Africa Job Sites: Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt

Online job boards in Africa cover a narrow slice of the labor market, because most work never gets advertised. More than 85% of workers in sub-Saharan Africa are in informal employment, and only about a quarter of the region’s new labor market entrants in 2024 and 2025 found formal jobs, according to an Ecofin Agency summary of the ILO’s 2026 employment report. The boards below are where formal employers, recruiters and NGOs advertise, and in most countries a handful of national sites carry most of those ads.

This directory covers 10 platforms in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, South Africa, Egypt and Morocco, plus the government channels that matter for overseas recruitment. It includes national leaders, a youth platform and two pan-African boards, and it excludes agencies that charge candidates. Each site was opened on 7 November 2026; listing counts are what each site displayed that day or what its operator has published. Sites that did not state whether job seekers pay are marked as not stating it.

Recruitment fraud is the biggest risk across the region, and it concentrates on overseas jobs. In January 2026 Kenya’s labor ministry exposed a scheme that used forged ministry stamps and fake visas to send women to Oman, and a multi-agency team was investigating at least 390 recruitment agencies, as reported by Dawan Africa. Legitimate boards in this list do not charge job seekers, and Jobberman and MyJobMag say so on their homepages. Recruitment for the Gulf runs through its own channels, covered in our guide to Gulf rules after kafala.

West Africa: Jobberman and MyJobMag in Nigeria and Ghana

Nigeria and Ghana have large English-language job boards, but they serve a market where formal jobs are scarce for young people. In Nigeria, nearly 98% of workers aged 15 to 24 are employed informally, according to ILO figures cited by the North Africa Post. Both boards below lean toward graduate and professional roles in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Accra. Regional programs that link training to first jobs are covered in our report on West Africa’s school-to-work funding.

Jobberman

Jobberman is one of Nigeria’s largest job boards and also runs a Ghana site; both belong to The African Talent Company, the group formerly known as ROAM Africa. On the day checked, the Nigeria site listed 2,161 entry-level, 1,227 mid-level and 473 senior jobs, plus smaller counts for internships and executive roles; it gives no single total, and the categories may overlap. It also offers free courses and an AI career tool. The homepage states that Jobberman never asks job seekers for payment, which is the clearest way to spot impostors using its name.

Strength: a wide range of formal employers in Nigeria, from banks to logistics firms.
Strength: an explicit no-fee policy for job seekers.
Weakness: entry-level ads draw heavy competition.

MyJobMag

MyJobMag runs separate sites for Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and the UK, with Nigeria the largest. It publishes listings it describes as verified, along with career articles, and on the day checked it reported 340 new jobs added in the previous day on the Nigeria site. The site says its job services are free and that job seekers do not pay for its career services. It shows no overall job count.

Strength: fast-updating listings, useful for daily checks.
Strength: one account format across five country sites.
Weakness: no scam guidance on the homepage on the day checked.

East Africa: Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia

Kenya’s government is pushing labor migration abroad while cracking down on the agencies that abuse it. Kenya’s National Employment Authority has banned at least 400 recruitment agencies for sending Kenyans to non-existent jobs abroad, according to the Eastleigh Voice. Officials tell job seekers to check any overseas recruiter against the authority’s list of licensed agencies at neaims.go.ke before paying or traveling. For local jobs, the boards below carry most formal openings, and international organizations in Nairobi advertise through the channels covered in our UN and NGO jobs guide.

BrighterMonday

BrighterMonday is Jobberman’s sister site in Kenya and Uganda, part of the same group. On the day checked, the Kenya site’s experience-level counts added up to 713 jobs, most of them mid-level (412) and entry-level (184); jobs without a level may not be included. Accounts are free and courses are labeled free; the AI career tool’s pricing was not shown. Recruitment agencies post alongside employers, including the group’s own consulting arm.

Strength: established employer base in Nairobi.
Strength: filters by experience level make the market’s shape visible.
Weakness: no scam warning on the homepage, unlike its Nigerian sister site.

Fuzu

Fuzu is a Kenya-based career platform that combines job matches with learning content, and it now lists remote and international roles alongside Kenyan ones. It claims a talent pool of more than 3 million people; it publishes no job count. The site says job matches, learning pathways and career advice are free. Listings on the day checked included employers in Nairobi and London.

