Jobberman Young Nigeria Works
Target Impact
To provide job-readiness/soft skills training to one million young Nigerians and place 500,000 in dignified and fulfilling work by 2024.
Status: Active
Country
Nigeria
Period
2019-2024
Industries
Digital Economy
Impact to Date
670,244
young people trained.
149,525
young people placed.
Published Skills Gap Reports on agriculture, creatives, and digital economy sectors.
Published Gender Barriers Report.
Partnership Focus
Building a coordinated and structured employability training scheme for all candidates in the program in line with their current youth engagement and career fair work. The training scheme is delivered through digital platforms (Coursera, WhatsApp, Telegram, Arifu) and supported with a strong offline effort including live presentations, CV workshops, Q&A sessions, and training and support on tools that are to be leveraged in the process.
Engaging with all employers in the market, including government, to secure job opportunities for youth entering the workforce. Jobberman will hold multiple workshops and leverage a host of interaction mediums to grow the opportunity pool and to alleviate some of the barriers to youth employment.
Providing the platform and process to support candidates to find the right job and match their skills to the relevant needs of the employers.
In Partnership With
Jobberman is the largest recruitment platform in Nigeria, linking employers to talent across the country. Through the Young Nigeria Works program, Jobberman seeks to train one million young people on critical employability skills and link 500,000 of them to jobs by 2024. The goal is achieved through scaling up Jobberman’s employer engagement activities, engagement with training partners as well as the redesign of Jobberman’s platform to enable it to place blue-collar and/or gig workers in the agriculture, creatives, and digital sectors.