Began over 20 years ago when Ratio Recruitment was conceived and launched with passion and commitment to be the Recruitment Company that delivered a distinct “Professional and Personalised” service to Commercial Businesses throughout Southern Africa.

Ratio’s focus was on achieving and maintaining critical human capital and business success ratios pertinent to both Ratio and her client’s businesses e.g. keeping the “ratio” of candidates presented -  to -  successful candidates placed as low as possible through striving for recruitment excellence and striving to help Ratio’s clients achieve lower cost-to-Income “ratios” through delivering more cost effective and sustainable placements.

Through our evolution, these qualities have formed the building blocks of Smart Talent Africa’s DNA and added to them is over 20 Years of successful and trusted recruitment and advisory experience gained through consistently striving for service excellence. This has been further enhanced through the latest Smart Technological Advances in the recruitment/talent acquisition field.

So, through evolutionary progression and embracing Smart Technological Advances, Smart Talent Africa was conceived, developed and launched in 2018.

Smart Talent Africa is a modern “New Generation” Talent Acquisition and Advisory company which has been developed to meet the ever increasing and key critical Human Capital needs of developing businesses in the fast-growing and high potential business environment throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

To be the most trusted and preferred Talent Acquisition and Advisory Partner to companies in Sub-Saharan Africa with the most satisfied candidates and clients.

Our mission is to:

• Partner with select clients to source premium and rare human capital talent for their developing businesses. We do this swiftly and efficiently, saving them time and money by reducing the time taken to fill critical vacancies. We do this through combining over twenty years of trusted recruitment expertise with new leading-edge smart technological advances in talent acquisition and performance support systems, as well as offering them the choice of various Smart Pricing and Smart Payment options.
• To expertly advise our clients of the latest practices and advances in Human Capital Talent Attraction, Acquisition and Retention.
• To assist our candidates to advance their careers through securing them top opportunities and advising and supporting them through the entire placement process to their successful appointment and ensuring their post-appointment satisfaction and support.

We passionately and firmly believe that Human Capital is key to an organisation’s competitive positioning and we have therefore developed Smart Talent Africa from the ground up to meet the ever-increasing demand for premium and rare talent in commercial businesses throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

Through thoughtful and thorough strategic design, we have achieved great depth and breadth of talent search capability and use cutting edge smart technology to enhance our talent search ability for premium talent across multiple online data bases and platforms.

We can source, engage with and acquire premium and rare talent who are not commonly sourced on contemporary candidate data bases, job boards and through common social networking practices. We do this swiftly and efficiently and are also able to present their comprehensive profiles to our clients swiftly and efficiently using smart engagement technology.

Through using smarter efficiencies, we save our clients valuable time and money by reducing the time and resources taken to fill critical vacancies.

We have introduced and offer Smart Pricing and Smart Payment Options linked with Smart Guarantees which are aimed at assisting our clients optimise their cashflow, whilst simultaneously reducing their financial risk.

This allows our clients to focus on their business while we supply their talent, acting as our client’s trusted professional talent acquisition and advisory partners. We partner for our client’s growth and success.

We embrace the following values which are the cornerstones of our business:

Authenticity
We stay the course to fulfilling our vision, mission and values

Transparency
We practice open and honest communication in all our dealings

Honesty, Integrity and Trust
We are committed to high ethical standards and do what we say we will do

Respect for each other
We embrace the diversity and inclusion of all people from different cultural backgrounds and give consideration to self and others towards the elevation of human dignity.

Innovation and Continual Improvement
We value and embrace new innovations/technological developments and strive to continually improve our overall value proposition to our candidates and clients

Service consciousness and quality
We serve our candidates and clients through striving for service excellence and delivering premium talent acquisition and advisory solutions

Responsibility and Accountability
We accept responsibility and are answerable for our actions as individuals and as a company

Our leadership and people are passionately committed to fulfilling our vision and mission and embrace and “live-out” our values. We employ Smart People who are passionate about Talent Acquisition and Advisory and equally passionate about helping their clients and candidates achieve success in their businesses and careers. 

We invest heavily in Learning and Development and empower our people to continually develop their knowledge and skills through various connected learning programmes and by attending professional development workshops and conferences. We also encourage and assist them to further their formal tertiary education.

“Our people are our company” and we strive for fully-engaged, empowered and motivated people who execute our mission with passion and perseverance, continually delighting our clients and candidates through service excellence.