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The youth advocate group Nigeria needed more members to help facilitate their work. Hand bills where handed out and applicants where to write on either of two topics: Youth sexual and reproductive health or The face of a leader. Applications started pouring in.
On the first day of the interviews, we had three people turn in, two males and a female. The males Matthew and Ifeanyi wrote on youth sexual and reproductive health, while Jasmine the female wrote on the face of a leader. The interview started with Jasmine who was a confident young lady, passionate about what we were doing and had nothing against volunteering.Then came in Matthew who was a little off, considering the fact that he had no idea what we were doing (so what on earth was he doing here). How would you go for an interview without having a single idea on what we were doing, not even the job responsibilities written on the hand bill gave him a clue.
Ifeanyi was the last of the crew to be interviewed, i cant be too accurate in describing Ifeanyi's behaviour but i think what got to him was the fact that he taught being a medical student gave him an edge over us (his interviewers). Infeanyi turned out to be an all too proud young person who wasn't sure how available he would be for work.
Let me not bore you with details, in the end Jasmine turned out to be the only face of a leader we had passion swelling in it to join the band wagon.
So you, you, you and you who is a young person going for an interview...Take a cue.
