I hope moderator will bring this to the front page. This is the story.

Sometime in 2011, around March, we got invitation to attend a World Bank sponsored training called ACCESS Nigeria. The program was held in several cities across the country, which includes Ibadan, PH, Abuja, Kaduna and others.

We were made to go through a 3hours intial examination to prone down the number of people that will be selected for the training. After being selected, we were giving a 10 weeks training at Multi-Mix Academy, going to Eric Moore and Ikeja for our theory and practical classes respectively three days in a week for 10 weeks.

At the end of the training, every trainee were made to take another examination in order to evaluate then and prone down the number to those that meet the standard - I suppose. Meanwhile, the impression we were given was that after all said and done, candidates that meets all requirements will be placed on internship after which prospective employers will then decide to take you on if you are up to the task. Let me quickly add that the program was meant for final year students in the University.

To our greatest surprise, that is those of us that took part in the trainning and examination and passed, the organisers (World Bank, Hewitt-Aon, and the Step B Project) then organised an open job fair at the national thearter for everyone to attend and meet prospective employers. And guess who are this prospective employers; NIIT, New Horizon, APTECH, JOB Finders, HR Consult, GT Bank, UBA, Multi-Mix Academy. Majority of them, except GT and UBA, are training providers and job placement recruiters. You will drop your CV with them and expect to call for you for jobs when they are available.

The question is, what is the essence of the trainning and series of examinations we were made to go through in the first place afterall?

To make matters worst, people came from this other centers, particularly from PH, Kano, Adamawa (I saw some folks who chartered a bus from Kebbi and Adamawa, they took part in the series of programs at their respective locations).

I wish this makes front page and the organisers will see it to react. But as far as I'm concernned, the objectives of all the troubles we were put through has been defeated. For them to have thrown the job fair open to even those that didn't taka part in the selection process and all that was unufair and an injustice on their part. For them to have brought in NIIT, and all that into a job fair says a lot about them. Is NIIT an employer or a training institue? They were just there to market their product just like majority of the so called employers of labour, perhaps with the exception of GT Bank and UBA. Even these two banks will not collect your soft copy CV except hard copy- they will just throw it somewhere at the end of the day.

They just wasted our time, energy and resources. Some people even had to rush down from NYSC camp to finish the course. And do you know that we were not given a dime for all these exercise, it was all at our cost. So, what are we saying? For them to only throw us among people who had masters degree and years of experience at an open job fair. I can go on and on but...

I think the effort was worth it, my opinion though.

My dear you were trained for 10 weeks! I presume you didn't pay a dime for such training. Put what you learnt to good use. You'll get a job soon.

Wish you the best. Regards

front page pls...............OP this ppl even lied on radio Nigeria broadcast this morning that hundreds of nigerian graduates secured job yesterday on which NO single person got job.world bank supported the program wit billions.

After the whole training and exams for ten weeks,result was out and we never heard anything reasonable from them,since then i started having a second thought about those guyz; world bank made a mistake to have used this guyz in conducting this training and organizing this whole program from start,i saw a big Bleep up ahead since they hijacked the program from the Indian guyz(Aeon Hewitt),nothing ever does well in the hand of a Nigerian company especially when it comes to doing things in a proper way.I'm happy i didn't risk my life and waste my resources coming to Lagos,cos my friends were there to tell me the whole thing going on.It is a big shame.

Although, I did not participate in the programme but a friend of mine who came from Abuja to attend the programme stays in my house at the moment. Since he did nt knw the way, I tagged along to see what was happening. A programme that was slated for 8 a.m that was for 12th of September, did not begi before 12 and there was not one person to address us. I had my misgivings from the onset, but how do I tell someone who spend huge sum of money just to attend the programme. Altough, few employers attended the thursday's programme, it seems like the friday's own was a little better, at least the guy brought back some magazines, but to say the truth most of the companies in attendance were IT companies, he even said that Afrihub promised to fix some of them in different locations where the company operates. Who am I to complain when it seems like the person who attended the programme considers it fulfilling.

Obinoscopy: I think the effort was worth it, my opinion though.

My dear you were trained for 10 weeks! I presume you didn't pay a dime for such training. Put what you learnt to good use. You'll get a job soon.

