'The normal relocation
reticence amongst
South Africans seems to
be dwindling rapidly'
THERE IS global demand for SA forwarding staff with the right skills levels, according to Lynn Ribton-Turner, of recruitment agency Ribton-Turner & Associates.
There seem to be a lot of good jobs world-wide for highly-specialised staff, she told FTW.
And the normal relocation reticence amongst South Africans also seems to be dwindling rapidly, she added.
I am finding that SA candidates are looking quite freely at international movement at the moment, Ribton-Turner said.
This analysis comes from a nine-month association between the Ribton-Turner recruitment operation and two major foreign agencies also specialising in the clearing and freight forwarding sectors.
The company has organised inter-active links with the Swiss office of Hamburg-based Reinecke & Associates and Alchemy Recruitment of London.
And both these operations - although European-based - are truly global in their placement exercises, according to Ribton-Turner.
Alchemy, which specialises in freight recruitment, is also keen to see SA candidates applying for jobs in the UK. It's a nice association, said Ribton-Turner, in that we are directly transmitting CVs (curriculum vitaes) to them for SA workers looking for work there.
And in London - for people with sound job backgrounds and the right qualifications - there are lots of opportunities.
Although Ribton-Turner warns that UK salaries are not high - this, she reckons, is balanced out to SA equivalents, with the exchange rate taken into account.
A final warning for those SA c&f staff looking for international opportunities, she added, is that aspirant travellers in the trade have to organise their own appropriate rights of residence and necessary work permits.
But, she said, sound CVs, the necessary skills and guaranteed employment will smooth this path.
