Welcome
Welcome to Star Personnel Recruitment. South Africa's leading owner managed recruitment and selection agency.
Founded in 1986, Star Personnel has developed a reputation for working with a selection of top employers to identify and recruit outstanding candidates who suit the employer's requirements in terms of personality, attitude and skills.
With arguably the most sophisticated database system in the industry, written exclusively for Star Personnel, we have contact with over ten thousand interviewed and screened candidates. Furthermore we have the experience and skills to find those passive candidates who match our client's specific needs.
For our candidates, we offer a professional experience, where your application is treated with the utmost confidentiality and care. Although unable to place every candidate we deal with, we strive to make the experience of contacting Star Personnel, a pleasant and rewarding one.
Thank you for your time spent browsing our website. We look forward to being of service to you.
Recruiting IT Developers
Are you battling to recruit IT developers? These chaps are difficult to find, and even more difficult to appoint. Do you want to know why?
The reason is that they are getting calls, often a few calls each week from people trying to recruit them. So they have the luxury of being extremely picky on the jobs they apply for.
The mistake most companies are making is that they are asking these candidates to spend hours doing tests and assessments before the candidate even knows if he or she wants the job. These candidates don’t mind doing these assessments – actually often times they enjoy it, but they are not prepared to spend 3 hours working on a project for free, especially for someone they don’t even know.
So what can you do?
6 Ideas for Staffing in a Scarce Skills Market.
In spite of the fact that South Africa’s unemployment rate is expected to average at around 25% in 2012* and the fact that many companies downsized during the last few years due to the global recession, finding top talent especially in areas of scarce skills is more difficult than ever. The reason is two fold. Firstly, traditional methods of advertising a vacancy (whether in the media or online) often attract an avalanche of desperately seeking candidates and filtering these is a long and tedious process. Secondly, the top candidates have their heads down and are so buried in what they are doing that they don’t have time to look at other opportunities.
Why Job Seekers Choose Star Personnel?
It's no secret that high performers rarely spend their time looking over Internet job sites or scanning the job sections of the classifieds. They are much more likely to be focused on their careers and therefore getting on with doing a good job for their current employer. For this reason, one often finds that the best positions aren't advertised. Instead, the top employers use recruitment agencies to search the market for these candidates on their behalf.