Wish you the best. Regards

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Thank you for the advice. But as for the training part, that tells a lot about something missing.

Now, let me tell you what we were trained on; basically, it was about time management, spoken english and microsoft office. that was it.

does that tell you something mam/sir? it means this people don't believe in the four/five years I spent in the university.

it means they don't believe that i have learnt anything in the university so had to put me through all this test and so called 'training'.

If we had been trained on enterpreneural skill and the likes, one would have even appreciate it the more. but we gave our all, not minding the insult, just becuase of the desperation to get a job, because after all, that's what we were promised.

mannet: After the whole training and exams for ten weeks,result was out and we never heard anything reasonable from them,since then i started having a second thought about those guyz; world bank made a mistake to have used this guyz in conducting this training and organizing this whole program from start,i saw a big Bleep up ahead since they hijacked the program from the Indian guyz(Aeon Hewitt),nothing ever does well in the hand of a Nigerian company especially when it comes to doing things in a proper way.I'm happy i didn't risk my life and waste my resources coming to Lagos,cos my friends were there to tell me the whole thing going on.It is a big shame.

yes, I noticed that I didn't see the white people again. I think that's where things started falling apart.

it was a real nonesense.

s3nn2x: Although, I did not participate in the programme but a friend of mine who came from Abuja to attend the programme stays in my house at the moment. Since he did nt knw the way, I tagged along to see what was happening. A programme that was slated for 8 a.m that was for 12th of September, did not begi before 12 and there was not one person to address us. I had my misgivings from the onset, but how do I tell someone who spend huge sum of money just to attend the programme. Altough, few employers attended the thursday's programme, it seems like the friday's own was a little better, at least the guy brought back some magazines, but to say the truth most of the companies in attendance were IT companies, he even said that Afrihub promised to fix some of them in different locations where the company operates. Who am I to complain when it seems like the person who attended the programme considers it fulfilling.

I didn't even border attending that because as far as I'm concerned, why make it open to everyone, even to those that never partook in the whole exercise?

kasheemawo: front page pls...............OP this ppl even lied on radio Nigeria broadcast this morning that hundreds of nigerian graduates secured job yesterday on which NO single person got job.world bank supported the program wit billions.

How will it make front page, when it does not involve GEJ, P-Square, Tuface, Omotola.

mbhs139:

How will it make front page, when it does not involve GEJ, P-Square, Tuface, Omotola.

lol.world bank should have been the pioneers to the end of the programme.given the programme to nigerians turned everythings to failure.

fraud, corruption, naija what is all this? Haba naija!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kasheemawo: front page pls...............OP this ppl even lied on radio Nigeria broadcast this morning that hundreds of nigerian graduates secured job yesterday on which NO single person got job.world bank supported the program wit billions.

LMAOOOOOOO, YOU ACT LIKE YOU DONT KNOW THE COUNTRY U ARE FROM...LMAOOO.. I BEG THEY HAVE POCKETTED THE MONEY AND IF YALL PAID THEN THEY GOT EXTRA PAY FROM YALL.

mbhs139: I hope moderator will bring this to the front page. This is the story.

Sometime in 2011, around March, we got invitation to attend a World Bank sponsored training called ACCESS Nigeria. The program was held in several cities across the country, which includes Ibadan, PH, Abuja, Kaduna and others.

We were made to go through a 3hours intial examination to prone down the number of people that will be selected for the training. After being selected, we were giving a 10 weeks training at Multi-Mix Academy, going to Eric Moore and Ikeja for our theory and practical classes respectively three days in a week for 10 weeks.

At the end of the training, every trainee were made to take another examination in order to evaluate then and prone down the number to those that meet the standard - I suppose. Meanwhile, the impression we were given was that after all said and done, candidates that meets all requirements will be placed on internship after which prospective employers will then decide to take you on if you are up to the task. Let me quickly add that the program was meant for final year students in the University.

