NewStats: 3,263,947 , 8,182,023 topics. Date: Sunday, 08 June 2025 at 11:12 PM y5u1w

The younger ones are growing up so fast, knowing things we older ladies took 10 years in know in a day.

The rate of promiscuity and sexual display now being proliferated among kids and teenagers makes me cringe and imagine how things will get bad in the future, I pray it doesn't.

Hey guys,

First academy was awesome! I bet you that it would be the time of your life for sure! It prepares you on how to be prepared professionally and be productive strategically and otherwise.

Those who haven't done their AC yet, please you are lucky enough to prepare extra hard and make sure you get in here.

To those awaiting TS invites, I heard FBN still needs a lot of hands and the 2016 GTP applicants are going to fill the needed spaces, so chill guys, lots of trainees would still come in over time.

I would so much miss First academy but its all for the best, the journey of becoming a professional banker just begun and I thank God and FBN for giving me this opportunity.

Lastly, like I said days ago in reply to that fake amebo claiming "reliable source", FBN would not reduce any cut off mark for you, when coming to FBN just make sure your goal is to score 80% at least in any thing and you do and you would be okay. Also, make sure you enjoy yourself here, the environment is super conducive for learning, make friends, enjoy the sporting/recreational facilities, enjoy the good food and prepare for the good life afterwards!

brownsucre1:
For doz looking for updates from ts guys calm down develop urselves.im not sure we ve up to 10 nairalanders there besides they re not finding things easy, the cut off was 75 yet more than half cannot make up to 70 . D academy is currently fighting to make cutoff 70 cos d failure is much. Wen it was bn said in previous chats regarding d courses,some over sabi pple were saying it's normal ing dey did in school. Please please develop ourselves ....d results seen re noting to write home about and pple will be dropped come 8th Feb.......from a very reliable source

Did I hear you say there are not up to 10 of us Nairalanders in First academy? Who is this dude please? Can you please speculate on things you know things about?

Well, concerning the fact that you guys don't hear a thing from us in TS, if I talk too much about that I would be tagged as the renegade parrot so I would just let things be for now.
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Lastly, no one is reducing any cut off mark, those who ed are still a good number, and moreover for those who failed it might just be an answer to the prayers for those waiting to be called to First academy, there is nothing that happens in life that doesn't have a resultant effect or a disadvantage-advantage aspect to it for different folks.

Gotta go guys, sneaking this chip of info in while in the toilet.

I won't ! I see a pic on a status I like, I just screenmunch it, I see a video I like, I ask the person to send it to me, simple!

This is how you all keep on ing all these useless third party apps that spy on you and sell your data/personal information to the multi dollar data selling business, I see a lot of folks with irrelevant apps all over their phone and I just cringe!

You think most of these free third party apps are free when in the real sense they are stealing your information and making billions of you all.

Ralphlauren:


UKmigrant

to be fair, the housemates are not that bad.

nigerian food smells - we just don't know it.

my wife usually lights up one of those scented candles after cooking just to get rid of the lingering smell of oporoko, dried fish, iru, etc. sometimes she sprays airfresher. so i honestly don't blame the guy asking you to shut the kitchen door. another tip is to always ensure the extractor for the hob is on whilst cooking. have you being where Asian food (curry is being cooked). damn! the smell is no bad that it sticks to the wall, curtains, etc.

it is not unusual to feel uncomfortable about sharing your utensils with complete strangers.

fire alarm going off is normal thing na. that things saves lives and homes. again, keep the extractor on the kitchen hob on while cooking and/or the kitchen window slightly open.

feel free to pop a note on the fridge's door asking people not to eat or drink what does not belong to them.

regarding your washing - set a timer or reminder to get it out from the machine.

at least you do not have flatmates smoking skunk or listening to reggae music at 10pm.

You summoned me here by mentioning me, now I'm here. Nice thread though.

Look guys, I would be honest with you all, we were 'advised' on not divulging too much information here henceforth, I'm against such archaic ways but what can I do, na me apply for the job. I can chose to be a renegade and say whatever I want but for now I will give First bank their due respect. And apart from that, we are super busy here, sometimes my head feels so heavy and I can't wait for training school to be over. Its not like we are learning the most complex things you can think of but the concurrent nature of brain tasking activities builds unnecessary pressure and stress. Maybe its part of the whole training process though.

