Tips to get a good job

1. IDENTIFY YOUR BEST CHANCES. Create potential employers most likely to value the qualifications that you have and want to use.
Executive talent agent Debra Feldman (jobwhiz.com), who personally conducts job searches for individuals seeking professional or executive jobs, spells it out for us:

2. ERASE REPUTATION FLAWS. Do you know what others are saying online about you as a person or as a worker? Google your name. If you've got image problems, search online for "reputation management tools," and apply solutions to issues that may be roadblocks to being hired.
 
3. NEGOTIATE YOUR SHORTCOMINGS. When you can do the work but lack the normal industry experience or education, the only way to beat the deficit is to get to the boss for whom you'd be working. Then let the boss run interference with HR staff.
Negotiating skills are key to successfully communicating that what you know is more important than where you learned it. Read Roger Dawson's "Secrets of Power Negotiating, 15th Anniversary Edition: Inside Secrets from a Master Negotiator" (Career Press).

4. REVIEW AND REVISIT. Periodically check back with each earlier contact, including those who turned you down. For all you know, the first pick for a job quickly found something better and moved on. Change happens.

5. DRUM UP NEW LEADS. Just as you can never have too many friends, bulk up your job intel circles with vendors, accountants, bankers, marketing staff and people in your target industries. Also, it's never too late to hire a neighborhood teen to help you master making new friends through social media.

6.COUNT INTERVIEW STARS. Even when you're not trying to nab a marquee role, if you're not delivering at least a three-star (out of five) interview performance, you're blowing your chance to claim an offer.
 
7.Think: Have you developed unattractive, desperate overtones that undermine you in interviews? That can happen to anyone. Line up a pal and practice interviewing with a video recording until you present yourself as confident and competent. My book "Job Interviewing For Dummies" (Wiley) can help.
 
8.STAY AFLOAT. Are you so financially strapped and stressed that your judgment is off? Do any legal thing you have to do -- drive a cab at night, wait tables, moonlight anywhere you can.

Imbibe the culture of Hard work and Excellence, AAUA VC urges Fresh Students

 As AAUA holds 3-day Orientation programme for Fresh Students

The Vice Chancellor of the Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Prof. Femi Mimiko, has urged the fresh students of the university to buy into the culture of hard work  and excellence as they commenced  their academic pursuit in the university.

Prof. Mimiko, who was represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Prof. Rotimi Ajayi, rendered this on Monday during the orientation programme organised for 2013/ 2014 academic session fresh students.

Prof. Mimiko is currently one of the delegates at the on-going National Conference in Abuja.

He further encouraged the students to shun anything that might deprive them of their admission adding that  the university did not condole any form of “social vices such as examination misconduct, cultism, indecent dressing, rape, theft, and any form of violence.”

In addition, he noted reasons there had been consistent increase in the number of admission candidates applying to the university.

He said: “ First, students in AAUA receive a world-class and qualitative 21^st century university education at the most affordable cost. It is on record that this university charges the least school fees in Nigeria, making the university an institution of choice for many applicants.

“Secondly, we are noted for a culture of excellence and we strive to be on top all the time. For instance in 2005, AAUA was adjudged by the National Universities Commission as the best state university in Nigeria in terms of the quality of academic staff. And only this month, an American Agency, United States Transparency International Standards, ranked AAUA the best state university in Nigeria in its 2013 co-ordinated school survey in Nigeria.”

He however expressed concern over the competitive nature of gaining admission in the country despite the increased number of universities in the country.

Meanwhile, the Acting Director of Health Services, AAUA, Dr (Mrs) Grace Ajayi, who spoke on health matters, advised the fresh students to shun self-medication and encouraged them to visit the university’s health center regularly.

47 People Die In Osun Road Accidents

Muhammed Husaini, the Sector Commander of the Osun State Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), on Tuesday announced that 47 deaths were recorded from road accidents between January and March. 

Speaking to journalists in Osogbo, he said 71 crashes, involving more than 333 persons, occurred in the state within the period.
The State Sector Commander blamed the accidents on over speeding, poor condition of roads, as well as failure by motorists to comply with traffic rules and regulations.
Husaini urged motorists to comply with road safety rules, adding that the commission was posed to securing lives on the roads.
He warned that anybody caught violating traffic rules would be arrested and prosecuted.

Abuja Bomb Blast: Experts Identify TWO MEN That Participated In The Bombing

  Forensic experts have successfully established the identities of two men that participated in the bombing of Nyanya, a satellite community bordering the Federal Capital Territory and Nasarawa State on April 14, 2014.
Security sources told one of our correspondents in Abuja on Monday that the experts identified their bodies using certain scientific variables, including body tissues.
 It was learnt that they also identified the third suicide bomber, who managed to escape from the scene before the explosion.
One of the sources said, “The third terror suspect has also been positively identified and we are working to arrest him; but the identities of his two accomplices have been established through forensic analysis.
 “Through the assistance of experts, we now know those who carried out the attack. Although two of them are dead, we are on the trail of the one who is alive.”
 When contacted on the progress so far made by the team, the Police spokesman, Frank Mba, said he would speak “at the appropriate time.”
He said, “As much as we want to give information to the public on the progress of the investigation, I won’t comment on it now because we don’t want to be distracted. “We don’t want anything to jeopardise the investigation. I will speak at the appropriate time.”

 Meanwhile, 29 victims of the bomb blast are still receiving treatment at hospitals in the FCT. It was learnt that 30 others were discharged last Thursday from the National Hospital and the Maitama District Hospital, Abuja.
 The Chief Press Secretary to the FCT minister, Mohammed Sule, said the medical bills of all the survivors were paid by the FCT Administration.

BREAKING NEWS: Abducted Students Seen Hustled Around In 7 Buses Near Gwoza In Borno The schoolgirls abducted by the Boko Haram reportedly have been seen today, April 28, in South Borno, in the Gwoza-Bama axis. The 200 missing girls have been hustled around in about seven buses. The information about abducted GGSS (Governmental Girls' Secondary School) female students was provided by active citizens in Maiduguri. And a non- governmental organization (NGO) fighting for civil right, led by Dr Peregrino Brimah, disclosed this information to the press. The organization urgently call on the security agencies to go in pursuit and asks Goodluck Jonathan administration to approve immediately the formal request of the thousands of Civilian-JTF members and several thousand ready-volunteer youth around the nation for the permission to bear arms as civilian army patriots to seek, capture and eradicate Boko Haram terrorists and release all abductees and forced conscripts.

Poly Students Threaten To Disrupt Confab Over Months Of Strike Polytechnic students have threatened to disrupt ongoing national confab in Abuja next week Wednesday to protest months of closure of their schools. Hundreds of them “will mobilize” to join lecturers from polytechnics and colleges of education, who have already planned in protest in Abuja next week. “We are supporting our lecturers because they are fighting for our own rights and those of all polytechnics in the country,” said Abdulmajeed Oyeniyi, spokesman for National Association of Polytechnic Students.

Poly Students Threaten To Disrupt Confab Over Months Of Strike Polytechnic students have threatened to disrupt ongoing national confab in Abuja next week Wednesday to protest months of closure of their schools. Hundreds of them “will mobilize” to join lecturers from polytechnics and colleges of education, who have already planned in protest in Abuja next week. “We are supporting our lecturers because they are fighting for our own rights and those of all polytechnics in the country,” said Abdulmajeed Oyeniyi, spokesman for National Association of Polytechnic Students.

Poly Students Threaten To Disrupt Confab Over Months Of Strike Polytechnic students have threatened to disrupt ongoing national confab in Abuja next week Wednesday to protest months of closure of their schools. Hundreds of them “will mobilize” to join lecturers from polytechnics and colleges of education, who have already planned in protest in Abuja next week. “We are supporting our lecturers because they are fighting for our own rights and those of all polytechnics in the country,” said Abdulmajeed Oyeniyi, spokesman for National Association of Polytechnic Students.

Poly Students Threaten To Disrupt Confab Over Months Of Strike Polytechnic students have threatened to disrupt ongoing national confab in Abuja next week Wednesday to protest months of closure of their schools. Hundreds of them “will mobilize” to join lecturers from polytechnics and colleges of education, who have already planned in protest in Abuja next week. “We are supporting our lecturers because they are fighting for our own rights and those of all polytechnics in the country,” said Abdulmajeed Oyeniyi, spokesman for National Association of Polytechnic Students.

Poly Students Threaten To Disrupt Confab Over Months Of Strike Polytechnic students have threatened to disrupt ongoing national confab in Abuja next week Wednesday to protest months of closure of their schools. Hundreds of them “will mobilize” to join lecturers from polytechnics and colleges of education, who have already planned in protest in Abuja next week. “We are supporting our lecturers because they are fighting for our own rights and those of all polytechnics in the country,” said Abdulmajeed Oyeniyi, spokesman for National Association of Polytechnic Students.

US agency ranks AAUA best state varsity in Nigeria

The United States (US) Transparency International Standards (USTIS) has ranked the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, the best state university in Nigeria.

The result was contained in the preliminary results from the USTIS 2013 Coordinated Nigeria Schools’ Survey, the body’s school ranking initiative.

Only last month, the university came first nationally in the 2013 Annual Youth Debate for Nigerian tertiary institutions, organised by the Federal Ministry of Education.
 
The National Universities Commission (NUC) also voted it ‘the Best State University in 2005’ in terms of the quality of academic staff, after conducting its (NUC’s) carrying-capacity survey in 2015.
 
Adekunle Ajasin University came into world reckoning following the strategic initiative of the incumbent Vice Chancellor, Professor Femi Mimiko, who has built the structure of his administration on “building a 21st Century University, properly called!.” Through the initiative, the university, which relocated to a temporary site in 1999, has drastically developed its infrastructure and academic programmes.
 
Between 2010 when Professor Mimiko took office and now, the university has taken delivery of over 60 projects as a deliberate attempt to address the acute challenges of space.

Kirikiri Maximum Prison Wall Collapses, Prisoner Escape Averted

 Jail break was recently averted at the Maximum Security Prison, Kirikiri, Lagos when the prison fence collapsed after a heavy downpour.

DailyPost exclusively gathered that the fence fell inward after the last Sunday’s heavy rainfall, a development which led to palpable fear within the prison vicinity.

A reliable insider hinted our correspondent that it all started on Sunday morning during an early morning downpour that was accompanied by whirlwind.

“Whenever the cloud is murky, we’ll order all the prisoners inside. So on Sunday when the cloud was gathering,we ordered all of them in,” the insider said.

“When the rain started, we heard a loud sound, at first, we thought it was an attack but when we got there, we discovered the fence had fallen.

The source further revealed that, the warders in charge of the Maximum Prison quickly alerted some security men who arrived and cordoned the fence.

He said security men from the Nigeria Police, army and prison arm guards were on ground to stop any prisoner who may want to escape.

“They were ordered to mend the fence with zinc pending when the fence would be raised,” the source added.


When DailyPost visited the Prison Barracks on Monday, the presence of heavily armed security men was noticed around the broken fence.