EMPLOYABLE: How Graduates and Early-Career Starters Can Win in Today's Job Market

THE GOALPOSTS HAVE MOVED. THIS IS HOW YOU MOVE WITH THEM.

The career advice most graduates receive is outdated. Graduate, apply, wait, and get hired no longer reflect the market you are walking into. If no one told you that, this book is doing it now.

EMPLOYABLE is not a motivational book and it is not a theory book. It is one complete system, run in order, for getting hired and then building a career that compounds. Every chapter is a move in that system, and every tool at the back of the book serves one of its stages.

WHO IT IS FOR

The Fresh Graduate. You have just finished school, or you are about to. You are smart, qualified and ready to work, but the applications go unanswered and the interviews are not coming. You are not failing. You are playing the game without knowing the full rules. This book gives you the rules.

The Early-Career Starter. You landed something. It gets you out of the house every morning. But if you are honest, this is not where you are supposed to stay, and you do not know exactly what to do next. This book gives you the map.

WHAT IS INSIDE

Part One: The Graduate – honest self-assessment, reskilling without going back to school, the modern CV architecture and the results formula, LinkedIn and visible proof, networking before you need it, applying with precision, and acing the interview.

Inside the Nigerian Hiring Machine – why the filters exist, how aptitude tests and assessment centres actually score you, and what these roles really pay.

Two bonus chapters – becoming AI-ready rather than AI-dependent and the four routes into remote work for employers abroad, including what you will owe under the Nigeria Tax Act.

Part Two: The Early Starter – diagnosing whether your role is a stepping stone or a dead end, defining your next move, closing the skills gap while still employed, repositioning quietly, and timing the leap.

Part Three: The Inner Game – rejection as data rather than verdict, resilience that lasts, the comparison trap and imposter syndrome, and knowing your worth before you negotiate.

The Appendix – working templates you use rather than read: your Personal Career Baseline, the Application Tracker, the 90-Day Reskilling Plan, the 90-Day Job Search Sprint, and an Entry-Level Pay Reference built on minimum-wage multiples so the ratios hold as prices move.

WRITTEN FOR THIS MARKET

NYSC. Graduate trainee schemes. Aptitude tests and assessment centres. ICAN, ACCA, CIPM, CFA, CIMA and PMP. Referrals and how opportunities actually move. The Nigerian CV conventions that are quietly costing you interviews, and what to do when your class of degree is below a 2:1. This book names the terrain you are actually navigating instead of a sanitised version of it.

IF YOU DO ONLY ONE THING

Run the 90-Day Job Search Sprint at the back of the book. It turns the whole system into a dated, measurable campaign: three phases, a weekly rhythm, and numbers you track month by month.

By Day 1 – your Career Baseline completed honestly

By Day 30 – CV and LinkedIn rebuilt, one project underway

By Day 60 – tailored applications in the pipeline and tracked

By Day 90 – your first review: what the data says and what you change

WHAT YOU GET

A 209-page PDF, delivered the moment you pay. Bookmarked and fully searchable, with a clickable table of contents, so it works on a laptop, a phone, a tablet or an e-reader. Yours to keep.

ISBN 978-978-67-2171-2

GISA Publishing House, an imprint of GISA Professional Education Ltd

PREFER A PRINTED COPY?

Print copies are produced on request, including bulk orders for schools, universities, NYSC camps, graduate programmes, churches and community groups. Write to [email protected] with how many copies you need and where they should go, and we will come back to you with availability, pricing and delivery.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Isaac B. Adetunji is a finance professional, career development consultant and public speaker who works closely with graduates and young professionals on career readiness, personal branding and positioning for opportunities in competitive environments. His work focuses on bridging the gap between academic knowledge and workplace expectations.

Your career does not happen to you. You build it, one deliberate decision, one skill acquired, one relationship invested in, one brave move at a time.