Benefit of Serving with Ministries as Corp Member

Congratulations to all successful prospective Corp members that were mobilised and deployed to various state for one year National Youth Service.

I know that majority are happy about the posting while few are sad because they were posted to cities they didn’t expect.

One thing I want you to know is that state deployment is not the main posting but local government and Place of Primary Assignment (PPA) posting are what determined if you will enjoy the one year or not.

Take for instance, if you were deployed to Ogun state and finally posting to Abeokuta south after the 21 days in camp, shows that you are going to serve at the state capital where you will be faced with basic amenities that will aid your stay.

So don’t over rejoice because you were posted to Lagos, Abuja, Akwa Ibom etc because those state also has a local government that you might not find funny. All you have to do now is to pray so that the final posting will favour you.

After the 21days in camp, all prospective Corp members would be attached to a firm, Ministries or School to serve for one year. Your PPA would also be in charge of issuing of clearance letter to you within the one year.

Today we are going to talk about the benefit of serving with the State or Federal ministry and why you should pray for NYSC to post to one.

Working at the state ministry has its own advantage and disadvantage but it all boils to what you want in life and also set goals you wish to achieve within the one year of national youth service.

I always advise all crop members to utilise the one year and achieve a lot. 365 days is too big to waste without positive impacts.

Serving at the ministry gives you more times to yourself without much stress. It’s not a new thing that Corpers posted to ministry has little or nothing to do rather than being idle till the dismissal hour.

Instead of wasting your precious time sitting in one office and end up doing nothing, you can use such an opportunity to apply to other firms where you would be paid for job well-done.

Note: if you are interested in applying to other firms to work for them, click here to learn how to email your CV so as to be outstanding and have better chances of being accepted.

I know by now you are aware that some ministries don’t pay corp member or provide accommodations. This is because you are not of any value to them rather they are the one rendering you a favour by issuing monthly clearance letter to you.

Even if you don’t have the zeal of working with other firms as a part-time worker, you can also use the spares time to learn a skill or obtain a professional certificate that would argument what you graduated with.

All mentioned above can be achieved when you are posted to a place like a ministry where you would have much time yourself unlike those posted to school or other busy firms.

One of the disadvantages of serving with the ministry is that there is no chance of being retained unless otherwise but in other major firms, you can be retained when your effort is outstanding.

In fact, I really enjoyed serving with the ministry because it gave me the opportunity to achieve other things which in returned added more skills and money to my account.

In my next post, I would be educating interested people how to influence their PPA to a better place and also on how to change to suitable local government. Check back.

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