WorkinAfrica Virtual Career Fair

WorkInAfrica.com is the first professional online job board, a one-stop solution for all recruitment needs in sub-Saharan Africa. The organisers have a track record of over 10 online recruitment events held in the past three years gathering 800 employers and 380,000 professionals with a total reach of over 35,000,000 candidates through promotion campaigns.

The best represented industry by companies participating at these previous events was the IT&C sector (46%) followed by BPO (14%), Engineering (10%), Recruitment (10%), Finance (10%), Auto (3%), FMCG (3%) and other industries (4%). Accenture, Adobe, Airbus, Bolloré Africa Logistics, Colgate-Palmolive, DELL, HP, IBM, IKEA, L'Oreal, Microsoft, Nestlé, P&G and Unilever were just a few of the employers present in previous events.

Companies participating as employers at WorkinAfrica Virtual Career Fair will have the opportunity to post jobs during the event, browse applicants or visitors in the event, including passive candidates in order to hire their new employees. Companies will be visible for candidates through a customized presentation virtual booth with personalized features such as company logo, company ad, video presentation.

In order to reach the desired candidates, WorkinAfrica Virtual Career Fair will benefit from an extended media campaign including a variety of promotion channels from internal newsletters sent to over 30,000 professionals, inserts in job alerts, etc. to social media ads (on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Youtube). The media campaign is targeted at attracting professionals with three to five years of experience, as this is a major challenge for employers in sub-Saharan Africa. This way, in just one month, employers can build a pipeline for a whole year for their positions requiring experienced candidates.

41% of the candidates that participated at previous events had over five years of work experience,
22% worked before for one to three years and
14% had a working experience ranged between three and five years.
Also, 35% of the candidates were University Graduates, 33% were Master Graduates and 2% had a PhD.

Active employers in the sub-Saharan region interested in promoting their job openings to over 35,000,000 professionals are invited to visit WorkinAfrica Virtual Career Fair website for more information.

WorkInAfrica.com is the first professional online job board, a one-stop solution for all recruitment needs in sub-Saharan Africa.

With an experience of over 10 years in strategic sourcing and a strong background in online strategy and employer branding, we have delivered fast and quality results for over 200 clients across EMEA.

Date: 01 March 2015 to 31 March 2015
Venue: Online - www.workinafrica.com, Sub-Saharan Africa