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Talent Acquisition

From education to healthcare: 5 US industries poaching SA experts

Jeremy Bossenger 28 May 2025

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Skills Development & Training

Will QCTO's new fees make skills training unaffordable?

Roland Innes 7 Apr 2025

Charlroy Vollmer, immigration consultant at Immigration Consultant SA

Talent Acquisition

Critical skills visa: A solution to South Africa's brain drain?

Charlroy Vollmer 12 Mar 2025

Pnet Job Market Trends Report – February 2025

Trends

Pnet Job Market Trends Report – February 2025

Issued by Pnet 27 Feb 2025

Financial Services

Review of the State of the Nation 2025

Issued by Aluma Capital 7 Feb 2025

A new approach to retail staffing in South Africa

Training

A new approach to retail staffing in South Africa

Laurent Homeyer 24 Jan 2025

Time to get creative about raising standards in the creative industry

Advertising

Time to get creative about raising standards in the creative industry

Luca Gallarelli and Carl Willoughby, Issued by Association for Communication and Advertising 4 Dec 2024

Urgent need for electric car specialists in SA, new study reveals

Fuel & Energy

Urgent need for electric car specialists in SA, new study reveals

24 Jul 2024

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

4 ways Medic East Africa is turning the tide on regional health challenges

12 Jul 2024

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Construction & Engineering

Historic wage agreement reached in metals and engineering sector

Lindsey Schutters 14 May 2024

Practical experience is the best way to nurture engineers and retain talent. Source: Field Engineer/Pexels

Skills Development

Stop the brain drain and nurture tomorrow's engineers today

David Sullivan 26 Jan 2024

The Future of HR Summit 2023 zooms in on practical insights for workplace transformation

Management & Leadership

The Future of HR Summit 2023 zooms in on practical insights for workplace transformation

Issued by Topco Media 29 Nov 2023

Image source: Getty Images

Management & Leadership

Unpacking the integrated talent management framework - part 1

Antoinette Crafford and Belinda O'Regan 31 Oct 2023

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Management & Leadership

Brain drain isn't the only force behind skills shortage

Richard Firth 29 Sep 2023

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Trends

Exploring Africa's thriving workforce trends

Pabi Mogosetsi 1 Aug 2023

Honoris Career Centre hopes to address the growing unemployment crisis

Higher Education

Honoris Career Centre hopes to address the growing unemployment crisis

Issued by Bullion PR & Communication 2 Jun 2023

SAVC calls for vets to be put back on critical skills list

Food Security

SAVC calls for vets to be put back on critical skills list

12 May 2023

Adrian Ephraim is the editor-in-chief at Tech Cabal. Source: Supplied.

Africa Month

#AfricaMonth: Adrian Ephraim talks new role at Tech Cabal

Karabo Ledwaba 3 May 2023

Marketing

Organisations with a strong employee value proposition will win the war for talent

Zahra Mirza 11 Apr 2023

How to boost the development of South Africa's SME sector: lessons from other emerging markets

Community

How to boost the development of South Africa's SME sector: lessons from other emerging markets

Issued by Business Partners Limited 31 Mar 2023

The role of data in talent attraction

Talent Acquisition

The role of data in talent attraction

Paul Byrne, Issued by Pnet 2 Mar 2023

Dalya Ketz, Managing Director at Gcubed Boutique Recruitment

Trends

#BizTrends2023: Top recruitment trends destined to make a big impact on the workplace in 2023

Dalya Ketz 9 Jan 2023

Johanna McDowell, Independent Agency Search and Selection Company (IAS), and Partner in Scopen Africa, examines global trends that will impact the local creative industry

Marketing

#BizTrends2023: Global trends that will impact SA's creative industry

Johanna McDowell 9 Jan 2023

Source: Reuters.

