By Mariam Kigongo
The latest Everjobs Uganda Career Report details many booming industries and career opportunities in Uganda; occasions that will help foster the country’s growth in the future.
Recent data from November 2015 from the Everjobs Uganda career report shows Marketing jobs are growing at a fast pace, those that are followed in demand by the employers are, Accounting and finance that dropped to second place compared to the last career report in September, thirdly was management and administration jobs.
This also matches the observations of Everjobs growth manager Patrick Kaboyo who sees a lot of rise in the marketing and administrative sector. After starting with market predictions and a list of occupations projected to grow, the team used the outcomes from focus group sessions to refine the findings into a usable report.
Not only that, accounting and finance position are highly sought after by various companies across Uganda. There is also a huge demand for accounting and finance positions by professionals. Accounting and finance positions receive 60% more applications than marketing positions receive. Most jobs are seen with the ICT industries, but with the improving Ugandan economy, where we now see from the last September edition NGO jobs dropped to second place reason being most NGO jobs rarely recruit as frequent as ICT industries.
The growth in ICT is not just a snapshot, online companies like Everjobs, Hellofood, Lamudi and Jovago, Yoza or SafeBoda facilitate life in Uganda. Therefore they have a high demand for staff. The growth is not restricted to Uganda only but will bring growth to the entire Africa. And this growth is likely to endure. The international well-known management-consulting firm Mckinsey & Company estimates that by the year 2025 the annual e-commerce sales will be around $75 billion in Africa. Also the Internet to the contribution to the African GDP is estimated to be around $300 billion.
Despite the fact that NGO jobs dropped, they are still hiring a lot in the Energy/Utilities area. This trend will be fueled by an economic growth, forecasted by the World Bank to be above 5% in Uganda in the upcoming year.
However, due to elections the number of new hires seems to be on hold at the moment. This matches observations by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that stated that the depreciation of the Uganda Shilling and the 2016 elections contributes to slow down in Uganda’s economic growth. The Everjobs team is very optimistic about the coming year and looking for even better and more challenging opportunities to deliver to the Ugandan community.
Hellen Nakyeyune, Business Growth Manager of Everjobs Uganda added, that she is highly optimistic about the coming year in the job market. She hopes to see a rise in the number of open positions especially in Accounting and Finance and Sales positions.
Since it’s Africa, the last launch in March 2015 Everjobs Uganda is growing at a fast pace, using the high potential of Uganda and the rest of Africa. With its offices, in Cameroon, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda, Everjobs has a big presence in West and East Africa. To expand this presence, Everjobs aims to expand further to other African countries and be the leading job portal in Africa’s fast growing economies. Some of the companies that are backing up Everjobs are, The Africa Internet Group (AIG) that is owned by MTN and German Rocket Internet and Swedish Millicom.
