SKILLS FINDER (Scroll down for Skill listings) Until a couple of years ago Recruitment was a pretty passive people centric occupation, based upon buying up media space, response handling and managing either e-files else paper based libraries to find people for particular positions. Indeed, HR Officers and Line Managers struggled to find value in Recruitment Companies except for Executive Search because everybody knew the simple processes involved. Nowadays, Search and Selection companies work with multiple search engines, job portals, social networking sites, applying proactive executive search methods to identify specialists to specific hire demands from hundreds of thousands of potential candidates from anywhere in the world, often hidden away somewhere in cyber space. Nowadays Recruiters are talking real value add as Business Content, Cataloging, Classification, Indexing, Taxonomies, GIS, Records and Information Management are the tool kits levered by Specialists Recruiters, especially necessary in the complex Systems Recruitment market. At Leading Edge Consulting Technology and Innovation are Key, Information is King, applying Customer Intelligence methods to get ahead of the potential hire demands of our customers. Expert Intellectual Property Managers in the South African ICT Recruitment market, lever our 20 years IT Recruitment experience to strengthen your company’s Systems Intellectual Property with the best resources by simply using our services. |
COLLABORATION ECM SYSTEMS RECRUITMENT SOUTH AFRICA
The Knowledge Management Solutions Market is a massive arena for a ICT Recruiter to get around because Vendors and Clients view this area in a variety of different ways encompassing Imaging Archiving and Storage into Workflow Document Management to Portals and E-Collaboration. Here in South Africa we complete recruitment projects across the full spectrum of skills demands in this space, indeed we go after this market because the work is interesting. Locally we have sourced Documentum, Filenet, Live Link Hummingbird IBM Content Manager MOSS SAP ECM intellectual property for Corporates and identified Open Source – Plone, Joomla Mamba resources for Consultancies. To source skills with this background is easy… call a Leading Edge Recruiter.
JAVA ICT RECRUITMENT SOUTH AFRICA
Into the 2000’s Java is easily one of the most sought after skills sets with demand for Designer Architects and experienced Programmers remaining high. A fast paced technical arena, effective ICT recruitment in this market is down to the detail, knowing which Java tools are levered for specific tasks from the different vendors – Development Integration DBA Security, often matching detailed skills profiles with specific industry business experience. Sourcing Java expertise against exacting demands for Sun Microsystems JDeveloper Borland Microsoft J PowerJ IBM and Java for SAP is a arena which we have been proactive in since 2002 completing hire projects for Financial Services and Consulting Companies in the main. Recruiting for resources with a Java profile… put us to the test.
GENERAL & LIFE INSURANCE SYSTEMS RECRUITMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA
Much of the recruitment work which we have been asked to do in the Insurance Sector has been focused on Business Process Analysis and Workflow in support of Broker Management Risk Rating Premium Collections and Claims Processing in support of Short / Long Term and Underwriting System Demands. Here in South Africa 90% of the recruitment work which we have completed has been .Net Oracle Java RPG and Cobol based in this sector with some sweep spot Magic and Universe hire projects. On the business systems front Leading Edge has sourced Compass Huon Insure 90 and Maven System skills for locally based organisations. What is interesting about the Insurance sector ICT skills pool is that tenures of 5 years plus per employer are not unusual track records hence professionals in this market usually make careful career moves to achieve concrete career objectives. Out and about searching for the primary talent in this industry… Call a Leading Edge ICT Recruiter.
VEHICLE TRACKING ASSET TRACKING SYSTEMS RECRUITMENT SOUTH AFRICA
Undertaking a search assignment for C++ and .Net Engineers for a RF Systems House recently we saw that the Vehicle Recovery and Mobile Inventory sectors share common skills pools in that Developers Designers move between these markets often coming out of earlier GIS else Defence Systems backgrounds. Locally both the RFID Tagging – Route Monitoring and Asset Positioning Solutions Industries are strong which is reflected in the fantastic skills sets held by South African Professionals specialising in these arenas. Recruiting for experts in this space… We are a phone call else email away.
RETAIL SYSTEMS RECRUITMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA
Leading Edge Consulting has been assisting local retailers and their ICT service providers with Software Recruitment demands Spanning POS into Demand Forecasting Warehousing and Inventory Systems skills for many years hence understand this market well. Hire projects undertaken to date include Recruiting for Active Retail IS Retail from SAP and Retek along with Project Managers Business Analysts and Oracle Java C# .Net Developers to develop and support retail business applications. The skills pool of Retail Systems Experts in SA is small but well experienced as professionals in this arena typically stay in the industry for years. Recruiting for Retail Sector Systems expertise in South Africa… We’ve got the skills on hand ready to contact on your behalf.
AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS RECRUITMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA
Automotive ICT Recruitment has 5 areas which Leading Edge concentrates on Component Manufacturers OEM’s Dealership Management Portals and Asset Finance. Interestingly we see that many South African SAP Motor Industry professionals develop their skills with a BMW, Daimler, GM here in SA going on to offshore projects at Fiat, Porsche in Europe else the Middle East Auto sector. Beyond SAP at the OEM’s we have completed ADP Natural Adabas Oracle Business Intelligence .Net and Java related recruitment projects for Motor Industry customers. On the Showroom Systems front we’ve undertaken ADP Automate hire work covering a variety of skills levels. On a Automotive systems talent drive for either perm else project dedicated resources we’ll be surprised if we don’t hold the expertise that you’re looking for
MICROSOFT ICT RECRUITMENT SOUTH AFRICA
Of all the ICT markets to recruit for today Microsoft has become one of the most complex for 2 reasons, firstly MS sector professionals often dynamically / uniquely describe what they do for a living whilst it is also a market place of unsaid skills values especially when it comes to Webmastering, Software / Database Development, Business Solutions / Systems Management and Security. Our approach to Microsoft Sector Recruitment is to take the time to understand how each component of the Microsoft stack relate to each other which allows us to pre-determine how next the latest MS experts are going to explain their skills sets allowing us to spot them. Today Leading Edge confidently sources Microsoft expertise across the maze of hire demands in this space with great success in the Mobile Remote Collaboration CRM Business Intelligence Business Solutions Integration and Infrastructure markets. Hiring Microsoft expertise in South Africa… We know how to identify and source the expertise, which you are looking for.
NETWORKING ICT RECRUITMENT SOUTH AFRICA
Nowadays many Networking Professionals are multi-skilled holding a mix of traditional LAN WAN Wireless Voice Telco PABX Infrastructure Support else Call Centre related skills. At a glance when completing a Networking related recruitment project it appears that there are too many skills about… It’s head spin territory. In fact only around 10% of the local expertise in this market fall into the Expert Category choosing to dedicate their careers to 3Com Bay Cisco Lucent Nortel else Novell with the ultimate aspiration of many is to make it to designer architect. Completing Networking related hire projects for Corporates and VAR’s in South Africa since 2005 we’ve figured out how to identify the primary resources in this industry quickly and accurately… Recruiting for the better Networking sector professionals… We’ve probably got their details on hand.