About HaHu
HaHuJobs a cloud services operating to capture structured data of the Ethiopian skilled and non-skilled labor market through digitally connecting thousands of job seekers in major Ethiopian cities as well as industrial parks. The platform in a collection of micro services groped to compose web application modules that offer a set of functionalities. HaHuJobs is an electronic product sold as service to a category of clients as per their specific needs in the labor market of Ethiopia. It features various service categories which revolves around data driven job matching of the right candidate with the right job opening, student tracing, capacity building and assessing of Jobseekers. This platform has sub services tailored to the specific industries and stakeholders, but as a primary concept HaHuJobs has a strong biometric based jobseeker identification and an automated method of matching workers with appropriate vacancy through structured data formats.
The service is built as an ecosystem of digital services to offer a holistic approach to respond to various data and automation gaps with in the Ethiopian labor market. It features layers and network of deployments that provide services to various types of industry stakeholders like, the jobseekers, employers, the government and development partners.
HaHuJobs services also include deliverology tacking and an online career capacity development platform called Muya that targets both universities and federal TVET organization graduates, and students. This allows for a data reference that eases the process of verifying jobseeker claimed qualification; furthermore, the service also keeps track of recruitment and employment of an individual through a module provide to employers (companies) of all category allowing for tracking recruitment trends. In addition to vacancies availed thorough HaHuJobs it also features a module that collects and standardizes aggregated job vacancies from local digital and analog posting entities.
The discussed components and services were conceived and implemented by our founders each of whom has notable experience in labor economics and a well demonstrated cababaility in software development. Each with their own pillar of contribution always are working hard to work on the next feature or service to even propel the product further. The founders tremendously realy on the technical advices offered by the technical advisory who are international experts in the labour market sector.
Founders
Kaleab Mezgebu
COO/CEO
A system analyst and solutions architect with active involvement in system designs, incepting real world application of service components and managing stakeholder communications Kaleab leads the overall operation of HaHuJobs.
Michael Sahlu
CTO
A full stack developer specializing in front end implementation and architecture design. With over nine years of working experience Michael leads all the technology advances of product deployments.
Technical advisors
Johanna Roth
Technical Advisor
Johanna is a PhD candidate in labor and development economics at Sciences Po Paris and holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, where her dissertation investigated the role of AI in shaping skill demand using online job vacancies. Johanna is also a research associate at the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development, where her work focuses on labour market intermediation projects in Ethiopia and South Africa. In addition to her academic work, Johanna has worked at the European Central Bank and the United Nations.
Christian Johannes Meyer
Technical Advisor
Christian leads the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development at the University of Oxford. The programme aims to use research and evidence to improve economic opportunities in low- and middle-income countries. Christian’s academic research lies at the intersection of development, labor, and behavioral economics. Before academia, he worked with the World Bank, the Center for Global Development, and the United Nations.
David Qihang Wu
Technical Advisor
David is a PhD candidate from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the hiring frictions of both large and small firms in Ethiopia. His current projects include understanding high turnover rates in large manufacturing firms, and how employment agencies help small firms overcome hiring barriers.
Hayat Abdulmalik
Technical Advisor
Hayat has a long career in development programming with extensive experience working with governments, donor agencies and private sector. She has managed several large scale initiatives with a more recent focus on gender, workforce development and digital economy. She is the managing director of Taya Consulting which works with private sector and development partners who are seeking to achieve social impact in Ethiopia.
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