PS: Someone quoted me some pages back and asked about dress code, be you male or female, just get formal shirts and pants/skirts, for shirts go for white, grey, sky blue, for pants/skirts go for black and navy blue, black shoes and you are good to go. We are not mandated to be in suit all the time though, but always in business casual formal dressing.

Why couldn't she transform her boobs as well?

Is she pregnant already? Talking about her protruding tummy.
And what type of ring placement is going on with her fingers, how she placed the ring on her middle finger.

Well, let me concentrate on my boring lecture going on here.

cloud9usher:






Guys, I'm innocent of these accusations. It's not like I love acting grandiloquent with my grammar neither do I come out to sound verbose or something, but I'm a logophile and a wordsmith; hence my proclivity for maybe not sounding too "plain" lexically sometimes.

Well, abeg make una no vex o!

All the best to the FBN family, those settling into their hostels in training school tonight, those getting their bags set for the next batch of training school, those who would be called for documentation soon, and those who would conduct their AC soon as well, all the best to we all! I wish us all an auspicious career ahead!

Cloud9usher I doff my hat for your crisp and succinct play of words, all coming out in the right context and not out of place. Being a lover of words myself I just upgraded my vocabulary from your comment.

I hope you have a good diction as well? Listening to a man with some eloquent diction and robust vocabulary makes me weak to the knells, butterflies in my stomach, Lol, silly me. Talk about coming home from a stressful day at work and meeting such a man talk to you is every ladies' dream. Don't mind my rhetoric though, I'm just 'freestyling' here.

Now to the issue at hand, Iganmu is going fine so far, but I know the stress is coming, my former job was a learn on the job thing so this is my first time being in a training school, I'm just saying to myself things would go smoothly, and I hope so.

The food here is great! Should I say that again? THE FOOD IS GREAT!!!

I thought the guys who made it to Iganmu would be so serious minded, but its just day 3 and these dudes are already directly or indirectly 'toasting' girls like we came for Big brother Africa show or something, Lol. Its fun here at the moment though. Making friends and all.

More updates as things unfold.

This whole thing is becoming bland and boring already, can Nigerians do well and copy another trend already?

Hey guys, first of all, my apologies to those who have been expecting my as promise after my assessment. Due to my travel schedule and other engagements I couldn't give you guys an update on saturday or sunday.

Where do I start from now? Okay, first of all, why the hell have other people been making this AC of a thing sound so difficult? I'm not trying to be cocky but there is no iota of me being braggadocious when I unequivocally say the assessment was fun and equally competence thrilling in all aspects. I commend H's unequalled level or organisation and professionalism. Those guys are just perfect in what they do.

Below are the stages we went through:

Group discussion
Numerical and Logical reasoning
Personality test
Preparation and presentation of powerpoint
Essay writing
interview
A form as well
And some cool lunch pack


For group discussion, the core they are testing for your leadership skill, your team working skill and your poise in interacting with others. Apart from these you must state valid and important points as well in the group discussion. Here is a tip, to display a show of leadership skill, be the first to speak out. You'd be all asked to read the overview of the group topic and then start. So while everyone reads and are silent, be the first to speak out after the usual silence of reading, because the assessors immediately noted this down from my observation who spoke out first. And don't just speak out gibberish please all in the name of being the first to speak out. Make sure you welcome your group and apportion key roles you'd designate to group as you guys tackle the issue on ground and start it off with good points as well as your contribution. In the group discussion, drop every form of orneriness in your demeanour, you want to show you have a pleasing disposition when interacting with others and not coming off as stubborn, irritable or ill-tempered. Make sure you also take notes of all discussed in your group because you'd use that for your Powerpoint preparation/presentation and the essay you'd write later on. You can make personal additions later on as well, because you don't prepare your slides immediately after the group discussion.


