There are hundreds of jobs sites in Nigeria, and I will begin by talking about the current number 1 job in the country .
I refer to them as the top job site in Nigeria because they offer several extra values that no other job site in Nigeria currently offers.
1. Delon Jobs
First of all, Delon Jobs provides free weekly live webinars to teach Nigerian students, Pre-NYSC, NYSC, and recent graduates about finding jobs in Nigeria and career development. This career development webinar on YouTube and Facebook helps to prepare young Nigerians for the employment market and provides a live question-and-answer opportunity to address people’s specific questions.
Apart from the weekly video webinar, Delon Jobs also interviews several successful business owners and recruiters and publishes these interviews regularly on their website for job seekers and prospective business owners to read and learn from.
I believe the owners of Delon Jobs are correctly assuming that some job seekers are also seeking to learn about starting or growing small businesses while they wait to land their dream jobs. This learning opportunity is extremely beneficial to diverse types of people across Nigeria (including job seekers, recruiters, workers looking for a side hustle, workers seeking to change jobs, and small business owners seeking to grow their businesses).
In addition to the weekly videos and frequent interviews, Delon Jobs also publishes weekly educative articles and daily Nigerian business news related to jobs and small businesses. They also publish these articles and the latest Nigerian jobs on LinkedIn. They have about a hundred thousand followers on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
Delon Jobs is also the no 1 IT recruitment firm in the country, uniquely focused on providing top IT services in the country to small and large businesses across Nigeria because virtually all recruitment companies in Nigeria provide general recruitment services and no other popular recruitment company specializes and focuses only on IT recruitment services in Nigeria.
Their job site also posts current jobs in some countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, allowing Nigerian freelancers to get a chance to export their services outside Nigeria. They also have the most diverse database of the latest jobs in Lagos.
In recent months, Delon Jobs started offering free recruitment services to small companies in Nigeria. Generally, it is always hard for small companies to hire highly talented candidates because the companies are not able to compete with big companies seeking similar candidates. Ironically, there are many talented candidates that are jobless and desperate at finding jobs in Nigeria even from small companies.
Delon Jobs is currently matching such candidates with small companies that require them at zero costs. The small companies only need to identify themselves as small companies to qualify for this free service.
Job aggregators: Sites like indeed, zip recruiter, etc are good examples of job aggregator sites. They collect and collate information from multiple listings, where potential candidates can land their dream jobs through a single search. Many Nigerian job websites are smaller versions of indeed. While indeed uses complex algorithms to automate the process of aggregating, Nigerian job sites manually collate and post the jobs.
Find the match: The website matches candidates’ profiles with the employer. Both parties meet with each other while the site only facilitates.
Social networking: Social Job sites like LinkedIn have completely changed recruitment strategies across the world. Candidates have the opportunity to advertise their skills in an open database, and recruiters can easily select their choice.
2. Jobberman
Jobberman is a leading job site in Nigeria but I did not rank them number 1 because they are now a foreign-owned company that focuses a lot on connecting experienced job seekers with big companies. In recent years, small companies have to pay to advertise their jobs and there are not many available free services for students or recent graduates.
Jobberman was founded in August 2009 by Nigerians but was wholly acquired in 2015 by One Africa Media (OAM). In 2016, OAM merged with Ringier Africa to become Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM).
Jobberman is currently one of the biggest job sites in Africa, and whether you are looking for IT jobs in Nigeria, jobs in Ghana, or job vacancies in Abuja, jobberman remains a suitable job site with an enormous database.
3. Glassdoor.com
Though this is a job site that originates from outside Africa, it sometimes appears on google’s first page when searching for jobs in Nigeria and remains quite popular in the country. Glassdoor is not just a job website, it is a website where current and former employees anonymously review companies. It allows users to anonymously submit and view salaries as well as search and apply for jobs on its platform. In 2018, the company was acquired by the Japanese firm, Recruit Holdings, for US$1.2 billion.
Glassdoor helps job seekers learn about the companies they are trying to apply to. Job seekers can learn about salaries, interviews, and culture in the companies they are applying to before moving far in their application process.
4. Careers24.com
Careers24 has been around since 2005 and advertises jobs mainly in the South. I have listed them here because they continue to post Nigeria jobs and had invested hugely in Nigeria in the past.
Careers24 is a company of Media24 and benefits from being part of the Naspers Group – Africa’s largest media company. This was the most popular job site in Nigeria at some point but has not been very popular in recent years. They used to publish many of the highest paying IT jobs in Nigeria years ago.
5. Indeed.com
Like glassdoor, this is also a foreign job site that had made inroads into the Nigerian market in recent years. It is usually ranked number 1 by google when searching for jobs in many countries across the world. However, because they are not a local Nigerian company, they rarely meet local needs like many of the indigenous job sites.
Aside from the top five job websites described above, there are several other job sites in Nigeria that have good database of jobs for job seekers to regularly explore. They include but are not limited to the following:
6. Justjobsng.com:
8. Total jobs
Total Jobs is a site that features job listings in countries all over the world, including Nigeria. It doesn’t provide as robust of a selection as some of the other sites on this list, but it’s still worth checking out.
This site is easy to navigate and is updated regularly, so it’s a good idea to check in often throughout your job search. That way, you can see if anything new has been posted that catches your attention and jump on it before anyone else