Internships boost skills development
Internships could be the quickest and most sustainable solution to address South Africa’s growing unemployment problem. The temporary formal arrangement in which a business ‘takes on’ a candidate for a specific period of time in order to equip them with skills and...
Social media and recruitment
The tendency to recruit via social media is perhaps not as prevalent in South Africa as in other countries. However, according to MCI Consultants, one of the largest distributors of staffing software in southern Africa, 58% of organisations use social media to recruit...
Integrity key when selecting employees
The public broadcaster has become an open joke. Earlier this month, SABC employees were again found to have fraudulent matric documents, with more than 2 200 staffers without a shred of proof that they had passed high school. In fact, a senior finance administrator...
Chequed.com partners with African firms
Chequed.com, the cloud-based predictive talent selection solutions provider, has partnered with Rocketfuel Consulting in partnership with The HR Touch, two Africa-based people management consulting firms. The partnership follows on Chequed’s success with several...
Flexible working solves work-hours issue
Each year the OECD produces a table of average working hours around the world. The table shows vast differences in the hours people work. It also creates huge scope for envy: Mexicans and South Koreans with 2 250 and 2 090 hours a year respectively must envy full-time...
The Budget Speech and payroll in 2014
“The new tax year is imminent and companies should take special note to verify that their HR and Payroll systems incorporate the changes introduced by Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan during his Budget Speech on Wednesday, 26 February 2014,” says Yolandi Esterhuizen,...
Mentoring can retain talent
Talented and engaged employees are a valuable asset to any company, yet as many employers will tell you, good employees are hard to find - and keep. Most likely that’s because talent goes where talent can prosper, seeking escape from what holds it back. "Nurturing...
Innovation and time and attendance
People management experts, HR directors and industry analysts recently converged for an interactive forum, hosted by Accsys, focused on advances in technology and other key factors impacting time & attendance management. Delegates agreed that big data, mobility...
Using social media for talent management
Over the past decade, social media has metamorphosed from being a college student pastime to a fully-fledged corporate phenomenon, resulting in a surge of interpersonal communication, the exchange of information and ideas, and virtual community building. The use of...
Pinnacle launches learnership programme
Pinnacle Holdings has partnered with MICT SETA to accelerate skills development and training within the IT sector. The Pinnacle Holdings group, which consists of companies AxizWorkgroup, CentraFin, CentraVoice, Datanet, Infrasol, JAG Engineering, Merqu Communications,...
Wipro expands local internship programme
Wipro, a leading global IT, consulting and outsourcing company, has announced plans to expand the intake of graduates for its successful internship programme in South Africa. Now in its second year, Wipro’s local internship programme in South Africa had enrolled 70...
LGIT Smart Solutions helps IT scholars
It’s not every day that one gets the opportunity to make a difference in someone else’s life. It happened to Natascha Prussen, MD of LGIT Smart Solutions who helped two promising students, Prince Ramashaba and Margret Sootho which changed their lives forever, and...