1. 1st
of September 2016
Dear Busi
Thank you for providing us with the opportunity to introduce Leaders Personnel. Please find
attached our Company Profile.
1. Company Overview and History
1.1 Nature of Business
Leaders Personnel, a privately owned corporation, commenced business in
1991 and has established a reputation as a provider of a professional service in
the selection and recruitment of key staff. We are a member of The Association
of Personnel Service Organisations of South Africa (APSO).
Our offices are located in Northcliff, Johannesburg.
Our team is headed by Simon Ridge (Managing Director), a Chartered
Accountant with an MBA, who has extensive prior experience as a Director in
listed and multinational companies, and Lee Ridge (Founder and Managing
Consultant) who has over twenty years experience in Personnel Recruitment.
Our Managing Director is a Vice President and Treasurer of APSO and has
served on the APSO National Executive for the past nine years, three of those
as President. He has also previously served for three years on the Services
SETA Labour Recruitment Chamber Board. He is Treasurer and a founding
board member of the Confederation of Associations in Personnel Employment
Sector (CAPES), having served on that board for five years, and also
represents Africa and the Middle-East as a board member of the International
2. Confederation of Private Employment Agencies (CIETT), which is based in
Brussels. He is an alternate council member on the South African Chamber of
Commerce and Industry (SACCI), representing associations, and sits on various
SACCI committees.
1.2 BEE Rating
Leaders Personnel is a Level Four B-BBEE Contributor and is a Value-added
Supplier.
As an enterprise development initiative, Siyakha Staffing Solutions was
launched in November 2005, as part of the Leader Personnel Group. The
Company has full access to all Leaders Personnel’s resources and systems as
well as finances.
1.3 Services Offered - Permanent Appointments
We have specialist consultants who recruit in the following areas:
• Executive Appointments
• Financial and Accounting Personnel
• Merchant Banking Personnel
• Information Technology Personnel
• Retail Management
• Human Resource Managers
• Training Managers
• Secretarial and Administrative Personnel
• Sales and Marketing Personnel
• Insurance Personnel
• Call Centre Personnel
• Technical Personnel
We also offer the service of recruiting disabled persons. Our premises are easily
accessible to persons in wheelchairs.
1.4 Services Offered - Temporary Appointments & Professional Assignments
We offer a contract and temporary employment service in the following
areas:
• Financial and Accounting
• Logistics and Courier Industry (South African and Africa Continent)
• Secretarial
• Reception
• Data Capturers
• Call Centres
• Technical
• Insurance
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3. • Information Technology
• Administration
• Engineering
1.4 Services Offered - Financial Appointments and Temporary
Assignments
Leaders Personnel has a specialist Financial Division, for permanent and
temporary recruitment of financial staff.
Positions include, but are not limited to:
• Chartered Accountants
• Cost & Management Accountants
• Accountants
• Assistant Accountants
• Bookkeepers - to Trial Balance and Balance Sheet
• Accounts Administrators
• Accounts Clerks
• Creditors
• Credit Controllers
• Debtors
1.6 Mission
Leaders Personnel strives to remain dynamic in the way it conducts its
recruitment procedures with particular reference to:
• The client’s specific requirements;
• Changes in the demographics of the labour pool;
• Changes in labour legislation;
• Advances in technology.
We are acutely aware not only of our role in providing a thorough and efficient
service to our client but also in ensuring that, as an agent of our client, our
recruitment procedures are objective, driven by the inherent requirements of the
job, and non-discriminatory.
1.7 Business Values
We comply with the Basic Conditions of Employment Act in terms of Annual
Leave, Sick Leave, Family Responsibility Leave, Public holidays and Notice
periods.
Leaders Personnel is not classified as a Personal Service Organisation in terms
of the definition in Schedule 4 of the Income Tax Act.
