Dave Abion

Adding jam to your career bread and butter like...👇🏽⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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✅ Dont just talk about it, be about it. Build the persona that your target role wants. Have you stalked those with your dream role on LinkedIn? Are you portraying strengths that mirror theirs?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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✅ Spend 3 months of your programme studying a highly-demanded skill. What are the “nice to have” skills on the job descriptions you’re craving?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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✅ Get confident knowing and talking about your strengths, and skills you bring from your previous work places. Your interview ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Which of these skills will you be taking on your flight with you?

Open caption to unpack these errors and get tips on what to do instead

❌Leaving things till last minute . I hear people you saying I want to focus on my school work, and while I hear you, times are moving fast and life is happening in parallel, let me help you reframe this

Instead: Focus your schoolwork on industry relevant topics, so this way you will simply kill two birds with a single stone

❌ Not leveraging existing expertise. Many students discount valuable work experience just because it wasnt at a large multinational. Who says theres nothing to be gained from working in your sisters shop? Lets reframe:

Instead: Focus on the SKILLS gained from the experience rather than the experience itself. No experience is wasted

❌ No strategic job search plan AKA Queen of the I'm-happy-to-help-with-anything clan. Sure, this is music to ears at a busy Owambe, but in the workplace, all this does is land you in a role where you're overqualified, underpaid and not leveraging your strengths. Not a great deal, so...

Instead: Choose a career niche that highlights your strengths and what you'd like to do, and fill skills gaps proactively with wesbites like Udemy. Remember this doesnt keep you stuck and you can always pivot and shift along the way.

It's time to drop the myth that securing a corporate role post grad is impossible - because it isn't - it just takes strategy.

Let me know in the comments if you found this useful.

Oh, Hey there! Its been a while, and we've seen some new faces since the Workshop.

So for those of you who don’t know much about Dave Abion, let me start with an introduction.

Dave Abion is here to support you getting into your dream British University and support you while you find your first role. We love what we do, and are driven by a really strong ‘why’- to help Nigerians turn their simplest study abroad plans into wildly successful careers.

Over the next few weeks, I'll be providing tips on how to make the transition from study to work smooth and seamless.

Now that you know a bit about us, we’d love to know more about you.

Share something about yourself below!

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New week new opportunities. Tag your Architecture student- ask them to drop us a DM!

Happy new week friends- wishing you a productive week.
Sharing some UK opportunities you may want to take advantage of!
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Ps: to our handful of new friends! Welcome here. An intro message and a cute little gift in our stories! 💪🏼

Don’t just wish for it work for it.

The UK plans to have an unlimited number of international students in the next couple of years and by Jan 2021 you could be one of them. It is not too late to get started!

Don’t keep wishing for it work for IT.

The UK plans to have an unlimited influx of international students in the next few years! Do you want to be one of them? By January 2021, you can be one of them- let’s get to work!

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