TalentsinAfrica.com has launched to connect Africans to new opportunities taking on Ringier One Africa Media's Jobberman and the rest with a $35,000 seed capital from GoodSoil Venture Capital and Twelve Spring Investment Group. Founded by Emmanuel Leslie Addae and Daniel Amoako Antwi, in March 2017, the platform began as an idea to help ...
Fuzu is a Swahili verb meaning ‘to succeed’. Fuzu the company, is a Pan-African company that launched the Fuzu employment platform in 2015. It is online career and recruitment platform, that provides access to career advice, online learning and jobs in East Africa. Fuzu aims to change the landscape of ...
Placements Nigeria is a new internship search platform that has launched to connect qualified interns with reputable employers to work with in Africa.. Founded by My name is Ayobami Oyaleke, the platform has served over 27,000 interns in Nigeria, over 2000 employers and says it has a successful conversion of over 5000 interns ...
Job platform MyJobMag has launched MySalaryScale.com having gathered salary data from over one thousand job positions in about two thousand companies and thirty-four industries cutting across the country. The firm says it gathered the data from firms in thirty-six states of the country to help users get to know ...
Kenya's recruitment site BrighterMonday has partnered Educartis- an online education platform with operations in Angola and Kenya to launch an online education and employment platform dubbed BrighterMonday Learning. The new site will equip BrighterMonday's growing population of over 600,000 registered job seekers in Kenya with information on higher and continuing ...
Recruiting and talent management is a core challenge facing growing businesses in emerging markets. Over 1 million people enter India’s workforce each month, and the World Bank estimates that Africa will add more people to its job market in the next ten years than the rest of the world combined. ...
Project management is one of the most sought after professions and project managers are one of the most sought after professionals in Nigeria and around the world. However, employers and recruiters in Nigeria are finding it hard or challenging to search for and attract the best project management talents, both ...
Unemployment is a massive global challenge with over 70 percent of the youth unemployed and out of gainful unemployment in major markets across Africa, Kenya included. Educated youth spend endless hours moving from one office and applying for millions of openings hoping to get a job and move out of ...
The rate of unemployment in Nigeria still remains very high. Every year, millions of Nigerians leave school and end up remaining at home for years without jobs. Many have argued that there are only a few jobs in Nigeria, while some also make the case that so many graduates are ...
What is the list of the KENYAN COMPANIES, which have fired more than 5,000 employees? What are the reasons for it? Read the article to learn the latest news. The country has hard economic times. It leads to a big number of dismissals. People lose their jobs. 5,000 employees were ...
Financial services firm Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) Group is launching KaziKasi to help connect semi-skilled and unskilled youth in Kenya to informal sector jobs such as drivers, house helps, supermarket and gas station attendants among others. According to the firm, the portal is set to launch in May and aims ...
South Africa's JOBVINE GLOBAL has launched in Kenya after closing a Series A funding round for its global rollout plan. Founded by Joubert Botha who also runs MoneyVine, Karma Digital Media and HashtagRadio in 2009, Jobvine is an online recruitment platform that connects businesses, recruiters and job seekers in South Africa, Nigeria and now Kenya. ...
South Africa's Competition Commission is set to prosecute three advertising practitioners specializing in recruitment advertising services for price fixing, market division and collusive tendering. The Commission reports that it found that Human Communications, Kone Staffing and Jobvest- collectively discussed and agreed on prices at which to quote their customers. “As ...
Ushift, an on-demand staffing platform for businesses to fill their hourly or daily labor needs in shifts has launched to make it easy for businesses to post jobs and get matched with qualified and skilled workers looking for temporary work. Founded this year by Robinson Blanckaert and Philippe Benedetti, and ...
Jobyina.com is an internship site for students, school leavers and job seekers based in Nigeria. The site works with other corporate firms to identify young job seekers to help them learn and get experience away from their school environment. Founded by Lasisi Olatunbosun, the platform recruits, develops and deploys students ...
