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• Shows increase in ICT applications
According
to a recent affiliated report from the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics
(NBS), and online recruitment service, Jobberman, the number of
applications in the third quarter of 2016 dropped from 266,797 compared
to 815,163 applications in the same quarter of 2015 culminating in a 67.
3 per cent relapse. This is despite the slight increase in vacancies to
14,112 compared with 14,005 in the third quarter of 2015.
The
reports indicated that in July, there were 86,643 applications, which
rose to 93,164 in August, before falling to 86,990 in September. This
implied a total of 266,797 applications during the quarter compared to
213,922, 287,547, and 313,694 in the same three months of 2015, a total
of 815,163.
From the report, the top five most popular
industries to receive the most number of applications accounted for over
70 per cent of total applications: Trade/Services received the largest
number of applications with 40.7 per cent applications, a slight
increase relative to the same quarter of the previous year, when the
industry accounted for 40.2 per cent of applications.
Also,
in July and August over half of all applications were made to the
Trade/Services and Consulting industries, although this fell to just
under half, 48 per cent in September. In July, August and September,
this industry received 35,596, 39,261 and 33,690 applications
respectively, which is equivalent to 41.1 per cent, 42.1 per cent and
38.7 per cent of the total number of applications in each month.
In
July and August, Consulting was the industry to attract the second
largest number of applications, and accounted for 15,102 in July, and
11,939 in August, or 17.4 per cent and 12.8 per cent respectively.
However, there was a drop in the number of Consulting applications in
September to 8,867; 10.2 per cent of the total.
However, there
was a simultaneous increase in ICT/Telecommunications applications,
which led to the latter industry being the second most popular for
applications in the month. Nevertheless, consulting accounted for the
second largest number of applications in the quarter and accounted for
35,908; 13.5 per cent of the total.
Also, by location, Lagos
recorded the highest number of active applicants with 41,839 equivalent
to 56.4 per cent; an increase from the proportion of 53.7 per cent in
the previous period, followed by Abuja with 7,624; 10.3 per cent of the
total.
The proportion of applicants who were based outside of Nigeria
also remained similar, at 4.3 per cent, compared to 4.4 per cent in the
period considered in the previous period. Yobe, Jigawa and Zamfara were
the three states to account for the smallest number of active
applicants, with each state accounting for less than 0.1 per cent of the
total.
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