I’m starting to think the online jobs I see in Nigeria are hoax placed on purpose to draw traffic to their sites for SEO rankings.

So I’m curious to know, are there any agencies you could pay to do the job search on your behalf in Nigeria? I don’t mean those shady ones that collect your money and tell you stories. I mean high quality agents that know how job search is done professionally who would help you apply to places that match your qualifications and get you a proper interview in record time. I have highly desirable work ethics and traits, and have very outstanding experience and educational qualifications both home and abroad, I’m just not the type to run around with a brown envelope gate crashing offices in a suit, shirt n tie.

There's none really. There's very few jobs in Nigeria for such business model to ever make sense except the company wants to scam applicants.

tensazangetsu20:
There's none really. There's very few jobs in Nigeria for such business model to ever make sense except the company wants to scam applicants.

Thanks for your very honest response. This just makes me wonder where the country is headed. So many questions come to mind:
Why are there so many online adverts for non available jobs in Nigeria? Why are there no jobs? I thought the problem has been lack of qualified hands for the jobs that exist, but it seems there is something darker here. How does the economy thrive with little or no jobs available?

RandyX:

Thanks for your very honest response. This just makes me wonder where the country is headed. So many questions come to mind:
Why are there so many online adverts for non available jobs in Nigeria? Why are there no jobs? I thought the problem has been lack of qualified hands for the jobs that exist, but it seems there is something darker here. How does the economy thrive with little or no jobs available?

There arent many online job adverts. Hotnigerianjobs the most reliable job portal in Nigeria has around 300 new jobs everyday with majority of them paying in the 30 to 50k salary range. The others are GNLD and a few good tech jobs. Other countries in Europe have thousands of job posts everyday.

tensazangetsu20:

There arent many online job adverts. Hotnigerianjobs the most reliable job portal in Nigeria has around 300 new jobs everyday with majority of them paying in the 30 to 50k salary range. The others are GNLD and a few good tech jobs. Other countries in Europe have thousands of job posts everyday.

That’s interesting. How then do the people who get jobs find them?

RandyX:

That’s interesting. How then do the people who get jobs find them?

The best thing is to have a very specialised skill that doesn't limit you to Nigeria. If you don't have any skills have very big connections or be extremely smart to easily ace tests of all this general graduate trainee Jobs that have thousands of applicants.

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RandyX:
I’m starting to think the online jobs I see in Nigeria are hoax placed on purpose to draw traffic to their sites for SEO rankings.

So I’m curious to know, are there any agencies you could pay to do the job search on your behalf in Nigeria? I don’t mean those shady ones that collect your money and tell you stories. I mean high quality agents that know how job search is done professionally who would help you apply to places that match your qualifications and get you a proper interview in record time. I have highly desirable work ethics and traits, and have very outstanding experience and educational qualifications both home and abroad, I’m just not the type to run around with a brown envelope gate crashing offices in a suit, shirt n tie.

There exist such agencies/agents. My senior colleague in school used them when he graduated from his MSc program at Unilag. I did my findings and got to know that the jobs advertised depends on your preferred industry (obviously, there are certain limit). I did not follow up with the jobs offered because I was paid more than the amount by my family's business and in a quiet city compared to rowdy Lagos.

Note: This was when the economy was relatively OK, herdsmen's killings were not as bad as they are presently, one could travel from Kogi to Enugu/Kano to Lagos in relative peace. Whether those agents have jobs to advertise today is a topic for another day.

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Why you think that those jobs advertised online are scams is because there are way more unemployed Nigerians than advertised jobs. Nigeria is home to the second highest number of unemployed youths. Remember that the GDP rate has not exceeded 3% in the PAST SIX YEARS going to SEVEN. Prior to when refined Olodos masquerading as intellectuals (actually intellectwats) campaigned and voted for Buhari in 2015, the GDP rate was above 6% and going to 7% annually. Before they lie that the price of crude oil was high during GEJ's era, the price actually fell below $50 pb yet the GDP rate stood above 6%. Jobs were plentiful!!!!!! In summary, compared to GEJ's era, the economy is not growing. Thus, jobs are scarce and hard to come by. Blame Nigerians who voted for a reformed democrat, and if you did partake in it, you deserve whatever economy is throwing at you.

Apologies for my long reply. There are just too many things wrong in the system.

Gerrard59:

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There exist such agencies/agents. My senior colleague in school used them when he graduated from his MSc program at Unilag. I did my findings and got to know that the jobs advertised depends on your preferred industry (obviously, there are certain limit). I did not follow up with the jobs offered because I was paid more than the amount by my family's business and in a quiet city compared to rowdy Lagos.

