News Archive
News Archive
Sarah FitzMorris, CEO, Appointed Global Advisory Council of 100 Women in Finance
Sarah FitzMorris, Co-Founder and CEO of Executives in Africa is honoured to have been appointed to the Global Advisory Council of 100WF in order to help set up 100 Women in Finance in Africa. With nearly 20,000 members in 27 locations globally, 100WF is committed to building a more diverse and gender-equitable finance industry by […]
Attract. Engage. Retain – Charting the Course for the Employee Life Cycle
See our Managing Director, Sarah Fitzgerald, presenting this masterclass at the 2019 HR EXPO in Lagos, Nigeria earlier this year. EiA is proud to support this leading Human Capital focused event year on year and we are looking forward to working with the HR EXPO team to identify the needs of leaders across the continent […]
Is it possible to recruit for a naturally engaged workforce? Sarah Fitzgerald, Managing Director shares her thoughts from the HR Expo Africa 2019 in Lagos, Nigeria.
This year, I was delighted to be asked back to the HR Expo Africa in Lagos, the theme of which was ‘Employee Engagement’, to run a Masterclass entitled ‘Attract, Recruit & Retain an Engaged Workforce’ as one of the opening speakers. Even through we have run an Employee Engagement Survey for the last 2 years […]
From In-House Recruiter to Executive Search – A Unique Insight into Your Recruitment Challenges
We are excited to announce that Steve Hasson has recently joined the Executives in Africa team. A Zimbabwean by birth, educated in both Zimbabwe and South Africa, and with nearly ten years’ experience recruiting senior level hires for PZ Cussons in Africa (and globally), Steve has already had a positive impact on the EiA team, enabling […]
African Art Exhibition & PfA October Networking Event
Being a part of the PfA is exciting and arriving at any event combines eager anticipation with many questions usually starting with – have I got enough business cards to share with these impressive professionals, who, like me, are African but have made London their current home? Stepping out of the taxi on Holborn Viaduct […]
The Artificial Intelligence Invasion is Coming to Africa!
Did you, like me, use to think Artificial Intelligence (AI) was a trivial sci- fi concept? Are you now hearing it being mentioned by serious people and you aren’t entirely sure what it is? Well we are in the same position but I hope can give you a very layman’s guide to why it is […]
How can Football Educate on Sexual Health? Read about how EiA are supporting TackleAfrica to do just this
Since I was 6 years old I have been passionate about football and have been blessed to be able to afford the best boots on the market and the latest kit available. I fondly remember being gifted the newly released Southampton kit (the team I support) when I was a kid, and how brilliant that […]
‘Nigeria is potentially more politically stable than the US’… Richard Putley, MD reports back on thought provoking statements from the AFSIC 2018 Conference
“Nigeria is potentially more politically stable than the US….” This comment was made by one of the speakers at the recent AFSIC event which I attended with other members of the EiA Team at the beginning of May. Whilst his intention was to raise a smile in the audience, on reflection, a number of the […]
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 […]