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The bottom line is, why are you still unemployed in spite of your serious efforts and strong desire to get the job of your choice? Many expect a simple, shortand precise answer. Unfortunately there is nothing like that. The reason for this is that the employment process is complex, and usually in stages. The other reason is that the recruitment process is imprecise, varying from company to company, and from one individual responsible for recruitment to another. For you, itmay just be that you are not getting one particular stage or skill right; for others, it may be two or three or more!So what can be wrong? Below is a summary of the main issues. You will find the detailed presentation at

1. Poor understanding of self.

? most of us do not know ourselves enough to make informed decision about ourjob/career direction.? What skills do we have to provide a possible clue on career direction? job and career goal depends on the skills you have? Skills are the foundation of job search. Employers want to know what it is you can do for them.? Now do you have personal goals in life? Without a vision, most young peopletoday are just drifting in the sea of life.

2. poor understanding of the employers hiring process and attitude

? In most situations, employment/hiring have been turned to a two- lane expressway where there is little or no contact (hence no information) between on-coming and on-going vehicles? . For example, when you desire to work for any organization what do you do? You approach the personnel department for information and possible assistance.? Right? Wrong. The major role of personnel department in the recruitment process is to screen you out!3. Poor management of change arising from joblessness.

? Whether you are unemployed, under employed, employed by looking for a betterjob, or entering the work for the very first time, or entering after a long absence, you are facing change situation.

? And change affects our emotions relief, anticipation, or renewal, or you mayfell anger, sadness, fear, depression or confusion. These feelings are natural.The key to successful management of change (and attendant transition) is attitude.? How much of you time, energy and money are you willing invest in yourself, or better still in your future? Do you realize that looking for a job is indeeda full time job if you are unemployed? Are you ready to work at it?

4. Ineffective job hunt strategy.

? If you are not going to anywhere in particular, any road will lead you there.? Where, in terms of which sector or industry or company or geographic locale

would you like to work?? If we assume that you have your job target, the question then, how to do youreach this objective? How do you get a shot at your dream job without which youstand no chance of getting it at all?? Job seekers who want to succeed will have to do the knocking, the digging, the searching.

5. Ineffective Resume / CV

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? The basics of a resume/CV are that it should be letter perfect, neat, easy to read and organized. Easy part.? The hard part is putting that resume to work, making it do as mush as a resume can do i.e. making it a successful sales brochure. But no matter how well organized, how neat, how smoothly written your resume is, if it does not have any sell in it, it is not doing its job.? Do you use your resume/CV effectively?

6. Inadequate skills for passing job aptitude tests.

? It is to test the abilities of the applicants in the basic skills required to do the job effectively comprehension, verbal and quantitative skills, quantitative ability, logical reasoning, speed and accuracy, specific job skills, etc.? At any rate, it is a barrier you must adequately prepare to cross. So exceptyou master these tests and perform well in them, your dream of getting a top flight job might suffer sudden death

7. Ineffective Application Letter

? The application letter (also referred to as cover letter ) is suppose to customize your Resume/CV for particular job.? It should state how your experience and qualification meet the requirementsof the job

8. Inadequate preparation for job interview

? For any interview, thorough preparation is the cornerstone for making positive impressions at job interviews..? For a start, you need to be unformed about the company/industry: key players, levels of remuneration, technology, success factors, etc.? And the small davids that can lead to the fall of Goliath: do you know the venue of the interview not to get lost, and get to the place late? Are you properly dressed?

9 . Poor conduct and presentation.

? Qualifications are important but the whole person is more important? How much does that person come across? How enthusiastic/positive is this individual?? It is not only about what you will say, but also about how you say it-non verbal expressions? Findings indicated that within the first few minutes of any personal meetingwith somebody who has the power to hire you or screen you out, the decision haspretty much been made? And now to your personality traits. For example, are you stable, honest,ambitious, courteous, etc? Employer has their way of discovering people with extremebehavior of any type.

10 . Poor interview skills

There are basically five questions you get at job interviews: Why are you here? (Why do you want to work for us?) What can you do for us? What kind of a person are you? What distinguish you from the other if people who have the same ability as youhave? And finally Can we afford you?So if a job seeker does not have answers to these questions before any interview, then he/she hasnt started to look for work. Same for some specific/uncomfortabl

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e questions.

LATERNA VENTURES RECRUITING on: Today at 03:38:37 PM

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Candidates must be graduates in the social sciences(bus.adm,mass coom and english etc)

1 yr of post qualification exp.

22-30 yrs.send cv to:

LATERNA VENTURES LIMITED13 OKO AWO STREET,OFF ADETOKUNBOH ADEMOLA STREETLAGOS

before 25th march.

friends never under estimate the fact that what you least expect can put you offin an interview. in my own case they asked so much about about the bank products and the team of her management. come to think of we are not experienced staffso do they expect us to know so much about their products. well i read a book shortly b4 the interview that told me to watch for bank interview questions from the area of products for fresh graduates as a wayu of reducing the no. of successful candidates. pls help yourself by not underestimating any thing once the issue of test and interview is concernced.maxzy