Originally Posted by
seunlove
I am happy you all are alive to the huge scam doctored by this so called consulting firms. Nigerians are intellectually endowed and can hold their own in any intellectual contest, but these consulting firms would make a mess of applicants intellectual capacity, i enjoin you all to remove the blindfold and preach the poetry of departure from this evil with the nomenclature of consulting firm, they are never real, only an insignificant few would be extraordinarily lucky to get this job by dint of luck, the vast majority of successful hopefuls would get there because they have political long legs. Nobody should even try to tell me banks employ purely on merit, the bitter truth is that the consulting firms are still the judge in their own case, dont forget that they have children, nephews, cousins, niece ,classmates, brothers, kinsmen, neighbor, church members, school sons or daughters from alma- mater e.t.c and the test result you will have is a function of what they decide to give you, you will fail if they want you to fail and you will pass the test if they so wish, again dont even try to tell me it is a computer based test (CBT),as a CCNA, CCNP, CCSP certified professional, i very well over sabi that there are ways you can programme the delivery router through telnet sessions with the over ride command, and specific login Id of some applicants would be programmed to fail even before they take the test, while some can be programmed to pass even if they fail. the huge number of applicants invited by this consulting firm never had the original intention of justifying fairness and equity but rather it is meant to boost the CV of the consulting firms with statements like "we have conducted aptitude test for over 100,000 000.000 applicants" and statement like this is a CV booster. Though i am currently employed in a federal university, but i still share in the pains of the unemployed Nigerian youth. My most admired forumite prof salvage has once raised this issue of "computer based tests being the latest cloned robotic monster, it has taken the pen off the hand of the intelligent, it is a nightmare of the scholar, and the bane of intellectual showmanship". My submission therefore is in line with the argument of prof salvage, that recruitment should be a serious business, and all stake holders must discharge their onerous responsibilities with with an unalloyed integrity of unprecedented historical proportions, and the submissions are (1) a prototype of the test taken and the answers chosen should be sent to the inbox of all the test takers after the conduct of the whole test session, this is essentially to prevent undue advantage to those whose date and time is not early enough, the bottom line here is that at least a week after the whole test session all test takers must have an exact copy of the questions and the answers they have chosen in their inbox (2) the marking schemes should be sent to the inbox of applicants, and this marking schemes should not be bereft of explanations and logic of arguments, as to why a particular answer is chosen. (3) the test result of each test taker should be sent to their inbox. My anger sprouts from the fact that very intelligent Nigerian graduates only "fail" when it is an employment test but they perform excellently when it is not a recruitment examination, it is indeed a vexing conundrum. this game of deceit must end and we should employ legislative means to bring it to an unceremonious end, we cannot continue to be slaves in our fatherland, several intelligent Nigerian graduates have lost their lives in the course of traveling through the length and breath of Nigeria to write scams, deceit and charades known as test, and several others have wasted the few resources within their disposal to finance this unfortunate trip. though those who would be lucky would be lucky, but it is not fair enough to the intelligent Nigerian graduate who has paid his/her dues at the shrine of knowledge, things must change and the the time for change is here.