Medical Aid

Nigerians trade waste material for health insurance

10 Nov 2022

Pabi Mogosetsi, country manager for Universum Global South Africa

Talent Acquisition

Talent retention strategies for today's workplace

Pabi Mogosetsi 19 Oct 2022

Addressing gender diversity challenges to fast-track the growth of the renewables energy sector

Sustainability

Addressing gender diversity challenges to fast-track the growth of the renewables energy sector

Maureen Phiri 23 Aug 2022

Recruiting from the retired pool - a viable option to addressing SA's acute skills shortage

Talent Acquisition

Recruiting from the retired pool - a viable option to addressing SA's acute skills shortage

Wayne Alcock 19 Aug 2022

Beefmaster welcomes plan to tackle SA's electricity crisis

Agriculture

Beefmaster welcomes plan to tackle SA's electricity crisis

5 Aug 2022

Surprise: SA has half a million new taxpayers and 60,000 new millionaires!

Research

Surprise: SA has half a million new taxpayers and 60,000 new millionaires!

Issued by BrandMapp 31 May 2022

The future of food security: Challenges that farmers are facing

Food Security

The future of food security: Challenges that farmers are facing

1 Mar 2022

Markets & Investment

Africa is the place to invest, US congressional delegation acknowledges

28 Feb 2022

Factors contributing to SA's high unemployment numbers - how to fix it

HR & Management

Factors contributing to SA's high unemployment numbers - how to fix it

29 Sep 2021

Johann van Niekerk, Managing Director, Outsized South Africa

Talent Acquisition

81.5% of professionals want to go freelance to earn work-life balance - survey

Johann van Niekerk 25 Aug 2021

Many doctors and healthcare staff feel the need to practice in richer countries that offer a more stable politics, better education and opportunities for their families. Julien Harneis, CC BY-SA

Education & Training

Brain drain is a hidden tax on the countries left behind

Mark Shrime 23 Jul 2021

4IR: Even with machines, humans will always be irreplaceable

4th Industrial Revolution

4IR: Even with machines, humans will always be irreplaceable

Insaaf Daniels 31 May 2021

Over 1,700 health workers in the UK’s NHS said they were South African. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

Education & Training

UK accused of poaching health workers from poorer countries

Rufaro Samanga 21 Jan 2021

South Africa adopts innovative Policy Framework for Internationalisation of Higher Education

Higher Education

South Africa adopts innovative Policy Framework for Internationalisation of Higher Education

Dr Nico Jooste and Cornelius Hagenmeier 30 Nov 2020

Paul Cox, MD, EssentialMed

NHI

Covid-19 exposes NHI fault lines

Paul Cox 5 Nov 2020

Janine Espin, managing director, EDS

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

Latest tender creates unease as the race to improve power supply in SA continues

Janine Espin 29 Oct 2020

Medical Research

Locals must lead the way to African scientific capacity and solutions

Victoria Kasprowicz & Denis Chopera 16 Sep 2020

Expect the unexpected - 2030 risk management readiness

Management & Leadership

Expect the unexpected - 2030 risk management readiness

31 Jan 2020

Three ways to create an enabling state that will minimise unemployment

Skills Development & Training

Three ways to create an enabling state that will minimise unemployment

Issued by SAICA 8 Jan 2020

#BizTrends2020: Tech skills in 2020

Trends

#BizTrends2020: Tech skills in 2020

Stephen van der Heijden 3 Jan 2020

#BestofBiz 2019: Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

#BestofBiz 2019: Entrepreneurship

17 Dec 2019

Survey reveals sober salary expectations

Management & Leadership

Survey reveals sober salary expectations

5 Nov 2019

Skills shortage: Why expats should be part of the solution

Skills Development & Training

Skills shortage: Why expats should be part of the solution

21 Oct 2019

Image credit: Cristina de los Santos on Unsplash.

Marketing

Agency Scope South Africa 2019 trends: Evolution or revolution? Part 1

Johanna McDowell 10 Sep 2019

#StartupStory: How SoloUnion SA's plugging the senior-level agency brain drain

#StartupStory

#StartupStory: How SoloUnion SA's plugging the senior-level agency brain drain

Leigh Andrews 5 Sep 2019