WAVE has been able to
train some people at the Ibadan academy and Hephzibah Solesi was among the fellows of the
training program. She likes to get herself involved in things that bring out
the best in her academically and because of her love for studying, she was able
to understand the principles of workplace within the two-week WAVE training
program.
She got to know about
WAVE from her brother-in-law who resides in Ibadan and decided to give it her
best shot. She is a graduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ogun State,
where she obtained B.Sc and M.Sc in Public Administration. Hephzibah is a self-motivated
person whose philosophy about life says that "You have the right to rewrite
your destiny yourself."
Preceding WAVE, she
worked as a teacher and a supervisor in two different organizations: Chicken
Republic and Chicken Lovers, all at Ibadan. She additionally worked at a pure
water factory in Lagos as an assistant manager.
While at WAVE
training, the principal challenge she encountered was the distance. She spent
one thousand and five hundred naira (#1500) daily on transportation. Due to her
willingness to learn, she wasn’t deterred by the distance, but rather; focused
and determined throughout the training and she never got carried away because
she knew she would learn new skills like problem-solving, customer service
relation and creative thinking skill which were useful tools she needed for
smooth running of her own business.
She was able to apply
her problem-solving and customer service skill when she job shadowed at a place called Foodco when an angry customer came in. Quoting her; “There was this customer
that came in and was complaining about the product sold to her and was seeking
for a refund and the company’s policy is against that, while we all were
apologising, I had to look for a way to pacify her, so I made another order for
her the way she wanted it to be made and she was really happy and surprised
that she had to recommend me to people”.
Hephzibh aims to own a big
catering firm and a bakery, where she hopes to apply all the skills she had
learnt at WAVE daily and she has plans on how to attain and achieve her dream
job mapped out already according to her.
Her advice to job
seekers goes thus: “I know there are scammers everywhere, taking a leap of
faith will do you no harm, there is always an opportunity in every challenge life throws at you, just have faith and take advantage of the opportunity”.
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