For the numerical/logical reasoning part. The goal is to test your aptitude level and also test how you manage time. You'd be given 20 questions to answer in 20 minutes for numerical and 15 questions for 20 minutes for the logical part. Look, half of these questions are averagely difficult and need some good level of intelligence and aptitude to solve, and the rest half are almost impossible to solve and some don't even have answers, and you won't have time on your hands so you'd end up with a very low score if you'd are ignorant enough to let the almost impossible to answer questions be a facade for you.

About the personality test section, I how most people came here to make it seem so trivial, they were saying things like: "Just freestyle in this section," "Do your thing in this section," "You can't be wrong," and all. You can be very wrong honey! In HR there is what we call "candidate profiling." This is used to assess the type of personality he/she possesses. Different jobs have various desired personalities and from the personality test I saw from H, they are profiling for a candidate that is a leader, one who is a career person and ready to go all the way to top in the job, someone ready to sacrifice some sort to family and personal inconveniences for career. In the personality test you'd see facade questions like: "Would you like to use your skills and competence as you have gained to succeed in your career to run a personal business later on?" Don't give H the impression that you have personal business plans in your options, this is vertoben in the corporate world especially in relation to hiring management trainee. First bank doesn't wanna employ people who would garner all the knowledge and experience and run away for personal business later on. Other questions are directed to pick up your profile to know if you are cool with not being given time for family and other personal time, being a core bank staff means you are gonna be deprived of a lot of family and personal time as you'd be busy a lot while doing your job. So you all should be mindful that the personality test is not a trivial part where you can just freestyle, be very careful at that section so you can either pretentiously or sincerely be perceived to be within the earmarked personality they are looking out for .


For the interview section, you'd be asked basic questions. The question of: "Tell us about yourself" is meant for you to sell yourself to the interviewer. No one is asking you that to know your name or course of study or where you have worked, use that medium to show you are you are a leader, and someone who is poised at offering improvement wherever he/she finds himself. They are looking for a core leader and not a myrmidon! And when I say a leader I don't mean being a Whatsapp group , or being the leader of your Slay queens squad I mean professional leadership qualities and experience you have garnered over time. Be mendacious if you need to be in order to prove your point, just be convincing enough!
And you might wanna ask why so much is stressed on your leadership skills, 70% of the people you see in a bank are contract staff, the few core staff in bank branches are leaders in every aspect, and even in headquarters of the banks, core staff are leaders as well as they make strategic decisions and policies which directly affect the bank. So leadership skill matter a lot!

Lots of candidates can aptitude tests like you but they need someone who can show initiative in being innovative and creative in regards improving a business and you have to show how you have displayed such traits in a real life professional/business settings. In the interview section you need to know about First bank a lot as well, go and read all about FBN. For my interview, my interviewers and I were basically discussing because all the questions they had to asked me I had prepared for more than they could need and even the bounce off question that come in between as well and the interview section was the sweetest of all sections for me.
For your interview, exude confidence, I say it again, exude confidence!!! Don't be looking and/or acting all pusillanimous because a leader exudes confidence and its a very important trait.


For the Powerpoint preparation/presentation, don't start deg your slides like you are applying for a graphic designer job please! Make it simple and professional! Don't be equivocatory when doing your presentation, try to be consise and succinct in giving salient points and try not tergiversate. When you are asked about something in your presentation to take you off balance try to state why you feel its correct but don't sound imperious, and also, the assessor's assertion might be correct so keep your head at a level that you would gain from the assessor as well if your points are not correct, because you'd have an First bank staff as an assessor for your presentation.



For the essay writing stage, please this is not some secondary school English lesson asking you to write an essay on your last school trip, so even if you have excellent creative or technical writing skills(which most Nigerian lack) you still need to deliver your essay in business communication and correspondence style to sound competent enough for the job at hand. You can google about effective business correspondence and communication to get more info.


For the form, its just like a survey to tell them what you think about the assessment, there is nothing special or difficult here, if you don't wanna write much just state "satisfactory" except if you had some issues to differ from this stand, which I'd be surprised to find anyone think of the assessment to be anything from satisfactory.


