I HOPE and trust all your cellular phones are fully charged. Hold on and trust you will receive that important call, especially for those who are hoping to emerge victorious from the numeracy of unemployment, not forgetting those who are still “Assistant Officers’’ eying to be promoted to “Senior Assistant Officers’’.
All the best to you all. Yes I know how it feels to make those copies to apply for that position. At some point in life one of my friends even went to the extent of going to the police station to certify copies of his CV, that’s when you know he needed the job.
Nowadays you find yourself with your university degree applying for a post of ‘Assistant to the Senior Assistant of the Assistant Deputy Officer to the Deputy Officer’, even when the employer indicated they require the candidate to possess only a Grade 12 certificate.
When others go tendering others opt to dropping CVs all over. I understand how things have changed. Between the employer and employee; who is the employer and the employee? You thought you know how it’s done these days; you apply for a job even if it is not advertised (now you know why some companies display that note
“NO JOB COME TOMORROW’’ – you come tomorrow it reads the same, now which tomorrow?).
This is all happening in the name of unemployment. It is not a joke when some folks apply for jobs, a day later call HR to ask if their application has been processed.
There are a lot of answers to unemployment, but all I know is that hard work pays. Fellow youth; go there and get the best out of yourself and be productive, see if you will not count your blessings. Yes you can! It’s time to think how you talk and notice how you realise the best of you. Please don’t forget to remember that you can be the best in all you do. From now on, the song of Namibian life is … Hard work, hard work and hard work. Industrialised developed Namibia, here we come! Finish ‘n Klaar!
Hillary Liswani
Sinvula