It’s not a secret – I don’t like recruitment agencies. They can’t talk tech, they brag to peer-review all candidates while sending every single CV they get their fingers on and they’re expensive.
So I’m even happier to having successfully built a good team without using a single recruitment agency. The average candiate’s profile was rather scary but there were some pearls in-between.
Anyways, I used predominantly memejobs.com, bizcommunity.com, itjobs.mybroadband.co.za and careers24.com.
My overall impression is:
memejobs – very little response, great candidates
bizcommunity – high response, average candidates
itjobs.mybroadband – little response, good candidates
careers24 – high response, poor candidates
But here a more detailed list. The ads were live for 1 week, we were looking to fill 5 different roles, some applications were directly send as the email addresses were listed in the job description.
| site | price per listing | responses | hired |
| memejobs | R 342 | 8 | 2 |
| bizcommunity | R 350 | 23 | 1 |
| itjobs.mybroadband | R 342 | 12 | 2 |
| careers24 | R 392 | 32 | 0 |
4 of the open 5 roles were developers and sys admins and I found them on memejobs and mybroadband – looks like the nerdy crowd is hanging out there.
Lesson learned: take some time, use your network and decide on the right job listing page. And you’ll learn – it’s not that difficult after all to fine good tech people in Cape Town!