Recruitment: Towards a more transparent employment market

An international employment Portal, Everjobs has begun operations in Cameroon to assist with a more transparent employment market.

Each year, universities and other high institutions put on the market a certain number of graduates in all employment sectors. However, in Cameroon, the job market is pretty opaque as a result of the high rate of unemployment, and the disparity between graduates and companies.

Companies are increasingly moving towards online portals to search for qualified candidates. The portals not only are they less stressful but provide quality services and facilitate the professional integration of job seekers.

This online portal seeks to be the platform for easy communication, implementation of transparent relations between both parties and most importantly to assist companies that are in need of qualified personnel to employ.

To make the process a success, Everjobs take job hunters and recruiters through numerous precautions. The first is assurance, where each company registered on the portal has been already verified such that any application posted on the site directly gets to the company. Thus interested candidates will have easy access and stress free contact with the company.

On the other hand, businesses have many options to choose from a broad base of applicants. After going through the applications, they get in touch with the selected applicants for an interview. Everjobs also uses many channels of communication to find the best candidates and ensure maximum discernibility to businesses.

Even though portal managers acknowledged that there are more vacancies at the engineering and accounting sectors, job opportunities offered by Everjobs affects all sectors including banks, insurances, Industries, etc. Qualified persons are encouraged to can apply on the portal that hosts all businesses.

In just four months of existence, Everjobs course claim asserted that they have already registered about 10 000 Cvs (with a large volume of candidates from the diaspora), and has provided 200 jobs