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Career: Sending CV's

I apologise for the long silence since my last post seeing that I promised to put up the next post by the next day. Lets just say the "tomorrow" has finally come. I genuinely didn't mean to tarry this long, some circumstance beyond my control "happened". I promised to put up a post on the best way to send CV's. I partnered with Careers and Beyond to put this together. The 1st thing to put in mind when sending your CV to an individual is that your CV is probably not the only one the recruiter will take a look at. He/she may spend 5 minutes if you are lucky. To maximize the 5 minutes, you have to make sure your CV captivates him ("him" being generic for male or female) enough in the first 3 minutes to make him go through it. Remember he has other things that he has to do as well as other CV's to look at before settling for the "one". Don't ever send a blank email or email without content. This speaks volumes of the per...

Career: Job sites and work experience

Have you ever wondered that there are numerous job vacancies announced each day, yet so few successful stories of jobs "obtained"? Link Here's a list of a few job sites available in Nigeria. Linkedin LinkedIn Jobs ProfiCV Insidify Naija Hot jobs Jobberman NGCareers 247Naija CareerSlip Jobs Jobs In Nigeria                                                          Latest Nigerian Job Vacancy                                                           The list is unending. I keep getting emails at least 3 from each one. I don't even remember subscribing to most of these now. But I remember when I used to go to the cyber Cafe every evening to "browse"- check my emails (hopef...