• SONABEL launched an online e-recruitment platform to modernize hiring and eliminate manual applications.

• The tool centralizes the full hiring cycle and aims to boost transparency, efficiency and equal opportunity.

• The platform raises cybersecurity concerns as public institutions face increasing digital attacks.

Burkina Faso has launched a broad plan to digitize public services. Public institutions continue to deploy digital platforms to simplify and secure administrative procedures.

The National Electricity Company of Burkina Faso (SONABEL) launched a new online e-recruitment platform on Tuesday, November 11, in Ouagadougou as part of its digital transition. The company designed the platform, named E-recrutement, to make hiring more transparent, faster and fairer by modernizing traditional methods and easing access to job offers at the state-owned utility.

The platform, available at recrutements.sonabel.bf, centralizes, automates and secures the entire recruitment cycle, from job posting to candidate selection. It replaces physical submissions and manual processing and offers each candidate a personal account and notifications throughout the application process.

Company officials said the system “saves considerable time, optimizes resource use and increases the visibility of job postings,” enabling SONABEL to attract more qualified profiles.

The initiative forms part of Burkina Faso’s wider digital public-service reform, as institutions seek to modernize operations, strengthen transparency and improve administrative performance. SONABEL had already introduced a platform for processing technical files and an e-counter for administrative procedures. The new recruitment tool expands the company’s portfolio of digital services.

The digital system aims to reinforce fairness and transparency in hiring by offering equal access to opportunities for all candidates. It also intends to streamline procedures by reducing processing times and centralizing data on a single interface.

However, the rollout raises cybersecurity challenges related to personal-data protection and authentication reliability. As cyberattacks against public institutions increase, authorities must secure data and deploy robust control mechanisms to safeguard the integrity of the recruitment process and maintain user trust.

This article was initially published in French by Samira Njoya

Adapted in English by Ange Jason Quenum