With a scarcity of jobs in both the United States and Nigeria, job seekers are forced to be more strategic in their search. On this episode, Obi Okere, career coach, owner of H.Y.P.E. Success LLC, and publisher of hypesuccess.com, gives a few tips on how to land your dream job even in these tough economic times. Obi also talks about his love for Nigeria and how he left his job as an engineer to pursue his current career.
We also discuss Nigeria’s plummeting education system and we’ve got music requests from fans.
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Well written alctire but I do not totally agree with your views. I don’t believe that the GDP growth is a useless one. There is no gainsaying the fact that Nigerians are not happy seeing high growth rates that do not have any effect in their pockets but simply because majority of Nigerians are getting poorer and minority are getting richer does not mean that there is no growth. It just means that the rich are getting richer faster than the poor are getting poorer.I digress. Back to the point.Nigerians do not know that Nigeria is currently helpless including the government. The case of the government is like a poor parent watching his child accuse him of not providing food for him when he is hungry without giving thought to the fact that the parent is simply broke and cannot even feed himself.Nigeria has an infrastructure deficit of over N32 trillion that should be bridged in the next four years and if nothing is done, this deficit will balloon to N47 trillion by 2016 assuming an inflation rate of 10% per year. Nigeria has a budget of about N5 trillion with a budget deficit of 2.97%, meaning that Nigeria can only finance the budget in 2012 by borrowing roughly N1.1 trillion. So the country can only generate revenues of N3.9 trillion to finance the budget. How will a country that has an infrastructure deficit that is almost ten times of what it can finance per year impact the lives of common Nigerians?It stands to reason that the government is helpless and there is very little it can do about this directly. Casting aspersions about railway lines that were awarded and taken back or a N70 billion textile fund that did not work is not the problem. Our past leaders have wrecked Nigeria and there is very little anybody can do regardless of who is at the helm of affairs.Believe it or not, Nigeria is on the right path. We need to shout our GDP growth and our massive population from the mountain tops for the whole world to hear. We need the world to know that the country has a massive consuming power that can be tapped into. We need help and we need it fast. The only way out of the doldrums is for foreign investors to come in and help us. They will only invest if they know that they will make profits and our GDP growth is the only thing we have to offer to entice them.Nigeria is corrupt. Granted. But there is corruption the world over. There is no point believing that the Government can successfully sell any of its entities without some personal interests clamoring about the wrongful sale. That is why I am happy that Nigeria is encouraging massive private participation in the power sector. The PIB is going to be accelerated, given the crises inthe downstream sector. The PPP embarked upon for the development of roads and other infrastructure is a welcome idea. We can no longer wait for the Government to do everything for us.I have a dream that one day Nigerians will have world class companies in the mould of Apple that will have a market value that is as large as half of the Nigerian economy. If the Swiss Government cannot bail out UBS when the financial sector was crumbling because the company was richer than the Government, then I believe that one day, we will achieve it and all those rent seeking politicians will finally believe that hardwork can pay more than laziness.I still believe in Nigeria.