Increase your chances of getting a Job in Cameroon - Stop annoying Recruiters/Employers
Posted January 24th, 2016 -- 11:29 PM

They've asked us to stop. Stop! Stop! Stop! Not because they don't want to use.

Why are recruiters asking us to stop? What do they want us to stop? What do they really want if we must stop what they don't want? In this post, we will try to provide answers to these three questions.

Question 1:

Why are recruiters asking us to stop?

Answer 1:

Because they get tons and tons of irrelevant applications. For example, a recruiter is looking for a Marketing Intern, someone with 5 years worth of experience is applying. Wasting your time, that's understandable but deliberately wasting some other person's time is malicious. Another scenario is someone with little or no knowledge of programming applying for the job of a software developer. What does he want to do? If you were the recruiter will you be happy with such a profile? Another example - a recruiter looking for someone in Buea, Cameroon gets applications from job seekers in Yaounde, Cameroon. Are you saying the recruiter was stupid to have emphasized his preferred location?

Question 2:

What do they want us to stop?

Answer 2:

Recruiters/Employers in Cameroon want us to stop publishing jobs online. Because of all these irrelevance in the air, they want us to stop publishing. If we stop, you won't have recent jobs in Cameroon as often as you are used to. Jobs from Douala, Yaounde, Buea, Limbe, Bamenda, Maroua, Kumba and other parts of the country will go back into the dark ages. Totally unknown to cyberspace. They're not too serious about it, but we understand their pain. We feel their pain too, because we are recruiters/employers.

Question 3:

What do recruiters/employers in Cameroon really want?

Answer 3:

This is a simple question without a simple answer. However, we will attempt a simple answer. Recruiters want the best candidate for the job and their company in the shortest possible time at the most affordable cost. This implies every moment that the recruiter/employer looks at the wrong profile, it is costly in terms of time, money and other organizational resources. As a job seeker, you need to understand this, and make it part of your ethos to simplify the recruiter/employer's job. If you make them happy by applying only for the right jobs, your chances of getting the right job increases more than a hundredfold. From less than 1% at the current rate to more than 30%.

Having a 30% chance of success in securing a job is a very great leap. So as a job seeker, do your homework very well. It is not a gamble. Searching and applying for a job in Cameroon is a full time commitment, spray and pray doesn't work. You have to be methodical in your approach.

We wish you the best in your job search in Cameroon. Remember also that we are here to facilitate your job search in Cameroon

Team Akwajobs

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