By Nkiruka Nnorom

Nigerian youths, especially, fresh graduates have been  advised to endeavour to acquire requisite skills, as their certificates are academic oriented and need to be enhanced with applicable skills in order to fit-in at the workplace.

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The President of the Managerial School of Excellence (MSE), Mr. Leke Olufade, gave the advice to cross section of graduates who participated at MSE’s   School-2-Work free monthly series themed: ‘Making your Certificate Count: Enhance it’.

Olufade said, despite the impact the degrees may have on graduates such as boosting their confidence, enhancing their earning abilities and improving their job stability and benefits, certificates alone may not give them the dream job or career.

He said university education is not all about the certificate but a complete value adding process.

Answering questions on the hope of graduates with poor grades at the market place, Olufade said poor grades are very bad especially in an environment with limited job opportunities like ours where qualified graduates are in hundreds of thousands.

He reiterated that a poor degree reduces one’s self-esteem, weakens confidence and encourages high job discrimination.

However, he said faced with this type of predicament is not the end of the road as such certificates can be enhanced by leveraging on other things learned during the course of their programmes, while other skills could be acquired to enable such people thrive in other areas of endeavours.

Responding, Kunle Badeafuye, a graduate of BACKCOCK University thanked the MSE president and his team for the great gesture at organizing a free monthly seminar for graduates to be able to get acquainted with the demands of the market place rather than depending solely on degree certificates that may not guarantee them their dream jobs and careers.