I have been pondering on creating this thread for a while but because of my schedule, I had to postpone it and have been postponing it until today.

My name is Kenneth popularly known as intelligentdude. I am a Career Consultant and a recruiting personnel (Talent Acquisition Coach)with Intelligentdude Consult. Over the years,I have had interactions with a good number of graduates/corp members who are yet to define their career path even after graduation and most of them wander around not knowing what to do.

While working as a Human Resource Personnel/Admin. in one of the top web design and branding organizations in Lagos,I came in contact with graduates who were yearning to be properly guided in their career path so as not to spend their years in futility. Moreso,in the course of me writing/rewriting Curriculum Vitae(CV)for a good number of applicants,I have come to realize that most graduates need professional guidance in their career path.

While education is very important,it is expedient that graduates/corp members acquire the necessary skills in their area of study/interest/passion. Employers prefer those who do not only have certificate but possess sabificate. Sabificate simply means what you can do (wetin you sabi).

NYSC year is a year that can make or mar you depending on how you choose to utilize it. A good number of Corp members finish their youth service without acquiring any relevant skill which can help them transit quickly and successfully into the labour market. A graduate of Electrical Engineering who is posted to a Secondary School or Local Government can attach himself to an Electrician just to deepen his practical knowledge and experience.

Please understand,you can learn a profitable skill from anyone notwithstanding if he/she is an illiterate or literate. A graduate of Mechanical Engineering can volunteer to go worth with the seemingly illiterate Mechanics in his/her domain just to acquire the needed Technical skill and experience.

There are different opportunities one can take advantage of while serving to acquire needed skills and experience which will surely come to play while job hunting.

Starting a career in can be fairly straightforward. You pick an area of focus, learn it, and eventually find someone to hire you to do that type of work. As you grow, though, the path forward can become much less clear.

As a graduate of Computer Science,there are different career paths you can follow and this should inform your decision in the type of skills to acquire/learn and also the professional trainings you should undergo and the certifications you should possess.

As a graduate of Computer Science,you can pursue a Career as a:

1) Software Developer

2)Hardware Engineer

3) Web developer

4)Business Analyst

5)Quality Assurance Manager

6)Database Administrator

7)Network Administrator

viii)Security Analyst

9) IT Architect

10)Video Game Developer

11) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Engineer

12)Data Scientist

13)Cloud Computing Engineer

14)Research and Development Scientist

Not only are computer science degrees needed for a number of applications across nearly every industry, but the total number of computer science jobs has also been steadily increasing. Those who did not study Computer Science in their undergraduate days are now coming onboard to learn and acquire IT Skills.

For those serving in fairly remote areas, if you would like to acquire a skill which can pay your bills,then you might want to consider Laptop repairs,phone repairs,Digital Marketing,Graphics, etc.

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An international team of astronomers are baffled after discovering an "impossible planet" the size of Jupiter – which could even host life.

Of the thousands of planets discovered outside the solar system, most orbit stars that will eventually evolve into red giants and then white dwarfs as part of their natural life cycle.

During a star's red giant phase, any planets caught in too close an orbit will be engulfed. Further away planets can survive and continue to orbit around the following white dwarf, although at a distance.

Until now there's been no evidence that planets can survive intact while in close orbit around white dwarfs.

However a group of astronomers from around the world using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and the retired Spitzer Space Telescope recently observed a giant planet candidate "transiting" the white dwarf WD 1856+534 (TIC 267574918) every 1.4 days.

Transiting means when a planet eclipses its orbit star, from the perspective of observers on Earth.

The planet, believed to be around the same size as Jupiter, seems to be intact and locked in a tight orbit with the white dwarf, something previously thought to be impossible.

Researchers involved in the discovery, which was published in the journal Nature, say it defies much of what we know about the formation of planets.

Andrew Vanderburg, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who contributed to the paper, says one of the defining features of a white dwarf is that it tends to pull in celestial bodies with its strong gravity and destroy them in the process.

If the newly-discovered planet is verified to be intact, it will be an unprecedented discovery.

"The explanation that we think is the most likely is that there were other planets in the system or other objects in the system," Prof Vanderburg told Salon.

"We know that there are two other stars orbiting this white dwarf very far away. Maybe they could have exerted some influence on this planet that we saw back when it was orbiting far away originally because it had to be orbiting far away, or it would have been engulfed.

"It could have changed its orbit so that it was very, very elliptical, and then when it came in close to the star, it just barely grazed the surface."

The alternative explanation is that the planet avoided being engulfed by the white dwarf through its sheer density.

Prof Vanderburg says the discovery is particularly exciting because it suggests new types of planets existing in a "habitable zone" on which we can search for life.

"I think the biggest implication for this is that there's a possibility for life to be in places that we hadn't really considered before," he said.

"In a white dwarf system there's also a habitable zone, but because the white dwarf is really tiny and it's cooling off and is really, really faint, you have to huddle a lot closer to that star in order for it to be potentially habitable."

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