Awwal Ademola Blog

1. What are your top three strengths? How would you use them to make an impact at Zenith Bank PLC? 2. Tell me about your education,  how has it prepared you for this opportunity at Zenith Bank PLC? 3. In the banking sector, customer service is highly considered. Tell me the time you provided an excellent customer service. 4. What do you know about Zenith Bank PLC? 5. How will you handle an aggressive customer? 6. Tell me what you know about the trends and updates about the banking sector? 7. In your own opinion, what do you think are the benefits of banking with Zenith Bank PLC? 8. Tell me about a goal you achieved. And what are the steps you took to achieve that goal? 9. Tell me about your cash handling experience. 10. Give me an instance of how you keep tracks of details when you're in a conversation. 11. How do you stay organized? 12. Tell me a time you proved your trustworthiness. 13. What do you intend to accomplish at Zenith Bank PLC? 14. Tell me abo...

1. The Nigerian Stock Exchange has various financial services it renders. What  area of specialization do you prefer most? 2. At the Nigerian Stock Exchange, we take into consideration, continuous training of human resources, if you could expand your knowledge in any area of financial services, which area would you choose? 3. Tell me about your post secondary education and how do you think it will help your career at the Nigerian Stock Exchange? 4. When it comes to financial services, which area do you see as the most rewarding? 5. How do you cope with the new trends in the financial services industry? 6. In the financial services industry, integrity is required by the employees in the industry. Do you consider yourself as an honest and trustworthy person? 7. Due to the sensitivity of our business, in other to work for the Nigerian Stock Exchange, you must be able to pass a criminal background check. Are you willing to comply? 8. At NSE, we put a great pride in our cu...

1. Your position requires your presence on work days, weekends and even public holidays. How do you cope with that? 2. What do you know about Shell? 3. Why do you want to work here? 4. Shell puts customers service ahead of other activities, how do you place the customers needs and satisfaction first? 5. In Shell, we have a clear return policy, how do you convince a customer confronting you about a potential return? 6. We have a strong employee honesty program in place at Shell Nigeria Oil Products Limited to prevent loss. What will you do if a co-worker is stealing the company's products or money? 7. In this position, you will handle customers transactions, Can you rate your mathematical skills on the scale of 1-10? 8. In this position, you are required to wear a uniform? Have you ever worn a work uniform before? And how do you feel about this? 9. Are you capable of making attractive retail display to our customers? 10. At Shell Nigeria, we stron...

Agriculture as a sector in Nigeria's economy plays a significant role in rehabilitating the economy. The most important roles of agriculture are to feed the nation and thus saving it from hunger. It's also create employment opportunities to both entrepreneurs and workers in agricultural enterprises and agro allied industries. The following are the business opportunities in agriculture: 1. Crop Plantation: Since this is a major practise in agriculture, it thrives so well, because no matter the the case maybe everybody depend on plant products to survive especially for food and clothing. As the case may be, not everyone eats animal products and example of such people are vegetarians. So in this case, crop plantation/production cannot be undermined anywhere in the world, most especially in Nigeria.  Products of this business include arable crops, cash crops etc. 2. Cattle Rearing: This is common among the Northerners in Nigeria. This involves the rearing of cows, bulls, and...

The Nigerian economy consists of various  hot sectors which are money making sectors especially for the upcoming young entrepreneurs in Nigeria. So much focus is been put on the oil and gas sector, because of the nature of the wealth that can be derived from it. But as a young Nigerian, there are other sectors that can pump in money for you apart from the oil and gas sector. And they include: 1. Education Sector: Brilliant students in Nigeria who are passionate towards teaching and tutoring can make money in this area by establishing tutorial centres/classes for students having issues in some subjects and courses in the tertiary institutions. They can also offer tutorial services to students of professional examinations like ICAN, ACCA, CITN, CIMA etc. 2. Agriculture: In fact, this is the hottest sector for a Nigerian youth who is fit enough to work on the farm. It's a nice sector to invest in, especially this period where there is demand for locally produced food items and ma...

1.Accenture Founded in 1989 (from Andersen Consulting). HQ: Dublin, Ireland. Revenue: $34.85 billion (2017). Employees: 435,000 (2018), including 130,000 in India. Services:  Consulting, strategy, digital, technology, and operations. Work culture:  Accenture is credited with great leadership that supports employees and helps create an interesting workplace.  Tidbits:  Accenture (the name supposedly comes from “Accent on the future”), invested $941 million in 2016 in employee training and development. It aims at increasing diversity at the workplace, and plans to achieve complete gender balance by 2025. In 2016, 40 percent of its employees were women. As part of a social initiative, Accenture employees have taken up the Skills to Succeed program, which will impart workplace and entrepreneurial skills to three million people worldwide.   2.Bain & Company First glance:  Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Boston, Bain is one of the Big Three...

The profession of accounting cannot be underrated, most especially by top firms in the world. We can not do without employing the services of accountants in our business, that is, the big businesses. It sounds unprofessional to place accounting in the same position with bookkeeping. This is common among those who do not understand the nature and scope of accounting, especially the non-accounting graduates and also some accounting students who are not practising accountants. Today, accounting firms are consulted for services that cannot be rendered by just ordinary person like Auditing and Forensic Accounting, Tax and Regulatory Services and Advisory Services. Auditing and Forensic Accounting reveals the items contained in the financial statements of companies and also exposes fraudulent acts in the preparation of financial statements of companies. Nowadays, it is no longer a news that fraudulent practices are very high at companies. But the employment of the services of accountants ...