South African recruitment talent · UK · US · Australia
Your next top biller doesn't live in your market.
Carson & Gray places experienced South African recruiters with agencies in the UK, the US and Australia: 180, 270, 360, delivery, resourcing and support. Same working day. Same craft. A market you haven’t hired from.
45-minute call · No obligation · A conversation about the desk you can’t fill.
The premise
You are hiring from one country. So is everyone you compete with.
That is why the same handful of good recruiters keep circulating between the same agencies at rising prices. It is not a talent shortage. It is a shortlist drawn inside one set of borders, and the borders are the only part of the problem you can actually do something about.
The case in four figures
602
English proficiency score
13th of the countries indexed, against a global average of 488
UTC+2
South African Standard Time
The same offset every day of the year, because the country does not observe daylight saving
7.5h
shared with a London day
A 09:00–17:30 desk in Johannesburg against the same hours in London, British Summer Time
7
desk structures we recruit
From a resourcer building pipeline through to a 360 running their own profit and loss
Why South Africa
Four reasons, none of which are the exchange rate.
The hours
UTC+2, and it never moves.
South Africa does not observe daylight saving. A Johannesburg desk is one to two hours ahead of London all year, and still has an afternoon left when New York opens. No night shift, no rota, no goodwill required.
The language
602 on the EF index.
English is the working language of South African business, law and higher education: 13th in the world, against a global average of 488, and the highest score in Africa. Clients notice the absence of friction long before they notice anything else.
The market
A recruitment industry, not a labour pool.
South Africa has an established agency sector with its own contingent and retained markets, its own rec-to-rec, and a long history of running UK, US and Australian desks for clients abroad. You are hiring recruiters who already know the job.
The habit
Remote is not an experiment here.
A generation of South African recruiters have spent their careers billing for businesses in other countries. The working patterns, the tooling and the discipline are already in place, which is most of what goes wrong with a first remote hire elsewhere.
Work with Carson & Gray
For agencies
Fill the desk you’ve been carrying.
Tell us what is stuck. We will tell you honestly whether we can help, and what it would take.
For recruiters
Work an international desk from home.
Permanent roles with agencies in the UK, the US and Australia, paid for the desk you run, not for where you live.