Lagos is Nigeria's economic center and Africa's second-largest city by population. It concentrates fintech, oil and gas, telecommunications, FMCG, and professional services talent. The city draws migrants from across Nigeria seeking higher wages and career velocity. Cost of living is elevated relative to the country, and time-to-hire often stretches because talent pools fragment across multiple hiring channels—job boards, referral networks, and agency-driven recruitment. Remote work has expanded options but onsite presence remains standard in finance and corporate operations. Raffi, an agentic AI recruiter, changes how Lagos hiring teams move through candidate interviews. Rather than parsing CVs across email threads or conducting back-to-back screening calls, Raffi automates candidate evaluation. When applicants arrive through your careers page or ATS, Raffi conducts structured interviews, assesses fit, and flags top candidates for your direct review. Integration with Workable means candidates flow directly from your job posting into Raffi's workflow. You compress weeks of screening into days without expanding team headcount. Lagos hiring managers face real friction: candidates juggle multiple offers, communication gaps create drop-off, and screening time scales with volume. Raffi eliminates the manual interview loop. Your team focuses on final-stage decisions and offers, not triage. Ready to move faster? Let's talk.
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Raffi calls every applicant for a 10-15 min structured interview. Not just the top 5 résumés — every one. Result: nobody good slips through.
Conversational AI interview, rubric-anchored scoring, transcripts you can read. You get a top 3-5 shortlist while competitors are still scheduling first-rounds.
SaaS pricing from $199/mo. No 15-25% of first-year salary, no per-hire kickback. Cancel anytime.
Lagos's 2026 hiring demand remains strongest in fintech, financial services, and tech startups—sectors where rapid scaling continues despite macro pressures. Telecommunications and FMCG maintain steady hiring for sales and operations roles. Oil and gas recruitment has stabilized after years of volatility. Time-to-hire for mid-level roles averages 35–50 days in competitive functions like software engineering and product management; support and entry-level roles often fill faster. Talent supply is abundant but fragmented: active job seekers congregate on LinkedIn and Jobberman, but passive candidates often remain invisible until approached. Competition for senior and specialized roles (data science, DevOps, financial analysis) remains intense, with candidates entertaining multiple concurrent offers.
Lagos hiring demands fluency in English and often Yoruba or Pidgin for team integration and client-facing roles. Remote-first culture exists in tech and fintech but remains less common in oil and gas, FMCG, and banking operations—most roles expect Lekki, VI, or Ikoyi office presence or hybrid attendance. Salary expectations reflect cost of living and competitive pressure: mid-level engineers and product managers command 15–25% premiums versus provincial Nigerian cities. Commute volatility (Lagos traffic is unpredictable) makes flexible start times and remote-work policies recruitment levers. Top sectors—fintech, tech, telecoms, FMCG—dominate the hiring calendar and attract the deepest talent pools.
Yes. Raffi operates in 30+ languages and supports candidate calls in any timezone via self-booking — there's no per-city integration. If you can post a role from Lagos, you can run Raffi from Lagos.
Raffi is calibrated against the major AI-in-hiring frameworks (EU AI Act + NYC Local Law 144) and discloses AI use to every candidate before the call. For Lagos-specific work permits and right-to-work checks, those happen outside Raffi — we screen, you verify eligibility before extending an offer.
Most active candidates apply through LinkedIn, Jobberman, and direct company careers pages. Many also check WhatsApp and referral networks. Posting across LinkedIn and a local job board typically captures 60–70% of your applicant pool. Email and word-of-mouth referrals remain strong for mid-to-senior roles.
English is standard for all postings; it's the business lingua franca. For customer-facing or operations roles, fluency in Yoruba or Pidgin is often preferred but not always required at application stage. Your job description should clarify language expectations upfront to avoid late-stage mismatches.
Remote roles attract talent from across Nigeria and the diaspora, expanding your pool significantly. Tech and fintech embrace remote-first models, while banking, oil and gas, and FMCG still expect office or hybrid attendance. Clearly flag your work arrangement in the job posting to filter for genuine interest.
Agentic recruiting is recruiting done by an AI agent that takes action on your behalf — not a chatbot or résumé summarizer. Raffi calls every applicant for a structured 10-15 minute interview, scores them against your rubric, and hands you a ranked top 3-5. The work happens autonomously.
Most agencies charge 15-25% of first-year salary as a placement fee — a $90k hire runs $13-22k. Raffi is SaaS at $199-599/mo plus per-action credits, typically landing under $10k/year for a team hiring 12 people. Same shortlist quality, no placement contract.
About 25 minutes to onboard, post your first role, and have Raffi ready to interview applicants. No engineering work, no integration project. Connect your work email, paste a JD, you're live.
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