Eric Lauer, Co-founder and Managing Director at Everjobs Africa, has revealed that the aim of Africa’s newest online career portal, Everjobs in Ethiopia, which recently started operations in Ethiopia, is to help create the perfect match between professionals and employers.
Lauer said, “Overall in Ethiopia we are seeing a growing number of opportunities in the areas of Engineering, Manufacturing, Services, NGOs and in the public sector. Even though agriculture remains the highest employer of labour in the country, we are seeing a growing number of opportunities in the services sector with the sector contributing about 40% to GDP.”
According to him, Everjobs reduces delays in hiring, creates transparency and is available to anyone.
“Everjobs also ambitions to covers many cities in Ethiopia, as although the economy is very centralized, with most opportunities in Addis Ababa, there are some positions in Bahir Dar, Dire Dawa, Nazret, Debrezeit, Hawassa and Mekelle,” he said.
He revealed that there are currently more than 300 career opportunities from about a hundred employers on the Everjobs platform.
“When we spoke to Heads of HR they consistently told us the same thing – that the enormous numbers of paper-based CVs they receive everyday are becoming problematic.”
