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SURVIVING THE TIDE
THE LENS
Alas! not my dream Job
Flash Fiction:
Table of Content
Interviews:
8 Questions with Frank Edoho (CEO, Frank Edoho Services)
11 Questions with Gidado Shuaib (Publisher, Youth Digest)
11 Questions with Seyi Owolawi (Associate Creative Director,
Abdulfatai Soliu
Goodbye Mum
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Eulogy:
Reverence of a Municipal Icon
Cover Story:
AMCOS Media: Raising Media Professionals
Special Thanks
DDB Lagos)
ruly, the labour market is arriving at the venue about an hour At the first floor was a beautiful lady
saturated, steve and it's the before schedule. On my way, there were with a smiling face, fair and chubby
survival of the fittest ie one complements about the company. My with a foreign assent. 'Good
must fight through the fists and bones to cab driver was commending me and the morning and welcome to
get to the dream land through the right company for the company's Corporate ***Assurance Company PLC, how
path. Social as I was looking left and right to may I help you?' I was so impressed
get the company; I was noding to show and I also responded with phonetics
we were together. My mind was already that I was scheduled for an interview
11 Questions with Timilehin Bello (MD/CEO, Media Panache
Nigeria)
FEATURE
Dr. A.L. Azeez (HOD, Mass Communication, It all started on a Wednesday when I Unilorin) received an invitation message on my Dr. K.K. Kadiri (Staff Adviser, AMCOS Unilorin) mail for an interview. As a fresh graduate, Mr. Najim Jimoh (Printing Sponsor, The Lens I was so happy to have been able to scale Magazine 2019) through the selection process to the Dr. Muideen Akorede (Patron, AMCOS) interview stage in an insurance company. Dr. Patrick Udende (Sub Dean) My determination was to give it all it Alh. Liad Tella takes to become a bona-fide member of Mr. Raheem Adedoyin the company in no-time. I was anxiously Dr. Mustapha Lambe Kayode waiting for the interview day to come. Upon A Tale Dr. R.M Adisa The interview was scheduled for the My Two Way Self Dr. S.S. Abdulbaqi following Monday by 9am. I already dry Secret Inn Miss. Mustapha Maryam Lasisi cleaned my suit, the tie was set and the Surviving the Tide Dr. I.Y Abubakar polished shoe was already shining for the Lost Race Dr. Salau Aishat Abdulrauf day. Surviving the Tide Barr. Abdulraheem Mahmoud Essay: Mrs. Aderinoye Ghaniyat O. A day before the interview, I had to read Centrality of Content Creation/Marketing in the Digital Miss. Adegoke Rukayat Ololade all relevant interview questions on filled and I couldn't wait to be there. and I showed her the text. Then, she
Marketing Industry- Bowale Odukale (Content & Digital Dr. Laaro Oba Abdulkadir Google and soft copies on my system. I Before I knew it, the driver parked and directed me to a board room (just
Manager, Verdant Zeal Communication) Mr. Yusuf Olanrewaju Tajudeen read all about the company and pointed at a three building storey beside like a mini-hall) where tens of job-
Content Creation in Advertising: Surviving The Tide- Popoola Dr. Omoloso Aishat development. I read about my roles as a work in progress edifice. seekers already seated. I walked in
11 Questions with Adetunji Oluwatosin (Digital Marketing
Strategist, Union National Bank, UAE)
Student Icon:
Entrepreneurship is innate for me- Ahmed Abdullahi (CEO,
Atewe)
I do not balance work and school, I harmonise.- Oluwabukola
Jegede (CEO, Olori.ng)
Poetry:
Inner Waves
perhaps a 'graduate trainee.' I was so
Jesujoba (Copy Writer, Noah's Ark Communications)
and found my way to the front so as
Features: Mr. Timilehin Bello (CEO, Media Panache Nigeria) confident that with all the catalogue of As I got down, I saw a sign post of the Sniper's Misery Mr. Yushau Gidado (Publisher, Youth Digest information, I was good to go for the company '*** Assurance Company The DO and DIE Magazine) interview. Even in my dream, I was alive PLC***...Lagos. I was so happy with Now the interview session, a tall and
Top Marketing Trends in 2019 Mr. Seyi Owolawi (Associate Creative Director, DDB in the interview room. I couldn't wait for the serene environment and my face dark guy in suit just came in and
Women Stereotype Lagos) the day to break; as early as 5:30am, I wore smiling mode. As I joyfully called four of us to come in to the
Making Life Choices with Content Creation Mr. Frank Edoho (CEO, Frank Edoho Services) already took my bath, prayed and greeted the gate keeper, I was quized inner room. When we got there,
Analyzing Campus Illusions Mr. Adetunji Oluwatosin (Digital Marketing supplicated for a favourable outing. It on why I came around. ' I'm here for three suited men were already on sit.
Alas! Not my Dream Job Strategist, Union National Bank, UAE) was already 6:00am, in order to beat the an interview sir... Thereafter, I signed I said to myself, 'this is a panel
Lagos traffic, I already set out in and I was directed to the first floor. interview, OK' then we were
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