SESEWA Vacancies

SESEWA is Nigeria’s No.1 internship organisation. Our services cut across industries in the professional sphere-providing placements for the best and brightest interns. We are deeply committed to developing the employability of youths by providing opportunities for them to learn the skills needed to excel in the twenty-first century work place.

SESEWA is searching for the best and brightest youths in Nigeria to fill the following internship positions within Lagos:

1.       MARKETER

Location: Oshodi

Duration: 6 months
Internship description

Interns will gain first-hand experience in marketing and networking; learn to harness their creative abilities and improve their communication skills as they develop marketing strategies.

Qualification

·      Applicants must be interested in developing her marketing skills.

·      Proficient in MS Office Suite

·      Email and phone etiquette

·      Applicant must pay attention to details.

·      Applicant must possess great communication and excellent interpersonal skills.

·      Applicant must have a strong work ethic and must mirror SESEWA values.

Stipend: N 25,000

Position number: 1 Intern

2.      WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN

Location: Lagos Island

Duration: 3-6 months
Internship description

The internship will expose the intern to the creative world of website development and design as well as provide the intern with the opportunity to hone their skills and gain valuable experience that will increase competence.

Qualification

·         Applicant will be required to work three days in a week.

·         Applicants must be interested have a basic background or strong interest in Web Design.

·         Applicant must possess great communication and excellent interpersonal skills.

·         Applicants must mirror SESEWA values.

·         Applicant must have an excellent work ethic.

Stipend:  N 20,000

Position number: 1 Intern

3.      HUMAN RESOURCE

Location: Mainland

Duration: 3 months
Internship description

The HR Intern will have the opportunity to gain knowledge about the role of the HR professional within professional community. The Intern will observe and learn the basic HR functions by receiving practical training.

Qualification                                                   

·         Applicants must be willing to work three days in a week.

·         Applicants must be interested in developing their human capital management skills as well as other management skills.

·         Applicant must possess great communication and excellent interpersonal skills.

·         Applicants must mirror SESEWA values.

·         Applicant must have an excellent work ethic

·         Proficient in MS Office Suite

·         Email and phone etiquette

Stipend:  N 20,000

 Position number: 1 Intern

4.      PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Location: Ikeja

Duration: 3 months
Internship description

Intern will learn how to plan, coordinate, execute and finalise projects. Throughout the internship, the intern will have the opportunity to learn a diverse range of skills from consultation to management and business communication.

 Qualification

·         Applicant must possess great communication and excellent interpersonal skills.

·         Applicants must mirror SESEWA values.

·         Applicant must have an excellent work ethic

·         Proficient in MS Office Suite

Stipend: N 25,000

Position number: 2 Interns

5.      MARKETERS

Location: Lekki

Duration: 2 months

Internship description

Interns will gain first-hand experience in marketing; they will also learn to harness their creative abilities, improve their communication skills as they developing marketing strategies.

Qualification

·      Applicant must be an undergraduate

·      Applicants must be interested in developing her marketing skills.

·      Applicant must great communication and excellent interpersonal skills.

·      Applicant must have a strong work ethic and must mirror SESEWA values.

Stipend: N 20,000

Position number: 2 Interns

6.     SOCIAL MEDIA

Duration: 2 months

Internship description

The internship is exposes the intern to the intriguing world of social media networking and marketing. The interns will learn practical content development skills and online branding techniques.

Qualification

·         Applicants must be an undergraduate

·         Applicants must mirror SESEWA values

·         Applicant must have basic knowledge of social media tools and the internet

·         Applicant must possess great communication and excellent interpersonal skills.

Stipend: N 20,000

Position number: 1 Intern

7.      SOCIAL MEDIA

Location: Lagos Island

Duration: 4 months

Internship description

The internship is exposes the intern to the intriguing world of social media networking and marketing. The interns will learn practical content development skills and online branding techniques.

Qualification

·          Applicants must be interested in developing their social media prowess

·         Applicants must mirror SESEWA values

·         Applicant must have basic knowledge of social media tools and the internet

·         Applicant must possess great communication and excellent interpersonal skills.

Stipend: N 20,000

Position number: 1 Intern

    The curriculum vitae of interested applicants should be sent to sesewa@hotmail.com

5 THINGS YOUR RELIGION AND WORK HAVE IN COMMON.

You have probably never thought of it but there are certain commonalities between your religion and your work (future work if you don’t have one yet). Whether you are a Christian or Muslim, there exists common denominators between your religious practice and your work that you may not have given consideration to. This short write up will expose some commonalities between your religion and your work that will make you enjoy the practice of both more. Here are five of them:

1. Values: Just like your religion, the organization in which you work has values that guide its operations and dealings. A valueless organization is like a religion without a belief system and its corresponding dogma. Just like Christians and Muslims have the Ten Commandments, your organization has its as well. Know the values with which your organization runs and work in accordance. If you work in an organization that does not have values, there is one word of advice for you- skedaddle. Or else, you will be working in incongruence with your religious tenets.