To our greatest surprise, that is those of us that took part in the trainning and examination and passed, the organisers (World Bank, Hewitt-Aon, and the Step B Project) then organised an open job fair at the national thearter for everyone to attend and meet prospective employers. And guess who are this prospective employers; NIIT, New Horizon, APTECH, JOB Finders, HR Consult, GT Bank, UBA, Multi-Mix Academy. Majority of them, except GT and UBA, are training providers and job placement recruiters. You will drop your CV with them and expect to call for you for jobs when they are available.

The question is, what is the essence of the trainning and series of examinations we were made to go through in the first place afterall?

To make matters worst, people came from this other centers, particularly from PH, Kano, Adamawa (I saw some folks who chartered a bus from Kebbi and Adamawa, they took part in the series of programs at their respective locations).

I wish this makes front page and the organisers will see it to react. But as far as I'm concernned, the objectives of all the troubles we were put through has been defeated. For them to have thrown the job fair open to even those that didn't taka part in the selection process and all that was unufair and an injustice on their part. For them to have brought in NIIT, and all that into a job fair says a lot about them. Is NIIT an employer or a training institue? They were just there to market their product just like majority of the so called employers of labour, perhaps with the exception of GT Bank and UBA. Even these two banks will not collect your soft copy CV except hard copy- they will just throw it somewhere at the end of the day.

They just wasted our time, energy and resources. Some people even had to rush down from NYSC camp to finish the course. And do you know that we were not given a dime for all these exercise, it was all at our cost. So, what are we saying? For them to only throw us among people who had masters degree and years of experience at an open job fair. I can go on and on but...

The training was key as it should distinguiush you from your contemporaries if you can put what you have learnt to work when you eventually get a job. That alone is worth it although I do not support the propaganda that was attached to the program.

The training was on business process outsourcing(cross culture,speaking and communication skills,ms office suite),this I believe is one important added advantage any graduate would hope for.

NIIT trained 300+ participants in Kaduna.

The job fair was meant for employers to come and recruit graduates,invitations were sent to various companies,organizations but only few showed up and the training institutes that handled the training in various states had to collect CV's of the students they trained.

Job Fair in Nigeria is pretty new.

I think you should appreciate the BPO training and certificate you received courtesy of World Bank.

If you ask me, its just another NGO sponsored programme.. as always aimed to distalbilised an already fragile country and economy. How i wish the Nigerian govenment have the backbone to expell all these useless NGOs like they did in Russia

nigeria

shadys: The training was on business process outsourcing(cross culture,speaking and communication skills,ms office suite),this I believe is one important added advantage any graduate would hope for.

NIIT trained 300+ participants in Kaduna.

The job fair was meant for employers to come and recruit graduates,invitations were sent to various companies,organizations but only few showed up and the training institutes that handled the training in various states had to collect CV's of the students they trained.

Job Fair in Nigeria is pretty new.

I think you should appreciate the BPO training and certificate you received courtesy of World Bank.

We did not receive any certificate but a testiomnial. and by the way, we were not trained on all those things you mentioned. I have already had my CCIP (Certified Customer Intereactive Professional) from the BCI in the United States before going for the program. I thought it was going to be something higher than that, only to be taking through MS Office packages like word, excell and the likes.

How can they be teaching us how to speak English after graduation.

Besides, the grudeg of the matter as a matter of fact is that we were told that we will be placed on internship only for us to find ourselves at a job fair made opened to those that didn't even take part in the training. Is that fair enough?

Tusky44: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is"......I can imagine how those of you who passed the several stages were already dreaming of how you would wear suits and carry laptops about as worldbank enployees or seasoned professionals.

Honestly, if you put all that effort on 2plots of land farming, by now you would have become a "thousandnier" at least. Nigerian graduates please farm now before walmart and tesco arrives. Carve out a niche in farm-produce now and label it "organic" before the arrival of the supermarket giants. Am already doing so.

Na true you talk but who go help us now?

My grandpa use to have two farm lands we use to go to then during our holidays in osogbo, but I don't knwo the road to those places again. Otherwise, I would have to become a farmer

shadys: The training was on business process outsourcing(cross culture,speaking and communication skills,ms office suite),this I believe is one important added advantage any graduate would hope for.

NIIT trained 300+ participants in Kaduna.

The job fair was meant for employers to come and recruit graduates,invitations were sent to various companies,organizations but only few showed up and the training institutes that handled the training in various states had to collect CV's of the students they trained.

