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ESTEEM RECRUITMENT LTD

Esteem Recruitment is a South African talent partner established in 2019 and proudly Level 2 B-BBEE, serving clients across South Africa and the United Kingdom. The firm is led by Sandra McLean-Leonard, a seasoned recruiter with over 30 years of experience in sourcing, headhunting, and managing the full recruitment cycle across multiple sectors. Esteem Recruitment focuses on delivering a consistent, ethical, and transparent service, keeping communication channels open and tailoring strategies to each client s needs. Its consultants use advanced technical sourcing methods, including Boolean search strings, targeted headhunting, advertising on relevant job portals, and structured screening to build strong shortlists. The process typically includes a detailed intake to understand the job specification, proactive sourcing, interviews and shortlisting, reference checks, submission of vetted CVs, coordinated client interviews, and client-specific background checks. Services span permanent and temporary placements, executive and specialist headhunting, and robust background screening such as qualification and identity verification, criminal and credit checks, driver s license verification, employment and character references, and personality assessments. The team also supports clients with policy and procedures and employee contract advisory, while assisting candidates with CV writing and career guidance. Sector coverage includes marketing and advertising, finance and accounting, insurance, IT and developers, retail, supply chain, logistics and warehousing, FMCG, packaging, engineering and technical, and hospitality. Recent roles advertised reflect this breadth, ranging from engineering leaders and maintenance specialists to credit control professionals. By combining deep market knowledge, disciplined process, and a commitment to ongoing upskilling and trend awareness, Esteem Recruitment helps organizations reduce hiring risk and time to fill, while enabling candidates to navigate their career paths with confidence.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseTelecomSupply Chain ManagementFreight Forwarding

Coastal Premier

Coastal Premier is a South African recruitment and HR consulting firm based in Ballito, KwaZulu Natal, led by founder and director Zainab Mahomed. With more than 30 years of industry experience and full BBBEE compliance as a woman owned business, the firm delivers a hands on, relationship driven service built on site visits, deep understanding of client environments, and tailored search strategies. Coastal Premier specializes in permanent placements across managerial, professional, specialist, technical, and office based roles, and offers flexible delivery models that include targeted candidate search assignments, response handling for client run adverts, and a comprehensive outsourced option that mirrors RPO by managing the end to end hiring lifecycle. Its process combines role profiling, advertising, response screening, proactive talent searching and executive headhunting, rigorous reference and security checks, candidate summary reporting, interview scheduling, and the preparation of interview packs. Beyond recruitment, the firm provides HR support covering employment contracts, skills development consulting, performance management, induction, employment equity, and coaching for career development, career change, and performance. Sector strengths include financial management and IT, as well as engineering disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, chemical, and projects, plus production, procurement, marketing and sales, and warehouse and logistics. Zainab brings extensive exposure to factory and corporate environments earned during a long tenure within Tongaat Hulett, where she led recruitment for national sugar milling and refining operations and corporate functions, and championed the development of women in key roles. Clients value Coastal Premier for its ability to quickly translate business objectives into precise talent profiles, to source scarce mid to senior professionals, and to present shortlists aligned to both technical criteria and culture fit. Candidates can engage via a secure online form to submit CVs, while clients benefit from responsive communication, transparent process management, and consistent delivery aimed at long term placements that perform.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceAutomotiveAerospaceDefense

HQBallito, South Africa

SDK Consulting - South Africa

SDK Consulting is a South African business and employment consulting firm that combines a generalist recruitment practice with HR and advisory capabilities to support organizations across the country. Operating from Glen Marais, Kempton Park, the firm places permanent, temporary, and contract staff across a wide range of industries, drawing on an extensive, continually refreshed database that spans junior administrative staff, middle and senior managers, artisans, specialized engineers, executives, and information technology specialists. Its consultants emphasize responsiveness and a strong sense of urgency for temporary and contract requirements, presenting readily available shortlists and mobilizing project or overflow resources with minimal administrative overhead. For permanent appointments, SDK Consulting follows a consultative approach that looks beyond technical skills to consider personality and culture fit, aiming to secure long term, high value matches for both clients and candidates. Beyond sourcing, the company offers complementary services that include HR support and personality profiling, CV creation and interview preparation, tax and business planning, and psychology and wellness guidance, giving employers and job seekers a single partner across recruitment and broader people advisory needs. The team is grounded in a mission to build enduring client relationships, provide exceptional service at competitive rates, and contribute to inclusive growth, reflected in a Level 2 B-BBEE contributor status. Led by an experienced director and recruitment specialist, SDK Consulting applies discipline, integrity, and market knowledge to every assignment, whether filling scarce engineering roles, assembling short term teams, or hiring senior leaders. Its straightforward process, transparent communication, and commitment to ethical practice make it a reliable partner for South African businesses that need flexible staffing solutions and for professionals pursuing meaningful, well matched career opportunities.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Electrical EngineeringIndustrial AutomationSoftware Development

