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Mr. Tony Elumelu, founder, The Tony Elumelu Foundation and Chair of the Board of United Bank for Africa, UBA, has opened up on how he got his first banking job.
He made this known on his verified Facebook account on Friday 3 February alongside his photograph as a young man during his youth service days.
Elumelu, who was named on Time’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2020, said he got his first banking job which he had applied for a few years after his Master’s degree programme even when he knew he did not meet the job requirement.
According to Elumelu, the bank had specified it needed graduates with at least Second Class Upper degrees. However, he applied for the job even though he had a Second Class Lower degree “because I identified what I wanted in life and I was going to work towards it.”
He said he got the job and spent everyday proving himself and earning his luck at the bank.
Elumelu said: “A few years later, after my Masters, I saw the application for graduates with a minimum of 2:1 in All States Trust Bank, this aligned with what I wanted for my life, but my 2:2 grade did not make me qualified, still,
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