Vacancies in AERO CONTRACTORS AIRLINE

Aero Contractors Airline is a well respected aviation service provider in Nigeria. Currently the fastest growing Nigerian carrier passenger, Aero is focused on bringing customers world class aviation services with affordable fares, quality on-board services, good customer relations with effective online services and operational competence. Aero pride itself in its punctuality and safety record. Aero has established itself as the leading regional and innovative carrier in West Africa.

POSITION: STATION MANAGER
DEPARTMENT: GROUND OPERATIONS
LOCATION: P/HARCOURT

QUALIFICATIONS (MINIMUM)
A good university degree/HND in any of the Social Sciences or Business Management Disciplines.

ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGE – Possession of Flight Dispatch Licence

JOB PURPOSE
Initiate, plan and manage all station Operational and Administrative Activities.
Assist, manage and develop station team members to ensure a differentiated and quality customer service experience for passengers.
Administer day to day performance of the station to ensure ontime performance of flights, customer satisfaction, while maintaining the highest level of service delivery and safety.
Responsible for commercial functions in the station. www.nigerianbestforum.com
Evaluate and audit work processes to ensure adherence to process regulatory standards and avoidance of wastage of company resources.
Maintain high level of trust and integrity in handling company resources.

Competencies
Good knowledge of government regulations
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Ability to interface with customers at all levels
Good Computing, Numeric and Analytical skills
Decision maker, Team player and People manager
Proactive Salesman and Administrator

EXPERIENCE
6yrs experience in airline Ground Services.
3 yrs in supervisory/management capacity.
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Handwritten application + detailed CV to be received by HHRA on/before Mon 22nd Aug 2011.

POSITION : CAPTAINS
Minimum 5000 hrs total time
1000 hrs on medium jets
500 hrs on B 737 – 300 to 500 series NG an advantage
ATPL preferably with a Nigerian license or validation

POSITION : CO PILOT
Minimum 500 hrs on B 737 300 to 500 series NG an advantage
Preferably with a Nigerian license or validation

TO APPLY
DETAILED CV SENT TO: careers@acn.aero

Multinational Chemical company Recruiting today

SALES MANAGER
REQUIREMENT
BSC in chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, food technology or similar course
At least 2years working experience in the sales and marketing of chemicals/related products
Valid driver’s license. www.nigerianbestforum.com
Proficiency in computer packages

TO APPLY
Send your resume within 7days of this advert to: veratayo84@yahoo.com

Production Manager at OANDO PLC

VACANCY TITLE
PRODUCTION MANAGER
DEPARTMENT Lubes
DATE PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2011
CLOSING DATE Aug 29, 2011

VACANCY DESCRIPTION
The Production Manager is responsible for the day to day running of the Production unit in KLP 1 & 2 ensuring Lubricants are manufactured to product standards, continuously monitor all equipments attached to the unit to minimize down time, and oversee the transfers in and out of finished bulk products.

SPECIFIC DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Prepare detailed production program bi-monthly and monitor Implementation on daily basis to meet specific warehouses request.
Monitor and ensure adequate stock of packaging/raw materials are available to meet the set production targets.
Coordinate operations activities in plant 1 & 2 : Production. www.nigerianbestforum.com
Planning (blending and filling), warehousing, and equipment maintenance.
Supervise the activities of Blending, Filling, Packaging and labeling staff.
Prepare daily and monthly reports to monitor stock of finished products; materials usage and consumption-JD of the Materials Supervisor not prod. Mgr
Liaise with laboratory/QA unit to ensure that products meet specification.
Ensure compliance of production operations with the company’s EHSQ Standard.
Engage in Stock and Production batch materials reconciliation.
Design and implement appropriate competency building programs to raise the skills and knowledge of staff in the production unit.
Supervises the activities of the entire plant (along with other unit heads in the plant) in the absence of the Plant Manager.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
A good university degree in Engineering or Business Administration
Minimum of 4-6 years post graduation and 2- 3 years working experience in Lubricant business and/or plant management.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS REQUIRED
Lubricant Product Knowledge.
Analytical Thinking & Conceptualization
Accounting & Budget Monitoring Skill.
Plant Performance Monitoring Skill.
Coaching & Supervisory Skills.
Employee Performance Management.                                                 
Entrepreneurial Ability.
General Personnel Administration.
Health & Safety Management skill.
 Inventory Management/Stock Control.
Problem solving & Decision Making Ability.
Product Quality Management Skill
Resources Management Skill.
Teamwork Spirit. www.nigerianbestforum.com
Written and Oral Communication Skill.
PC Utilization (Excel, Word, Power Point) Skill.