HQKempton Park, South Africa

NANYATA

Nanyata is a proudly South African, black female owned talent solutions provider founded in 2014, focused on connecting top talent with leading organisations through contract and permanent placements. Headquartered in Randburg with regional offices in Cape Town and Durban, the firm partners closely with clients to understand business goals and role requirements, then manages the process from needs assessment and sourcing through screening, selection, and onboarding. With a candidate centric approach grounded in excellence, transparency, and community, Nanyata supports professionals with clear communication, swift responsiveness, and ongoing engagement throughout assignments. The team has successfully placed over 100 resources and is trusted by blue chip companies across banking, insurance, investment management, technology, and consumer industries, including brands displayed on its site such as Absa, Nedbank, Liberty, Hollard, Stanlib, TCS, Tiger Brands, Famous Brands, Bidvest, and more. Nanyata delivers specialist talent across white collar functions, with a strong track record in technology and data roles like developers, QA engineers, BI specialists, senior data analysts, business analysts, project managers, and change managers, as well as finance officers, accountants, and administrators. Contractors appreciate reliable support, relationship management, and seamless payroll processes, while clients value the firm’s ability to mobilise contract professionals quickly and convert high performers to permanent hires when needed. By combining market insight, rigorous process, and genuine care for people, Nanyata creates long term value for both organisations seeking scarce skills and candidates looking for meaningful career growth. The company continually refines its approach to keep pace with evolving client demands and industry dynamics, ensuring every engagement reflects its core values and commitment to building an inclusive, sustainable future for all stakeholders.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingTemporary StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceFinTechFashion & ApparelFood & Beverage

HQJohannesburg, South Africa

ATT Remote Africa

ATT Remote Africa is a recruitment and talent solutions partner that helps organizations build remote and distributed teams by connecting them with skilled professionals across the African continent. The firm focuses on high quality search and selection for permanent hires, flexible contract engagements, and scalable recruitment process support, giving clients options to solve near term hiring needs as well as longer term workforce plans. Its consultants combine targeted sourcing, talent mapping, and structured assessments to identify candidates with strong technical proficiency, communication skills, and reliability for remote work. ATT Remote Africa serves growth companies and established enterprises across technology and professional services, regularly supporting searches in software engineering, data and analytics, product management, cloud and infrastructure, cybersecurity, project management, finance and accounting, legal and compliance, HR, sales, and customer operations. By emphasizing clarity on role outcomes, tooling, time zone alignment, and onboarding readiness, the firm helps reduce risk in cross border remote hiring and shortens time to productivity. Candidates benefit from transparent briefings, interview coaching, and honest feedback loops designed to improve fit and long term retention. Clients gain market intelligence on compensation, availability, and skills trends across key African talent hubs, along with shortlists validated through skills evaluation and professional reference checks. ATT Remote Africa prioritizes ethical recruiting, inclusive outreach, and respectful engagement with every candidate community it touches. Its delivery model is built for responsiveness and repeatability, with measurable service levels, progress reporting, and continuous improvement baked into each search. Whether a company needs to make a critical leadership hire, add specialized contract capacity to accelerate a project, or ramp a remote team at pace, ATT Remote Africa provides a pragmatic, data informed, and collaborative approach to finding the right people.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Human Resources

