The Head of Marketing and Products Development of Nigeria’s online job portal, Careers24, Tope Niyi, has revealed that eighty per cent of jobs online in Nigeria are fraudulent.

Niyi tells in a recent interview how the company is doing all it can to combat frauds and jobs in the Nigerian online space.

The online job space has become an attractive platform for fraudsters, what has been your experience and what have you done to combat the challenge?
At the time that Careers24 launched, it was being handled from South Africa. So what the team in South Africa did was to Google the email addresses of those recruiters who want to recruit through the platform. But when we came on board, we realised that a lot of those recruiters were actually fraudulent recruiters. I can tell you that out of a hundred jobs that are sent to us by recruiters in a day, about 80 per cent of that are fraudulent jobs. So what we did was to build a system where every job that comes on our site goes through a fraud proof registration process.

This gives us access to the details of our potential recruiters so that we can verify that the job is genuine. For example, someone says Shell is recruiting, and says send your CV to Shell@gmail.com. Immediately you see that, you will realise it is a scam because a company like Shell should probably have emails like HR@shell.com. Generally we have little tolerance for scam, so even if it looks right, you still have to prove to us that it is right. Apart from that, we have a way of taking it further. We said because it is Nigeria and there is this problem of scam, we are going to ensure that we call every recruiter that puts a job on the site. This is possible since the job doesn’t go live once it is submitted for posting on our site. So the team at the backend that sees the job before it goes live calls the recruiter to actually verify the submission.

More here http://www.nigerianheadlines.com/80-of-online-jobs-in-nigeria-are-fraudulent-careers24/

That means majority of all those who have been applying online are just playing games.

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ikenigel:
That means majority of all those who have been applying online are just playing games.

No wonder many job seekers never get response.