Recruitment Services

Buffalo City provides a pleasant environment for working and living. Try and see if you can find a job in the city via one of the East London based staffing solution agencies:

• Abantu Staffing Solutions
  
• Capacity Outsourcing
• ID1 Executive Search
• Kempston Recruitment
• MPC Recruitment
• Profile Personnel
• Sheldon Recruitment
• Stratostaff
• Transman (Pty) Ltd
  
• Telebest
• Work Africa
• The Workforce Group

Efficiency Personnel: epersonnel@telkomsa.net

Only The Best Pty (Ltd): mehru.maja@telebest.co.za

Job Opportunities

• Career Junction
  
• Best Jobs
  
• Job Space
  
• Careerjet
  
• Kelly Group East London
  
• Adcorp

Or look at the classified selections of the: Daily Dispatch

Regulatory environment and services

The South African Department of Labour publishes legislation that regulates labour practices and activities.
Buffalo City provides a variety of companies that have specialised in labour law and regulations, black economic empowerment, human resource selection, recruitment and outsourcing.

The following company could help you to navigate you through the regulatory environment:

• Global Business Solutions

Scarce Skills

The National Department of Higher Education and Training has compiled a list containing the top 100 occupations in South Africa that are in short supply. The list has been released for comment by the Department of Higher Education and Training. This list, which will be updated every two years, will be used to inform South Africa’s human resource planning and funding allocation, programme development, and immigration strategies.

Download here: Top 100 Scarce Skills Occupations in South Africa

Top 10 scarce skills list in South Africa:

1. Electrical Engineer
2. Civil Engineer
3. Mechanical Engineer
4. Quantity Surveyor
5. Programme or Project Manager
6. Finance Manage
7. Physical and Engineering Science Technicians
8. Industrial and Production Engineers
9. Electrician
10. Chemical Engineer

Skills development

Buffalo City hosts a variety of public and private skills service providers.

The public Buffalo City Public Further Education and Training College has two mega campuses situated in the East London and Mdantsane area. They offer a wide range of learning programmes. The associated School of Occupational Training offers short courses and learnerships.

Buffalo City College has introduced ten exciting high priority skills programs, leading to a National Certificate (Vocational). These are:

School of Business

• Education and Development
• Finance, economics and accounting
• Information technology and computer science
• Mechatronics
• Office administration
• Tourism
• Safety in society

School of Engineering

• Engineering and related design
• Electrical infrastructure construction
• Civil engineering and building construction

Private skills providers are:

• Pitt Institute
• Triple E Training Holdings (Pty) Ltd
• MSC Business College
• The Master Artisan Academy South Africa (MAASA)

MAASA was established because of an alarming decline in the overall artisan training in South Africa which led to shortage of high quality technical skills across the country. The four main areas they focus in are:

• Welding
• Electrical Engineering
• Renewable Energy
• Mechanical Engineering

Contact us for referrals.