Last weekend we held our leading Francophone Recruitment Summit in Paris! Thank you to all our clients and candidates – you helped make the event a great success!

• 496 candidates through the doors
• 200+ interviews over the whole weekend
• 12 companies attended

The companies that attended include: Afreximbank, Airtel, BGFIBank, Engen, Foraco, G4S, GlaxoSmithKline, Henkel, Newcrest Mining, Odebrecht, Philip Morris, Philips, Total and Vivo Energy.

Suite au succès de « Careers in Africa » en avril 2011, une seconde édition du sommet a eu lieu le week-end dernier dans la capitale française.

Toute l’équipe francophone de « Careers in Africa »  s'est donc rendue à Paris pour notre dernier Sommet de l’année. Plus de 250 candidats ont participé à l'événement. Ils ont rencontré les délégués des entreprises participantes: Philip Morris International, Lafarge, HP, Baker Hughes, Orange, Stefanutti Stocks et Dangote.

Following on from the success of the Careers in Africa Recruitment Summit in April 2011, a second Summit was held last weekend in the French capital.

The Careers in Africa Team travelled to the capital and hosted our final Recruitment Summit of 2011. More than 250 candidates came to the event, held near the centre of Paris. They met with delegates from the participating companies: Philip Morris International, Lafarge, HP, Baker Hughes, Orange, Stefanutti Stocks and Dangote.

Muito obrigada a todos aqueles que participaram no evento Careers in Africa Joanesburgo do passado fim-de-semana. Presenciamos já histórias de grande sucesso neste evento! Um desses casos foi entrevistado pela nossa equipa presente no evento. Isaura foi entrevistada e na sequência dessa entrevista, foi-lhe oferecida uma posição na empresa de Oil and Gas, Halliburton.

More than 300 candidates came to the Recruitment Summit in Johannesburg, held on 11 – 13 November 2011. The 14 companies that attended were very impressed by the high quality of candidates that came: Halliburton, Baker Hughes, DOW, Worley Parsons, FMC Technologies, G4S, Safal, Oceaneering, IBM, Total, Rio Tinto, Cuango, Oracle, Catoca.

Thank you to everyone that attended the Careers in Africa Recruitment Summit in Johannesburg last weekend! We’ve already heard of some great successes following on from the event. We interviewed one lucky candidate, Isaura, who was offered a position with oilfield services corporation Halliburton on-the-spot!

The Careers in Africa London Recruitment Summit was a fantastic success! We would like to extend our warm thanks to all that attended. More than 400 candidates came through the venue doors to network with approximately 40 delegates from 10 multinational companies.

Our team have returned from a very rainy few days in Lagos, Nigeria after hosting the inaugural Careers in Africa Nigeria Com Recruitment Summit.

Despite some minor flooding in the venue, more than a thousand industry professionals attended the Informa event, and Careers in Africa checked in over 250 candidates for networking and interview opportunities.

Members of our Careers in Africa Team have just returned from Houston after hosting our most successful Houston Recruitment Summit yet. Over 500 specially selected candidates met with more than 50 delegates from attending companies.

Companies in attendance included Cummins, GNPC, Total, Total Nigeria, Tullow Oil, Lafarge and Halliburton. They took part in the networking session, gave presentations on their respective companies, and carried out hundreds of interviews over the course of the weekend.

With the global competitive landscape changing dramatically, Africa is now emerging as a leading employment centre location. Many firms operating across Africa are recruiting aggressively and the African job market in 2011 is looking robust with a significant increase in the number of jobs compared with the same time last year.

Global Career Company, a leading London–based international recruitment consultancy best known for the Careers in Africa initiative, has reported a 20% increase in the number of roles and companies recruiting for Africa in Q1 2011 when contrasted with similar data from the beginning of 2010. Demand for highly skilled professionals with a background in engineering, pharmaceuticals, mining, technology and manufacturing continues to be strong. Rupert Adcock, Managing Director of Global Career Company observes, ‘The African Renaissance is firmly afoot as displayed by the high economic growth across the continent. We have increased our client portfolio exponentially as companies seek talented graduates and professionals with the skills and expertise to enable them take advantage of these growth opportunities.’

Global Career Company is a leading London–based international recruitment consultancy and best known for the Careers in Africa initiative which specialises in recruiting high-calibre internationally-oriented candidates for leading employers across Africa. Founded in 2002, Global Career Company have placed over 6500 African graduates and professionals into rewarding and challenging careers across the continent.

Global Career Company began life with a core focus on South Africa by helping its companies and industries recruit the best South African talent returning home. Careers in Africa has been at the forefront of recruiting South African professionals since its inception in 2002.

Global giants including Barclays, Chevron, Gauteng Shared Service Centre, MTN, Standard Bank, Tigo, Vodafone and Zain congregated in London to secure talented professionals for their operations across Africa at the Careers in Africa Recruitment Summit from May 22 - 24.