Just like other markets
within industries, the job market has remained competitive in the last two
decades, especially in developing countries where millions of graduates are
being churned out every year. In Nigeria, the unemployment rate is rising every year. From 3.3 million in
2017 to over 20 million in 2018, job searching and being spotted by employers
require planning and strategic use of available resources. Visibility
Navigate the Market: The Place of PPPT Framework
To navigate the market
and survive the storms occasioned by the lack of small and large scale
businesses to absorb a significant number of the graduates, the sellers
(graduates) need swotising themselves along with PPPT framework. PPPT entails
process, product, people and technology. At process, fresh graduates and job
seekers need to devise means through which the needed jobs could be got. The
first stage within the process is to be a qualified person. By virtual of being
a University or other higher institution graduates, this stage is accomplished.
Beyond this, job seekers must be able to develop appropriate and valuable
curriculum vitae that will attract buyers (in this case, HR person acting for
the business owners or the owners themselves). Within the process, people must
assist job seekers. They could be teachers, mentors, friends and colleagues.
The assistance must have been got while in school and during the course of
developing disruptive CV.
Having
disruptive CV is a matter of doing SWOT analysis before writing and applying
for a job. Doing a SWOT analysis will assist the
job seekers in understanding how they fit with the buyers’ business environment
because the environment is being competitive every day. The tool –SWOT has been
used and still being applied by businesses to pinpoint strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats to their process, product, people and technologies. This
explains why SWOT is important in CV writing.
When businesses want to
understand their environment, they identify specific internal prowess,
capabilities and competencies with the intent of capitalizing on them while
executing or delivering promised values to the clients. Efforts are made by the
employees at corporate, business and functional levels to mitigate weaknesses
and threats to the business profitability and sustainability. The end result of
SWOTIZING by any business is to know how to improve the PPPT. When it is
obvious that new hands (employees) need to be added to enhance, process,
product and technology, human resources department swings into action by
calling for application from prospective employees.
Such employees must
also adopt the tool while writing their tailored CV as explained earlier. Infoprations believes that job seekers
should see themselves as products expected to add value to the buyers’ process,
product and technologies being threatened by external forces capable of
reducing profits and ending the business’ life. Job seekers’ strengths and
opportunities must align with the buyers’ SO as explained in job description,
roles or responsibilities, skills and competencies.
It's
important because knowing the negatives and positives remain appropriate means
of making the right decisions. When the negatives outweigh the positives
for a particular job, the ideal is not to apply for such job. From experience,
the CV of such person would not be attended to because the negatives must have
established that the person failed to meet the job description, job roles or functions,
skills and competency tests of the buyer (employer), which further established
that the candidate would not be a perfect person to solve the identified
weaknesses and threats.
Weighing and Making Smart Decision
In our model, job
seekers must be sincere while evaluating their strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats in line with the buyers’ own. The strengths and opportunities
could be recorded using +5 or +10. The same approach applies to weaknesses and
threats, but it must be in negative form. The score for each strength,
weakness, opportunity and threat must be added to have cumulative score that
point out the direction of the decision that should be taken. SO belongs to
positive polarity while WT belongs to negative polarity, according to our
analysis. With this, it is easier for the job seekers to decide whether to apply
for a job or not.
From
PPP-Driven CV to Technology-Driven Job Search: The
Place of LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a platform for value presentation to colleagues and
businesses. It has features tailored towards career growth and development than
other platforms like Facebook. LinkedIn is not Facebook, where professionalism is not respected. The ideal thing
for any job seeker is to have his or her profile updated using PPP-driven CV
explained earlier. Beyond profile building, connections must be built along
with the chosen career path. The value must be equally presented through posts,
comments, shares, likes and publications using appropriate features of the
platform. When these are presented uniquely getting endorsements and
recommendations become much easier. Any job seeker on the platform who is not
creating and capturing value from it must understand that there is something wrong
and must be addressed and correct the mistake.
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