Also, I saw some people dressing in pathetic asymmetrical style, this is the corporate world honey! You gotta look fully business corporate and pizzazz! This is not just about your intellectual capabilities but also your aesthetic appeal! Appearance matters! It matters, and for the umpteenth time; it matters!!! Your photo would be taken as well, and you'd be doing your presentation having them watch you as well. I heard an assessor sternly rebuking a guy concerning his dress style, the dude just wore a shirt and looking all frowzy, some ladies I met wore mundane clothing and I bet you that they lost the points apportioned for dressing nice. So dress up to kill, and I mean corporately appropriate and not lewdly dressed for the ladies.


Also, I agree with the information that cloud9usher stated in the previous page of the thread concerning the zoning of candidates to matter as well because while filling the attendance for the day, from their master list I saw that after my name there was where my geopolitical zone was also included in abbreviation, if you guys were observant you'd seeing stuff like SW, SE, SS, NC, NE, NW in the proceeding information after your name and mine tallied with my geopolitical zone.


Lastly, I can't stop dreaming about that top notch swimming pool I saw at First Academy, that's the height of balling while training, I can't swim for now and don't mind my fellow First bank colleagues teaching me how to swim while in training school, its gonna be fun!

See you all in training school soon!

How are you guys doing my fellow First Bank Nigeria staff? Or should I say "hopeful staff or future staff?"

Well, I just can't help but laugh out loud at some comments here. I'm talking about the little debate over sharing of information and all.

First of all, ever since this AC started, all the information shared here are just generic information and not detailed information, yes, those who shared just scratched the surface and I'm not surprised though, the average Nigerian doesn't wanna it that deep inside he/she doesn't want you to be better than him/her at anything in life, even in a recruitment process. Look here, I'm not compelling anyone to share detailed information please, because I'm sure some people are already tired of unemployment and can't afford to give details to another fellow competitor.

But what makes me laugh is how you guys come out and give out "surface scratched" information and be feeling all benevolent like some Santa Claus or Father Christmas (as colloquially called here in Nigeria) who has helped others when in your minds you all know you tried your best not to be too "helpful" in disclosing too much details that would help the next candidate. No need for all the sly moves please. Its not like the information shared here of the AC is any different from the ones of the last recruitment thread, you guys just gave the same details posted there years ago in your own words with the intent of not wanting to be too detailed.

To all of your forming Mr/Ms benevolent and attacking the lady who was asking people to stop sharing information you guys should take a chill pill, the information you guys shared are pretty inconsequential to anyone who knows his/her onions on how to in an assessment centre process. You guys are forming good guys when most of the stuff you all posted are shallow and generic information. And to the lady telling people to stop sharing more information, sister do you need the job that bad? Well, that's your freaking business!

Well, as for me, I got good news for anyone who is not competently assured of ing AC and who would be conducting their AC after mine, because after my AC, I would give details that would not only be expositorily detailed but would having glaring "expos" (as Nigerians call it)

You heard me right, yeah baby! ... I'm gonna run my mouth like a parrot bribed with chocolate Yes, I would go all loquacious because I want to challenge Nigerian recruiters to be more intelligent and well-rounded in core talent profiling, we basically have talent interviewers in Nigeria and don't have talent prolifers, we need to upgrade! Have you ever taken a well constructed IQ test set by professionals before now? Try that of International high IQ Society and see yourself, you can google them and go through their website. Even if your friend gives you full details of the questions he came across in a well constructed IQ test, it would never help you score higher than your actual IQ rating, that's how recruitment assessment should be as well, that's the level we should be at.

I'd be conducting my AC at the tail end of the AC process so you guys that are the very last batch or last week batches of AC should prepare to use my name as testimony in your churches to tell how God used one "Scented" from Nairaland to give you an easy hand in ing your AC

I'm tried of typing, I need to rest my pretty eyes, lest my boss accuses me of going for clubbing tonight as a result of cloudy eyes in the morning, so I'm out of here!

Ciao!

