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COURSE OBJECTIVE: To expose the participants to rules guiding job interviews and capacity or ability to package good CV and proposal. INTRODUCTION As they say, an idle man is the devils workshop. If one is busy on his or her job, he/she will not have the time to giving thoughts to unreasonable things, so it is advisable for one to be busy with work. Also if you are working, it would aid one to earn good rewards for a successful living. &nbsp &nbsp For one to achieve this, you must work. As a result of this, it is paramount to know the rules or principles that will help you to be successful in job interviews, when such opportunity presents itself. WHY DO YOU WORK? You work because of the expected derivable benefits in terms of satisfaction but most importantly, because of inherent of the opportunity cost. WHAT IS JOB? A job can be defined as one or more positions or family or a group that can be treated similarly or dissimilarly held and for sometimes used fun...

HOW TO MAINTAIN A HEALTHY STUDENT-SUPERVISOR RELATIONSHIP INTRODUCTION This is a common issue in the course of researching in an academic situation. The ideologies of the supervisor and the students might not always be similar. This should however be handled with caution as a strained relationship would affect the tone of the research work, the drive of both parties, the final grade assigned to the student and the psyche of the student even. The conflict here is assumed nothing physical but any that might hinder or slow down the pace of work between both parties. The possible causes of this conflict are numerous. A few of them include: Prior knowledge: If the Supervisor has had contact with the student or heard about the students attitude or grade, this might lead to pre-formed notions about the student, even before their first appointment. Especially if the whole students were distributed randomly to different lecturers in the department for supervision. A minor slip fro...

HANDLING GROUP RESEARCH: SURE TIPS FOR SUCCESS We were assembled. We argued. We were at each other's throats. Then we settled. We laughed hard. We played, prayed and hoped. Together. We presented. We failed. We were blamed altogether. Then we pointed accusing fingers at each other. Finally, we accepted our fate and moved on. This is a condensed depiction of what happened in a group research project I was recently involved in. You see in life, at some point we would all have to be engaged in group work of some sort. In our case, we were asked to work on the refining of castor oil. As chemical engineering students, this was to entail the process description, materials sizing, process design and simulation, full plant layout, economical and environmental considerations and what-have-you. It was to be massive. You can imagine the tussle, utter confusion and nervousness that would ensue at first. Group projects? Different shades of experiences, especially my class which is a b...

A STEP BY STEP GUIDE ON RESEARCH PROJECT WRITING FOR UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES OF EDUCATION AND POLYTECHNICS IN NIGERIA Undergraduate research project is an independent effort required of students in tertiary institutions. The students, though supervised by an academic staff, are to carry out a pre-determined research within the constraints of their study. The supervisor is primarily to receive proposals of the research interest, approve it, provide guidance and assess the work at the end. An external supervisor is usual, to provide an external and independent assessment of their research work. The proposal for the topic is to include the intended subject of study, a brief description, justification for the work, aims and milestones, software and hardware to be employed, assumptions to be made, the methodologies involved and the references. There are standards in the research build-up, actual research, and presentation and print submissions. These put the students in shape for th...

HOW TO DRAFT EXCELLENT PRELIMINARY PAGES IN RESEARCH WRITING For a research to be termed acceptable to your research coordinator or project supervisor, the preliminary pages of the work must be all encompassing and concise enough to make great meaning. Preliminary pages are those write ups that come before the chapter one of every project or research work. Standard preliminary pages has the following features in these chronological order Cover page Declaration Certification Dedication Acknowledgement Table of contents Abstract s Cover page of the research work The cover page of a research page is the first page of the work which contains: The full topic of the project work. The case study of the project/research work. The researchers/student’s name, starting with the surname and registration number. The institution of study. The year and month the project work was completed. The above specifications must be done with block letters. Below is an example of a cove...

TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS IN RESEARCH: 10 THINGS TO NOTE Research work could take the most unexpected twist and turn. It is a nerve-racking experience. Usually, if approached in a haphazard manner, valuable time could be lost. In big research corporations, each researcher has a set of responsibilities and area of focus, this might help and aid timely completion of research work. However, in personal or unstructured research work, these tips on time management are life-saving. Without any bias to any form of research, these tips are generally applicable. 1. Read up! This is the first thing to do to ensure completion of research in the quickest possible timeframe. There is no end to the amount of underground pre-knowledge on any research work to be embarked upon. This will help guide in decision-making during the research. 2. Quite naturally , the first is to make a plan or strategy from the onset. This has been rehashed numerous times. But the key to the plan or strategy working out...

HOW TO ACE THE 25 MOST COMMON PROJECT DEFENSE QUESTIONS When I wrote ‘Making Awesome Presentations: Useful Tips for Project Defense’, I never knew it was going to be a great success story. So many success stories and commendations from over 50,000 readers were just enough to make my year and give me more grace to write more. Well, enough of the hyping! That great piece was still lacking some smaller pieces to make it totally awesome as some ‘Oliver Twist-Like’ fans still needed more to it. Questions like, what should we expect on the D-Day? What type of Questions do they committee members ask? Can you suggest possible questions and answers that will be asked when defending a dissertation or thesis paper? These questions fill my mail box by the day and since I adore my readers, I have decided to write a sequel to ‘Making Awesome Presentations’. This time around, with the help of some senior lecturers, friends and my own experience, I have compiled some common questions you may fa...