Advice To The Incoming N-Power Batch C Volunteers

You all know that N-Power is a skill empowerment scheme and the recently conducted N-Power Batch C recruitment have seen some adjustments. Unlike the previous batches which N-Power beneficiaries are expected to spend two years to gain job experience and employability skills, the new set of N-Power volunteers to be recruited will have only 1year to be empowered.

The prospective Batch C N-Power beneficiaries should have it in mind that the N-Power programme has an expiring date and as such, it is very important that future N-Power Batch C volunteers make the most out of the N-Power programme before they are exited to avoid what happened to N-Power batches A and B.

The advice to the incoming batch C N-Power Volunteers is that they should not subject themselves to only the responsibility at the place of their primary assignment. They should task themselves with other activities that will help build the other aspect of their lives and livelihoods.

The most amazing thing is that N-Power provides you with the necessary tools like an electronic device, free internet connectivity and ₦30000 stipend which is an added advantage to hone your skills like digital and entrepreneural skills, and put back that skills into your work as NAgro, NTeach and NHealth volunteers. It will actually be a waste of time if you end up not learning other skills that will boost your CV or direct you towards the entrepreneurial part after the programme.

As you all know, the N-Power programme has different components which I believed the non-graduate component is more or less the one that can bring out entrepreneurs. The graduate component will only equip you with work experience which at the end will require you to work for others, that is why it is important that while in the N-Power programme you should endeavour to devote some of your time to acquire entrepreneurial skills so that you can get something to fall back after the scheme.

However, the management of the N-Power programme have said that they have restructured the scheme for better results, but it is advisable that you still do not put all your hope on someone elses promises.

That is why this post was written to assist the new emerging N-Power volunteers to learn from the experience of their Senior colleagues the 2016 and 2017 N-Power volunteers who are recently exited from the N-Power Scheme and still do not know where they belong in terms of transition path.