What is the CCMA? CCMA stands for Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration. This body was brought in to halt the terrible employment situation whereby staff were being unfairly treated and dismissed. Yet, receiving correspondence from the CCMA in South Africa is not something an employer wants. But why? The CCMA is supposed to be…
Start doing reference properly I’ve written about references already a few times. Why? Because regardless what happens in the 2-step recruitment process, someone somewhere needs reminding that a reference is better than a CV plus an interview. The fact remains that some companies, employers or line managers sometimes don’t do references (or “outsource” this to…
A little about working in Cape Town Having lived in a number of places in South Africa and abroad, I can attest to Cape Town being a lovely place to live. Many local and foreign job seekers ask about Cape Town as a place for employees and expats, and it is without a doubt one…
Thinking about the future of recruitment While recruiters nowadays can look to various revenue streams, they will soon have to adapt to the different ways in which candidates are responding to job adverts and the various methods of offering a service to companies. The future of recruitment is peppered with change and the below are…
Using social media to recruit As the large recruitment website Monster says: “…talent acquisition has been an early adopter of social networks…”. This is because a great deal of jobs are referral based and also due to the fact that marketing and recruitment now play more of a combined role. It also clearly comes about…
Onboarding 101 When a new employee starts at your firm, you should innately have a sense of wanting to help them through the initial stages of the job. Getting to know their colleagues, helping them into the swing of things work-wise and making sure they have the tools and systems to do the job in…
The cost of hiring the wrong person Hiring the wrong person is infinitely more costly than you think. Even just having to start over again looking for the right candidate is enough to make your stomach turn. But the costs go much deeper than that. A long list of costs and opportunity costs The total…
Recruitment branding is now key Wikipedia says: “Employer brand is the term commonly used to describe an organization’s reputation as an employer, and its value proposition to its employees, as opposed to its more general corporate brand reputation and value proposition to customers.” Distill that long sentence and you realise that as an employer, your…
Overview: Online job boards in South Africa Since the late 1990s, South Africa started to see job advertisements online on both classifieds websites and job boards, where people could post jobs practically without an account. Bear in mind that the definition of a job board then was really a replica of what one finds offline,…
How to hire like a startup I recently read a very good post by a good acquaintance of mine, Roger Norton. Roger works with startups all the time and posted what he feels they do: they are small autonomous teams that work in conditions of extreme uncertainty, searching for a repeatable scalable business model by…
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