Job Fair in Nigeria is pretty new.

I think you should appreciate the BPO training and certificate you received courtesy of World Bank.

WTF!!! are u talking about here? i attended the program/training from day one,and it seemed good when the Indian guyz handled it but as soon as it was hijacked by Nigerian guyz the program became rubbish,we were supposed to be trained on BPO/CCIP but we were not given the training rather i still received text up till today from their so called BPO academy that i should come and pay a particular discounted amount for their training,meanwhile these training they now advertise to us is supposed to be free and part of the world bank program.
Fine,no knowledge is a waste but the bottom line here is that the AIM OF THE WHOLE PROGRAM WAS NOT REALIZED AND WAS A BIG FLOP,PERIOD!!!

mbhs139: I hope moderator will bring this to the front page. This is the story.

Sometime in 2011, around March, we got invitation to attend a World Bank sponsored training called ACCESS Nigeria. The program was held in several cities across the country, which includes Ibadan, PH, Abuja, Kaduna and others.

We were made to go through a 3hours intial examination to prone down the number of people that will be selected for the training. After being selected, we were giving a 10 weeks training at Multi-Mix Academy, going to Eric Moore and Ikeja for our theory and practical classes respectively three days in a week for 10 weeks.

At the end of the training, every trainee were made to take another examination in order to evaluate then and prone down the number to those that meet the standard - I suppose. Meanwhile, the impression we were given was that after all said and done, candidates that meets all requirements will be placed on internship after which prospective employers will then decide to take you on if you are up to the task. Let me quickly add that the program was meant for final year students in the University.

To our greatest surprise, that is those of us that took part in the trainning and examination and passed, the organisers (World Bank, Hewitt-Aon, and the Step B Project) then organised an open job fair at the national thearter for everyone to attend and meet prospective employers. And guess who are this prospective employers; NIIT, New Horizon, APTECH, JOB Finders, HR Consult, GT Bank, UBA, Multi-Mix Academy. Majority of them, except GT and UBA, are training providers and job placement recruiters. You will drop your CV with them and expect to call for you for jobs when they are available.

The question is, what is the essence of the trainning and series of examinations we were made to go through in the first place afterall?

To make matters worst, people came from this other centers, particularly from PH, Kano, Adamawa (I saw some folks who chartered a bus from Kebbi and Adamawa, they took part in the series of programs at their respective locations).

I wish this makes front page and the organisers will see it to react. But as far as I'm concernned, the objectives of all the troubles we were put through has been defeated. For them to have thrown the job fair open to even those that didn't taka part in the selection process and all that was unufair and an injustice on their part. For them to have brought in NIIT, and all that into a job fair says a lot about them. Is NIIT an employer or a training institue? They were just there to market their product just like majority of the so called employers of labour, perhaps with the exception of GT Bank and UBA. Even these two banks will not collect your soft copy CV except hard copy- they will just throw it somewhere at the end of the day.

They just wasted our time, energy and resources. Some people even had to rush down from NYSC camp to finish the course. And do you know that we were not given a dime for all these exercise, it was all at our cost. So, what are we saying? For them to only throw us among people who had masters degree and years of experience at an open job fair. I can go on and on but...

I don't intend to be rude but I had to force myself to read your post. There were spelling and grammar errors after every two lines and in some cases, every line. Honestly. If you are currently on a job hunt, I'd advise that you make it a top priority to work on your verbs and tenses URGENTLY. You may not be aware but it forms a great degree of determining if you'll be successful in your job search or not.

Like I said earlier, I did not mean to sound offensive. Sorry if I did.

mimifonwon:



LMAOOOOOOO, YOU ACT LIKE YOU DONT KNOW THE COUNTRY U ARE FROM...LMAOOO.. I BEG THEY HAVE POCKETTED THE MONEY AND IF YALL PAID THEN THEY GOT EXTRA PAY FROM YALL.

Pls tell him. He think he is in America.

i took part in the training and not the job fair. What i need is the certificate

Let me break it down for you, it is called SCAM!!!

Though, I wasn't there. But with what I've read it's so painful to know that this kind of thing can happen at top level?