Talent Trader is an online graduate recruitment website which aims to provide all individuals with the advice and assistance that will help choose a successful career path. It focuses on advice for post-matric study choices in an attempt to link these choices with future career prospects. Talent Trader is a partner of Premier Personnel a successful recruitment agency established in 1982. Premier Personnel is the leading recruitment agency in Banking, Finance, IT, Marketing, Management Consulting, Accounting, Telecoms and Executive office support.

South Africa is limited in terms of growing its own talent. All we read about is skills development and what must be done.

I believe that we will go a long way in solving our skills shortage problems if we look to what we have. We need to understand where we are before we decide on where we want to be.

The emphasis must be on retaining skills in SA. “Before we build a higher dam wall we must look at plugging the leaks”.

There are enormous opportunities in SA. The planned infrastructural spend and estimated private spend, over the next fifteen years, exceeds R1 trillion – yes! You read it right, R1 followed by twelve zeros. In order to manage this economic growth SA is going to need hundreds of thousands skilled people at different levels. It’s happening here in SA!

It’s a risk return decision, - Finance or Eco’s 101. The growth is on the cards and you can be part of it. Simply put opportunities are here and this is your territory. It’s more cost effective to retain the skills that we have and then add to that talent pool through ‘up-skilling’ by using those skilled workers to train new talent.