Jobberman

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Jobberman
Company type Private
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FoundedAugust 2009;14 years ago (August 2009) in Lagos State, Nigeria
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Oreoluwa Boboye, CEO Hilda Kabushenga Kragha, CEO, The African Talent Company (Jobberman Nigeria's parent company)
Website jobberman.com

Jobberman Nigeria is Nigeria's leading career development and recruitment solutions company, connecting qualified job seekers with verified employers.

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Jobberman Nigeria offers online career development support, training services, and personalised HR solutions for job seekers and employers.

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History

Jobberman Nigeria was founded in August 2009 by Olalekan Olude, Ayodeji Adewunmi and Opeyemi Awoyemi [2] [3] in their dormitory in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife [4] to help connect people looking for jobs with companies hiring. [5]

In 2011, Tiger Global became a Jobberman Nigeria investor in less than three years after it started.[ citation needed ]

In 2012 the firm started a Ghana operations led by Jide Otoki. [6] The Jobberman Ghana CEO, Babajide Otoki, signed Joselyn Dumas as its brand ambassador in 2014. [7]  In 2015, Jobberman was acquired 100% by One Africa Media (OAM) in a merger roll-up arrangement that earned previous shareholders of Jobberman, shares in OAM. The following year, (2016) OAM merged with Ringier Africa to become Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM) [8]

Jobberman Nigeria is currently a part of the African Talent Company.

Recognition

In 2014, the BBC [1] described Jobberman Nigeria as the single largest job placement website in sub-Saharan Africa. In February 2012, it was named No. 8 in Forbes Magazine Top 20 Tech Startups in Africa, and it was included in the McKinsey Internet report on aspiring countries as an innovative company. According to alexa.com, Jobberman is ranked the 48th most visited site in Nigeria and receives 5,000 job applications every day. [9] In 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg named Olalekan Olude, Ayodeji Adewunmi and Opeyemi Awoyemi founder of Jobberman as examples of young Nigerians using digital technology to make impact across Africa. [10]

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