CLICK LINK TO APPLY
http://www.oando-cvmanager.com/careers/index.php

Graduate Vacancy for Immediate Employment

Business105.com internship program is aimed at guiding unemployed graduates awaken their entrepreneurial spirit and turn their ideas, hobbies and passion into useful businesses that create wealth. Our goal is to equip our interns with a unique and powerful set of skills to start their own businesses. Internship program takes a practical approach and lasts for 3months.
Some of the vital business skills you will learn include:
1. Leadership skills
2. Team-building skills
3. Communication skills
4. Cash flow management
5. Research skills (you will be guided to conduct a marketing research based on your passion)
At the end of the business planning course, every intern MUST develop a “real” business plan. This plan is then discussed and evaluated by peers and practicing entrepreneurs.
Successful business plans will have access to the following:
1. Funding Support in the form of loan finance (to individuals that has acquired the technical skill based on their hobby, passion)
2. Mentorship Support – Be attached to a mentor similar to your chosen area of business.
3. Marketing Support (Browse through brand105.com library, choose any website template of your choice, and get your business running at the completion of your internship program. (COMPULSARY FOR ALL INTERNS).
Other Benefits
Every intern is automatically registered into our affiliate program.
Our Affiliate program gives you the opportunity to Earn 20% commission referring people to us while you learn. The more people you refer, the more commission you make.
Becoming an affiliate is simple and profitable. Just refer someone to us, which concludes with a sale for brand105.com and you earn a commission. Get your commission deposited in your bank account.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Write a 300 word essay describing what you love so much and how you can utilize your passion to meet people’s needs.
Educational Requirement
• B.A/B. Sc/HND/OND in related field.
• 0-3 Years work experience.
• Age: 20 – 35
• Gender: Male/Female
Interested and qualified candidate should apply to internship@brand105.com within two weeks of this post.
NOTE: WE ACCEPT APPLICATION FROM INDIVIDUALS BASED IN LAGOS ONLY.

How to Optimise Your CV for an Online Database

Perhaps like thousands of others you have posted your CV onto an online job board. Registration is free and easy, and it almost seems too good to be true. You invest 10 minutes of your time, post your CV, and then sit back and wait for the phone and the emails.

This is a great way to minimise effort and maximise exposure to jobs you might never have heard about. However, if you don't consider what happens to your CV once you post it online, you might have to wait for a long time for the interview call or miss out on plum jobs.

To improve your chances of success, it is worth knowing what happens to your CV once it lands in the online database , how a job board actually works, and how a recruiter uses this resource to find their candidates. Job boards generally operate by charging recruiters to search the database, that's why it's free for you to register. The recruiters will invariably be in a hurry and often under pressure in their candidate search, because the only way a recruiter will get paid, and their company profits, is by placing successful candidates with their clients.

How does a recruiter find my CV?

Recruiters will input combinations of search words to find the exact candidate they are looking for. Their search will be quick depending on how specific their search terms are: the number of CVs returned from a search may vary between just a few and several hundred. If the exact words for the skills, qualifications or experience that they are searching for do not appear on your CV in a narrow search you may never be pulled from the pack, or at best in a wider search you might appear so far down the results list that your recruiter has logged off and gone home before they even get to you.

In practice, a skilled recruiter will typically scan their target job description to look for search terms including the sector, job title alternatives, key skills, specific software packages or the technical, professional or academic qualifications which are essential criteria for the job.

They are looking for as close a match as possible, and will use a technique called Boolean or logical searching to mine the candidate database. Boolean searching uses "operators" which include the terms 'and', 'or' and 'not' to find the candidate with the right combination of keywords in their CV.

You can visualise a Boolean search by imagining a Venn diagram, for instance a Boolean search for engineer and graduate will find all the candidates who overlap in the group in the middle on your diagram, and who are both engineers and graduates. Alternatively a search for engineer or graduate will find all the candidates who have the either of the terms graduate or engineer on their CV.

The important point to remember is that if you don't have the same terms that the recruiter is using in their Boolean search, you stand no chance.

To illustrate how critical this is in practice as an example, it means listing specific software packages, for instance: Excel or Powerpoint. If you have simply written on your CV, "good knowledge of Microsoft Office", while clearly the semantics demonstrate that you have the skills required, the Boolean search performed by the recruiter does not have the logic to understand that "Microsoft Office" actually means Excel or Powerpoint. Consequently and disastrously you might be completely missed on a search for someone with Excel or Powerpoint.

Put yourself in the recruiter's shoes

In order to optimise your CV you need to put yourself in the place of a recruiter, and imagine what search words they might use to find someone just like you for your target job. Don't presume that because your previous company used one job title, that there's no other term that could describe it, or that the recruiter will have sufficient knowledge or skill to use the various alternative phrases to describe your job title in their own search. As a rather tenuous but illustrative example, although a recruiter is highly unlikely to be looking for a beverage trading assistant, let us suppose that they were, and that they had only used the exact phrase "beverage trading assistant". This is your forte, you have years of experience multi-tasking tirelessly in aiding and assisting others to imbibe alcoholic beverages, washing glasses and ejecting those who have become a little too boisterous. You dream endlessly of landing your next beverage trading assistant, and this one is paying £50 per hour. However you have exclusively used the term "bar tender", and unless you have also peppered your CV with various descriptive terms including the term "beverage trading assistant", then sadly you will never appear in that particular search, your CV will continue to languish in the depths of the database and your return to the days of working behind a bar will continue to evade you.

My advice is to invest some time now, reappraise your CV for an online job board, think like a search engine and let your CV spiral its way up to its rightful place on the desk of your future employer.