Note: This was when the economy was relatively OK, herdsmen's killings were not as bad as they are presently, one could travel from Kogi to Enugu/Kano to Lagos in relative peace. Whether those agents have jobs to advertise today is a topic for another day.

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Why you think that those jobs advertised online are scams is because there are way more unemployed Nigerians than advertised jobs. Nigeria is home to the second highest number of unemployed youths. Remember that the GDP rate has not exceeded 3% in the PAST SIX YEARS going to SEVEN. Prior to when refined Olodos masquerading as intellectuals (actually intellectwats) campaigned and voted for Buhari in 2015, the GDP rate was above 6% and going to 7% annually. Before they lie that the price of crude oil was high during GEJ's era, the price actually fell below $50 pb yet the GDP rate stood above 6%. Jobs were plentiful!!!!!! In summary, compared to GEJ's era, the economy is not growing. Thus, jobs are scarce and hard to come by. Blame Nigerians who voted for a reformed democrat, and if you did partake in it, you deserve whatever economy is throwing at you.

Another well placed comment. I have not really been in the country for too long. Last time I was here, the situation was still bad but somewhat manageable (about 10 years ago). I left because I thought things were bad, but coming back now, it seems worse than before.

As regards the political landscape, I remember voicing my disgust at the fact that each of the successive presidential election winners were the ones who boycotted the televised presidential debates. I asked people online in 2015 why they couldn’t demand for better flagbearers from the parties. Unfortunately, these people placed too much emphasis on wealth and popularity, instead of on demonstrated ability and goodwill, so I was told to get lost.

Apart from the obvious terrible government policies, corruption and outright ill-purposed tax system, I think a lot of things are amiss. First of all, uncontrolled migration (unwanted immigrants and our valuable human capital assets emigrating to find greener pastures elsewhere) resulting in an accelerated rate of national brain drain. Conversely, you have a massive influx of largely uneducated persons trooping in from all corners of the country’s porous borders with no checks on where they live or if they actually return to where they originally come from. You can’t feed a nation that is multiplying with liabilities every second. If we should swap locations with countries like China today, Nigeria would become a first world country and China would become a 3rd world country. China has a large population too, but what they do different is their investment in the intellect of her people. Nigeria raises brains for first world countries to snatch up when ripe and then helps Niger, Benin, Chad and other neighbour countries gulp up the rejects of their respective societies.

The job market is over saturated with job seekers because more than 80% of the population are just seeking jobs to survive and not because they are qualified or really want them. You must have read about the Immigration recruitment tragedy of 2014 where 6.5 million people applied for just 4000 jobs. You find a vacancy for a cashier bank job with 200,000 applicants. 150,000 of them studied botany or horticulture.

The government has forgotten or lost the essence of its role in nation building through education. Why establish/maintain courses (that the populace spend their hard earned money to attain in the higher institutions) that have no thriving market or industry ready for its graduates? More than 80% of graduates who decide to establish new industries or import new ones that exist overseas to the shores of Nigeria are unable to thrive or create jobs due to insecurity, disenfranchisement, power outage, crude dim witted and outdated policies, megalomaniac law enforcement agencies carrying out illegal oppression of businesses with impunity, mafia/banditry systems threatening business owners and outright modern day slavery.

There are several other reasons for the mass unemployment which I can not list here but the most important question we should ask is: what is the solution?

I think the principle of demand and supply should have led various agencies to pop up in a bid to solve the unemployment problem. However, lack of sincerity and corruption seems to turn these agencies into criminal/fraudulent ventures seeking to just take money and not deliver service. The same is true for those who work in the majority of such agencies, they just work for the money not that they really value helping others find jobs. I had a friend who once told me that he asked a job search agent to find him a job in a multinational. The agent bluntly told him (after receiving payment of course) that if she(agent) couldn’t find a job in a multinational for herself and ended up here as a job search agent, what makes him think if she finds one she wouldn’t ditch the agency work and take it, rather than help him? This is the kind of mindset we are dealing with.

tensazangetsu20:

The best thing is to have a very specialised skill that doesn't limit you to Nigeria. If you don't have any skills have very big connections or be extremely smart to easily ace tests of all this general graduate trainee Jobs that have thousands of applicants.

Good morning

You seem to know much about tech and IT. I want to learn digital marketing. I will like to know the best niche in digital marketing that I can learn quickly to start making money and how I can go about it.

I think I've done my bit. Time to leave Nigeria is imminent.

RandyX:
I think I've done my bit. Time to leave Nigeria is imminent.

That's exactly what it should be.
I was wondering why you decided to return to Nigeria to work after obtaining an additional qualification abroad, while those of us who trained in Nigeria are running away.
It's an anomaly for anyone to seek to work in Nigeria after obtaining additional trainings/qualifications abroad.