As we look back over the last decade, we’ve been considering how the hiring needs of some of our clients have changed. We spoke to International Recruitment Consultant, Nneka Ochonogor, to find out how the accounts for Diageo and Exim Bank have evolved over the years.

Our International Recruiters and South African nationals, Nomagugu Nthimkulu and Gerhard van Niekerk, attended the South African Business Club event last week.

The networking and cocktail reception was attended by Dr Zola Skweyiya (pictured), the South African High commissioner in London, and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka – Former Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa. She gave a talk on the topic of ‘How can we improve the Quality of Education delivered in South African Schools?’

We hosted the launch event for the South African Youth Professionals organisation last Friday! The event was partly organised by International Talent Acquisition Executive Noma Mthimkulu. Attendees from the South African business community joined representatives from the Careers in Africa Team to talk about life in the UK, business opportunities in the UK and how South Africa can develop in the future.

The Careers in Africa team was recently invited to attend the 14^th Annual Euro-African Trade & Investment Workshop.

The conference covered a variety of topics centred around the growth of the African markets. Speakers from all over Africa and Europe came together to share their insight on the African economic story.

We were recently asked to give our opinion on the current IT market trends in South Africa. Not only do we recruit for big name IT multinationals such as IBM and Oracle, our team have an impressive knowledge of the African markets.

Noma Nthimkulu, International Recruitment Resourcer and South African national, gives us her take on the ICT markets in her home country.

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!

Gerrie Kapfidze was successfully recruited by Careers in Africa at the London Recruitment Summit in May 2011.

He is now back working in South Africa in the prestigious role of Country Manager for Unilever. We caught up with him several months after the Summit to find out how his experience has been since then.

As a BA Hons graduate in Business Studies at Coventry University, Rupert interned at Eastman Kodak in their marketing department, starting his career in recruitment at EMDS Consulting in 1996. During his seven years at EMDS, he designed international recruitment programmes for multinational companies, launched the AfricaManagers and AsiaManagers recruiting initiatives, which became globally recognised brands, helped open and manage EMDS offices across both Africa and Asia Pacific and develop international operations outside Europe.

Rupert left his position as Managing Director in 2002 to create  Global Career Company, an international recruitment consultancy which has been at the forefront of African recruitment since then.

Rupert, father of three young children and a keen sportsman in his spare time, has a passion for international recruitment, loves travel, exploring markets and cultures new to him and his family, and enjoys the many challenges that he has faced since Global Career Company was formed. His objective is to develop a truly international recruitment company and develop Global Career Company as a global brand.

‘Cautious optimism’ is the sentiment witnessed across the market as South Africa emerges from the global financial crisis experienced throughout the past two years. 

Many firms are exhibiting signs of confidence in hiring and the job market in 2011 is looking robust with a significant increase in the number of jobs compared with the same time last year.

Nedbank Capital, a cluster of specialist investment banking teams operating within Nedbank Group, one of the four largest banking groups in South Africa, is looking to recruit dynamic employees for positions within South Africa.

Nedbank Group provides a comprehensive range of wholesale and retail banking services through four main business clusters: Nedbank Capital, Nedbank Corporate, Nedbank Business Banking and Nedbank Retail. Principal services include corporate and retail banking, property finance, private banking, investment banking and foreign exchange.

In an address issued during the recently concluded AU Summit in Addis Ababa, African Development Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka confirmed that Africa would probably resume its pre-crisis growth path in 2010 and was likely to be the second fastest growing continent after Asia. Businesses across Africa also echo these sentiments and are therefore preparing for future productivity and growth. Central to this development is the drive to recruit professionals possessing critical skills and this has in turn led organisations like Barclays, ECOWAS, GE, Lafarge, Nestlé, Schlumberger and Vodafone to conduct international recruitment campaigns as part of their overall skills development strategy.

Career Company has been operating for 7 years through its Careers in Africa recruitment service and over that time we have recruited over 500 Angolans back into Angola for 60 companies out of our client base of 200 major companies across Africa. We are the market leader in recruiting Angolans around the world into Angola and are a major contributor to the Angolanisation program.