News Archive
News Archive
Celebrating 10 years of AFSIC – Investing in Africa: An Interview with MD, Rupert McCammon
What can I expect to experience when attending AFSIC? AFSIC, now in its 10th year, is believed to be the largest African investment event taking place annually outside Africa and has become one of the most important conduits of investment into Africa. Over the past ten years AFSIC […]
Incentive Compensation, Bitcoin and Beyond: same as always, just warp speed By Simon Patterson, MD Remuneration Associates
If you tear a bank note into two and hand the other half to someone else, you have a transaction. Each half validates the other, and the whole banknote represents a promise to pay a specified sum. Nobody has any value until those two halves come back together again. Bitcoin is like that, but what […]
How do you find the right leader to deliver sustainable growth in Africa?
The greatest demand for talent over the last year has been for leaders who can scale businesses. Executives in Africa are an award-winning Search Firm who specialise purely on senior management roles based across the continent. Having delivered over 750 Searches across 42 countries in Africa, they really are expert when it comes to human […]
AFSIC – How To Hire The Right Leader First Time By Richard Putley, co-Founder
Executives in Africa were delighted to be back at AFSIC this year, as Gold Sponsors of this leading Africa Investment Conference. It was exciting to see so many new businesses there looking for investment to back their exciting new ventures, ranging from electric vehicles for cleaner logistics solutions, through to innovative media businesses and start […]
The Management Challenges of Millennials and Gen Z.
Young people are often the most optimistic. They are ambitious. They are innovative, eager to learn the newest technologies and are risk takers. To see Africa through their eyes is to see a continent brimming with potential and opportunity. So, are they tough to manage or have we just not adapted our management practices to […]
Recruiting for Africa – From South Africa to the UK
Andrea Flint has recently joined the Executives in Africa team having relocated from South Africa earlier in 2018. She never imagined she would land a job in the UK which would enable her to keep her links to the continent as well as stretch her professionally. Here’s her story of how she made the journey […]
What opportunities do the Youth of Africa present? Elizabeth Bintloff, CEO, Junior Achievement Africa, shares her thoughts
One of the challenges I face when I talk to people outside of our mission space about the subject of youth in Africa is that there is not always a clear understanding of who Africa’s youth are. The media and other sources frame our assumptions about all youth, and for African youth especially, the references […]
Workforce Planning and how to reduce ‘emergency hires’
Time to Hire, Cost per Hire, Hiring Failure Rates, Stay Rates, Attrition Rates, the list goes on… The future? It’s all about Workforce Planning (WFP) Get this right and the talk of woe around the above KPI’s are maybe not a thing of the past but should become a measure of satisfaction and improvement rather […]
How does the candidate experience impact employer brand? By Sarah Benson, Search Consultant
“By the year 2020, customer service will overtake price and product as the key differentiator between brands. And 80% of surveyed consumers say that small businesses provide better service than larger companies.” When most of us think about the customers of the recruitment industry we are more likely to refer to clients – after all […]
Business in Africa is on Fire – Hire Leaders to Fuel Your Momentum
Africa will soon have the fastest urbanization rate in the world and by 2034 African countries will have a larger workforce than China or India, with job creation currently outpacing growth in the labour force*. With business spending expected to grow 35% to $3.5 trillion by 2025, the six big growth opportunity areas are expected […]