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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 Yerima Abdullah, IT Manager
Websitejobberman.com

Jobberman is a Nigerian based job portal and career platform that lists candidate job applications for employers and helps connect people looking for jobs with companies hiring.[1][2] It is "the single largest job placement website in sub-Saharan Africa".[3]

History

Jobberman was founded in August 2009 by Olalekan Olude, Ayodeji Adewunmi and Opeyemi Awoyemi[4][5] in their dormitory in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife[6] to help connect people looking for jobs with companies hiring.[7]

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

In 2012 the firm added a Ghana branch".  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]

Recognition

In 2014, the BBC [3] described Jobberman 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. ^ touch, Lead Venture Analyst at Techpoint Eager to tell startup stories that offer Nigerians the much needed creative solutions to relate-able problems Get in (2017-04-13). "7 prominent Nigerian startups that started from the university". Techpoint.Africa. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  2. ^ Nsehe, Mfonobong. "Ten Minutes With Jobberman.com Cofounder Ayodeji Adewunmi". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  3. ^ a b Boswell, Jason (2014-09-02). "The students behind Nigeria's online jobs giant". BBC. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  4. ^ "20 Successful under-40 Entrepreneurs in Nigeria". JarusHub - Nigeria's No. 1 Career Resources Hub. 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  5. ^ "The Jobberman.com Story | Web Experts". www.webexperts.ng. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  6. ^ "Start small, end big — Awoyemi, Jobberman co-founder". Punch Newspapers. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  7. ^ "We started jobberman.com with zero capital". The Nation Newspaper. 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  8. ^ "One Africa Media (OAM) acquires 100% stake in Jobberman in merger roll-up". May 2015.
  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.
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