, a job search site, has accused Jobberman, a leading jobs portal in Nigeria of copying its job adverts. They also posted several screenshots of evidence of what it claims to be an unfair advantage on its website especially by a site as big as jobberman.

According to , it has a hidden phrase “Copied from: www.” in some of its job adverts, which it uses to track whoever copies its job ads.

It also claims that when Jobberman copies its job adverts, they always remove the phrase and in some cases, they unconsciously fail to remove it, prompting the site to use it as an evidence.

The site also points out that they’re not bothered when competitor sites copy their job adverts and paste on their own sites, but when sites like Jobberman copy their job adverts, remove the application details and ask job seekers to pay money to apply for the same jobs, they see that as an unfair advantage against them.

“We are crying out loud because is cheating us. They are copying all our job adverts with impunity. They have the staff strength and financial capacity to source for job adverts the way we are sourcing for our own adverts, instead they are depending on us to supply them the job adverts without any gainful return”, stated on its website.

If truth be told, most of the job search sites in Nigeria copy one another, but it becomes an unfair advantage when any of these sites does so and charge job seekers a fee to apply for these same jobs.

Last February, Jobberman launched a new feature called Premium Alerts that keeps job seekers in the know about latest job openings/offers for a fee and recently, it teamed up with leading telecommunications provider, MTN Nigeria to charge job seekers a fee for mobile job alerts, while also charging them a fee monthly before they can apply for jobs on their website.

This is not the first time that Jobberman has been involved in a similar controversy. In September 2011, Jobberman blocked an African job search engine called Njorku from crawling its job content via RSS and told other job search sites to stop pulling their jobs via RSS feeds or they would be blocked too.

It becomes even more painful and an act of shame that you openly detest something yet, you are involved in that same act, not to talk of being caught pants down doing it. As it is, we are awaiting jobberman’s response/reaction to this matter which we shall bring to you.
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