Every pharmacy licensing system in the world puts its candidates through a version of the same ordeal. I started with the one I sat myself: an intern pharmacist preparing for the PCN PEP in Nigeria, on the March and October cycles, is in an unreasonably difficult position. The material is enormous and the preparation resources are scattered: photocopied past questions, a group chat where someone shares a PDF, a textbook a decade behind practice, and no reliable way to know whether you are actually ready.
Then the exam ends and a second, unrelated problem starts. Newly licensed pharmacists need work, often flexible work; pharmacies need cover for shifts, often at short notice. Both sides exist. Neither has a decent way to find the other, so the matching happens through personal networks, which means it happens unevenly, and mostly for whoever already knows the right people.
I watched both problems from the inside. I sat the exams. I know the group chats. Nothing about either problem is technologically hard. What has been missing is someone who understands the professional reality well enough to build the right thing rather than a plausible thing.