What you should know about SAED part 1
SAED lectures and training is what some Corpers consider boring and stressful, but let us take a look at what it is all about
What is SAED?
SKILLS ACQUISITION & ENTREPRENUERSHIP DEPARTMENT (SAED)
It is a NYSC Department which is headed by a Director and is made up of two divisions namely:
1. Skills Acquisition Division
2. Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Division
FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT
Functions of the department include:
1. Sensitize and mobilize 200, 000 young graduates for skill acquisition annually
2. Facilitate the training and mentoring of 100, 000 young graduates in skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development for self-reliance annually
3. Promote public-private partnership for entrepreneurship development and self-reliance amongst Nigerian youths
4. Promote documentation and sharing of best practices on youth empowerment in Nigeria
5. Support evidence-driven advocacy efforts for favorable policies on youth empowerment in Nigeria
6. Sensitization and mobilization of corps members for enrollment into the skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development program
7. Development of a standard curriculum for the in-camp skill acqusition exercise
8. Identification of organizations at state level to provide training and mentoring in specific skills sets
9. Attachment of the corps members to the various organizations for skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development
10. On-going monitoring and supervision of trainee corps members
11. Facilitate access to available funding opportunities
What you should know about SAED part 2
This is the concluding part of SAED, it is important but note if you are not interested in anything available it is actually not compulsory but necessary for you in camp
DIVISION OF SKILL ACQUISTITION and ENTERPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT(SAED)
Sensitization: this is the first phase of the skill acquisition programme. Corps members will be sensitized by experts in different fields. It should be done elaborately with fan fare and lots of publicity through the print and electronic Media. State government functionaries are to be invited for the opening Ceremony. Efforts should be made to showcase the new policy drive of the NYSC to the Nation.
Sensitization (training): Emphasis will be laid on the skills acquisition programme as a way of preparing corps members towards self employment. The secretariats will be expected to find facilitators locally who have been engaged in skill vocations. The training facilitators are expected to be resident in camp to ensure that the corps members are adequately engaged. Consequently, the following skills are to be introduced in each camp. However, the secretariats are expected to choose skills that are readily available in their State from the pool of skills therein.
They include:
1. Fashion design/Tie and dye
2. Confectionaries making/Bakery
3. Soap and Cosmetics making, Beads/Hat making
4. Phone and computer repair
5. Barbing and Hair Dressing
6. Agro allied skills which should include: Poultry Keeping, Fish farming, Rearing of snails, Rabbits and Grass cutters. Animal Husbandry, Bee keeping among others
7. All other approved skills (electronics, etc)
One strategy that makes Getting a good job easy.
First, let me burst your bubble there is no easy thing out there but this strategy is an easy way still not meant for everyone. As it require less knowing Influential people or connect. And yet come with high pay.
In fact, using this strategy your uncle/older generation influence wouldn’t totally work here.
So let us get into it, first the basics. You need to know that everyone wants to work with someone of value, someone that brings something to the table, that is not easily disposable maybe because of skill, hard work or experience with clients.
The Strategy
So that said, you see there is a new wave of company creation getting more rapid in Nigeria just last year alone this new company called startup raised over $1 billion.
Let me tell you much of this money goes to hiring, and not much of this there hirings are not announced. (so if you are waiting for announcement)
Intermission
I have talked about the value of having a LinkedIn profile here in the quoted post, if you are yet to set up your kindly do, as it is getting more important and many applications or offers will even ask for your URL.
Mind you anything you do when you need it is mostly not well done (no one learns how to shoot on battleground). So do it now, add your internship, school, skills, take certification and build your connection.
Bullseye
This is not about that, check last week’s post on that. Back to the strategy, so many of these startups raise money and want to grow, so it a very right time to reach out, especially to the early stage ones especially getting into accelerators (YC, Techstars, etc).
Then the most important is to tell their founder you want to work for FREE, remember our earlier discussion about developing yourself. After like 2 months of working with this type of company for free you will have known if it is the right fit for you. The founders will know too and surely by then getting an offer is easy.
To make this strategy work well, be physically available, except if you are a programmer or developer. But still been available make it build a better connection.
Conclusions
Note like I said before the sacrifice needed is not for everyone. But with this be sure to get a good-paying job, and it doesn’t have to be 2 mnths for this to work, but as easy as it may sound. It might not work 100% of the time as some founders might snub you. But the majority of the time, if you are in for the free role and you are adding value you stand the chance of not only getting good pay but also equity in the company.
In conclusion, let us continue to add value to ourselves and to others as that is how we can all build Nigeria of our dreams. Even when no one is watching those skills and talents you are developing yourself might not look important now but will all come together later.
like the popular saying of Steve Jobs “you don’t connect the dot looking forward but backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
Cheers and have a great week ahead.