Kentrasso:
Also, what is the nature of entry level responsibility? Is it tellering, customer service? What kind of job will we be doing after the training?

philvirus:
Oga have u ed the AC first?? Do u know how to prep PowerPoint slides? Have u practiced ur numerical and logical reasoning? Do u know how group tasks work? These are what you should be worried about. Except you don't want the job which will be better for some of us sef. Less competition.

Kentrasso:


very silly response.

VERY VERY silly response I swear! I don't know why some Nigerians reason like this, they act like zombies who act like their whole life depends on a particular job and can take just anything, pathetic set of douch bags! So you must enter zombie mood and not ask the type of job duties the type of job you might be picking over another? Like seriously? That's not being desperate but been despicable and deserve to be despised.

The other day it was their crude mentality of saying asking to know about salary is not important yet, so I don't deserve to know the salary of a job I wanna go for? I don't deserve to know if it pays less than my present job or less than other job offers I have on the line? You gotta be kidding me!

Today its this guy saying trash because someone is asking to know the type of duties the proposed job would entail, its your type of people that can even go and wash the toilet of an interviewer just so they know you want a job. Act too servile and no employer would feel you have self worth enough to employ you.

mayoor15:
Come and beat me in my house then. When you get your own job, pick a megaphone and start broadcasting your salary. BTW, been signed to a company simply means you still work with them, madam I don't have your time... just chill out

So where does being signed to a company(still working with them) have a connection with meaning you are under oath or something not to give insight to someone concerning your exact salary structure? If the professional world sees salary structure as something to make a mystery of then why do hiring firms ask about your present salary when interviewing you for a position? why don't you mystify it there too? you guys state it there because its for your personal good and gain but when it comes to giving such information to help others you guys turn it to mystery because you feel you are not gaining from it. selfish self of folks who care about only themselves.

And hey, mayoor15 i have a job okay? so dont give me that "when you get your job" line, i have never made it an issue to state my salary to people who want to know for decision making purposes like job seekers. and also, when you get your job, take an oath of secrecy never to state your salary to any living soul, stamp the oath, take in and hide in the cave of primitiveness where you belong.

mayoor15:
*Chai, Much dust in d building*,

Don't know why you guys are going fighting over salary for a job u never get, why not search first bank salary on Google, it will give you hints enough to make you decisions and BTW, who doesn't know that only GTB, DIAMOND and ACCESS pays above 200k for entry level, other banks pays between 140-180, put your mind @ 140 after tax and other deductions, many of us will understand when we get some of these jobs that you don't just come online and state your salary when you are still signed to the organisation, we've overblown the fact that this is a faceless forum, but who told you organisations can't find out d person under each moniker, let just face d real business, success to those having their AC tomorrow.


*sweeps my way out of the thread*

Please enough of this salary issue because the reasons you are giving to back up your claim sound so lame and meaningless, did i hear you say "many of us will understand when we get some of these jobs that you don't just come online and state your salary when you are still signed to the organisation"? i cant stop laughing here.

so an organisation would be jobless enough to use productive time to go online to search for the details of Nairaland to pinpoint which of their staff it is, so as to sack or query him/her? for committing 'telling your salary' fraud right? ...how ridiculous!

and you are telling me there is a place to be signed anyplace in a letter of employment that states you are not to tell anyone your salary right? so those that tell their wives,husbands,siblings,parents,friends,pastors, etc their salaries deserve to be sacked or quarried right? oh wait a minute, maybe it stated that you can tell those people i mentioned but you shouldn't state it on Nairaland, it was categorically stated that way in the employment letter right? how ridiculous!

let me tell you why we tend to make salary something of a mystery here in Nigeria,there are 3 reasons. One- because the low earners love to live fake lives and dont want people to be aware of their meager pay, and two- because the high earners dont want people to know their financial strength so no one can ask them for financial help, and three- because when Nigerians are employed they wanna rub it in the face of the unemployed and sound cocky enough so they want to put you on a wild goose chase finding details about ing the employed league which they hope you dont .

our mentality in this country is something else, we do alot of 'forming' and yet we are no where as compared to other countries, our way of thinking is the reason why we are not developed yet, i hope that our new set of youth would reason like 21st century citizens and act like such and drop this archaic type of reasoning that some of us have.

