When a role needs to be filled, there is often pressure to move quickly. Get the job description out. Start the search. Get CVs in front of the hiring manager. Begin interviewing. Speed matters in recruitment, particularly when strong candidates may not stay on the market for long. But speed alone doesn’t make a successful hire. A candidate can look right on paper, meet the technical requirements and interview well — and still turn out to be the wrong fit for the role, the te

For generations, work was largely understood as a place. You woke up in the morning, got dressed, travelled to the office and went to work. At the end of the day, you left work and went home. There was a clear physical and psychological boundary between the two. In that sense, work was almost a noun — somewhere you went. Today, it increasingly feels like a verb. We open a laptop and begin to work, whether we happen to be sitting in an office, at home, at a client, in a coffee

Women's Month is a time to celebrate the achievements, resilience and contributions of women across South Africa. It's also an opportunity to have honest conversations about the barriers that still exist in the workplace—and one of the most overlooked is how we view career breaks. For many women, careers don't follow a perfectly straight line. Life happens. Some step away from work to raise children. Others care for ageing parents or family members, relocate, pursue further s