Strength: learning content built into the job search.
Strength: some remote and cross-border roles.
Weakness: the user figure is the company’s own, unaudited claim.

Ethiojobs

Ethiojobs describes itself as Ethiopia’s leading job board and advertised more than 1,100 current listings on the day checked. Its categories lean toward NGO work, accounting and finance, IT, engineering and health, which reflects the weight of international organizations in Addis Ababa. The site is in English and does not state any fees for job seekers.

Strength: strong NGO and international organization coverage.
Weakness: listing volume is small relative to the size of Ethiopia’s labor force.

South Africa: a large board and a free youth network

South Africa’s online boards are well developed, but its labor market is among the continent’s weakest. The official unemployment rate rose to 33.6% in the second quarter of 2026 from 32.7% in the first, and youth unemployment reached 47.4%, according to Statistics South Africa figures. Foreign nationals need a visa that allows work, and employers face proposed new rules on hiring them, covered at the end of this directory.

Pnet

Pnet was founded in 1997 and is now part of The Stepstone Group, which also runs StepStone in Europe. The company says it has more than 7.3 million registered job seekers, the largest database in South Africa by its own account, in a recruiter-facing post. Corporate employers and recruitment agencies both post, and Pnet publishes monthly job market reports on vacancies and pay. The homepage showed no job count and did not state fees for job seekers on the day checked.

Strength: deep corporate and professional coverage in South Africa.
Strength: monthly data on hiring trends and salaries.
Weakness: no scam guidance or fee statement on the homepage.

SAYouth

SAYouth is a free platform for young South Africans, run by the nonprofit social enterprise Harambee, listing jobs, learnerships, youth programs and skills opportunities. The site is data-free, so using it does not use airtime or mobile data, and it runs a toll-free helpline on weekdays. It does not publish an opportunity count or state an age limit on the homepage.

Strength: zero-rated data, which removes a real cost for job seekers.
Strength: entry-level and first-job opportunities that general boards miss.
Weakness: built for South African youth, not for foreign or mid-career applicants.

North Africa: Egypt and Morocco

North Africa’s job boards work in Arabic, French and English, and both platforms below have expanded beyond their home market. Egypt’s main board now operates in Saudi Arabia as well, and Morocco’s lists jobs in Tunisia, Algeria and French-speaking West and Central Africa.

Wuzzuf

Wuzzuf, run by BasharSoft, describes itself as Egypt’s leading job platform. Listings center on Cairo, Giza and Alexandria, the interface is in English, and it now also operates in Saudi Arabia. The company says it has served more than 55,000 companies since 2012 and has more than 100,000 monthly active job seekers, on its about page. Its operator publishes labor market research, including a 2026 report finding that women made up 41% of job seekers on the platform in 2025 but submitted only 29% of applications. The homepage does not state fees for job seekers.

Strength: wide professional coverage in Cairo, Giza and Alexandria.
Strength: published data on who uses the platform.
Weakness: company and user figures are its own, unaudited claims.

ReKrute

ReKrute is a Moroccan board aimed at executives and professionals, carrying listings from multinationals and large Moroccan companies. On the day checked it showed 2,107 job offers online and 8,809 “opportunities,” without explaining the difference. A country selector covers Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, West Africa and Central Africa, and the site runs in French and English. It does not state fees for job seekers.

Strength: francophone coverage across North and West Africa from one account.
Strength: concentration of multinational and corporate roles.
Weakness: two different listing counts with no explanation.

South Africa’s bill on hiring foreign nationals

The most consequential pending change for job seekers moving within Africa is in South Africa. The Employment Services Amendment Bill (B16-2026) would let the Minister of Employment and Labour set maximum quotas for foreign workers by sector, occupation or area, and would require local recruitment tests and skills-transfer plans before employers hire foreign nationals, according to Parliament’s committee.

Written comments closed on 6 November 2026. The Portfolio Committee on Employment and Labour has said provincial public hearings come next but has not set dates, and the bill must still pass both houses before any quota can be set.

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