RecruitAGraduate Blog

  • Graduate recruitment platform a boon for young talent
    South African businesses have a bright new platform to help them recruit skilled graduates, interns and apprentices and, in the process, invest in developing South Africa’s bright young talent.   The Economist’s Pocket World in Figures claims that South Africa has the highest rate of unemployment among young people in the world. The percentage of youth between the ages of...
  • What is an internship?
    Internships can be paid or unpaid, they can vary in duration, and they are designed to benefit both the graduate and the employer. As a graduate, you will do on-the-job training and experience a real work environment.  It’s a way to put into practice what you have learnt at College or University. Employers, on the other hand, gain from the skills of new graduates and facilitate future...
  • Graduate recruitment platform invests in the young talent
    South African businesses have a new platform to recruit skilled graduates, interns and apprentices and in the process invest in developing South Africa’s bright young talent. RecruitAGraduate.co.za is a new online recruitment platform from the award-winning founder and creator of RecruitMyMom.co.za. The new platform aims to pair young...
  • Soft Skills Make Graduates More Employable
    Interview preparation and drafting the perfect CV are not predictors of success in the perfect job match. UK Research reveals that one in three graduates end up mismatched to jobs after leaving university. The result is that these mismatched graduates...
  • Job Creator Of The Year® Award
    We are very proud of our CEO, Phillipa Geard, who won the category award, Job Creator of the Year®, of the prestige Entrepreneur of the Year® award.  The Entrepreneur of the Year® competition sponsored by Sanlam and BUSINESS/PARTNERS is an annual competition that recognises and honours successful South African entrepreneurs in the small and medium enterprises (SMEs)...