Many Nigerians use the jobberman online recruitment to look for work because COVID-19 is exhausting jobs in the labour market.
A recent report on Bloomberg showed that the number of other people searching for paintings through Nigeria’s largest recruiting site, Jobberman, has quintupled since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jobberman’s lead executive, Hilda Kragha, said the number of active task seekers has increased from 10,000 a week to about 55,000, meaning more people are there to work.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently reported that 42% of Nigerian staff had lost their jobs as a result of the COVID-19 effect, cutting the incomes of 79% of families in Nigeria.
“The effect on employment and the source of income has also become widespread. The effect on COVID-19 was strongly felt in the trade, facilities and agriculture sectors.”
Jobberman also said there was a 40% drop in recruitment in March, following the initial blockade of COVID-19.
Prior to COVID-19, about 20.9 million Nigerians were unemployed in 2018, according to NBS data, with four million Nigerians entering the labor market a year.
National Vice President, North Center of the National Association of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (NASME), Engr. Auwal Ibrahim estimated that some 50,000 were disconnected in the MSM economy subsector.
The Executive Director of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Sir Joseph Ari, said the Fund was conducting research on the dominant and applicable trades and the mode of intervention required for the government to create more jobs.
Complain about a story or error and/or correction: ‘2348189301900 (Whatsapp and SMS only) Email: [email protected]