Sawajob, the new platform that connects job seekers and recruiters in Africa

2023-05-09 22:02:06
After five years of work, Sawajob was launched at the beginning of May. On this brand new platform, job seekers and recruiters from all over Africa can connect. An objective displayed in capital letters on the website: “Live and work everywhere in Africa”. A first agreement was signed with the Comoros employment centre. Enthusiasm for the directors of Sawajob Olivier Moulengue, CEO of Sawajob, grasped the slowness of the African market by talking to job seekers: “A student, for example, to be able to get a job, ‘according to the statistics we have noted, can apply up to 120 times to companies before getting a job. There are no tools that precisely make it possible to accelerate, energize, digitize the process. But that is ancient history. Job title, type of contract, sectors sought… in a few clicks, Sawajob promises to find work anywhere on the continent. An offer aimed at recruiters and job seekers of all profiles. “There are profiles who are, for example, self-taught, who do not have, until then, major diplomas. There are no platforms adapted to these people, notes Olivier Moulengue. Sawajob responds to this need and reaches all people, regardless of age, whether small or large companies, but also social enterprises, cooperatives, etc. We are responding to a real need, a real expectation of the populations, of African companies, in order to develop”. The service is charged between 22 and 300 euros, or between 15,000 and 200,000 FCFA, for companies, even if some of them are exempt from the costs. “We want to make the service free, especially for small businesses, SMEs … who can put ads for free, underlines Olivier Moulengue. Then, we have paying services, but even when it’s paying, we said that we had a social mission. The commercial director of Sawajob, Wassilati Mbae, calls on Africans, but also people from the diasporas, to join the platform: “They must also bring back training and gray matter, it cannot only be financial, until today, the diaspora gives more finances than it brings skills. For its launch party, Sawajob signed its first agreement with the Comoros employment centre. “The ambition in any case of the house of the Comoros is to reduce unemployment, but also to be able to have statistics which study the job market. Because we can’t provide solutions if we don’t know the job market,” adds Wassilati Mbae. Congo, Guinea-Conakry, Cameroon, Morocco are currently in discussion with the platform which hopes to quickly become the first on the African job market.
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