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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