(Book E4) The Job Hunt College: Who Are You?

‘Career development book for health professionals’

Before we get to know the rules of the game, it will be very good for us to pause for a moment to answer some basic questions about ourselves. The first question I would like to ask is ‘Who are you?’

Don’t be quick to give me an answer because I know who you really are. Moreover, it’s better for you not to answer because you don’t even know who you are.

Maybe I don’t know your name as you will be expecting me to, or your complexion, hobbies or favourite foods but I know you.

‘You are just like anybody else.’ That look annoying, isn’t it? But hey, it doesn’t look funny. I don’t dispute the fact that you were wonderfully and uniquely made by God.

The only thing I want you to understand here is, you are not any different from the thousands of your mates who graduated with you in the same year, the thousands of graduate who graduated before you and have not found themselves in any employment and the thousands of graduates who are yet to graduate from school.

You are all the same. You have the same qualification and the same certificate. You are birds of the same kind.

It even goes beyond that. You have the same interests and you are after the same thing. Your midnight worries are the same and that is work! work!! work!!! That is exactly who you are.

Knowing who you are, where you are and what you want, will help you to determine who you want to be and where you want to be. In reality, that solves more than 50% of your unemployment wahala! As you might know, getting to know the diagnosis of a patient solves 90% of the patient problems.

Most graduates including health professional run the job search race without prior knowledge of whom they are racing with. They take the race as if they are running it alone; forgetting that they are racing with the likes of Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay.