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Source: IOL Business Report There is an importance that can be attached to having a work-life blend. Bend? Yes, I know what you are thinking – didn’t I mean to say balance? The answer is no, I am keeping up with the times and now looking at a Blend as opposed to a Balance. In…

I had butterflies the size of albatrosses in my stomach as I said farewell to my family at the airport the Sunday before the first ever SourceCon in Europe. I knew that as the only African attending the conference that I would need to pack my A-Game to make friends quickly. For ten years, I…

Working at a staffing agency is definitely unlike working in most other companies. The pace in a staffing agency is both frenetic and frantic, from early in the morning until often very late at night. It has been a while since I worked in a staffing agency and even though I look back fondly on…

I firmly believe that recruiting is something that is in your blood. You cannot be a halfhearted recruiter and be successful in the role. If you are passionate about recruitment and love to help others, you will be successful in this career by default. I firmly believe that I fall into the latter category. I…

I am sitting on my patio back in South Africa, and I keep on having to pinch myself as last week’s SourceCon Seattle seems like it was a dream. I have that ‘too good to be true’ feeling as I loved every minute of my second SourceCon Conference experience. The real highlight of the conference…

One of South Africa’s many tourism drawcards has to be that the “Big Five” reside within our borders. I spend a lot of time in the bush, and we are sometimes even lucky enough to see the Big Five in one day! This is an incredible treat, and as South Africans, we still get a…

I am a big advocate of my candidates preparing for their interviews. I always send them my client’s website and the names of the person (or people) that they will be meeting with so they can research them. I even go as far as to encourage them to ‘cyber-stalk’ their interviewees as it’s good to…

I’ve been in the business of recruiting IT professionals for the past four years and I’ve never met such an interesting, intelligent and quirky bunch of people in my life. Taking this into account, I strongly feel that we need to consider the uniqueness of IT professionals in our recruitment strategy when we write job…