The number of other people looking for paintings on Nigeria’s largest online recruiting page has quintupled since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting the struggle faced by many others in Africa’s largest economy.
“As a general rule, we have about 10,000 active task seekers depending on the week,” Hilda Kragha, Jobberman’s executive leader, said in an interview in Lagos, the country’s monetary capital. “During this pandemic, we had over 55,000, which means more people are working.”
Like many countries, Nigeria has been badly affected economically after the implementation of blockades to involve the spread of coronavirus. Africa’s largest oil manufacturer also suffered the collapse of crude oil costs this year and is suffering from a shortage of dollars. Together, they have exacerbated pressure on a wide variety of companies in a country that has long struggled to provide jobs for its young people.
Jobberman’s data, which basically recruits administrative workers and does not track unskilled workers, manual workers, are consistent with official estimates that see unemployment in the country of more than two hundred million increase to 34% until the end of the year to 23% in 2019.
While there was a 40% drop in recruitment in March, when the first two weeks after the imposition of movement restrictions, programs consistent with the vacuum on the online platform increased by 183% this year.
While Nigeria’s economy is expected to contract by 5.4% this year, according to International Monetary Fund estimates, IT and telecommunications companies are the most sensitive of Jobberman’s hiring ratings, as Nigerian companies, like others around the world, adapt to the local workforce. . Similarly, the hospitality, tourism, travel, aviation, entertainment and oil and fuel industries have fallen to the bottom.
Companies are also cutting the number of workers they want or making donations to new workers as they rethink their plans.
“We have a consumer looking to rent another 2,000 people before the pandemic, while the pandemic started, they fell to 500 and now they’ve only shown about two hundred more people,” Kragha said. At least 10% of the jobs already submitted through the platform have been suspended through their prospective employers.
Jobberman, a unit of Ringier One Africa Media Group, has over 2 million task seekers registered on its platform and has placed 16,000 task seekers on tasks in the last 3 months, according to Kragha.
The company said it was partnering with the Mastercard Foundation to provide emotional intelligence, business etiquette and time control education to five million unemployed Nigerians about their opportunities “in an overcrowded labor market.”