27/07/2024
đź–‹Olajide Abiola
One of the attitudes that separate champions, winners and change makers from those who aren’t is the mindset.
So many people are governed by a defeatist mindset that is bound by negative stereotypes and dogmas.
For years, I read people wail that NNPC jobs are never advertised, even though I have come across such adverts in the past, particularly as a fresh graduate. I even know some people who were selected for interviews purely on merit.
The people I have read wail over the non-advertisement of NNPC jobs year in year out have now changed the wailing to scoffing at the recent job adverts, greeting it with apathy, stating that those who will be selected have already been determined.
All my life, I always stay far away from people with this kind of mindset. I have discovered that these set of people actually wail from impure motives and not out of desire for fairness. They also want to be beneficiaries of favoured selections over merit.
Have you even taken the first step of submitting a good job application? Absolutely not. But you are already preempted the outcome.
Now that the jobs are advertised, the new excuse is that the candidates are already predetermined.
You won’t be called for every private sector job you applied for. Does it mean that the outcome is already predetermined? What did your bible tell you about casting your bread upon many waters?
Many people who publicly scoffed at Npower submitted applications privately and got enrolled, leaving those who bought their deception to continue on their path of folly.
If you think you are qualified for anything, put in the application or efforts. I mean you should do it excellently. Your certificate doesn’t qualify you for the job. Your performance in the application and interview is what qualifies you. I have beaten people with MBA to a good job without an MBA in a job advert that mandated possessing MBA.
You may continue to learn the ways and attitude of defeatism. Your luck
