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Why Many Youths are UNEMPLOYABLE

Aruosa OsemwegieNigerian Students Roundtable

29th September 2012

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New Heights

NSR, OAU

29th Sept. 2012

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Outline

• Why many are unemployable

• Why we need a reversal

• Increasing employability – Policy & Strategic Issues– Personal Influence - What you can do

• Questions & Answers

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Why many are unemployable• Government and Politics

– Government for selfish purposes

– Lack of planning– Cluelessness– Govt has become a big racket

• Quality education & enlightenment has dropped

• Curriculum– Out of sync with our world– Out of sync with the future

• Decline in Industrial capacity

• Decline in industrial Creation

• General Values depreciation– Values that support

productivity are fast disappearing

• Values-mis-focus – Focus on the intellect has

dropped– Focus on appearance, music

etc

• Values-Attitude disconnect

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Why we need a reversal?

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Why we need a reversal?• More disenfranchised youths• Increase in restiveness• Increase in lawlessness• Increase in substance abuse• Colourless living• Mortuary of Unfulfilled Lives • Premature marriage – marriage as

escape• Premature death

We need to save ourselves by ourselves!!!…that is the essence of the NSR

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Increasing Employability

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Increasing employability Policy & Strategic Issues

• Brand New Curriculum …not refurbished

• Stimulate growth in Agriculture and Power sectors

• Life and Career Counseling in Secondary Schools

• Bundling career & entrepreneurship

• Promoting & Awarding Excellence

• Strengths-based development

• Etc

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Increasing employability Personal Influence - What you can do

• Values & Principles Re-awakening– Personal responsibility

• Deliver greatness to one person

– Personal visioning

– Hardwork• Fortune Magazine – “What does it take to be great?”

– Excellence• Raising the bar on yourself

– Self-learning (Reading)

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always

pays the best interests” – Benjamin Franklin

“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to

make his life full, significant, and interesting.” - Aldous Huxley

Voracious Reading…

“You're the same today as you'll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.”

- Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

Reading

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“Some people will lie, cheat, steal and back-stab to get ahead... and to think, all they have to do is READ.” - Fortune

“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” - Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"

“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a

resource against calamity.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” - Mary Schmich

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.” - Elizabeth Hardwick

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Voracious ReadingReading

1. The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

3. Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham

4. Reallionaire by Farrah Gray

5. 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell

6. Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren

7. Success is Who You Are by Sam Adeyemi

8. Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking by Robert Schuller

9. Getting a Job is a Job by Aruosa Osemwegie

10. Nothing Succeeds like EXCESS by Aruosa Osemwegie

… a partial READING LIST

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Increasing employability Personal Influence - What you can do (2)

• Raise Readiness Index– Grow Transferable Skills• Communication & Presentation skills• English Grammar & Elocution• Leadership & followership

– Enroll in School of Opportunity Seeking & Conversion• Awaken the entrepreneur in you

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Awaken the entrepreneur in you (survey)

1. No need to separate business & career at all– Same requirements– Many unclear about which to pursue– Who would lead our govt ministries? Power vs Wealth– No need for half-minded business people (cos no jobs)– No need for half-minded career people (parents)– Entrepreneurship is a route to getting a job– Career is great grooming ground for business ownership– Wrong reasons for business ownership: Be My Own Boss;

Make More Money etc

2. Separated too early

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Awaken the entrepreneur in you (2)1. What really is entrepreneurship?

2. Create your CV everywhere

• “Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled”

– Howard H. Stevenson (Professor Harvard University).

• In my opinion, this is one of the most brilliant definitions of what an entrepreneur is”

– Robert Kiyosaki (best-selling author & personal finance coach)

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ENROLL IN THE SCHOOL OF OPPORTUNITY CONVERSION

Look for opportunities around you to add valueOpportunities to make money

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ENROLL IN THE SCHOOL OF OPPORTUNITY CONVERSION

Create Your CV Everywhere!

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Create your CV everywhere…

• Initiative• Leadership• Entrepreneurship• Adaptability• Innovation/Creativity• Persistence• Can-do• Going the extra mile• Teamwork• Learning opportunities

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Create your CV everywhere

• You can always include on your resume opportunities seized, where you:oCreated value or

oProduced results or

oGained knowledge and/or skills

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Convenience Cheaper Speed Increase Service Emotional Innovation Collaboration

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School of Opportunity Conversion ORCreate Your CV Everywhere

Where and when?• In school• On NYSC• On first job• In between jobs• On next job• Everywhere

– Formal or Informal

To Whom?• Any individual• Group, • Organisation • NYSC or fellow corpers, • School• Students/Teachers, • Vulnerable groups

– Children– Women– Orphans– Physically challenged – Etc

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You are only young once…therefore

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