We are registered for statutory purposes as follows:
PAYE: 7490720291
Skills Levy: L490720291
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4. UIF: U490720291
Worker’s Compensation: 0572-725-1960
Labour Broker: 7013275/00/8 (no longer applicable)
Income Tax: 9350/295/84/7
VAT: 4860128398
CC Registration No: 1988/12310/23
2. Statutory and Financial Details
Registered Name: Leaders Personnel
Registration Number: 1988/12310/23
Registered Member: S. N. Ridge
Registered Address: 39 Suzanne Crescent
Northcliff
2198
Physical Address: As above
Telephone Number: (011) 476-6787
Fax Number: (011) 476-1879
Managing Member: Simon Ridge
Qualifications: B.Compt. (hons.) C.A.(S.A.) M.B.A. (Wits)
Bank: Standard Bank Business Banking, Sandton
Manager: Ashley Shodries (011) 881-7102
Insurers: Mutual & Federal
Brokers: Maryann Gama, The Brokerage (011) 475-5048
3. Membership
Leaders Personnel is a member of APSO. The Managing Director currently serves as
the APSO Vice-President and Treasurer, Treasurer of CAPES and Board Member of
CIETT, as well as serving on various committees at SACCI and BUSA.
4. Recruitment Process & Procedure
4.1 Attraction Of Candidates
Leaders Personnel utilizes the following techniques in order to attract
candidates:
• Leaders Personnel has its own website at www.leagroup.co.za.
• We are registered with three other websites that provide an advertising
and marketing service for personnel agencies, as well as a database, a
candidate search facility and a means by which candidates can submit
CV’s to personnel agencies.
• Selective use is made of print media advertising as its effectiveness
varies according to the job category
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5. • We believe that search is a productive recruitment strategy and in some
cases is the only way to successfully source candidates, particularly in
the case of specialist and senior positions. Consequently Leaders
Personnel has consultants who are experienced search consultants.
• We employ the following techniques:
o Organized research and search
o Networking on a referral basis
Leaders Personnel does not headhunt candidates from its client’s
organizations.
• Leaders Personnel has over the years, developed a confidential network
with other agencies for the purposes of sharing candidate resources.
• We pride ourselves on treating our candidates with dignity, providing
regular feedback to candidates and personally declining all candidates.
Consequently, we have a high volume of referrals by past candidates of
ours.
• We have our own computerized database, which provides a search
facility, a candidate-job matching function and an assignment tracking
facility.
4.2 Screening of Candidates
Leaders Personnel utilizes the following techniques in order to screen
candidates:
• Each consultant specializes in one or more job sectors. As a result the
consultant who deals with your company will, if necessary, call on the
assistance of another consultant during the screening process.
• We utilize Competency Based Recruitment Techniques, resulting not
only in minimizing the risk of discrimination allegations, but also in the
delivery of a more efficient and focused service to our clients.
• Consultants are required to solicit from the client a detailed job
specification. The job specification not only details the client’s needs, but
also focuses on the competencies required.
• The candidate interview includes the following procedures:
o Completion of a check list and rating schedule of competencies
o Behavioral event interviewing
• The consultant who works with the client company always conducts the
interview, but may (and frequently does) arrange for another consultant
who has expertise in the required areas to conduct a further interview.
• Testing is carried out in order to verify competencies that cannot be
verified by other means. Such tests include, but are not limited to the
following competencies:
o Typing
o Spreadsheeting
o Word processing
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6. o Visual aid preparation
o Accounting knowledge
o Debtors and Credit control
o Creditors and Creditors control
o Accounts reconciliation
o E-mail
o Clerical
• Prior to referral to the client all candidates are reference checked
• With the permission of the candidate credit checks are carried out under
the following circumstances:
o Where it is a client requirement
o Where the inherent features of the job require it (e.g. accounting
positions)
• With the prior permission of the candidate criminal checks are carried out
under the following circumstances:
o Where it is a client requirement
o Where the inherent features of the job require it (e.g. accounting
positions)
• We utilise the services of Kroll MIE for verification purposes
4.3 Regretting of Candidates
Candidate regretting procedures are as follows:
o Those who apply by e-mail are regretted by e-mail
o Those who apply by telephone are regretted immediately unless
a CV is requested
o Those who are interviewed are regretted in person at the time, or
subsequently by telephone or by e-mail
5. Service Levels
We offer the following:
• A team of Specialized search, selection and recruitment professionals
• Thorough research of the Client company, the job specification and the
candidate
• Independence, objectivity and the saving of valuable management time
• Compliance with the LRA in terms of recruitment.
Yours sincerely
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