Jeremy Corbyn Calls for the BBC to Audit Itself over Gender Pay Gap

There is a bit of a controversy at the moment in the United Kingdom after a list of top earners in the BBC showed that men earned more than women across board.

Labour/opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has added his voice to the discussion. ITV reports:

BBC "needs to look very hard at itself" over the gender pay gap.

The Labour leader said he would join more than 40 leading female stars in signing an open letter calling on the Director General Tony Hall to act.

He told The Andrew Marr Show the treatment of women by the broadcaster was "appalling".

"The BBC needs to look very hard at itself because the levels between the gender pay gap are quite astronomical," he said.

Mr Corbyn said Labour would insist on a gender pay audit of every organisation and would also look at the ratio between the chief executive and the lowest paid staff member of every public sector organisation.

"And the BBC is very much public sector," he added.

JarusHub and HotProForum Raise Standard for Online Debates in Nigeria

Leading career guidance, mentoring and management company JarusHub and its platform for professionals to meet and network Hotproforum.com announced the winners of their inaugural online debating competition on Monday evening.

Posting before the announcement was made, CEO of Jarus & JAN Internet Group, Jarus submitted: "The purpose of this debate is to improve the presentation, articulation and research skills of the debaters, who are from our Career Club. You are a group of young students, graduates and early career professionals. You have done very well. I have always been a fan of debate. At the risk of being immodest, I would say if there is anything like being the father of online debate in Nigeria, I deserve it, for far back 8 years ago, I championed organised debates on Nairaland Politics Section, and today, I still receive kudos for such initiative, which was never sustained when I moved on.

I am happy we have a platform to continue this, although the focus will continue to professionalism - not politics. We are building hot professionals here."

The competition was held between the 4 JarusHub Career Clubs (JCC) hosted on WhatsApp.

In the first semifinal, JarusHub Career Club 2 defeated JarusHub Career Club 4, while JarusHub Career Club 3 defeated JarusHub Career Club 1 in the second semifinal.

This set-up the final between JCC 2 and JCC 3 which held last Sunday with the topic: Agriculture is Fundamental to Nigeria's Emergence as a Global Economic Power: Agree or Disagree?

JCC 2 agreed with the motion while JCC 3 disagreed with it.

Both teams of 3 debaters were at their best but after a 24-hour poll, JCC 2 got 32 votes while JCC 3 30 votes. The winners get a free training slot with JarusHub Academy and a certificate of achievement while all members of their Career Club are eligible for Jarus' widely-acclaimed career guidance book, The Road to Victoria Island. The 2nd team also got consolation prizes.

The organizers have promised new innovations that are in line with their ethos of building young professionals and their capacity to deliver in the work place or as entrepreneurs.

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The Amazing List of Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts You Should Know About

Many of us use Twitter but very few of us know it has a lot of useful keyboard shortcuts that can make navigating the website faster.

Here is a comprehensive list of these keyboard shortcuts as sourced from Winaero.

The list of Twitter Shortcuts

SHORTCUT	DESCRIPTION
n	New Tweet
m	Message
r	Reply
t	Retweet
j	Scroll down
k	Scroll up
f	Favorite/Like
. (dot)	Go to Top and refresh
/	Search
?	Show the list of hotkeys
Shift+P	Permalink
gh	Go Home

In addition to hotkeys, you can use these commands. Note: Commands should be entered in the tweet text box instead of the tweet's content. They are case-insensitive.

COMMAND	DESCRIPTION
d @username message	Send a direct (private) message to the @user.
follow @username	Follow a user.
leave @username	Do not show updates from the @user but leave him in your "following" list.
delete @username	Unfollow the user.
invite email-or-number	Invite a friend by mail or phone to Twitter.
whois @username	Get a quick info about the @user.
off	Turn off all mentions sent to you. Sending "off" twice suppress even direct messages.
on	Turn messages on again
track keyword	Subscribe to tweets containing the specified keyword.
untrack "keyword"	Stop the tracking of the specified keyword.
untrack all	Clear the list of tracked keywords.
track	The the full list of currently tracked keywords.
stats	Shows the number of your followers and your track list contents.

How to Search With an Image on Google

Google is so popular as a search engine that it has become a verb in English language meaning to search for information online.

But do you know you can actually search for images and not just text? I am sure you might have wondered what that car you saw the other day is called or what that strange fruit is?

You don't have to keep wondering, just snap it and then go to Google Images, drag the picture from the location you have saved it and put it into the browser. Alternatively, click on the camera icon and upload the image into the search bar. 

Google will automatically upload it and give you the information it has on the picture with similar images to it. 

This is really cool, you should try it out. 

JarusHub Academy and HotProForum.com Set to Host Free Online Career Chat on May 29 (Democracy Day)

JARUSHUB ACADEMY

&

HOTPROFORUM.COM

present

DEMOCRACY DAY CAREER CHAT

(An online seminar to take place via WhatsApp)

with

JARUS

Jarus is the Chief Resource Officer at JarusHub, Nigeria’s most authoritative career resources platform. Through regular career information sharing on Nairaland, JarusHub and other social media channels, he has established himself as a leading authority on career issues in Nigeria. He’s the author of the widely acclaimed career guide, The Road to Victoria Island. Trained in Nigeria and the UK, Jarus has a decade experience in Nigeria’s oil and gas and investment banking sectors.

DATE

Democracy Day, Monday, 29 May 2017

TIME

10am – 12noon

TOPICS

The e-seminar will cover the following topics:

CV & Job Hunting – CV Building lesson; Conventional & Unconventional job application methods. Test formats of top companies in Nigeria.

Networking – The importance of networking and how to build network, with real life examples.

Know the Industries – Selected industries in Nigeria and how to get job in them. Among the industries to be extensively discussed are Oil & Gas, Investment Banking, Consulting, Professional services/auditing firms, banking/financial services, public sector, engineering services, etc.

Interview – Everything about interview. How to go about acing job interviews.

WHO SHOULD REGISTER

Final year students in universities/polytechnics preparing for life after school

Prospective or serving corps members

Young graduates (whether employed, underemployed or unemployed)

Any other interested person

REGISTRATION

Registration is absolutely FREE. Just send sms to 08085404500 or 08060482880 to enroll.

Registration has commenced and ends 1pm on 28 May 2017.

Participants at previous editions are not eligible for this edition so as to let the benefit circulate

*

You don’t want to miss this life-changing seminar, share this information with your friends as well. It promises to be educative, enlightening and exciting.

Make it a date!