Lady who graduated with First Class honours from KNUST 'begs' for job on social media

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  • Bastard 6 months ago

    Was Billgate, Marc, Jack and co begging for government jobs. Be creative and stop blaming game. Education is liberation.

  • Mensah 6 months ago

    Indeed you are living your name. Not everyone can be your name and not everyone can be like Bill gates

  • Bastard 6 months ago

    At Sir, Mensah.... If you can't mingle with society, and that BOOK QUALIFY YOU TO BE THE BEST. THEN I have no idea about realism.

  • The Spear 6 months ago

    Check, even Gates and Musk had ample support from their rich parents, and for a long time. Gates' mother was at IBM and prepared grounds for his contracts with the Group.
    Respect Mensah's opinion.

  • YSL 6 months ago

    Bawumia should debate himself and tell Ghanaians, why after almost eight years of their governance, an economist with a first class is struggling for employment in Ghana,? whilst they promised in 2016 that unemployment was go ...
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  • Rex 6 months ago

    Don't mind him, Bill Gates and Musk, made it on their own in an economy that all economic indicators are positive and so therefore they had and still have a conducive atmosphere to operate(They didn't make it in an economy th ...
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  • Bambi 6 months ago

    Rex or whatever you call yourself, had you lost or you monies by banking at Amoabeng has bankrolled the defaulted Ibrahim Mahama with your savings you will not be saying what you are saying now. People whose ...
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  • Ataa Kwashie 6 months ago

    @Bambi
    That’s a big massive lie to allege. People including myself were accessing funds until NPP came to power when things started to collapse

  • iPRONOUNCE 6 months ago

    Is she living in a country where those people made it? Why couldn't you find a Ghanaian example to give her? Because there's none if you aren't connected or willing to sleep with big men. She just graduated and needs to start ...
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  • Yaw 6 months ago

    I wish her all the best in her search for job. Unfortunately they lied to us that if you get first at the university it means you have made it in life. Not knowing it’s a mirage

  • Joe 6 months ago

    Who said so please?

  • OSABARIMA MENSA 6 months ago

    The corrupt and incompetent one and economic illiterate could do with her services.

  • Seleen 6 months ago

    You thought lecturers were doing you good when they were encouraging you to undergo academic gymnastics. Your case might be different but girls your type are coming out in their numbers with fake certificates. We know them al ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: Gh leaders are not enlightened 6 months ago

    Stupid bastard the system is a joke. Regional n central give employers, corporate gh should be going to these campuses, holding career fairs and plugging the best students to come work for them so these institutions can grow ...
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  • Fd Ghana 6 months ago

    Please first class doesn’t mean best brains!

  • Nana Akosua 6 months ago

    Great comment, but jack toronto and the special needs mate up the country and doing nothing. Ghana is going through hell not and only the Nkwasia Poison People and their families are enjoying. They complained bitterly abou ...
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  • SIGMA LONDON 6 months ago

    My sister please apply to do your masters/PhD in the US or Canada where you will definitely get a scholarship. Come back to Ghana and become Dep Minister Finance. Good luck.

  • Yaw 6 months ago

    Hahaha, is the Dep minister finance job open like that? She making a choice of becoming Dep minister seems cartoon world

  • SACK OKRAKU NOW 6 months ago

    Madam start doing something, please go into bakery or poultry. Your first class will help you expand your business and be CEO soon. See me for a loan.

  • Jack Toronto jnr 6 months ago

    These people don’t like such jobs oo. They want to work for a company and be paid monthly. The country is still at night. Many are still dreaming

  • Is economics a skill? 6 months ago

    Hahahah, the country still at night; many are still dreaming, but who told you people do not daydream? Hahah

  • Smart UK 6 months ago

    Is Sunday, so let me be a good man. How on earth can you say this? Not all people are creative that is why we all need good governments to create conducive conditions for everyone. Well your name says it all.

  • ST Ghfuo: Gh leaders are not enlightened 6 months ago

    @bastard God always make sure to use your sorry life or that of your offspring to teach you a lesson fool just wait. GOD DONT KNOW WHAT A BASTARD IS ONLY FOOL HUMANS LIKE YOURSELF COMPRENDE? A petty thing like you go look you ...
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  • What is KNUST? 6 months ago

    Chew and pour education in Ghana doesn’t add any value to your life. That is why she’s begging. Nothing sensible in that coconut.

