One of our Recruitment Team has been interviewed for The South African newspaper:

Nomagugu Nthimkulu, Recruitment Resourcer

“The sky is the beginning not the limit. No hard work is ever in vain”

Victor Nuno was successfully recruited by Steelcase as Market Manager for Angola. His placement came about from a Search and Selection, where the best talent in the market was sought out for the role. We asked him a few questions about his experience with Careers in Africa.

A team of GCC representatives, led by MD Rupert Adcock, recently completed a Development Visit to Angola. It was one of many opportunities planned throughout the calendar year to interact with one of GCC’s key markets in Africa. Angola has enjoyed years of strong economic growth, resulting in an ever-increasing demand for talented Angolans to be recruited into the main sectors of the economy.

Johann Bester, a South African placed as the General Manager: Fuel Sourcing at South Africa’s utility giant, Eskom shares his experiences of moving home.

Armed with an MSc in Engineering and an MBA, Johann possesses extensive corporate finance experience particularly in the development of commercially sustainable mining projects throughout Africa. He relocated back home after successfully completing an MBA at the Bristol Business School of Strategy and International Business. He was recruited by Eskom at the Careers in Africa Summit in London last October.

The following was published in The South African on May 17th 2011.

The Africa Competitiveness Report 2011, the third report jointly published by our organizations, comes out at a time when Africa’s recovery from the global economic crisis has been faster than it has in many other parts of the world. Indeed, Africa has seen what can be termed an “economic resurgence” over the past decade: between 2001 and 2010, gross domestic product growth on the continent averaged 5.2 percent annually—a rate also expected in 2011, and higher than the global average of 4.2 percent.

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.