andergirl:
Okay,enough already ,let's get back to the issue that brought us together, and let's stop behaving childish,must you answer back every ill word thrown at you folks? Eh? Anyways I've got questions for the serious ones here,first and foremost,for those of us coming from other states,where is the nearest place to lodge so we can get to our destination by 7am

What i wanna do is to arrive Lagos 2-3 days before my AC date, go to the AC center a day before to check the place out, and book for any hotel that's closest to that location, something of a stone throw away, so i wouldn't need to stress myself in the morning rushing town to the AC center by 5am to beat traffic, and Lagos is not even safe for such movement at such a time.

cloud9usher:


So the line: "If everybody in the world happen to reason like you, trekking will still be the fastest means of transportation" doesn't make sense to you? I'm not surprised that line doesn't make sense to you, I'm not surprised at all! Jeez!

You claim developed countries don't reveal their salaries, I laugh! Go to job portals in the US or UK and check, even the job adverts state the exact salaries, so what are you saying please?

Take your parochial mindset to the cleaners please! Have a great weekend again!

can you pls stop wasting your time with people like this mush and others who sound so primitive? if they dont know the meaning of a thread meant for discussion for a job then they can go to the cave they came from, its surprising that at this time and age people can be acting like a "yes man" still, we need to learn and change from this if we want to be competitive in regards interacting with the world. i'm amused at the way we look down on ourselves here in this country and take anything thrown at us, those developed countries are where they are today because of how liberal and exposed they act.

Aucun:


taa! shut up! autocrat! whu u epp?

must everybody share ur view? force it down ur throat!

You can go n announce ur salary ontop Oshodi Bridge, who cares?

ITS YOU WHO SHOULD SHUT UP!!! I cant believe people can be this primitive and uncouth!

Just SHUT UP AND LEAVE THIS PLACE FOR ENLIGHTENED MINDS TO DISCUSS!

cloud9usher:


Why is it that in Nigeria we make it so much of an issue just to state salary?

This is a faceless forum and no one knows you so why do people still find it hard to state exact salary which would help others in making decisions?

I still find it hard why we Nigerians act this crude and conservative even when there is no need to be, the way Nigerians hide salaries even on faceless forums you'd think there is something more special to it. If its a face to face thing I'd understand because some people don't want you to know their financial status - be it small or big, and hence get very protective over it, that still is not worth it to me though.

Ay4sho, you have been helpful but please stop using this condescending and crude demeanour Nigerians and Nigerian employers are used to of saying salary can be known after you are employed already, we need to stop this. What type of country is this? Something as professional as salary is made to look like a behind doors secret sexual activity
that only a selected few should know.

In saner countries, salaries are even stated on the job advert. I don't blame Nigerians though, it because of the high unemployment that make them treat people this way, and its because of it that many job seekers under value themselves as well.

Whenever you ask a Nigerian about the salary of a firm, they would either lie, or give one excuse of why its supposedly not defined, you'd start hearing complex explanations of how its this and that, is it that hard to state that- "As for mine, I was paid N180,000 as an entry level staff after training school", is that so hard to state?

Mind you, those who wanna get an exact picture of salaries of a specific organisation are not "greedy" and wanting to talk more about money first before the job but some of them want to compare salary structure to enable them compare other job offers to decide which to go for.

I sign off here, those that want to continue mystifying salaries you guys can carry on, but as for me I will never, even where I work at the moment I state it, and when I get this First Bank offer of employment I would equally state it to help others.

May God bless you for this and i pray you get the job. That is how a cousin of mine lost a 380k a month plus high allowances and incentives to a 140k a month job because of this salary cock and bull stories, the dude was at the tail end of about 3 job applications and they all were clashing, time and different locations were the issue as he couldn't be in more than one place at a time, and he had to pick one blindly because of this usual habit of Nigerians hiding salary figure, he felt gutted when his other friend whom completed the other job recruitment process got his offer letter and screamed! Thats how my cousin missed out on a 380k job and went for a 140k job all because of this annoying habit of Nigerians feeling too cool or secretive just to tell others a figure concerning salary to aid their decision making.