Choosing a Career Path

The first step  is to Know Yourself. Whether you are a first-year student interested in learning how majors relate to careers, first identify your INTERESTS, VALUES, SKILLS and PERSONALITY PREFERENCES in order to make a well–informed decision.

4 Practices Certain to Make You Confident

1. Rid your life of negativity.

If you want to live a positive, joyful life, you cannot surround yourself with negative people who don’t support or encourage your happiness. There will always be consistently negative people who constantly try to bring you down. Don’t allow these people to sap your confidence. This may be easier said than done, especially if you work with naysayers. Try to distance yourself from anyone who isn’t good for you or your business. Make it a daily practice to focus on cultivating new, positive relationships and let go of the negative ones.

4 rookie mistakes you need to avoid making on LinkedIn

1. You Don’t Carefully Evaluate Who You Allow As A Connection

While LinkedIn is a social networking site, we all have to remember that it’s used more for professional networking. Yes, it can be used for personal networking, too, but when you mix the two together, it may not always work in your favor in the job searching process. Employers look at your connections, so you want to show that you have contacts in your field and industry and not things that may be inappropriate.

3 Little Habits That Will Kill Your Entrepreneurial Dreams

1. Excuses: There’s a saying that goes you can have excuses or you can have results, but you can’t have both. Successful people know that there are a million and one reasons you can come up with to not do something if you want to find the excuse, but if you want to find results, you have to find the solution and push ahead.

2016 Chief Bode Amao Scholarship Award

Bode Amao Foundation (BAF) is a non-profit organization, founded in 2002, funded by Chief Bode Amao OON, and dedicated to the service of humanity and glory to God. BAF has so far supported 143 students in twenty two (22) Universities from year of award to graduation in all geopolitical zones of Nigeria.

Characteristics Of A Good Leader

Proactive vs. Reactive
The exceptional leader is always thinking three steps ahead. Working to master his/her own environment with the goal of avoiding problems before they arise.

9 Steps to Starting a Business

Starting a business involves planning, making key financial decisions and completing a series of legal activities. These 10 easy steps can help you plan, prepare and manage your business. Click on the links to learn more.

Step 1: Write a Business Plan

This written guide will help you map out how you will start and run your business successfully.

5 Signs That Showed Right Path to Success

1. Taking big risks started becoming habitual. 

Each time you take a risk, it will be coupled with some anxiety. However as you learn to trust yourself and risks begin to work out for you, you’ll quickly grow your ability to assess and take better risks. When risk-taking becomes a little more comfortable, it’s a good milestone you’re on the path to long-term success.  

Excuses won’t help you, reasons will.

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” George Washington Carver

Excuses won’t help you, reasons will. Why? Those who hired you and look to you don’t care how rough the water is, they expect you to bring the boat in.

Graduate/Trainee Program Vacancy, Wema Bank Plc

Wema Bank new look and general re-branding of the bank has open new opportunity for job seekers to join the bank’S work force; qualified applicants can now have their Cv in the Bank database:

Wema Bank is strongly committed to a fair and inclusive work environment where diverse ideas and perspectives are respected, and where shared commitment to exceptional customer service is valued.

Wema is currently recruiting personnel nationwide who meet the requirements of this
position. 

Why Entrepreneurs Should Welcome the Word 'No'

1. No fuels your entrepreneurial fire. 

I became an entrepreneur simply because someone had the nerve to tell me I couldn’t sell pest control door to door during a summer in college. After calling repeatedly to convince the owner to hire me, he told me I simply wasn’t cut out to be a salesman. I decided to assemble my own team and made $80,000 in a few months selling for his competitor. I won’t deny taking a little satisfaction when I later bought his office furniture after his business went under.

In the moment, rejection stings. Someone is sizing you up and saying you don’t have what it takes. Don’t feed the pain. Channel the frustration and let it fuel your fire. Go show them why they just made one of the biggest mistakes of their life.

20 Rules for Being a Great Leader

1. Listen to your team. Rule one. Always listen to what your team has to say, even if you don’t like it.

10 clever ways to be more innovative at work

1. Start conducting stand-up meetings

Your entire energy changes when you're standing. Unsurprisingly, the entire energy of a meeting does, too. Convert one of your meetings to a standing one and watch the momentum, enthusiasm, and action soar. They'll move faster and be more action-orientated and more likely to motivate your team. Need help convincing your boss? Throw this article on the benefits his or her way.

5 Mistakes to Avoid as an Entrepreneur

1. Chasing the wrong success

If you are not careful, you can fall into the trap of believing that certain material items make you "successful." That a certain lifestyle is what success looks like. Often, people try to buy their way to success and happiness, only to find out that they don’t even want what they were pursuing.

The Worst (and Best) Terms to Use on a Resume

HR Managers  see multiple job applications, cover letters and resumes every single day. Most of them are scanned very quickly, so job hunters need to make every word count.

The Worst Terms to Use on a Resume

Here are the deal-breaker resume terms, according to human resource professionals who were surveyed by Career Builder:

Best of breed (chosen by 38% of respondents)
Go-getter (27%)

TRAINING: Executive Project Management: PMP Certification

Your capacity to demonstrate best practice project management is becoming more and more important to compete in today’s fast-paced and highly technical workplace. Let the experienced trainers take you through this training course to take you one step closer to a PMP certification and move you up the career ladder.
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4 Finance Tips All Business Owners Should Follow

1. Don’t procrastinate.

One of the biggest mistakes new entrepreneurs make is that they put off their bookkeeping needs. When you put off your accounting work, it doesn’t go away. It just gets bigger, and eventually you’re going to be faced with an overwhelming mess that you’ll need to sort out. The bigger the mess, the more you’re likely to procrastinate.

7 Personal Qualities Found In A Good Leader

1. A good leader has an exemplary character. It is of utmost importance that a leader is trustworthy to lead others. A leader needs to be trusted and be known to live their life with honestly and integrity. A good leader “walks the talk” and in doing so earns the right to have responsibility for others. True authority is born from respect for the good character and trustworthiness of the person who leads.

4 Ways to Stay Confident as a First-Time Entrepreneur

1. Seek out successful people in your field.
If you know of established individuals who are in the same business as you, reach out to them. Your startup is not a threat. Pick their brains for advice. 

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN FOR 2016/2017 CHEVENING SCHOLARSHIPS

Close to 2,000 dynamic future leaders from all over the world, and from all professional backgrounds, have begun to arrive in the UK to start a life-changing year studying and discovering the UK as a Chevening Scholar. This time next year, this really could be you, and the first step to being awarded a prestigious Chevening Scholarship is to apply.

HOW TO APPLY
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Oxford Scholarships for Developing Country Students ( Nigeria is included)

Brief description:

A number of Oxford colleges offer Reach Oxford Scholarships (formerly Oxford Student Scholarships) to students from developing countries who, for political or financial reasons, or because equivalent educational facilities do not exist, cannot study for a degree in their own countries.

Civic Education, Peace Building And The Nigerian Youths

The future of any country depends on the youths in that country. No meaningful development can take place without their active participation.

They are the young people, endowed with raw energy. They have high hopes, dreams, aspirations and ideas of what their tomorrow would be. They are anxious and dynamic, always bubbling in spirit. Their surplus energy when exploited is useful for the welfare of the country. Proper guidance and direction can bring them in the forefront of peaceful and national development.