The internet has become popular for everything from getting love to getting the best products, keeping in touch and even getting an education and making money. So also it has become a strong tool for those looking for jobs to be able to secure their dream jobs thanks to platforms like PushCV which happens to be one of the many sites graduates cling to in hope of getting their dream jobs in Nigeria.
What is PushCV? History
PushCV is a platform designed to cut the high unemployment rate as well as to ensure that the best talents are connected to top employers and recruiters. It is one of the largest pool of prescreened candidates seeking employment in the African continent.
In March 2014, PushCV was founded by Joshua Chibueze, Somto Ifezue, and Terry Kanu with the sole aim of linking job seekers to employers, thereby reducing the stress of street job hunting. However, the site claims that it links only the best to employers because they believe that best talents will help organizations grow and that will in-turn open doors for more employees.
Other Services it Offers
Aside from being at the center of employers and job seekers, PushCV does other things;
Online certificate and non-certificate courses
Trough the PushCV Academy, the platform offers a number of online courses which can add to skills and boost CVs. These courses include Critical Thinking, Action Planning, Developing Creativity, Communication Strategies, Diploma in Psychology, Advertising and Marketing 101, Fundamentals of Creative Thinking, Administrative Support, Developing Your Writing Skills, Advertising and Marketing 101, Internet Marketing Fundamentals, and many others.
While you can decide to take any of the courses for free, you will need to pay some amount if you want to offer certificate courses.
It is also a Job board
The platform also serves to provide jobs to people. Just like other job sites, you can simply visit the site and apply for various available jobs ranging from technical jobs, clerical jobs, managerial jobs, and much more.
Assessment services
As for employability, many have little or no knowledge that PushCV has a standard testing process called the “Elite Quest”. It has tests and assessment that help in measuring whether or not candidates are eligible for some jobs. This helps the platform to know the bests and therefore link them to suitable employers.
CV writing and updating (PushCV Resumes)
In as much as PushCV is known to recruit job seekers to employers, the site is known to also write CVs for job seekers for some token. This is with the aim of having the CV to meet the necessary standard. However, there is no guarantee that the CV designed for you by the platform will immediately give you job as there are those that have designed theirs and have gotten while others have had theirs designed by the platform but are still with no jobs.
Does PushCV Work?
Many stories have been told of the numerous people who have tried severally on the site to see that they land their dream careers through the platform but to no avail. Notwithstanding, few people have a different story entirely. Through the site, many have wasted time and effort while others have something to lean on.
- Getting a job depends on the availability of the job and your qualification. But then, sites like PushCV hardly work well in countries like Nigeria where there are very high unemployment rate and very few industries.
- It works well when it comes to the courses it offers whether you pay for it or not since there is no knowledge that is waste.
- More so, if you are not sure you can come up with a good CV, the platform may also work for you in designing a good CV for you, although you will have to pay.
- If you are an employer, the platform will in getting qualified people for you with no problem whatsoever. This is because of the large number of job seekers it has at its disposal.
At the end of the day, for job seekers, there is no single platform that will work for you so it will be best to go through the different available job boards and manually look for jobs that suit you.
What to do before submitting your CV
Here are some things you really need to know before sending your CV either to PushCV or its likes.
Make research: many job seekers forget this easy but very important step to reaching the goal they desperately desire. Before submitting your CV to any online platform designed to get a job for people, make your research on the particular job you have your eyes on. It is one thing to be good and another to sell yourself. Every employer has a description; hence you should use the description to your advantage and write your CV in accordance to it. It just might be that single mistake that has kept you away from having better testimonies.
Use clichés in a good way: go extra miles when you use the usual clichés of “I’m a team player” or perhaps “hardworking” or even “work under pressure”. These platforms and employers have thousands of CVs to go through and some of them might just be looking for that one CV that stands out. Don’t get me wrong, being hardworking and a team player and the rest of the clichés are very good and interesting but standing out is more than interesting. Give examples of how good a team player you can be, or how you’ve worked under pressure. It’ll stand you out and maybe you’ll be the next person to be interviewed.
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PushCV serves a lot of candidates ranging from interns to experts by sending CVs to employers. In spite of this, PushCV cannot work for you or secure you a job, or even allow you to take its free online course except you subscribe to it. For this purpose, you need to subscribe and upload the best of your CVs to get yourself a chance of getting a job.
Do not forget, however, that in as much as the platform has not worked for others, it has for others. And except you let the hope of getting to the exact destination you want take the lead and let you work harder on yourself and CV, PushCV, Jobberman and other sites with the same objective might not work for you. Good luck in your quest to getting your dream job.
