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@Lawal_oluwadami Thank you sir 🙏🏽

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@akincedotcom You’re welcomeeeee

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8. Don’t underestimate volunteering and short-term projects. If your PPA doesn’t offer relevant professional exposure, find legitimate organisations where you can contribute to defined projects. You can gain experience through volunteering, professional associations, NGOs, startups and community initiatives. There are also platforms that help you build experience, you can utilize this.

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6. Improve your professional communication. Learn how to write professional emails, introduce yourself to hiring managers, request informational interviews, follow up after interviews and communicate workplace updates. Your ability to communicate professionally is part of your employability. Also, learn how to use basic workplace tools such as Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Google Workspace and relevant collaboration platforms. Lastly, please learn how to leverage AI 7. Start documenting your achievements at your PPA. Don’t wait until you’re preparing your CV to remember what you did during your service year, keep a monthly record of your responsibilities, projects, contributions and results. These details will help you write stronger CV experience descriptions.

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5. Build your professional identity early. If you want to become an HR professional, start learning HR fundamentals. If you want to work in finance, understand financial principles. If you want to enter technology, build practical projects. Follow developments in your industry, participate in relevant conversations, learn the language and expectations of the profession. Don’t wait until someone employs you before taking your chosen career seriously.

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3. Don’t let your PPA limit your career options. Your Place of Primary Assignment is not necessarily where your career journey must begin or end, if you’re posted to a school but interested in Human Resources, for example, you can volunteer with an organisation to gain exposure to recruitment, onboarding, employee documentation and HR administration. The same applies to other professions, you have to find ways to gain relevant experience outside your immediate work environment. Your posting shouldn’t determine the limits of your professional development. 4. Understand how recruitment works. Learn how to tailor your CV to a job description, write professional application emails, prepare for interviews and communicate your experience. Practise answering questions such as: • Tell me about yourself. • What responsibilities did you handle during NYSC? • What did you learn from your PPA? • Tell me about a challenging assignment you completed. • Why should we hire you? What value would you bring to this organisation? Prepare actual examples from your PPA, CDS, volunteering and personal projects. Don’t wait until you receive an interview invitation before learning how to present yourself.

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2. Research the job market before deciding which skill to learn. Don’t enrol in a course simply because someone said a particular skill is lucrative, or because everyone is doing it (people tend to do this), identify three job titles you’re interested in. Find at least 20 job descriptions across those roles and study what employers repeatedly request. Then pay attention to: Technical skills, software, tools, professional certifications, qualifications. After doing that, identify your gaps and draft a learning plan around actual employer requirements.

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Let me weigh in on this, if you’re currently serving and you want to get ahead in the job market, here are 7 things I’ll strongly advise you to do: 1. Don’t wait until POP before applying for jobs. Start exploring opportunities while you’re still serving, look beyond graduate trainee positions, that’s not the only way. If you want to apply for graduate trainees, you still can but also consider internships, entry-level roles, contract opportunities, fellowships. Make sure you pay attention to application deadlines and eligibility requirements. You don’t want to discover a graduate recruitment programme after applications have closed simply because you assumed you needed to complete NYSC first.

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Thank you so much @Halosznn_ for sharing this. This post is well explained, useful and very informative. I really learnt alot from it. Thank you

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Let me weigh in on this, if you’re currently serving and you want to get ahead in the job market, here are 7 things I’ll strongly advise you to do: 1. Don’t wait until POP before applying for jobs. Start exploring opportunities while you’re still serving, look beyond graduate trainee positions, that’s not the only way. If you want to apply for graduate trainees, you still can but also consider internships, entry-level roles, contract opportunities, fellowships. Make sure you pay attention to application deadlines and eligibility requirements. You don’t want to discover a graduate recruitment programme after applications have closed simply because you assumed you needed to complete NYSC first.

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@justice_note @Halosznn_ What if you work as a portal administrator (Frontline between students and Portal complains) 😂😭

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@Halosznn_ i'd add one: use the PPA as a portfolio. most corpers sit there doing nothing. offer to fix one real thing. their records, a spreadsheet, a simple website, their socials. now you walk into interviews with work you did, not just a certificate.

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@Emmyfreshy1 @Halosznn_ Hi sir, good evening. I'm not in Abuja, I'm in Lagos sir but is there anyway I can join your team as a data analyst intern (remote). I'm a self-taught Data Analyst with few projects completed sir. Willing to learn and grow sir

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