Jobberman is a

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based

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and career platform that lists candidate job applications for employers and helps connect people looking for jobs with companies hiring. It is "the single largest job placement website in sub-Saharan

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History

Jobberman was founded in August 2009 by

Olalekan Olude Olalekan Olude is a Nigerian entrepreneur, the co-founder of Jobberman, West Africa's most popular job search engine and Special Adviser on Job Creation and Youth Empowerment to Ogun state Governor Dapo Abiodun. Olude was named as one of the 1 ...

, Ayodeji Adewunmi and Opeyemi Awoyemi in their dormitory in

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, Ile-Ife to help connect people looking for jobs with companies hiring. In 2011,

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became a Jobberman investor in less than three years after it started. 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)

Recognition

Jobberman is "the single largest job placement website in sub-Saharan Africa". "In February 2012, it was named No. 8 in

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Top 20 Tech Startups in Africa, and it was included in the McKinsey Internet report on aspiring countries as an innovative company. "According to

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, Jobberman is ranked the 48th most visited site in Nigeria and receives 5,000 job applications every day." In 2016

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CEO

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named Olalekan Olude, Ayodeji Adewunmi and Opeyemi Awoyemi founder of Jobberman "as examples of young Nigerians using digital technology to make impact across Africa."

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External links

How three students created Nigeria's online jobs giant
Employment websites Business services companies established in 2009 Service companies of Nigeria Nigerian websites Companies based in Lagos