HOW A YOUNG NIGERIAN GRADUATE CAN EARN 300K NAIRA MONTHLY
I remember 4 years ago, my Head of Operations at Accountinghub, Ngozi, requested for her 16-year old niece, Chidinma, to come to intern with us while she was waiting to get into the University.
Chidinma resumed at work.
We gave her a work laptop and created her official accountinghub email.
Same day she resumed, she learnt how to make invoices in the Sage accounting software and started working on a residential estate client.
This estate has 28 units and each unit gets Service Charge and Power Bills every month. That's 56 Invoices per month.
Chidinma did all the invoices and sent them out to the residents.
After invoicing, she learnt how to capture their expenses, she did it too.
Next day, she learnt how to handle their vendors, and she did.
Next day, she learnt bank reconciliation and again, she did it.
Within one week, Chidinma had learnt how to do the entire bookkeeping of this residential estate.
This is the power of workplace digital skills.
When you have the knowledge and skill to sit on a computer and execute work that someone wants to pay for, then you can dictate how you want to earn.
That residential estate pays 150k Naira today, for that job.
A job that took Chidinma one week to learn how to do it.
Now imagine if Chidinma spends 60 to 90 days with full attention and further support, mastering ever aspect of doing recordkeeping/bookkeeping for residential estates, will she not command the fees?
Did you notice that her age didn't matter to the client?
Did you notice that the client didn't ask about her degree certificate?
Did you notice that all that mattered was her skill?
She had the skill to do their monthly recordkeeping and that is all they want.
I often tell young people that if I were to be a young graduate in this age and time with social media and digital skills, I would sit at home and earn no less than 300k Naira monthly.
I will find 2 or 3 virtual jobs that need my simple digital skills and I will grow from there.
There are over 40 million small and medium-sized businesses in Nigeria. Over 80% of them have messy records. Out of this huge number, are you saying if I have the skills to do excellent bookkeeping/recordkeeping, I will not get at least 2 clients who are willing to pay me?
Of course, I will.
If I put my work and skill out on social media, and I do excellent work, I will get more than 2 clients who are willing to pay me, irrespective of my age or certificate.
Then I will grow from there using referrals and more selling.
Business owners are seeking for people with skills to solve their problems. They are not asking everyone their age or their certificate.
There is a 20-year old Nigerian boy doing excellently well on LinkedIn.
He even spoke at an event with me.
Businesses are engaging him to influence for them because he has good writing and persuasion skills on LinkedIn. He was an undergraduate and it didn't matter to them.
What simple digital skills do you have that businesses will pay for because it solves their problems, irrespective of your age or degree?
What skills?
A young graduate can work from home as a virtual assistant, a bookkeeper, a social media manager, and more, for 2 or 3 businesses.
This is how a young graduate can earn 300k monthly.
With in-demand skills and selling himself, he can earn this and even more.
If you are reading this and just like Chidinma, you want to get skills that businesses are willing to pay for, you should come to Data Entry Academy.
A 30-day school where you will learn software and skills for the workplace.
You will learn everything Chidinma knew how to do and so much more.
You will learn Bookkeeping tools, Microsoft tools, Google tools, and many more software that businesses use.
Batch 16 is enrolling now
The deadline for enrollment is 28Apr2025
Classes will start on 01May202
Here's how to enroll:
43,000 Naira
Accountinghub academy
Access Bank
0805957282 is the account number
Email Ahubacademy@gmail.com after payment
See you in the Academy soon