2. Meeting Place: Muslims have the Mosque, Christians have the Church and your organization has a special meeting place called the “office”- the building where the clerical and professional duties of your organization are performed. Just like you and other religious faithfuls meet regularly in a designated place of worship, you and other members of staff go to the office regularly.

3. Order: You must have heard the saying “orderliness is next to godliness”. An orderless religion is no religion at all. Whether you are a Christian or Muslim, there is high regard for order in your place of worship as well as in practice of the religion. In extension, a company is not called an organization by coincidence or mistake, it was purposely named so. Workers operate by laid down guidelines. There is a resumption time, dress code, code of conduct, assigned roles, chain of command and the rest. Going against organizational structure or principles is regarded a “sin”, one that committers usually pay for.

4. Improvement Through Study: Religious practitioners are always encouraged by their spiritual leaders to develop and grow spiritually through continuous study of their central religious text. Muslims are encouraged to study their Quran and Christians their Bible. In the same manner, workers are encouraged by management (usually through the human resource department) to develop their human capital through study and trainings. Management is aware of the fact that an organization is as good as the human capital it has. Great organizations do not take the development of their staff lightly as they know that that directly translates to organizational development and bottom-line profit. So just like spiritual development and growth is dependent on study of religious text, career development is an offshoot of personal development through study and training.

5. Ubiquity: Just like your religion can be practiced from anywhere because God is omnipresent, work can now be done from pretty much anywhere. You can pray in your church or mosque, your room, on the road or even on the toilet seat. Nowadays, thanks to technology, work can also be done in just about any place you choose to work from. There are devices now that not only improve efficiency and performance but are portable and allow flexibility of usage. So you can work in traffic, in your room at home or on your toilet seat while taking a dump.

So now you know, your work and your religion do not have to be in contrast. You religion can help you perform better at work if you consider these commonalities.

Are there other things you think your religion and your work have in common? Kindly let us know. Leave a comment.

Employability Series

After about five years of consistently connecting young Nigerians with fantastic internship opportunities, Sesewa has come up with a fact sharing, knowledge laden and practical employability training event. This event will see us giving attendees (you) very vital and well researched information gathered from our over 60 months of continuous internship placements.

Employment secrets will be exposed. We will be sharing what employers have secretly told us they want from employees. You will learn how to stand out at interviews. The training is going to be a highly practical session.

There is however one challenge. The class can only take 50 participants. It is strictly on a first come first serve basis. You are encouraged to click this link to register and secure a seat now. The training details are as follows;

Theme: Employability Series

Date: July 26, 2014

Time: 11am

Venue: Wave Hospitality, 3 Spencer Street, off Herbert Macaulay road, Sabo-Yaba, Lagos.

Fee: N2000 only.

You do not want to miss this event.

For enquiries call David 08035464299 or Jumoke 08179681973. Also follow our social media accounts to get updates about the training. Twitter- @sesewa, facebook.com/sesewanigeria, Instagram.com/sesewanigeria or LinkedIn. 

We look forward to having you.

How motivated are you; Intrinsically or Extrinsically?

Where does your source of motivation lie? Is it intrinsic or extrinsic? Research has proven that majority of people are motivated by the need to gratify external factors because of its immediate satisfaction. Let’s start by first establishing what Motivation is and how it directs workers behaviour towards productivity or otherwise.

Motivation

Motivation is the force that initiates behaviours and directs us to take action. It is the ‘why’ behind certain behaviours. People become productive at work for various reasons, some because they want to be recognised as a good staff and escape being laid off while some it is so they can become best at what they do, to fulfil their desired potential. The forces that drives or motivate us could steam from biological, social, emotional or cognitive components. These forces are either derived internally or externally, they make the sources of motivation, Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivation. There are theories that explain the different sources of motivation, read them here.

Intrinsic motivation

Intrinsic motivation describes what people will do without external inducement. Intrinsically motivating activities are those in which people will engage in by not focusing on monetary rewards but for the interest and fulfilment that accompanies them.

Extrinsic motivation

This is a form of externally induced form of motivation; the motivating factors are external, rewards such as money, grades, awards, praise, or winning a contest comes to be seen as the reason one is engaging in an activity, that activity will be viewed as only enjoyable when the pleasure they anticipate is from some external reward it generates.

Intrinsic Vs. Extrinsic Motivation 
Often times, people move interchangeably between the two types of motivation. Judith* a business developer confirmed that she is motivated to work with the aim of successfully completing a task, it is the feeling that comes with getting a pass-mark for a job well done, but is also motivated by the promotion and increase in salary that comes with it. Other studies also found that no one is completely intrinsically or externally motivated.  “I am satisfied with my job when I successfully complete my task and get an increase as a result of my efficiency.” Says Mariam* HR personnel.

Intrinsic motivation seems to be the most essential in the work place. It is what makes employees more productive. Dave* Student Relationship Officer, is of the opinion that intrinsic motivation is more essential, the motivation to work when the task at hand becomes a meaningful personal goal and as a form of challenging self. End of the month remuneration is secondary.

What is your source of motivation? I would like to know where you stand on these. Pleas post your comments below.