How to get the most out of your employees? The truth is that companies that shine have employees that glow. With the Brazil World Cup 2014 behind us, it was fascinating to watch the difference in the quality of football as the tournament progressed. Germany’s 7-1 thrashing of Brazil was a surreal moment. Here was […] more

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history – Friedrich Hegel This is perhaps one of the most alarming books on the current state of the world to have come out in recent years. To set the scene, the authors describe in chilling detail how Zimbabwe went from 20% […] more

Reid Hoffmann is the celebrity co-author of this book, The Alliance, which points to a changing employment landscape. Gone are the days of life-long employment. In its place is a more flexible and transient arrangement. Hoffmann, by the way, is the founded of LinkedIn. He previously worked with Apple and Paypal before launching LinkedIn. He […] more

Continuing our tour of the PCS universe, we stopped by to talk to Jean Rymer, who heads of Travel and Tourism for PCS in the Joburg branch. Q: Jean, tell us a bit about yourself and your background. Jean: I completed my BA Honours degree at Wits University and thereafter I went to the UK […] more

By Ciaran Ryan I was recently at a training college where young college graduates, mostly from poor backgrounds and with no work experience, were being readied for the work place. What I found most fascinating about the training was the emphasis on soft skills: how to communicate, how to dress for the workplace, how to […] more

Bruna Martinuzzi, CEO of Clarion Enterprises, provides some useful tips for improving productivity. These tips are gleaned from interviews conducted with some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, so it is worth heeding what they have to say. Also useful, she says, are some of the free software apps now available for organising your life, […] more

By Philip Park, MD of PCS You will hear this frequently from companies eager to make the right noises in front of investors, customers and regulators: staff are our most valuable asset. Deep down, in a great many cases, we know this to be trite. In my many years in the recruitment industry, I have […] more

One of the anomalies of the past few years is that temporary employment continues to grow – and in fact is one of the ONLY areas in which employment is growing (other than the public sector) – despite legislation specifically designed to curtail this practice. In fact, by some accounts, temporary employment is growing at […] more

Hiring for Success spoke to Simon Maimane, lead consultant for the Civils and Engineering sector at PCS, to get a sense of what is happening in the recruitment market. Simon says the market has changed radically since 2007-8, when employers dictated salaries and terms of employment. Now it is a buyer’s market, especially for skilled […] more

The “brain drain” of highly skilled professionals from South Africa is showing signs of reversing, according to employment figures recently released by workforce management company Adcorp. Adcorp’s January employment report estimates that, since the global financial crisis of 2008-09, approximately 359,000 high-skilled South Africans have returned from foreign work assignments. “This is a sizeable number, […] more