Jobberman

Jobberman
Company typePrivate
IndustryInternet
FoundedAugust 2009; 15 years ago (August 2009) in Lagos State, Nigeria
Founders
Headquarters
Lagos, Nigeria, Ghana
Key people
Oreoluwa Boboye, CEO Hilda Kabushenga Kragha, CEO, The African Talent Company (Jobberman Nigeria's parent company)
Websitejobberman.com

Jobberman is a career development and recruitment solutions company based in Nigeria.

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

History

Jobberman Nigeria was founded in August 2009 by Olalekan Olude, Ayodeji Adewunmi and Opeyemi Awoyemi[1][2] in their dormitory in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife[3] to help connect people looking for jobs with companies hiring.[4]

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.[5] The Jobberman Ghana CEO, Babajide Otoki, signed Joselyn Dumas as its brand ambassador in 2014.[6]  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)[7]

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

Recognition

In 2014, the BBC [8] 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]

References

  1. ^ "20 Successful under-40 Entrepreneurs in Nigeria". JarusHub - Nigeria's No. 1 Career Resources Hub. 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  2. ^ "The Jobberman.com Story | Web Experts". www.webexperts.ng. Archived from the original on 2019-05-25. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  3. ^ "Start small, end big — Awoyemi, Jobberman co-founder". Punch Newspapers. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  4. ^ "We started jobberman.com with zero capital". The Nation Newspaper. 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  5. ^ Boateng, Kojo Akoto (2016-04-13). "TEDxAccra speaker profile – Jide Otoki". Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
  6. ^ ameyawdebrah.com (2014-08-28). "Jobberman Presents Joselyn Dumas As It's Brand Ambassador | News Ghana". newsghana.com.gh/. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
  7. ^ "One Africa Media (OAM) acquires 100% stake in Jobberman in merger roll-up". May 2015. Archived from the original on 2019-05-25. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
  8. ^ Boswell, Jason (2014-09-02). "The students behind Nigeria's online jobs giant". BBC. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  9. ^ Adeyemo, Adeola (2012-06-13). "Jobberman Trio – Opeyemi Awoyemi, Olalekan Olude & Ayodeji Adewunmi: How Three Young Men Built Nigeria's Number One Job Website". BellaNaija. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  10. ^ "How Jobberman disrupted recruitment process, by Olude". The Nation Newspaper. 2018-07-15. Retrieved 2019-05-25.