Recruitment & HR News and Announcements

Google Trends show that South Africa currently ranks 4th highest (after Pakistan, India and Ireland) in searches for ‘Jobs in Online Marketing’. In Africa, Kenya shows the most searches for ‘Internet Marketing’, followed by South African and then Uganda with this search term peaking in January 2010 since 2004. ...Read more

7 December 2011. The 2011 South African Recruitment Survey - conducted by the SA Recruiters Network in association with Jobs.co.za - reveals that HR Professionals and Recruiters are seeing a massive benefit in owning their own Career websites and are continuously using Social Media as their mediums of choice to source talent. ...Read more

Despite President Jacob Zuma having recently declared that 2011 is South Africa's year of job creation, more than 500,000 school leavers and students will once again face very grim employment prospects, as they potentially join the millions of other South African’s currently in the unemployment line at the end of this year. ...Read more

The South African Recruitment Survey - conducted annually by the SA Recruiters Network in association with Jobs.co.za - launched three years ago with the intention of gaining recruitment insights and trends from South African employers, recruitment agencies and job seekers. ...Read more

On 28th July 2011, job portal and recruitment technology enabler, Jobs.co.za will host one of the most innovative recruitment events in South Africa - RecruitX’11. ...Read more

Jobs.co.za analyses some of the recent data available in the market to try to uncover whether every adult South African has the potential to be an employable candidate. We take a look at the current un-employment rate in South Africa, while also delving deeper into the number of real active Job Seekers, compared to those that can be considered pass ...Read more

Do you find yourself searching through endless CV databases because you are afraid of attracting the wrong candidates to your job advertisements, yet yearn to reach more quality passive candidates? Lean how to optimize your job ads for search engines and people. ...Read more

The 2010 South African Recruitment Survey unveils the outcome of the aftermath of the recession on SA’s Recruitment Industry; and reveals how South African companies are shifting towards embracing multiple online platforms and technologies to deliver higher return on their recruitment budgets. ...Read more

Learn how to attract and retain top talent using social media. Attend the upcoming Social Recruitment Workshop to learn about the various online technologies available to the recruitment and HR industry which can assist you in delivering efficient talent acquisition & retention strategies. ...Read more

Jobs.co.za announces the launch of its new fully integrated web-based Recruitment Management Solution and Job Portal Solution - RecruitSwift. ...Read more

1 February 2010 - Jobs.co.za, South Africa's Job Portal - announces the launch of their pioneering new Job Application Filter as part of their existing application filtering suite. ...Read more

January & February months are typically known as peak job-hunting seasons. Besides the unemployed candidates who were sadly affected by the recession in the last year, many other quality professional candidates will join the job hunting market in the next few months. Are you ready to snatch up the new talent before your competitors do? It is a kno ...Read more

The pace of job losses accelerated during July to September of this year, even though the impact of the recession was thought to have eased. Here are a few recent statistics depicting the state of employment in our nation as we head towards the final quarter of 2009. ...Read more

1 September 2009: Jobs.co.za today announces its partnership with Entelect Software to provide its clients with a fully integrated web-based Recruitment Management Solution. ...Read more

Human Communications, South Africa’s largest independent recruitment and tender advertiser, today announced the launch of their online recruitment advertising solution - humanjobs.co.za. ...Read more

The SA Recruiters Network recently conducted a survey amongst South African Recruitment agencies as well as Human Resources and Hiring Managers of Corporate South Africa to review the impact that the recession is having on recruitment. ...Read more

25th November 2008 – Jobs.co.za becomes the first South African member of the International Association of Employment Web Sites (IAEWS), a trade organization established to serve the interest and promote the success of job boards and career portals from around the world. ...Read more

South African Job Portal, Jobs.co.za, announces its promise to provide free online job advertising to benefit Non-profit Organisations Charities, Community Services, Government and Educational Institutions as its investment in social responsibility. ...Read more

15 September 2008 - In support of the initiatives by The Presidency towards the economic empowerment of persons with disabilities, South African Job Portal (www.Jobs.co.za) and National Database for Disabled Persons (www.jobaccess.co.za) today announce their partnership that aims to address this fundamental crisis.unemployment amongst South African ...Read more

1 September 2008 - South African Job Portal (www.jobs.co.za) and Gauteng newspaper (JOZI Weekly), today announce the exciting new partnership that will increase Job Seeker reach and market presence for both brands by bringing the online advertising strength together with the focus of a provincial newspaper brand. ...Read more

On 8th January 2008 bidorbuy.com Inc, a Delaware Company and the parent of bidorbuy (Pty) Ltd, South African online auction and shopping website, acquired the top ranking online jobs website - jobs.co.za - as their latest addition to their group of South African online businesses. ...Read more