EL Academy

EL Academy, an educational establishment was formed to provide practical and employable skills to the Nigerian labour market. El Academy is a company registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja, Nigeria in the year 2011, Our emphasis for practical and employable skills stems from the experience of the founder and CEO Chima Nwankwo in his quest for a job after graduating in Electrical Electronics Engineering. The EL Academy Story Most organizations hire professionals who already have specific work experience. Often times, fresh graduates find it a bit difficult to secure jobs in these organizations. Consequently, in 1998, after completing the compulsory one year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), a young man’s visit to a computer firm in search of a job gave birth to what today is called El Academy. He applied for several job positions as advertised in different newspapers as at that time. His requests were denied because he did not have any previous work Show more experience. He met an Executive Director of a computer firm; he considered him but could not give him a job in his firm because he did not have second class upper (2.1) GPA. During one of his numerous and constant visits to this firm, he appealed to be given a job without any form of stipend or salary. The aim of seeking for the job was to enable him acquire the necessary job experience and to build some Information Technology skills. Subsequently, he was given the job in the computer firm. The accounts department could not understand the reason for a graduate who had completed his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to be recruited without having a salary grade. On their own discretion, they placed him on stipend meant for industrial attachment (IT) students. He enjoyed his Three Thousand Five Hundred Naira (N3500) allowance without complaining as he initially did not expect that. After about three months of working in the firm, the Managing Director decided to send him for training to enable him acquire the necessary skills to be posted to the new Port Harcourt branch. That was when he found out that the young man was not a full time staff of the firm. Three days later, he was given his first appointment letter after the Managing Director took up his case and made him a full time staff of the firm. He was placed on a new salary grade for entry level graduate of the firm.