and facebook for students, Pre-NYSC, NYSC and recent graduates about finding jobs in Nigeria and starting careers. This is geared towards helping young Nigerians better prepare for the employment market and allows them to participate through live question and answer sessions.
The company also provides free business development learning opportunities to small business owners in Nigeria by regularly publishing educative articles and interviews, as well as important business news on theirI did not list Andela as number 1 because they are actually a foreign company operating in Nigeria, and they are mostly focused on the United States market for customers.
Though software development is an important part of IT today, Andela can be better described as a software development recruitment and outsourcing company, rather than an IT recruitment company.Toptal is a global remote company that provides a freelancing platform which connects businesses with software engineers, designers, and business consultants.
Toptal claims to expertly match Fortune 500 companies to high-quality developers, and they hire developers from South America, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, the United States, and other countries. Most of the companies that hire through them are based in the United States and Europe, so this platform will greatly benefit Nigerian IT specialists seeking remote foreign jobs as well as Nigerian companies seeking IT specialists from different parts of the world where IT labour is cheap.
Linkedin however remains an excellent platform for job seekers and recruiters, and they continue to earn a lot of money by selling access to information about its members to recruiters and sales professionals. Since December 2016, Linkedin has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, and as at May 2020, the company had over 690 million registered members in 150 countries.