Students in Campus
Jobberman.com, a popular job website in
Nigeria and one of the top 10 Tech Startups in
Africa has called on students of tertiary
institutions to use the occasion of the ongoing
strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff
Union of Universities (ASUU), to learn new and
profitable skills in website design and
development.
“ASUU strike need not be a negative
phenomenon for Nigerian undergraduates.
During an industrial strike in August 2009,
three young students used the opportunity of
the strike to start online jobs after the
acquisition of website skills,” Jobberman
founders said in a statement.
The founders of jobs portal known as
Jobberman, shared the story of how they
started as undergraduates in the country.
According to the Jobberman story, it all started
with three young men: Opeyemi Awoyemi,
Olalekan Olude and Ayodeji Adewunmi who
were all university students. They shared the
same interest in the Internet space and started
Jobberman from the Obafemi Awolowo
University campus during the Industrial Strike
Action by ASUU in August 2009.
They agreed to work on the job space for a
number of reasons including: a low capital
requirement (considering that they were
students at that time), huge market
opportunity and superior product
differentiation.
Jobberman at inception was financed from a
pool of funds created from their stipends. To
kick off their business, they needed to get a
company registered and they approached a
leading legal luminary, and incorporated the
business as a Limited Liability Company. And
that was the beginning of Jobberman.
According to Jobberman CEO, Ayodeji
Adewunmi, “The Ongoing ASUU strike has
presented itself again, an opportunity for
Nigerian students to hone skills early enough
in the workplace and gain competitive
advantage in the labour market."
Today Jobberman has grown to become one of
the biggest job websites in West Africa with
over 800,000 users and 14,000 companies
providing the latest jobs in Nigeria.
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