National Bureau of Statistics, NBS had reported that the number of Online applicants for jobs increased to 266,797 for the third quarter of 2016 compared to 815,163 applications in the same quarter of 2015, a 67.3% drop. . These applicants pursue only 14,112 jobs compared to 14,005 in the third quarter of 2015.

Furthermore, the report shows that Trade/Services remained the sector to attract the most applications (40.7%), as well as to advertise for the most vacancies (73.2%).

Moreover, the Oil & Gas/Mining and Engineering were the two sectors to attract the highest amount of applications per vacancy, although at 80 and 68 respectively, the numbers are low relative to the previous quarter.

Applicants were predominantly male (67.9%) and well educated; 77.5% were educated to degree level or higher.

And Lagos remained the state to account for the largest number of applicants and vacancies.

The report was made available in collaboration with Jobber man, the foremost online Job network in Nigeria.

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