Three students create leading jobs site in Nigeria
3 September 2014
An online job search company set up by three students in Nigeria has in five years achieved a multi-million dollar valuation and employs 125 people, according to a report from the BBC.
Wed, 3 Sep 2014An online job search company set up by three students in Nigeria has in five years achieved a multi-million dollar valuation and employs 125 people, according to a report from the BBC.
Ayodeji Adewunmi, Olalekan Plude and Opeyemi Awoyemi set up the Jobberman website in 2009 when their university lecturers in Nigeria went on strike. It has now become the single largest job placement website in Sub-Saharan Africa, helping more than 35,000 people find jobs in the past two years.
The BBC went on to report that the website advertises between 500 and 1,000 jobs every day.
Olude told the BBC: “The growth has been tremendous, it’s at rocket speed. One of the biggest challenges has been to keep up with the volume of work.”
He added: “In the beginning a lot of people did not trust an internet-based business because at that time a lot of people were using the internet to perpetuate fraud here in Nigeria.”
Ayodeji Adewunmi, Olalekan Plude and Opeyemi Awoyemi set up the Jobberman website in 2009 when their university lecturers in Nigeria went on strike. It has now become the single largest job placement website in Sub-Saharan Africa, helping more than 35,000 people find jobs in the past two years.
The BBC went on to report that the website advertises between 500 and 1,000 jobs every day.
Olude told the BBC: “The growth has been tremendous, it’s at rocket speed. One of the biggest challenges has been to keep up with the volume of work.”
He added: “In the beginning a lot of people did not trust an internet-based business because at that time a lot of people were using the internet to perpetuate fraud here in Nigeria.”