  • ST Ghfuo: Gh leaders are not enlightened 6 months ago

    Go for loan and sell bread, rice, gari, sugar, Tom brown, milk powder, nuts for 3 to 5 yrs. Do your masters n fly out to us or canada for phd

  • Kojo Yankee 6 months ago

    As an elder I was educated during the colonial era. Book is information, when coupled with our God given intelligence and innate creativity we can transform ideas into successful realities. Gather what you can and involve you ...
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  • Nana osae 6 months ago

    I know a lady who got 1st class in one of our Universities. She started selling soap.She is one of biggest distributors of Unilever products.
    Go to Europe and see gradutes doing cleaning and care jobs.Govenment s
    can't cre ...
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  • Anane 6 months ago

    She's not serious. You have a First Class in Economics and you're sitting on your ass? This is not 1960s and 1970s. Companies are not going to chase you because you had first class. Do you know how many people get First Class ...
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  • M.T 6 months ago

    Congratulations for your first class. But this is not the way to find a job. Again, employers are not interested in first class but your overall qualities. So, sharing your CV or resume would make more sense than a certificat ...
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  • Cheers 6 months ago

    That's it,instead of them to be creative,they ate always looking for white color job.

  • EFO KOKU 6 months ago

    OCTOPUSSY
    In Ghana it is not what you know but whom you know. The other way around it is called Octopussy. If you don’t know about it, then forget about it.

  • WHY UNIVERSITY DEGREES ARE UNLIKELY TO MAKE YOU WEALTHY 6 months ago

    University or college degrees alone will not make you financially secure. Only those who are prepared to be courageous, think outside the box by exploring opportunities, take sensible risks ,those prepared to work hard and pa ...
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  • Is economics a skill? 6 months ago

    Economics isn't a skill, let alone in demand to guarantee a graduate a job, so must she beg. No rocket science!

  • Concern Citizen 6 months ago

    I think it will be better to start something small on your own rather than waiting for someone to employ you. You may get a job but better to feed yourself rather than waiting for someone to give you food. A word to the wise ...
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  • Kubut3 6 months ago

    If she can't creat her own employment with her first class brains , iam sorry, her education is useless. Obviously she can't think outside of the classroom. That's our problem. She no better than all these young women ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: Gh leaders are not enlightened 6 months ago

    Some of you are born fools reading by your comments there is no equity within the system im sure her classmates you had less grades have jobs due to connections but you are here saying she should use her brains she didnt go t ...
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  • SORRY BUT YOU ARE THE FOOL HERE 6 months ago

    You were brought up in an environment where people insulted one another so that is all you picked up into your adulthood. Similarly, this girl was also brought up in an environment where she was taught to look for jobs after ...
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  • BB 6 months ago

    If you have first class, the logical thing to do is to apply to do a master program. First class is a strong indication of your academic potential. Then after the master program your chances of getting a job will be higher, b ...
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  • Anane 6 months ago

    The problem is sometimes the first class is not truly earned. Males lecturers in our universities are destroying standards. That's the sad truth

  • Kofi 6 months ago

    All those ladies with 1st class are fake, sex for grade nkoaa. Just give her the opportunity and see how they will under perform

  • Point 6 months ago

    I'm sure you're talking about your mother, sisters, unties and the other ladies in your family.

  • ofi Adu 6 months ago

    Ghanaians depends too much on government for everything. With your degree can't you just start something new? I am also advising Ghanaians, to make sure that the courses they are going to take at the university are going to h ...
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  • Capitalism is the cause 6 months ago

    Graduate unemployment is artificial.. unemployed graduate must wake up, organized to confront the capitalist system ..

  • ALHAJI TUWO ZAFI. 6 months ago

    Although brilliant, please use your head outside the box. Masters degree ?. No problem. There are lots of "teaching assistant opportunities, even in the college you graduated from . Grab one and your dream to continue with m ...
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  • I HAD MY LAW DEGREE FROM THE UK 6 months ago

    But that did not stop me from doing hotel cleaning work, factory jobs and volunteering part time whilst waiting on God to provide me with an opportunity in relation to my degree.

    After 3yrs my volunteering paid off and di ...
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  • Chalk and Blackboard 6 months ago

    Education is a scam . Dont waste your time on this nonsense . .,wasted years .

  • Nii 6 months ago

    She has limited her self to the financial sectors, that is causing her joblessness.
    A first class graduate indeed.Lazy girl.

