Set goals for career resolutions in 2020

Self-improvement is about developing healthy habits – including ways to improve your career path. The New Year is a great time for self-improvement. Along with your personal goals, ManpowerGroup South Africa’s MD Lyndy van den Barselaar, suggests that you...

Ground rules of job negotiation

As companies and candidates enter a fresh hiring season in 2020, the time will come where both parties stand at the door of a potential new partnership – arguably the most fragile period of the hiring process. At this stage, when both have clearly indicated...

A story of innovation and tenacity

One of the more exciting young companies on the block is SauceCode, which is already shaking up the workplace market with its Tistro remote monitoring solution, and will soon start making waves with its forward-thinking developments in robotic process automation and...

Secure payroll data in the cloud

As with the majority of business software, HR and payroll solutions are increasingly available through the cloud as a pay-as-you-use model and are today, considered as mainstream as any other business application. However, a fundamental issue for any user looking to...

Back to work in 2020 … what the future holds

As 2020 fast approaches, we reflect on having survived a year where HR has been flooded with information on how their jobs and those of employees will change. Technology continues to take a foot hold in our everyday work lives; the new way of work has become the way...

Gearing up for great hires in 2020

Making new appointments is a high-risk activity – as hiring managers and business owners across the spectrum from small businesses to large enterprises can attest – and making the wrong hire comes at a high cost. But there is one change that those...