Rowena Simpson is business development manager and blog writer for Renewables Careers and Oil Careers.

Interview and Employment Tips

How graduates can stand out from the crowd

A study published by Metro found that more than half of all new graduates are either unemployed or in menial jobs six months after leaving university.

Rosie Percy has applied for (and been rejected from) more than 200 jobs in the last year, despite trawling job sites, signing up to alerts, and tailoring her applications.

She writes: "I have received reams of messages from those in the same post-study slump as me, and we're all doing our utmost to appeal to employers and excel above the others... We're all posing the same question: what's a graduate got to do?"

When competition is this fierce, it's crucial to stand out from the crowd. Rather than doing the same as everyone else, try these approaches to get noticed.

Prove yourself

Be inspired by the widely-admired advertisement for a copywriter (from Poke). Applicants have to respond to five challenges – each one representative of the type of work a copywriter could be expected to produce, from writing a book title, to website copy and a slogan.

Rather than just sending your CV, think of ways you could prove your value to a prospective employer. Set up your own website or blog to showcase examples of your work – especially if you're aiming for creative/communication roles in journalism, PR, website design and so on.

Or provide examples of case-studies that show how you've gained experience. Marketing campaigns, product design and launch, customer-service initiatives: all these can be attached to your CV as evidence of your ability to do the job.

Show how your skills could be used on the job by applying a problem-solving slant in your applications. An article in Bnet describes the skills that humanities grads can uniquely offer business. While science students are taught to predict and test data, arts students are taught to "play with big concepts", and apply new ways of thinking. Arts grads excel in skills that mirror those often seen in job ads: innovation, communication, and customer satisfaction. Draw these out in your applications, describing how you would use them to solve a specific problem in your chosen role.

Do the job you want

In the College of Journalism blog, Josh Halliday points out that extra-curricular work will get you hired – not your degree course.

He tells how one journalism student came to the attention of the production editor at Sky News to land valuable work experience in the newsroom. Even if you're stuck in a dead-end job, find ways to do what you aspire to. Highlight these spare time projects on your CV (over your main role) to show how you're already active in your target industry, and therefore, more work-ready.

Break the mould

Your CV and covering letter will need to stand out if you're to be short-listed. Make sure yours are concise, interesting, and free of stuffy, cliched wording. Most application materials follow a similar format, with the same choice of headings and sections, so grab an employer's attention by letting your personality shine through and breaking a few rules. (Just don't sacrifice focus, accuracy and readability in the process.)

Apply the same strategies as copywriters and marketeers

Start with the headings, which should be descriptive and specific, but also pique your reader's interest. Gayle Howard, an expert CV writer, suggests attracting readers with "Impact" or "Recognition" rather than "Professional experience", for example.

Using numbers or "how to" in titles works for bloggers. Try spicing up your covering letter with a headline such as "Three reasons to hire me" to draw in your reader.

If you apply speculatively, use the subject line of your email as a selling point. Rather than writing "Enquiry for editorial vacancies" try "English grad with sharp editing skills".

Create a rapport with your reader. Do this through well-chosen career stories to keep your reader interested to the end. Keep them engaged by writing tightly and concisely, using short (rather than long) words, and by avoiding corporate-speak, jargon, or long, convoluted sentences.

Use punchy, vivid vocabulary

Don't go for the stale options often seen in CVs.

"Responsible for booking acts for student union" is not very exciting.

"Booked carefully-selected acts making double expected profits" is better.

"Pounced on 'once-in-a-lifetime' acts touring London, cajoling them to perform one-off gigs on campus and doubling student union profits" is far more descriptive of how you achieved success.

Consider an infographic CV or online CV

This one breaks all the rules. It's written in a narrative style, includes a photo, graphics and a splash of colour that's a refreshing difference from the usual black on white background.

Look beyond the usual graduate milkround companies

Small companies can often offer a greater range of challenges and learning experiences. The hours might be longer, but you'll also have the opportunity of seeing different sides to the business, gaining a greater understanding of how the company works in the process. This is helpful if you're not completely clear on your career focus, as you'll have the chance to be involved in a variety of projects.

Use social media to help you find small or niche companies and recruiters that might not have the budget to appear at career fairs or to advertise nationally. Connect with people in your industry to expand your network of contacts, then stay active – aim to build relationships over the long-term. Simon Caine offers excellent guidelines on how best to use Twitter for job-seeking.

Looking in less obvious places also helps. Sara Megan found that Gumtree was a great resource. "Of the five jobs I applied for on Gumtree, I got four interviews and one job offer."

Be the professional everyone wants to employ

In your dealings with a potential employer try to achieve a balance of "can-do" confidence and enthusiasm with humility and desire to learn. Avoid giving the impression that you're entitled through having gained a degree.

Expect rigorous interviews, and don't get rattled by odd or stressful questions. Remember – your personality will be assessed as much as your ability to do the job.

If you're convinced of your aptitude for a particular role, you need to communicate this belief to people with hiring authority. Stay up-to-date with your industry and focused on your eventual goals. This means putting in the hours to build contacts and knowledge, but your efforts and perseverance will pay off.