  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 6 months ago

    Look at this "borla bird." I have even PhD but I am unemployed because of Nana Addo who closed down the bank I was working in. You ain't see nothing yet. Unless Sammy Awuku, Nana B or any of those young and wicked NPP men cho ...
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  • ofi Adu 6 months ago

    You are one of those bankers using their academic skills to scam people right? All those banks that were closed were fraud.

  • Joe 6 months ago

    There are so many tertiary institutions looking for lecturers. Have you tried getting into one of them, instead of being fixated with financial institutions?

  • Yaw Moto 6 months ago

    We are all saying things against the lady for nothing, starting something on her own requires some start up capital and where does she get it from. There are families in this country who depend on National Service allowance f ...
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  • Kwabena Gyam 6 months ago

    DON'T GIVE UP.
    Lady, don't give up. Apply to scholarship from Scholarship Secretarial, and outside colleges and universities.

  • Observer 6 months ago

    First class in economics and ur crying for job can’t u create one urself wat did u do at Knust to have obtained first class
    Anyway go and see prof noisy gyampoh to help
    They claim to train students and look at this very p ...
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  • K Duah 6 months ago

    Read Obeng Darko’s books and their minds will change.Her capital is in her brain and money,thinking
    is free.

  • Fire 6 months ago

    You see. They type of education in ghaba only produces graduates who can only survive by seeking a job not creating one . After all she needs someone who has a business and home sense to employ her . Let's start a better educ ...
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  • Sir G 6 months ago

    Talk to Vim Lady she can guide you secure a scholarship abroad or go to the scholarship secretariat

  • Kpee 6 months ago

    You are in desperate need for a job, and your concentration is in financial institution? Picky?? Does that mean you won't work in any other industry for a start and later push to work in your desired financial industry? No wo ...
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  • Jennifer 6 months ago

    Great strategy. If you don't shout you can't be heard of. I believe there are millions of people out there ready to help you succeed. Great effort. I admire your courage and foresight. Beauty and Brains. Never give up. Someon ...
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  • Jennifer 6 months ago

    A desperate situation in Ghana requires a desperate effort

  • OSAFO KANTANKA 6 months ago

    This is a common occurrence in Ghana. Another First Class graduated person
    from the the university of Education ,Winneba ,passed her Licentiate exams and done her National service is still without without a job or posting ...
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  • How many jobs has she applied 6 months ago

    Job application rate is 3% successful. If you have written to 100 places then my girl you're not searching. All people I employed in my business I knew none of them. Posted it on online job platform Jobberman, GhanaLogin, Lin ...
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  • Yabi Yabi 6 months ago

    This lady’s dilemma exposes the falsehood, the ignorance of arrogance and the low IQ scores of the architects of the NPP’s rush into the free SHS scheme. No one gets educated to brag about being educated. From the parents ...
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  • Fd Ghana 6 months ago

    Exactly my brother. The situation will worsen soon. We’re supposed to invest in creative and technical skills education from 6months to 1yr for a lot of our jhs and Shs graduates so that people can become self employed. Go ...
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  • WAS THERE NO UNEMPLOYMENT BEFORE SHS? 6 months ago

    Unemployment amongst graduates has been in Ghana long before the NPP party was created let alone the introduction of SHS so where from all this blah blah blah. Ask your Mahama if he was ever able to help them. Get a life!

  • Keyki 6 months ago

    1 class alone is not a guarantee for job in any part of the world. Wise up.

  • USA 6 months ago

    I know of someone who graduated with an MBA from American University of Beriut and operates a small boot manufacturing factory in the garage of his family house, employing 3 others. The most expensive piece of equipment he ha ...
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  • Sir Henry Fitz 6 months ago

    This young lady should kindly see Nana Aba Amihere to assist her immmedisteky in seeking for a job!

  • Agbelimor Paris 6 months ago

    Big men are going to take advantage of her predicament and sleep with her anyhow before putting her somewhere,sad.Women's world is full of tears indeed.

  • Kofi 6 months ago

    First class these days does not mean anything. Most of these graduates cannot write to save themselves.

  • Ghanani 6 months ago

    Let the Scholarship Secretariat help you study for your masters degree in a foreign University. Get in touch with it to see how best it can help you.

  • OZYMANDIAS 6 months ago

    Never open your legs to any stupid, bloated man who claims to be a top executive in any establishment. You deserve to get a good job by merit.

