An honest comparison, written by the seller

Self-Learn or the live cohort? Same stages. Different delivery.

We sell both, so treat this with the suspicion it deserves — then check every claim on the two product pages, which carry full prices and full contents. The short version: the material is identical, and what you are actually choosing between is whether anybody is watching you do the work.

The short answer

One difference decides it. The rest is detail.

If you will genuinely do work that nobody checks, take the self-paced pack and start tonight — you would be paying ₦215,000 more for supervision you do not need. If you know from experience that unwatched work does not get done, the pack will sit unopened and the live cohort is the cheaper purchase, because a finished ₦250,000 course beats an abandoned ₦35,000 one.

Everything below is the detail behind that sentence.

Line by line

What is the same, and what is not.

The question
Self-Learn Pack₦35,000 · self-paced
Foundation Training₦250,000 · live cohort
The four stages
All four. Identical.
All four. Identical.
The twenty sessions
All twenty, written to be worked alone.
All twenty, taught live.
The ten-point CV rubric
The full rubric. Same one.
The full rubric. Same one.
The four deliverables
Same four specifications.
Same four specifications.
Live teaching
None. You read and do the exercise.
Every session, taught by the Lead Facilitator.
A verdict on your work
A written specification to check your own against. Nobody marks it.
Your deliverables are marked and returned with a written verdict.
Certificate
No. We will not certify work nobody assessed.
Yes, on completion.
Questions answered
The private Telegram community — peers, and us when we are in there.
Live, in session, by the person teaching it.
When you start
Today. Instant download, no cohort date.
The next cohort start date.
How long it takes
A month at an hour a night, or three months of weekends. No clock.
Twenty training days, on a fixed schedule you choose.
Choice of hour
Any hour. It is your own diary.
Three tracks — weekdays 7 PM, weekdays 8 PM, or weekends.
What happens if you stall
Nothing. Nobody notices. This is the real risk.
You are missed, and chased.
The CV Engine
Not included. You get the ten-point rubric and the specifications, and build the file yourself.
Included. The gated CV Engine — imports your existing CV, scores it live against all ten points, and reorders it to match any vacancy you paste. Also included with the Inner Circle.
The CV Engine
Not included. You get the ten-point rubric to score against by hand.
Included. Participants only — builds an ATS-safe CV and reorders it against any job advert you paste.
Placement support
None. That is Mastery Setup, Stage 5.
None. That is Mastery Setup, Stage 5.
Price
₦35,000, one payment.
₦250,000 for the bundle, or single stages from ₦70,000.

Nothing in the left column is a weakened version of the right. The curriculum is the same file. What ₦215,000 buys is teaching, marking, certification and someone noticing when you stop.

Which one is you

Pick honestly. The wrong one is expensive either way.

Take the Self-Learn Pack if

  • You have finished something before that nobody was checking — and you can name it.
  • You want to start tonight rather than wait for a cohort date.
  • ₦250,000 is genuinely not available, and ₦35,000 is.
  • You do not need a certificate for anything specific.
  • You would rather have the material now and buy the live training later if you stall.
See the Self-Learn Pack →

Take the live Foundation Training if

  • You have bought a course before and not finished it. That is the strongest signal on this page.
  • You need a deadline imposed from outside to move.
  • You want your CV and portfolio marked by someone before you send them anywhere.
  • You need the certificate for an employer, a visa file, or your own sense of completion.
  • You want the question you are embarrassed by answered live, not typed into a group.
  • You want the CV Engine — the participants-only tool that rebuilds your CV against any advert you paste.
See Foundation Training →

The honest bit

Three things a seller would rather not print.

The cheap one is only cheap if you finish it. An abandoned ₦35,000 pack costs more than a completed ₦250,000 cohort, because the second one produced four assets and a certificate and the first produced a folder. Most people who fail with self-paced material do not fail at the material.

Neither of these gets you a job. Both make you hireable. Neither applies on your behalf, sources roles, or sits in your interviews — that is Mastery Setup, and it is a separate purchase at a separate price. Anyone selling you training as a job guarantee is selling something else.

You might need neither this month. If you have not run the free ninety-second diagnostic, do that first. If it tells you your leak is Aim — that you are applying to companies who could never legally pay you — then no amount of CV training helps, and we would rather you knew that before paying anyone, us included.

Find your leak first — free → See all four routes