How to Use your “Graduation Year Book” to Boost your Chances of Getting a Job in Nigeria

Learn how to use your Class Year Book at graduation to strategically position yourself for employment opportunities as soon as you graduate.

In this time of harsh economic climate and gross unemployment among Nigerians, smart graduating students must develop new techniques of getting jobs from the few available positions. 

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you to where you want to go, no one else”

Les Brown

Little wonder, some Post Graduate students in Scotland pioneered an additional use for the ‘Graduation Year Book' to create employment opportunities for themselves’.

Many graduating students in Nigerian tertiary institutions spend time, money and effort in producing a year book to preserve memories and keep contacts of everyone in the class only.

However, you need to pay attention to how (in 2009) about 100 Post Graduate students of Project Management at Gordon Brown University, Aberdeen, Scotland produced their Yearbook with an additional capacity to market them to prospective clients.

They devoted a section for each student to sell himself in the same format as in a Curriculum Vitae (CV) and to explain what they can offer.

For many reasons, this is a wonderful innovation:

·       You never can tell whose hands the yearbook would get to.

·       Your classmates would know your other abilities outside of the classroom (not just your hobbies).

·       You now have a CV in motion.

Finally, it is best for you to get yourself ready for life after school through all the means you know. Get the word out that you are available. And then, when companies are running after you, you can choose whichever one you prefer. 

Present your Yearbook professionally and avoid writing trivial things. Remember, you are now in the Working Class.