 Don't fail yourself. I'm talking about entry-level jobs today So I saw this meme which had this caption make entry-level jobs entry and it had a herding Which said real estate I've seen this year and I decided to take it up. Nope. It's not the real estate I'm sorry. Life is not a tea party Waiting for when you're ready to get on the carousel and dance the carousel keeps moving and you jump on it as it moves What do you think going to school was really about? Go to school and then get to work and then prepare to start learning afresh I don't think so. My thoughts on this led to a conversation Willing with a millennial and I shared the following thoughts with her. I said no, I don't agree Not really true entry-level presumes You develop competencies while schooling and that you applied IQ plus EQ and SKU and not just academics Now what is IQ EQ and SKU your IQ refers to your intelligence quotient while your EQ your emotional quotient and your SKU Your social quotient and then she replies trust me. They are for five years of experience So I decided to add to something. What are entry-level jobs? Let's define it entry-level jobs and jobs that require minimal professional work experience add up on the door to larger work related opportunities These positions generally mean that the employer is looking for a young professional who has some prior experience Such as an internship under the belt, but not necessarily need someone who has any full-time experience So based on the above definition, let's take a further look at this And though I now laugh at some of my responses to her I said Let's look at it. You go to school for about 18 years I in college invest your secondary school You are at least expected to do something your IT your internship the competencies you developed The whole point of an education is to get skilled and learned and have the ability to create from knowledge has been transferred to you The goal with entry-level jobs may just be a test of transferable skills and an exhibition of behavioral Competencies it's a reality that our educational system probably sort of hit from us or then again Maybe we just didn't think about it That is why from high school abroad. You're literally encouraged to have a life plan You know, you shouldn't just go and write jam You prepare for college education with a goal in mind, which is not what a lot of us really do But so in my point and in my view is the end user who should I would say in Nigerian balance borrow brain If the system fails you don't fail yourself It's imperative that we understand that success follows principles and while there may be some one-hit wonders consistent success is based on consistent processes and actions as I come to the end of my advocacy for today I want to once again reiterate what education means and according to Wikipedia Education is the process of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge Skills values beliefs and habits. It's the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge developing the powers of reasoning and judgment and Generally of preparing oneself for others intellectually for mature life So my dear young person while the system may be skewered and employers may ask for you to perform a task I came to what your mother's grandmother may have done I strongly believe that on the case of entry-level job requirements Don't feel yourself I mean Anymore Don't feel yourself. Okay. So yes shout Nigeria is feeling when you feel too. Okay, your parents feel the hand will you feel too? I can't even agree more as a girl. I love it. I love it Don't feel yourself Prepare for life. We're not here to play life is serious even though we have a lot of fun times Take it seriously Onto the next we speaking I think I think it says something about The there's a certain lack of an emotional resilience That is becoming more and more commonplace not, you know, when you look at the world internationally especially Not so much Nigeria, but it's you can see it in increasing There's a there's just a certain lack of critical thinking Emotional resilience to be able to take on some of these challenges and yes a lot has to do with external factors And there are external people to blame But we need to kind of tell young people say hey at some point just as we all did right at some point You had to stop blaming your parents. You realize your parents are just human beings. They did their best They were human beings you have to take Responsibility for yourself and when we're talking about entry-level then we're looking at it in and off Yes, okay, they might not have had the professional experience So those people asking for five years a work experience for entry-level job. They've misdrewed But you do have to think about in the summertime I need to work do a summer job things like that if you see a company that you like or Even a celebrity that you like that has a business or something like that There's no harm these days you can approach everybody so easily social media and just send the DM say hey You know, I know maybe this is not the most professional capacity But I really like what you're doing in your business and I'm interested in in getting into this side In terms of my work, can I come and understudy? Can I come and do an internship the one thing I learned about going to university in America is they really you don't just go To school you go to school and you work one two jobs I want like two jobs and they they build in internships into their program So you must do an internship pretty much every one to two years, you know So every year was doing internships So even if you don't know what you want to do you will try something and then you know you don't want to do it So you're still making, you know forward strides. The reality is that a lot of our graduates We've had companies say a lot of our graduates are not employable They the reasoning skills like you talked about they don't know how to express themselves out to even interact How to say no without being ruled out saying no in an official Capacity a lot of these things are not taught So I think comes back to the home and the society we need to review how we bring it up kids We need to start introducing kids to certain things early. Not just sex education That's which you should and that's not just because that's why we're talking about I need to introduce them that yes But there are some other values that we need to bring up to speed so that the kids who grow up to be better What I will see is the emphasis should be on the emotional intelligence social intelligence and What other one thank you number of years Intelligence questions and the number of years they say for entry-level job And then people should know that the value should not be beyond doing this job to make money No, I'm doing it to build myself volunteer for something you're interested in young person Why are you in the university if you're interested? Let me give you an example for instance Let's say you're studying law in the university. I need you in your mind You know you want to be a lawyer in your heart so fast. No that you are just studying for studying sake You can actually volunteer work in the law chamber or with a lawyer of course In his research working with writing you build competence in that. Let me switch over. Let's assume you really love But you don't want to practice love you want to be a journalist you can actually see While I was in the university then I knew some student who are working with some media houses So it's a good thing just put your skill not because of money or anything they would give sometimes They might not give you money. Yeah, just emphasize building skill Yeah, that capacity building things spoke about me. Let me just reference. I don't know if I'm sure you want to wrap up But I mean there's this series called life for life. It's a law. It's a legal series fantastic The guy was in prison blah blah blah. He was in prison went to prison thoughts Won his case and came back and became a legend because he fought the system They are Tony general won the case against him now when he started practice after prison a lady came to him I think he was in a 200 level or so in the university and said she deferred a course by one year Just so that she could work with him Fresh from prison take some knowledge from him before she goes back to University such a person You cannot ask for five-year experience because already what she carries when we she presents herself You need to wait the five-year experience. So those are the things I guess Exactly They might put that five-year experience because there's so many graduates exactly All these in people who need a job That's so you won't put it entry level because they know that they can get better Yeah, but like I even saying based on that if you've got got the experience before you go to your funder level You can they start sending your CVs out before you even graduate. So instead of looking for people They've seen CVs of people that are qualified. I mean if you see a CV somewhere that has worked with you know setting professional I'm living invested and I tell you I've worked with I've been working with Padu Tommy for the past three years. Hello You take me Anyway, I could flood this on another beautiful advocacy. I think Thank you gentlemen and lady I think that we have successfully really talked about that But at the end of the day Felix is next after the break stay with us