Saw a LinkedIn notification now that a familiar connection had been promoted to a Manager in one of the Big 4 and memory of the young man contacting us at JarusHub sometime in 2014 for interviewing coaching for the Big 4 firm flashed at me.
A raw brilliant young man with ..
A raw brilliant young man with ..
...little exposure who made a 2:1 in one of the Education courses from a federal university in the hinterland of Nigeria. With no job few months after NYSC, he took a teaching job. Then he saw the advert of the Big 4 graduate recruitment and applied, and Big 4 being a trusted ...
..equal opportunity employer (irrespective of background), invited him for interview (after passing the test) and he approached us for coaching on the interview. We just started JarusHub as a career blog one year earlier and 2014 was the first time we decided to add services ...
...to what we do, having studied what similar career sites in other climes do. So we decided to introduce interview coaching and this young education graduate teacher was our first client.
I was solely running JarusHub then as my side gig and we didn't even have an office so ..
I was solely running JarusHub then as my side gig and we didn't even have an office so ..
..the interview prep held at my home. I still recall doing a mock interview for him as he sat opposite me on my dining.
I saw raw brilliance without much exposure. With a little polishing and drilling, he was good to go. He went for the Big 4 interview and got the job.
I saw raw brilliance without much exposure. With a little polishing and drilling, he was good to go. He went for the Big 4 interview and got the job.
Today, 7 years later, I saw a LinkedIn notification that he had become a Manager.
Although we have expanded at JarusHub with office and staff now, and at least 30 other candidates who passed through our prep now working in Big 4 since then, this young man's case...
Although we have expanded at JarusHub with office and staff now, and at least 30 other candidates who passed through our prep now working in Big 4 since then, this young man's case...
...remains personal to me because he was our first client for interview prep service and he was a poor boy who had managed to rough it through school and only got a teaching job after school before that Big 4 firm gave him a chance.
Congrats to the young man on his promotion.
Congrats to the young man on his promotion.
And the Big 4 firms continue to prove that they are one of the best and most merit based recruiters out there who give equal opportunity to everybody.
They are usually my first recommendation for young grads.
They are usually my first recommendation for young grads.
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