motivated as you read and learn.

“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” –Alan Alda

 “Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” –Mary Lou Cook

In Nigeria, we have dynamic inventors, such as: Emmanuel Okekunle, a 22-year-old senior secondary school graduate and an aspiring inventor who says Nigerian youths could do more if the Government provided adequate support. He graduated from Cherubim and Seraphim College, Jos, Plateau State, in 2010. At the age of 5, he became interested in designing and constructing things and he constructed a wheelbarrow to help him carry up to five litres of water. At 7, he started developing electric toy cars using motors, batteries and tomato tins. In JSS1, he designed a toy helicopter. In SS2, he was encouraged by a teacher who told his students their inventions could secure them a scholarship, he constructed a rechargeable lamp, fan, emergency alarm, electric waste bin that converts waste to ashes, and an aquarium, among other things; Jelani Aliyu is the creative mind behind the Chevrolet Volt car. Aliyu comes from Sokoto State of Northern Nigeria working as the Senior Creative Designer of the US General Motors. He is the man who designed the Chevrolet Volt which has become one of the most admired American cars globally; Nigeria’s Saheed Adepoju is a young man with big dreams. He is the inventor of the Inye, a tablet computer designed for the African market; Seyi Oyesola is credited with the co-invention of CompactOR or the “Hospital in a Box”, a solar-powered life-saving operating room which can be transported to remote areas of Africa and set up within minutes; Dr. Otu Oviemo Ovadje is a Nigerian medical Doctor who is credited with the invention of the Emergency Auto Transfusion System (EAT-SET), which is an effective, low-cost and affordable blood auto-transfusion mechanism that saves patients in developing countries. He has patented the invention in nine (9) countries. The EAT-SET system recovers blood from the patient’s internal bleeding organs. This device has the ability of using the patient’s own blood and in a safe manner re-infuses it into the patient’s blood system. And who is the next inventor? It should be you.  Your mind can also conceive these great discoveries and inventions. It starts from the mind to the field of action with knowledge derived from your reading and learning.
Research for New Ideas

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.” –Edward de Bono

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.” –Edward de Bono

“The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.” –Carl Ally

When last have you deliberately visit a place or person to know more about something you did not know? The more you desire to know the more your energy to seek for knowledge. Reading builds up a demand to research what someone first did. In research, you can get anything out of its shell. However, not all research works are without failure. Michael Faraday failed many times before, he got it right. Failure is a true test of your endurance in research. When you fail, you know another way that does not work. You will not follow such path again because you failed there. A failure is not an end but a means to successful end. When you fail, do you discover why you fail? If you do, you have done a research.

Power of research has ability to draw needed materials for the task. When you need food to eat, your mind thinks fast on how to get to market, buy raw food, fill gasoline, ignite stove, provide water, pot, matches, plates and spoon. All these will locate themselves to you because you need them. I know you also will engage your sense to get them fast. So also the attempt to solve human problem and earn living. A process of research needs time, concentration and available resources (men, money, method, medium and materials). Research gives us opportunity to resurrect what others bury unused. You can see and search for what other generations have not been able to discover through research. Reading is just a secret exposer. Every author writes to keep the secret in a book, but student with mind for learning and research will expose the secret.

I heard about a man (through oral tradition) that read his Bible for the purpose of research. He got to the story of Moses in the Bible when the mother made a small boat for him with papyrus leaves. This creativity touched him. He started research on the leaf of papyrus and later discovered that wherever this plant grows there is possibility of crude oil dam underneath. He was mad at the research and ran to the government for further research and exploration. They signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with agreement of certain percentage if the research is feasible economically for the nation. The team of engineers explored the land and saw untouched dam of crude oil. This research made this man a wealthy person for life.

Another story comes from a retired world renowned Neurosurgeon, Doctor Benjamin Carson. He was raised by a single mother. One day, his mother, Mrs. Carson saw Benjamin’s failing grades; she determined to turn her sons’ lives around. She sharply limited the boys’ television watching and refused to let them outside to play until they had finished their homework each day. She required them to read two library books a week and to give her written reports on their reading even though, with her own poor education, she could barely read what they had written. Within a few weeks, Carson astonished his classmates by identifying rock samples his teacher had brought to class (that is the effect of further reading called research). He recognized them from one of the books he had read. ”It was at that moment that I realized I wasn’t stupid,” he recalled later. Carson continued to amaze his classmates with his newfound knowledge and within a year he was at the top of his class.

Research grows with age. In AD 105, Paper was first made in China. According to tradition, Ts’ai Lun, a eunuch attached to the court of the Chinese emperor Ho Ti, makes the first paper. He probably used mulberry bark, making the paper on a mold of bamboo strips. This is great. Can you see what paper has done for the world today? The paper when it was first discovered would not be too good, neat, simple and light as we have it today. It is still the power of research in some students’ mind that simplifies its state for convenience. Research is continuous. As you discover a solution, the solution itself will give birth to another problem. The antidote of this problem is continuous research. Research breeds idea and idea must translate to commercialized innovation that will solve problems and earn you income for livelihood.
Character

Character is like a cord that ties all equipping factors together for sustaining job and regular pay. The initial ways to get equipped makes you competent. Competence is earned by unreserved devotion to learning, studying and constant doing of a particular skill or more. Competence builds reputation among the professionals in a field. However, competence without character is like a man sailing the seam without compass; he will lose direction and misbehave.