TPS Total Placement Solutions

Founded in 2011, Total Placement Solutions (TPS) is a South African recruitment and talent development partner based in the Greenstone area of Johannesburg. Established by Cathrine McCarroll to deliver genuine recruitment expertise and a highly personal service to corporate clients, TPS has grown from placing permanent professionals across multiple sectors to also delivering temporary staffing solutions and structured graduate programs. The firm blends targeted talent sourcing with rigorous process management: industry specialist recruiters meet with hiring leaders to define competencies and technical skills, conduct targeted selection competency based interviews for job and motivational fit, run verification and reference checks, and present quality shortlists in person or via email while managing remuneration discussions and the start date to ensure a seamless experience. TPS complements headhunting with proactive database building, cloud recruiting tools, data management and social media outreach, and can incorporate client branding into outsourced service delivery to widen talent pools and accelerate the war for talent. Executive and specialist appointments are supported by advert response management in which a recruitment research team filters applications and a designer creates high impact adverts, ensuring only the most relevant candidates progress. Graduate sourcing and management includes competency based interviews, simulation recordings for client review, validation and qualification checks, on site graduate program oversight, and coaching throughout the placement cycle. TPS also operates a Training and Development division, led by experienced facilitators, that delivers accredited recruitment and selection, coaching, business writing, systems training and other workshops aligned to SAQA unit standards, offered both publicly and in house. The firm partners with organizations in technology, financial services, hospitality, manufacturing and consumer sectors, with a client list that has included Investec, Derivco, CBI Electric, Energizer, Volvo, Apple (The Core Group), Peermont Global, Meridian Wines and First Resorts. TPS emphasizes long term relationships, quality and efficiency, and is positioned as a single outsourced partner aligning talent sourcing, training and skills development with each clients strategic objectives, supported by a Level 4 B BBEE status.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceInvestment ManagementFinTechHotel Management

HQGreenstone, South Africa

Redherd.io

Redherd is a specialist recruitment firm focused on delivering low traffic, high yield hiring outcomes for clients that value depth over volume. Founded in 2017 by Charles Wroth as a vehicle to support his contract recruiting work with boutique agencies such as RedBlue Security, the business was refreshed in 2020 with a sharper mandate to serve both agencies and end clients directly across the USA, UK, EU, and APAC. The team invests heavily in understanding each role and market by engaging with industry leaders and absorbing insights from top conference talks, then applies a rigorous search methodology to present a small, select slate of candidates that routinely achieves near one to one interview ratios. Redherd recruits across a set of technically demanding and leadership domains, notably cyber security roles such as red teamers, SOC analysts, penetration testers, and cyber threat intelligence analysts; security engineering and development specialties including SOC engineers, AppSec and DevSecOps engineers, offensive and infrastructure security engineers, architects, and lead software engineers; and broader engineering roles spanning civil and mechanical engineering with project and site management. The firm also delivers executive search for senior leadership, covering CEO, CFO, CTO, COO, and CISO mandates, and is expanding into agriculture with coverage that includes logistics, harvesters, farm managers, farming consultants, and seasonal skilled labor. A simple, transparent process underpins every engagement: schedule a call, discuss needs, agree on contract and terms, and then the hunt begins. By leveraging a remote-first model and a curated network in the global tech and security communities, Redherd differentiates through precision sourcing, technical fluency, and an eye for what separates an average candidate from the person a client will want to hire. The result is fewer interviews, higher quality shortlists, and faster decisions without the noise of high-volume resume submissions.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceIndustrial MachineryChemical ManufacturingElectrical Engineering

