Recently, I saw a post here on nairaland whereby the poster said something like in Nigeria only hard copy CVs submitted to companies are screened.
I am becoming to believe this because of my personal experience. I am a masters student in the UK about rounding up. Since I started writing my dissertation 2months ago, I have submitted over 350 CVs for job vacancies both home(Nigeria) and abroad online. Online in the sense that those that require you to upload your CV and Cover letter in their company's web site via some links and those that require you send your CV and cover letter to their recruitment email address. I have equally received positive and negative feed back from most of the foreign applications but not 1 single reply not even negative response from any of the Nigerian companies I applied to.

Now, from my experience and what a nairalander earlier said, it is only logical to conclude that online applications are not being regarded in Nigeria. I believe this companies only advertise for advertising sake and their online systems don't work. In other words, it all comes down to man when know man connection.
Please share your thoughts too.

You guyz should please say something na!

From my own personal experience both home and abroad. In the UK, you would receive a feedback from 99% of all online job applications.

In Nigeria, you stand a high chance to be called for interview if the job application requires that you send your resume to an email addy (not Yahoo and the likes). For applications that requires you to complete forms and upload cv, I can't remember receiving a reply from those ones.

Note: In Nigeria, very few companies have the courtesy of contacting applicants if they are shortlisted or not.

If you know someone in the company that could help track your cv, it would really help you get an interview and the job based on recommendation.

saxywale: From my own personal experience both home and abroad. In the UK, you would receive a feedback from 99% of all online job applications.

In Nigeria, you stand a high chance to be called for interview if the job application requires that you send your resume to an email addy (not Yahoo and the likes). For applications that requires you to complete forms and upload cv, I can't remember receiving a reply from those ones.

Note: In Nigeria, very few companies have the courtesy of contacting applicants if they are shortlisted or not.

If you know someone in the company that could help track your cv, it would really help you get an interview and the job based on recommendation.

Thank you very much. This will help