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Suraj Oyewale (Jarus)

@Jarushub

2 Jan

@MoghaluKingsley

1/ The Banker That Never Was: My Journey into Oil & Gas Industry

Inspired by a tweet by Professor @MoghaluKingsley who talked about being deliberate about wanting to have a career in the UN since age 13, to the laughter of this friends and schoolmates, I share similar story

2/ At 10 in 1992, I decided I wanted to be a banker, largely influenced by Dr Femi Adekanye, my distant mentor, a top Lagos banker of the era whose family house in Offa was just next to ours. He was the CEO of Commerce Bank (now defunct).

3/ He was also the President of CIBN and West African Bankers Association at the time. Anytime he came home from Lagos and visited his family house in Offa, the whole neighbourhood stood still, with his convoy of brand new Daewoo Racer and Daewoo Espero cars.

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Suraj Oyewale (Jarus)

@Jarushub

3 Dec 20

Difference between a job chat and an interview

A job interview is a conversation between an employer and a prospective employee with a view to assessing the suitability of the candidate for job offer.

While a job chat is also a form of conversation with a prospective applicant with similar goal, there are a number of differences between the two.

However, before highlighting the differences, it is important to caveat that both terms are sometimes used to mean the same thing. Your sms or email invite could describe it as chat but it could end up being a full scale interview. So it is necessary to bear that in mind.

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Suraj Oyewale (Jarus)

@Jarushub

3 Dec 20

10 HELPFUL TIPS TO MAKING FIRST CLASS DEGREE IN THE UNIVERSITY

By Jarus

Came across this piece I wrote in 5. May be helpful to your younger ones.

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One of the most popular questions I get from my younger ones and mentees who are about to or have just gained admission into university is what they have to do to graduate with a first-class degree after their studies.

Unfortunately, there are no hard and fast rules on how to make this class of degree. What works for one person may not work for another. What works in one institution may not automatically work in another.

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Suraj Oyewale (Jarus)

@Jarushub

1 Dec 20

https://twitter.com/seunonigbinde/status/1333883341527986176

This is very true. My writing skills may not be excellent but I know it’s more than decent and it has helped me a lot in my career.

Great writing skills help a lot in one’s career.

https://twitter.com/seunonigbinde/status/1333883341527986176

My personalised, unconventional cover letter played a huge part in getting my current job in 2011/2012.

From email writing to contributions to industry and company publications, writing is a very powerful tool for career development.

When you’re known to be a good writer, even your colleagues will ask to help check their drafts - of documents and even emails. You establish yourself as a strong force, as an asset. Nomination into editorial board etc. All these activities give you workplace visibility and clout

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Suraj Oyewale (Jarus)

@Jarushub

5 Nov 20

1/ When my US-based Nigerian engineer childhood friend sent me a message last year that he wanted to institute a small scholarship where he would sponsor the cost of GRE/GMAT of a few Nigerian students wishing to get scholarship to study in North America, I wondered why anyone...

2/...would not be able to raise $226 (N80k last year, now N100k) to pay for GRE test. I had believed, elitist in retrospect, that any serious grad, even the one doing teaching, should be able to raise N80k to write a test that would open them to thousand $ foreign scholarships

3/ As he was in the US, he outsourced the application & screening process to Lagos-based JarusHub, my career & education resource platform. We were to send the screening test scores to him for interview of the best performing candidates from where he would choose the final 5

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Suraj Oyewale (Jarus)

@Jarushub

4 Nov 20

1/4 Just finished an interview with a scholarship candidate, and never been so emotional like that after an interview. The scholarship sponsor and I (the two Nigerians on the panel) struggled to fight back tears during the post-interview review.

2/4 A genius that is “wasting” away in a village. Such a candidate! 1st class graduate of a 1st generation university, with CGPA above 4.9/5. 2nd best graduating student in his school, best in his faculty, almost a perfect 5.0 CGPA if not for scoring D in an English course in100L

3/4 The sponsor, who also grew up in a village and now a US-based engineer with an IOC, fought back tears as he could relate to the story of this brilliant orphan. There are many brilliant young folks in this country whose missing link is just lack of right information/mentoring.

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