• Unwanted employees  (Akinola Ajibade)
It is a fact that certificate enhances employment. In fact, it is the basis for getting jobs. But the trend is changing: companies are demanding what they call ‘emotional intelligence’ from workers. They want to compliment intellectual prowess with good c
• Unemployment: Job scams on the rise in Lagos (Yejide Gbenga-Ogundare)
“They use all manner of delay tactics to waste time and keep us in suspense. It was much later that we discovered that the whole thing was a fraud, they merely used our desperation to defraud us,
• Identifying your job skills (Olu Oyenian)
Everyone has skills, hundreds of skills, many of which employers are looking for in an employee. Yet most people can only identify a few skills and are generally unable to describe them to an employer.

Career Development

• CV Tips (Huxley)
The best CVs contain only objective facts that set you aside from the pack; they do not waste valuable space with excessive detail about the skills and experience that most candidates have.You need to think about how you are trying to sell yourself and
• How loss of job will affect you and what to do (Olu Oyeniran)
Many of us were taught that if we worked hard, gave 110 percent to the employer, went the extra mile and did our very best, the company would take care of us and we’d enjoy a comfortable retirement.
• Work and temperament: What job am I suited for? (Olu Oyeniran)
Knowing your temperament helps in your search for a career or job, but it only serves as a guide, rather than giving you any fixed answer. Think of temperament as analogous to "culture" in terms of influence.

Interview skills

• The job interview: Reading and interpreting the interviewer (Olu Oyeniran)
Interviewers who fall into this category tend to be direct, businesslike, and a little impersonal in their basic interviewing approach. They’re not terribly interested in you as a person-only in what you can bring to a job.