South Africa's Britecap, a blue collar jobs marketplace won the SAP Startup Focus Forum competition last week Thursday beating five other companies that participated at the event organised by Barclays Rise Cape Town and SAP. Britecap took home a Macbook Pro as well as 3 months free incubation space at Barclays Rise ...
Kenya's Campusbiz.co.ke, is an online internship and jobs portal for students in universities and colleges looking for short term internships or jobs as they study. Founded by Sam Kauria, the startup aims to help connect students to opportunities online easily minus the pain associated with internships and job seeking without ...
Nailab's Kuhustle-which means get your hustle on is tightening its ropes on its freelancer developer jobs marketplace to a closed up on-demand tech talent platform to help individuals and firms with tech-related tasks to hire a developer on demand, moving away from the open networking platform it used to be. ...
South Africa's IDWork, a C2C platform that connects technically skilled informal workers (like tilers) to clients, was selected the best startup in South Africa for its creative solution to the social issue of unemployment. IDWork will represent the country at the Seedstars Summit in Switzerland to compete for up ...
Vascon Solutions is an ICT company focused on Value Added Solutions Delivery in the Enterprise Technology space. VASCON draws from an experienced base of personnel whilst maintaining a personalized form of business liaison. We are ultimate in ICT Solutions with diversified skills we adapt to meet clients expectations. Job Title: ...
Nigerian government has revealed its readiness to create 2 million jobs at the grassroots with the full implementation of Basic Registry and Information System in Nigeria (BRISIN), according to Dr. Abubakar Sulaiman, minister/deputy chairman, National Planning Commission. He said with the project taking its full course, documentation centres will be ...
Max Com Africa Limited has unveiled a new payment platform called that will facilitate payments for bills such as tax payment to TRA, banking transactions and Luku television decoders.Along with the ease of payments it is expected that the new platform will create 200 000 jobs for Tanzanians by next ...
Africa Internet Group which is a 33.3 JV between MTN, Millicom and Rocket Internet today officially launched its jobs platform Everjobs in Cameroon weeks after we announced the move that's set to revolutionize the jobs sector in Africa. Eric Lauer, Co-founder & Managing Director Africa at Everjobs told TechMoran that AIG ...
Data from the ILO database shows that Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) registered the highest job growth by volume among all world regions between 2009 and 2014 – 6 times the job growth in developed economies & the EU. SSA is poised to create the second highest number of new jobs - ...
Msajili.com, a new Kenyan startup aims to help end the hassle faced by hiring managers and recruiters everytime they go through piles of applicants incase of any job opening. The online applicant tracking software for SMEs expects to help them avoid wasting time going through hundreds of emails and downloading ...
Richard Brandt and his partners came across a good number of highly motivated, young and talented Africans with world class skills. However, they realized that they found it difficult to find job opportunities where they can use their skills to earn a decent living.This inspired Brandt and his friends to ...
Job search engine Workistry.com is set to an online job fair” from July 17th – August 17th, 2015 in a move expected to bring together about 30,000 Employers from 98 countries online to hire professionals from Africa and the rest of the world. “Workistry.com is a candidate search engine for ...
Uber, the app that connects riders with drivers, created over 2,000 jobs in South Africa since launching in late 2013. The jobs created are both direct and indirect with the company empowering hundreds of entrepreneurs to become small business owners in South Africa, contributingo significantly to the 50,000+ global entrepreneurs who are ...
Contrary to what we all know, over 50% of jobs are filled through networks. This is where a job arises and one is hired because of a positive recommendation. It saves the company time and money and let’s admit, we are all comfortable working and doing business with people we ...
The mobile ecosystem’s economic contribution (% of GDP) is highest in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), contributing 6% of GDP (2012) and poised to reach 8% by 2020 – this is in comparison to 4% and 1.4% of GDP in Latin America and Asia Pacific (2012). SSA accounted for 37% (3.3M people, ...
