The Resourcing division comprises 11 recruitment brands, with 21 branches nationally and over 180 years of collective expertise. Brent Personnel, Cassel & Company, Communicate Personnel, Insource.ICT, IT Edge, Network Recruitment, Pro Rec Recruitment and Tech-Pro Personnel are well established brands of ADvTECH Resourcing (Pty) Ltd (ADvTECH Resourcing). Kapele Appointments (Pty) Ltd (Kapele), an empowerment company in which ADvTECH Resourcing has a majority stake, houses three brands: Inkokheli HR Appointments, Vertex-Kapele and The Working Earth.

Against the backdrop of the global skills shortage, the challenge for employers worldwide is the attraction, motivation and retention of intellectual capital. Recruiting and retaining the right skills is a strategic business imperative and the extent to which it is focused on can mean the difference between business success or failure. ADvTECH’s Resourcing division contributes to the solution by placing the best candidate in the best position, from both a personal and organisational perspective. This is achieved by the Division’s focus on understanding each client’s unique culture and values, as well as the context within which they operate.

ADvTECH Resourcing provides highly specialised recruitment services in specific niche market sectors. Each brand within the Division has their own distinct personality and profile, and is committed to providing the highest levels of service to its candidates and clients within its niche. This is achieved by conducting an in-depth analysis of specific needs, as well as providing personalised advice on market trends and available opportunities in a given market sector.

ADvTECH Resourcing’s strategy of having various operating brands under one umbrella creates an entrepreneurial spirit within each brand. While this promotes healthy competition and ensures high quality and personalised delivery, candidates and clients simultaneously enjoy the advantages of dealing with a large corporate. By competing in overlapping, specialist niche areas, the brands all work together to the common benefit of the Resourcing division while offering a specialist service to clients and candidates. This ensures the best possible recruitment solutions for permanent, temporary and contract placements.

Should the need arise, the brands are capable of offering a collective solution to clients who have a variety of vacancies across various niches and in so doing, ADvTECH Resourcing provides a ‘one stop shop’ solution to such clients. This advantage is reinforced by the Division’s extensive database of candidates.

Each brand within the Resourcing division is an accredited member of the Association of Personnel Services Organisation (APSO), the Institute of Personnel Consultants (IPSC) and the Confederation of Associations in the Private Employment Sector (CAPES).

In times of economic downturn, the recruitment industry tracks economic indices more closely and in 2009, economic conditions placed the recruitment industry under significant pressure. Given the difficult operating environment, the planned business expansion in 2009 was temporarily put on hold and attention was redirected to maximising efficiencies.

The Resourcing division expects the tough trading environment to continue into 2010 before easing. The Division enters the new year better equipped to face the operational challenges of current market conditions and is well prepared to embrace opportunities presented by an improving economy.

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