"Be prepared for greatness
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have one and not be prepared for it. - Richard O.A
Are you fit for purpose? - Yomi Olugbenro
Yomi Olugbenro (Partner, West AfricaTax Leader at Deloitte) For young professionals and job seekers: Are you fit for purpose? Would you hire you? I’ve been reflecting over my recent experiences while interacting with fresh graduates and how inadequately prepared they are for the corporate world. There’s crisis brewing as we unleash more into the labour market without the needed capacity and mentality. We seems to talk quite often about unemployment issues in the country, but the challenge of “unemployability” is far bigger. Many job seekers approach interviews for which they are blatantly incompetent with entitlement mentality. The words of Dr Salami at the recent Deloitte in Dialogue on Nigeria Economic Outlook 2018 (#DeloitteNEO18) on our labour force’s “fitness for purpose” brought back the memory few days back. We claimed to have large and cheap labour force but we do not fully appreciate the competence gap. We could blame it on the education policy and/or the scho...
Richy! I'll sure meet you someday. Your posts are always inspiring. Thanks for always sharing
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Hi Richard! Pls add me to you Google+. I have been a distance fan since March. Always on the lookout for your posts.
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