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  • Revelation + Rationality = Truth 6 months ago

    1st class in what?
    Many people have got first class and still struggling. Depends on the subject. We just need to be innovative sometimes as well. First class can't buy you food.

    She can add teacher qualification and sta ...
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  • Exactly! 6 months ago

    She can even start off with private tuition online. Lots of children needs maths, english, accounts parttime tutorial online. Just charge your computer to last for 1.5hrs and tell the other to do same.

    Even if you can get ...
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  • Asem 6 months ago

    Remember Ghana is a capitalist country therefore keep on struggling to get a job never give up your miracle will come soon.

  • BBB BBB 6 months ago

    Why do you want to do your masters outside Ghana. This one of the reasons we are not progressing. Study here and reduce your cost period.

  • Mr. Ibu 6 months ago

    Join the Professors in economics at Mankola. That is where you practicalize the theories of economics

  • Kwame Nyame 6 months ago

    You went to study so you can think and create businesses for your self and others. Think. Be creative. Those who are virtually illiterate have been able to create businesses that employ hundreds of Ghanaians. Let us do away w ...
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  • Joy 6 months ago

    Can't you teach?

  • Agnes 6 months ago

    This is Ghana for you.

  • Odasani 6 months ago

    First class in economics is good, but a first degree in economics is not very marketable in a country like Ghana. You need an advanced degree to be able to function as an economist- sad but that's the truth

    Caution to yo ...
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  • Slim 6 months ago

    Pls watch out for predators even as job offers pour in.

  • Akuffo is the worst president ever 6 months ago

    First Class KNUST econs student is jobless and desperately pleading to get one ??? This country spoil. Those in political science et al should find a way to escape this hardship asap.

  • Buluu 6 months ago

    Change your name to Addo or Danquah or Marfo. You will get job or scholarship bonanza.

  • KWASI IN EUROPE 6 months ago

    In Germany a person can have a Master's degree and go to catering school later to be a cook. A person can have a degree and later choose to be a waiter or fitting mechanic. Ghana is different. She can learn baking and make a ...
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  • WELL SAID.SELF-EMPLOYMENT MAY BE THE ANSWER FOR HER 6 months ago

    Taking the self-employment route may be the best way for her.But the only self-employed people who succeed (most fail) are those who are very disciplined, those who take the trouble to research their area of interests to chec ...
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  • Killi 6 months ago

    U get ass

  • Reality 6 months ago

    My Dear Lois, you can obtain Scholarship to study in Canada, the US and other Universities for your Masters Degree. Google Scholarships for Masters Degrees. Your first class division is a plus, so go for it.

  • Don Kobby 6 months ago

    I worked with some igbos after tertiary education and trust me, I learnt a lot, I realized with good managerial skills, I have a chain of shops scattered in Accra, it was there that I realized that tertiary Education is usel ...
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  • LEAVE OUT THE TRIBAL NONSENSE 6 months ago

    Stop the tribal insinuations. No tribe or race has a monopoly of hardworking entrepreneurial people. Any hardworking man or woman will make it if they have the drive, discipline ,courage and tenacity to make it. It does not m ...
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  • Ishmael 6 months ago

    If she had 1st class , she could easily have been a teaching assistant at the same school same department enroute to pursuing masters abroad where there're bigger and better opportunities !

  • Chew, pour and forget candidates ! 6 months ago

    Ghana education is chew pour and forget. Getting first class DOES NOT TRANSLATE INTO BEING A GOOD EMPLOYEE. Employers have moved away from paper certification as it’s easier to get a paper than experience.

  • Kofi 6 months ago

    Please put your notes together to write a book

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  • Joe 6 months ago

    Let me offer her free advice.
    Potential employers are not looking to employ people only on the basis of certificates.
    They want to know what you bring to the table. What can you contribute to the success of the business.

  • Akosua Dora 6 months ago

    Can't she establish herself some business or sell food. She is lazy that is why she's begging for job

  • jojo 6 months ago

    Today is what you can do that counts. Kindly send more of your CVs to companies.
    While doing that, apply for an attachment.
    This can give you more ways to enter what is going on within companies.
    Please let us not be too ...
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  • Tommy 6 months ago

    Thank you for the attachment advise. Go for the experience and not the money as everyone needs a full time job right after school. After the nss, gain more experience by attachments and by so doing God will favor you. It is ...
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  • Adam 6 months ago

    What u studied in uni has no use or relevance in today s job market . Young ones choose your courses wisely