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2. Why Many Youths are UNEMPLOYABLE
Aruosa Osemwegie
Nigerian Students Roundtable
29th September 2012
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3. Outline
• Why many are unemployable
• Why we need a reversal
• Increasing employability
– Policy & Strategic Issues
– Personal Influence - What you can do
• Questions & Answers
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4. Why many are unemployable
• Government and Politics • Decline in industrial
– Government for selfish Creation
purposes
– Lack of planning
– Cluelessness
• General Values depreciation
– Values that support
– Govt has become a big racket productivity are fast
disappearing
• Quality education &
enlightenment has dropped • Values-mis-focus
– Focus on the intellect has
• Curriculum dropped
– Out of sync with our world – Focus on appearance, music
– Out of sync with the future etc
• Decline in Industrial • Values-Attitude disconnect
capacity
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5. Why we need a
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6. Why we need a reversal?
• More disenfranchised youths
• Increase in restiveness
• Increase in lawlessness
• Increase in substance abuse
• Colourless living
• Mortuary of Unfulfilled Lives
• Premature marriage – marriage as
escape
• Premature death
We need to save ourselves by ourselves!!!
…that is the essence of the NSR
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7. Increasing
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8. Increasing employability
Policy & Strategic Issues
• Brand New Curriculum • Bundling career &
…not refurbished entrepreneurship
• Stimulate growth in • Promoting & Awarding
Agriculture and Power Excellence
sectors
• Strengths-based
• Life and Career development
Counseling in
Secondary Schools • Etc
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9. Increasing employability
Personal Influence - What you can do
• Values & Principles Re-awakening
– Personal responsibility
• Deliver greatness to one person
– Personal visioning
– Hardwork
• Fortune Magazine – “What does it take to be great?”
– Excellence
• Raising the bar on yourself
– Self-learning (Reading)
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10. Reading Voracious Reading…
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can
take it from him. An investment in knowledge always
pays the best interests” – Benjamin Franklin
“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to
magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to
make his life full, significant, and interesting.”
- Aldous Huxley
“You're the same today as you'll be in five years except
for the people you meet and the books you read.”
- Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

11. Reading
“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more
that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
- Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"
“Some people will lie, cheat, steal and back-stab to get
ahead... and to think, all they have to do is READ.” - Fortune
“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight.
He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a
resource against calamity.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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12. Reading Voracious Reading
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
- Mary Schmich
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.”
- Elizabeth Hardwick
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13. … a partial READING LIST
1. The Outliers by Malcolm 6. Purpose Driven Life by Rick
Gladwell Warren
2. The 7 Habits of Highly 7. Success is Who You Are by
Effective People by Stephen Sam Adeyemi
Covey
8. Move Ahead with Possibility
3. Now, Discover Your Strengths Thinking by Robert Schuller
by Marcus Buckingham
9. Getting a Job is a Job by
4. Reallionaire by Farrah Gray Aruosa Osemwegie
5. 21 Irrefutable Laws of 10. Nothing Succeeds like
Leadership by John C. EXCESS by Aruosa
Maxwell Osemwegie

14. Increasing employability
Personal Influence - What you can do (2)
• Raise Readiness Index
– Grow Transferable Skills
• Communication & Presentation skills
• English Grammar & Elocution
• Leadership & followership
– Enroll in School of Opportunity Seeking &
Conversion
• Awaken the entrepreneur in you
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15. Awaken the entrepreneur in you (survey)
1. No need to separate business & career at all
– Same requirements
– Many unclear about which to pursue
– Who would lead our govt ministries? Power vs Wealth
– No need for half-minded business people (cos no jobs)
– No need for half-minded career people (parents)
– Entrepreneurship is a route to getting a job
– Career is great grooming ground for business ownership
– Wrong reasons for business ownership: Be My Own Boss;
Make More Money etc
2. Separated too early
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16. Awaken the entrepreneur in you (2)
1. What really is entrepreneurship?
2. Create your CV everywhere
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17. • “Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity
without regard to resources currently controlled”
– Howard H. Stevenson
(Professor Harvard University).
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18. Look for opportunities around you to add value
Opportunities to make money
ENROLL IN THE
SCHOOL OF OPPORTUNITY CONVERSION
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19. Create Your CV Everywhere!
ENROLL IN THE
SCHOOL OF OPPORTUNITY CONVERSION
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20. Create your CV everywhere…
• Initiative
• Leadership
• Entrepreneurship
• Adaptability
• Innovation/Creativity
• Persistence
• Can-do
• Going the extra mile
• Teamwork
• Learning opportunities
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21. Create your CV everywhere
• You can always include on your resume
opportunities seized, where you:
o Created value or
o Produced results or
o Gained knowledge and/or skills
Convenience Cheaper
Speed Increase
Service Emotional
Innovation Collaboration
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22. School of Opportunity Conversion OR
Create Your CV Everywhere
Where and when? To Whom?
• In school • Any individual
• Group,
• On NYSC • Organisation
• On first job • NYSC or fellow corpers,
• In between jobs • School
• Students/Teachers,
• On next job
• Vulnerable groups
• Everywhere – Children
– Formal or Informal – Women
– Orphans
– Physically challenged
– Etc
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23. You are only young once…therefore
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24. Carpe
Diem!
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