Written by: Tunde Makinde, Executive Consultant, Executives in Africa
Executives in Africa, the leading international Search firm
focused 100% on Africa, is delighted to be media partner to AfricaCom 2014.
Globally, we have the largest team of search consultants purely focusing on the
Sub-Saharan market, with longstanding results in 22 different African
countries.
Increased stability in communication routes in recent years
has led to Executives in Africa being able to guide their candidates through
the interview and job placement process more efficiently, and we believe our
patience and tenacity during the times when technology was not so enabled has
helped to give us a firm foothold in this busy arena.
Time and time again our clients tell us that one of the main
problems they face is that of sourcing senior executive talent and candidates
for leadership roles in Africa. President
and CEO of the Dangote Group recently said, “Having comparative advantage is no
longer enough. You need a superior talent pool”. This is backed up by a recent
report by PWC which found out that talent shortages are a major issue in
Africa. Creating and fostering a skilled workforce is highly regarded by 84% of
CEO’s surveyed.
Talent acquisition is more than just finding the ideal
candidate in for the working environment and we work hard to ensure our
candidates make informed decisions on where they are locating to, have a firm
understanding of protocol and a belief in being able to deal with any
challenges they may be exposed to.
We have recently worked with a client that had exactly this
type of problem. It is a large Tanzanian Group, which was committed to
diversifying into the Pay TV sector and sought a high calibre and experienced
Pay TV CEO to be hired within an exceptionally tight time frame as the planned
launch date was in just three months.
The senior management of the Group held no prior experience
of running a business in this particular sector, so they entrusted us with the
critical task of identifying the most suitable individual for the CEO role. The
truly global nature of this search meant that we needed to identify and map
potential candidates all over the world.
Our Research team successfully located strong potential candidates
across Africa, the Middle East, India,
Europe and the
USA. Recommendations of possible candidates were also taken from existing
contacts in this sector. The list reached 187 potential candidates with a good
representation of both expatriate and local candidates.
We delivered the Short List within four weeks of sign off
and the successful candidate was made an offer, had accepted and was in situ
Dar es Salaam within three months.
Executives in Africa was recently also approached by the leading
Pay TV company across Africa, who were looking for a Chief Operating Officer in
Nigeria to lead a substantial team and report directly into their high ranking
MD. The candidate, who would be tasked
with setting strategy and executing the business plan, represented a key hire
for the client as Nigeria is set to go digital in 2015.
The Research team set out a global search and we were
delighted to be able to swiftly present a candidate who had outstanding
credentials, previous experience and who starts his contract next month.
We look forward to meeting you at AfricaCom 2014. If you
would like to speak to Tunde Makinde please contact him directly at
tm@executivesinafrica.com.
About Executives in Africa
Executives in Africa
which is a search firm focusing on sourcing senior level professionals for
roles based in sub-Saharan Africa.
We have globally the
largest team of search consultants purely focusing on the Sub-Saharan market
and have successfully recruited in 22
different African countries. We pride ourselves on being able to identify both
international talent and local talent and on numerous occasions we have
provided shortlists purely with local candidates. In fact around
55% of our placements to date have been African nationals. For more information
please visit: http://executivesinafrica.com/
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