Mr. Bright has been a graduate for five years now without getting a job. He has been hunting for a job ever since he graduated, but up until now, all his efforts have been unsuccessful.
And that is one of the main reasons he has not settled down for marriage. He has a fiancée whom he has been dating for over six years. However, because of his inability to secure a job, they have not been able to get married.
He assured her that once he got a job, he was going to marry her. But his fiancée, Emily, is always complaining about the delay. She told him that she wouldn't mind getting married while he continued searching for a job, but he wouldn't agree to it. He said he wanted to give her the kind of life she deserved.
Anytime he went for an interview, the interviewers would tell him to wait for their call. Unfortunately, those calls never came. The thing is, he has very good academic results, but getting a job has still been difficult for him.
Most of the time, one of the problems is the way he presents himself. There is a popular saying that you are addressed the way you dress. Mr. Bright does not dress responsibly at all.
Emily, his fiancée, had always wanted to correct his dressing, but he was never ready to change. He said that was how he wanted to dress and that there was nobody who could stop him.
Maybe if the companies where he had applied for jobs had pointed out why he wasn't getting hired, I believe Mr. Bright would have changed. But the fascinating thing was that none of them ever told him. So, he never knew where the problem was coming from.
One day, just as he was returning from a friend's house, a man was robbed right in front of him. The criminals who robbed the man were running towards Mr. Bright. He stopped them. However, he didn't catch them. He only managed to scare them, and they dropped the items they had stolen before running away.
They had stolen the man's laptop and wallet. Mr. Bright picked up the items and went towards the man to return them. The man was very, very happy and asked Mr. Bright what he could do for him in return.
Immediately, before the man could finish speaking, Mr. Bright said, "A job! Give me a job."
The man replied, "It's okay." He gave Mr. Bright his phone number and told him to call him the following day.
Mr. Bright collected the number and went home. The next day, he called the man, who gave him his home address. Mr. Bright went to his house to meet him.
When he got there, the man offered him a job as a gateman in his house. This was because the man had no idea that Mr. Bright was actually a graduate with very good academic results.
Because Mr. Bright had no other option, he accepted the job and resumed work as a gateman in the man's house.
He worked for the man as a gateman for over two months before something happened.
One day, the man was returning from work. Mr. Bright opened the gate, and the man drove inside. Suddenly, his phone rang, and he picked up the call. It appeared that it was his friend asking him how the interview had gone.
The thing is, Mr. Bright never stopped looking for a job, even after getting the gateman job. He knew that was not the kind of job he wanted.
So, Mr. Bright began explaining to his friend that the interview had gone well and that the company had told him he would hear from them. However, he hadn't received any response from them yet.
When the man heard the conversation, he called Mr. Bright and asked him what the phone call was all about. Mr. Bright explained everything to him. When he eventually told the man that he was a graduate, the man was shocked and surprised.
He asked, "Why didn't you mention that earlier?"
Mr. Bright couldn't answer him.
The man told him that he had never imagined Mr. Bright was a graduate, considering the way he always dressed.
He then asked Mr. Bright why he thought all the companies he had applied to never called him back. Mr. Bright said he didn't know.
The man told him that he was the CEO of a board organisation and that he understood how these things worked. He asked Mr. Bright to bring his academic results the following day.
The next day, Mr. Bright brought his results to the man. After looking through them, the man said, "Young man, the reason you haven't been employed all this while might be because of the way you dress. Think about it. From the very first day I saw you until now, I have never imagined that you are a graduate. What does that tell you?"
He explained further that there was no vacancy at his workplace, but he was going to speak with a friend of his to see how he could help Mr. Bright.
The following day, the man called Mr. Bright and gave him the address of a company managed by his friend. He told him there was a vacancy and that he should go there for an interview because he had already forwarded his credentials to his friend.
The man also made sure Mr. Bright dressed appropriately before going for the interview. With that, Mr. Bright prepared himself and went for the interview.
On reaching the company, Mr. Bright was welcomed and taken through an interview. The following day, he received a phone call from the company informing him that he had been offered the job.
Mr. Bright was very happy. He went to his boss and informed him about the good news.
His boss told him that he should never think he got the job simply because he had intervened on his behalf. He explained that he knew his friend very well and that he was a very strict person. If Mr. Bright had not been qualified for the position, his friend would not have employed him, even though he had been recommended by someone he knew.
The man encouraged him to continue improving his dressing because people would often judge him by the way he presented himself.
Finally, what his fiancée, Emily, had been trying to correct for a long time had finally been corrected.
You should know that immediately after getting the job, Mr. Bright married Emily, his fiancée, and they both lived happily ever after.