To be gainfully employed or self-employed, you must:

1.       Be honest with yourself and your work

2.       Obey order, rules and instructions

3.       Be transparent and devoted to the objective of the work

4.       Be ready to stand against ungodliness, corruption and laziness

5.       Build reputation and integrity from the first day

6.       Be faithful on money-matter, duties and relationship

7.       Be social and tolerant
ABOUT TO LAUNCH OUT

1.       Which kind of employment to start with?

·         Working for somebody – in an organization as employee (You have no control of the business).

·         Money working for you – in an investment – shares, treasury bills, bonds, etc. (You have no control of the business).

·         People working for you – as an employer of labour – having a shop, office, etc. where you have workers (You have control of the business).

·         Trading for money – when you are exchanging goods or service for money – it involves you directly (You have control of the business).


2.       What are the entrepreneurship opportunities you can start with?

·         ICT Opportunities – Website designing, Apps development, Bulk SMS sales, Portal management, data management, sales and repairs of phones, laptops and desktop, selling and installation of Apps and software, etc.

·         Livestock Farming – rearing of quail, snail, rabbit, chicken, pig, tilapia, etc.

·         Service Business – Barbing, family saloon, printing to recharge card, setting up a security company, pasting of posters, photography, plaiting, sewing of specialized uniforms, real estate management, tutorial class, online school registrations, recruitment agency, daycare center, training on making simple household needs, project management center, waste management, food vendor service, alternative power installation (solar and inverter), dish/decoder installation, cleaning and laundry business, professional car washing, part-time services, video recording and editing of events, etc.

·         Online Business – Information marketing, blogging, domain reselling, online publishing of books for clients (lulu.com), e-book production and marketing, online buying and reselling, sales rep. for online shops, adverts placement on websites, sales of photography online, etc.

·         Printing Business – printing contract, writing and publishing of books for yourself and clients, ISBN business, designing of book cover, collating, binding, etc.

·         Trading: Buying and selling of fruits, importation of technological devices (China), Tokunbo trade (housewares), etc.

·         Writing Business: Writing short literatures for schools, writing for online companies, writing for magazine and newspapers, writing stories for filmmakers, writing lyrics for singers, drawing of cartoon for magazines (Disney), etc.


3.       Which kind of training do you need? All these entrepreneurship opportunities require training, either directly through apprenticeship, internship or vocational/innovation school, while indirectly through reading, watching online video (youtube.com), documentaries, seminar samples or oral tutorial. Some need to be certified professionally. It may take you months to get it right. Do not quit half way. Avoid ‘too much’ syndrome and practice what you learn per day. It will cost you. Knowledge is not free. If it’s free you will not value or appreciate it.


4.       How can you raise fund?

·         You need to know your choice of entrepreneur opportunity.

·         You need to know your financial status.

·         Start saving token from what you earn or what you receive as gift from parent, friends, etc.

·         Know what you have and what remains.

·         You can share your business plan with family and relatives first, then to friends, and church with entrepreneurship opportunities. If nothing comes out, then you can visit a microfinance bank for soft loan.

·         Save from your profits.

·         Do not spend or use your capital for anything outside the business.

·         You may have access to credit facilities from your supplier.

·         There are some entrepreneurship opportunities that do not need start-up capital. Study them for action.

·         If you are working for salary, you can still service the entrepreneurship opportunities from your earnings directly.

5.       Other things to note

·         Study your environment to know what is lacking, do not duplicate unnecessarily. If you want to do the same, apply creativity to yours and rebrand for better look.

·         Keep record of your small scale business

·         Do not quit where you earn as employee until your business grows to the point that you are needed directly.

·         Do not start with credit service for people. Avoid relational influence on your small scale business for it can kill it fast.
CONCLUSION

As your business grows, set a target every month or yearly to evaluate your progress and to tell you when to quit working for someone to become self-employed fully. As a student, you can have regular income even as you school. Nigeria and Africa are not waiting for graduates with certificate looking for white and blue collar job but graduates with commercialized innovation that will add to the GDP of the nation with made in Nigeria products and services and that will reduce the problem of unemployment because he/she has created job already. Nigeria is full of nepotism. If you do not start now, the queue to the top vacant offices are filled up already with sons and daughters of politicians. “Suffering and smiling” syndrome will continue until and unless you, my listeners, take this challenge to face your studies (learn more), discover and develop ideas (commercialized innovation) that will end this dehumanization called casual labour. Nigerians count on you. Get equipped as you acquire knowledge for creativity that is sandwiched for research of new ideas with character in order to produce entrepreneurship opportunities that will solve our problems and put food on your table, shelter for your body, smile on your face, and communal bliss within your family and next generation. This is gainful employment I know we need for this season in Nigeria and beyond.

Reference

Allen Olatunde, The Mind of Student, Unpublished book, 2016.

Allen Olatunde, Career Choice Made Easy. Abeokuta, Africa! GLOW Missions Connect, 2015.

http://www.businessdictionary.com

http://www.openideo.com

http://www.mytopbusinessideas.com




Written and Presented By


Allen Olatunde


Coordinator, Africa! GLOW Missions Connect (www.africaglow.org)