This article will dendriticaly explain how someone can add value to himself, how to become the best in your field of study and get the job of your dream.
It not new that securing job nowadays is very difficult for fresh graduates and that only those flexible enough with content rich brain can secure for themselves good job even after 4/5 years of study. Is not by grade or certificate now, the new currency exchange in labor market for job is value the son of knowledge. Thanks to God almighty, the giver of all wisdom, wisdom is the principal thing, in all your gettings get wisdom and knowledge.
Actually, most Mining Engineers are paid base on productiveness, efficiency and knowledge inbuilt. This fact can't be compromised, how good is it if you can be sincere with yourself as a student reading this article or as a graduate reading this article, ARE YOU EMPLOYABLE? CAN YOU ACTUALLY DELIVER BY DEFENDING THE CERTIFICATE YOU CARRY??
Job interview is a package put in place by Company MD, HRM, CEO, COO to weigh each applicants.
All applicants on a normal level have Certificate which makes them qualify as an applicant.
But all applicants are not of the same capacity when been examined.
Why?
The answer is that,
The content in you will determine what you weigh on the interview weighing balance.
The truth is that you can not weigh more than what you carry, you can not have more than what you search and you can't search more than what you know about something.
How will you know???
Knowledge is power because it is informative!
"You know by reading or by listening"
Delineate your chance of getting job by getting value, search for value and add as much as you can to yourself. How can I get, add and build value to myself?????
This is the greatest question, I will have like to get answer to when I was in Senior secondary school,
If I had such opportunity to get answer to this question before my admission into polytechnic then it would have been of great advantage.
Because, until you know how to add value to your certificate (first class, second class, third class, or pass) you will remain useless even when school certificate certified you to be competent, whereas drop out are making cool money from your field of study.
Value makes first class student worthless and useless in a company whereas *pass* is taking led of high position. Value makes an agricultural Engineer held a mine company where the so called Mining engineer is a haulage manager.
Value makes civil engineer the MD of a quarry where a valueless mining Engineer take charge of audit unit.
How can I get value, how can I build value and how can I sustain value?????
.....Value Is the present worth of a thing, lets ask ourselves what is our present worth...
The first thing to do is to identify the real aspect of your field you will like to practice after graduation.
For example,
Mining engineering is aution into two:
1.Surface mining
2.Underground mining
For surface Mining there are different duties and job description
1. Solid mineral sector
2. Oil and gas sector
I like teaching this because, this is the foundation to getting knowledge.
The settling velocity of knowledge is a function of passion.
But higher institutions course prospectus will not limit you to your passion but will only point you to your passion without stopping at the nude where you can just go for it. The unfortunate thing is that, we can't change this.
But we can fold the influence such that the limbs dip towards our passion.
Let navigate into the selection of path now. Mining as a field of study is broad, You can't do everything and practice all.
In versity, you will only be Introduced to all, while you practice one.
It becomes difficult to perform well sometimes for some people because, as a student for example I may have passion for oil and gas and now I find myself in FUTA, department of Mining Engineering.
To me, I love oil and gas!!!!
But for FUTA you must go through all courses which is up to 80+ even if you will only do two major course (MNE403: introduction to petroleum and MNE 505: Petroleum reservoir Engineering) which are the only aspect you like to feed on.
The best thing to do is this:
At start,
1. Get your core aspect well.
What I mean is this, try understand which company you will like to work after school and what you will like to do in the company.
This is it:
If I am a mining Engineer, I have passion for solid mineral sector, I like to work with Dangote, I love quarry work, I have passion for dilling and blasting.
Above all, I think my core area is drilling
Under drilling, you need to add value to yourself on anything relating to:
1. Type of drilling
2. Drilling equipment (for your case now surface mining equipment and those used by Dangote and related companies)
3. Drill pattern and blast design
4. Any other thin on drilling as applicable to Dangote competitors
This is not all, For you to add concentrated value and not gangues/tailings value.
Go online and download the requirements for Drilling Engineer job in Dangote related companies.
In any job description, there is always requirements Get this,
For example
Dangote or BUA requires the knowledge of one software for you to apply as a drilling Engineer.
You don't owe Dangote or BUA anything than to go online study the softy now and have the idea even if you can't get the set up due to high capital require to get it's product key.
Never sit down and feed on handout alone.
Most mining companies live on past experience and idea.
I think, it's time we change this ideology.
Nigeria mineral sector will never develop until they give room for change in old age approach.
You tell them 2020 principle, they will bring out 1950s class note whose principles, model and laws had been modified since 1980.
Start building your career now, fast forward you life now, check those things you will be lacking in the future and learn them now.
STOP WASTING TIME, STOP PROCASTINATING...
This is the conclusion of all, that tomorrow is having enough burden available for you to bear, prolonging those burden you can bear now to tomorrow is a yoke already!
There is a saying that, "The Best way to predict what the future will look like is to create one now".
Nothing is to difficult to navigate through if you have the compass, the issue is not lack of job, the issue is lack of valuable graduate who can make impact. Don't stop at your yesterday knowledge, get more and more.., don't wait till you join the labour market where thousands are searching for job, start creating one for yourself now, you will be extraordinary if you get yourself familiar with your Field odour now, if I am now a graduate, what will be the different things i can do to a company that will make them find intereste in me??
Will it be my certificate?
My dressing to the interview?
My connection ?
Many have all these but still using their first class brain to teach in secondary school, you couldn't get the job because you don't meet their standard, you will never get it because you refuse to standardise your certificate.
Is never to late to open and close your door! Taste for it and go for it now..
Above all, put GOD first, HE give information and direction to those who trust in HIM.
Thanks so much
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