CTA Recruitment Specialists

CTA Recruitment Specialists is a South African recruitment partner headquartered in Durban, focused on helping organizations secure the right people and helping candidates find meaningful career moves. From its office at 12 The Chamber, 5 Bishops Court Cnr Old Main and Warrior Rd, Durban, the team combines market insight with a hands on service ethos, offering an approachable, confidential, and efficient experience for both clients and job seekers. The firm maintains a live Available Positions page and a simple consultation path so that hiring managers can brief requirements quickly while candidates can explore open roles and be added to a growing network of employers. Leadership profiles reflect deep cross industry exposure: Vernon Cunningham has led innovative projects and people initiatives for more than 20 years, sharpening techniques for identifying, assessing, and mobilizing the human factor that drives business performance; and Vanessa Stephen, an experienced administrator and manager with formal training in public relations and accounting, has worked across banking, IT, engineering, manufacturing, and accounting functions and leads the CTA Recruitment Specialists team with an organized, transparent, and service driven approach. Drawing on this blend of experience, the firm delivers talent solutions across specialist white collar and leadership roles, matching professionals to needs in technology, manufacturing and engineering, and financial services, among other corporate environments. Clients rely on CTA Recruitment Specialists for thorough sourcing, careful screening, and clear communication that reduces the time and frustration often associated with recruitment, while candidates benefit from honest feedback, privacy, and routes to opportunities that align with skills and goals. Whether supporting a targeted search for a high impact hire, building a steady pipeline of permanent talent, or advising on flexible staffing needs, the team focuses on long term relationships and repeatable results grounded in professionalism and accountability.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceIndustrial MachineryChemical ManufacturingElectrical Engineering

Schaaf Peemöller + Partner Top Executive Consultants

SCHAAF PEEMOELLER + PARTNER Top Executive Consultants is a management consulting and executive search firm focused on identifying, assessing, and developing top leadership talent for organizations across industry, trade, and services. Based in Frankfurt with a partner office in Vienna, the firm advises national and international clients on executive search mandates, succession planning for leadership roles, and the recruitment of high impact specialists in success critical functions. Its consultants bring extensive first hand leadership experience from renowned companies and combine rigorous search methodologies with an in depth understanding of corporate strategy, culture, and stakeholder expectations. Core services span Executive Search, Interim Management, Management Potential Analysis, and Top Management Coaching. Search engagements emphasize a tailored, research led approach, combining market mapping, targeted outreach, and structured evaluation to secure CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CISOs, divisional leaders, plant and operations heads, and other senior managerial roles. Through a continually refreshed network of proven interim executives, the firm also delivers rapid, results oriented leadership solutions for transformation, carve outs, post merger integration, restructuring, and mission critical projects. Its Management Potential Analysis provides objective, state of the art assessments of entire leadership teams, business units, or individual executives, particularly valuable during leadership change, M&A, or organizational redesign, producing precise evaluations and actionable development recommendations. Top Management Coaching supports sustained high performance and reflective decision making for leaders under continuous pressure. Project references span manufacturing and engineering companies, financial services institutions, consulting and professional services firms, as well as technology focused environments, with completed mandates including executive search, professional and technical appointments, SAP and IT leadership, and key commercial functions such as finance, HR, and marketing. The firm is committed to long term, trust based partnerships, delivering process excellence, confidentiality, and measurable impact for clients and meaningful career development for candidates.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseFinTechSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurity

HQFrankfurt am Main, Germany

Calibrate People

Calibrate People is a South Africa based recruitment company that puts people at the center of every search, partnering with high performing professionals and people oriented employers across financial services, technology, insurance, and consulting. The team refers to candidates as aspirants to emphasize individual goals and potential, and it applies a culture first lens to every brief to ensure long term fit beyond skills alone. Operating primarily in Gauteng and the Western Cape, Calibrate People focuses on qualified professionals, often with an honors degree or higher, and typically 3 to 30 years of experience. The firm delivers an end to end hiring process that includes consultation and role calibration, targeted promotion to relevant networks, one on one engagement to understand capability and ambition, interview preparation, thorough reference checks, and support through offer and negotiation. Recent opportunities on its platform reflect depth in data, analytics, risk, and enterprise systems across banking and consulting, such as SAP SAC planning developers, managers in banking risk and analytics transformation, SAP SAC BI BW S4HANA consulting managers, quantitative analyst roles, data and business analysts, IT managers in financial services consulting, and data scientists, with both full time and hybrid working models. For clients, Calibrate People focuses on professional services and financial institutions that value well screened, ambitious, and technically strong talent, committing to partner only with organizations it would personally want to work for. For aspirants, the firm provides tailored guidance, practical interview coaching, and honest feedback to help them land the right role, not just the next role. This people first, trust driven approach enables precise matching for specialist white collar and managerial profiles across banking, insurance, fintech, data and analytics, enterprise technology, and consulting, resulting in placements that align purpose, potential, and performance.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementTelecomManagement ConsultingLegal

HQSandown, South Africa

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