For recruiters
Work an international desk. Stay in South Africa.
Permanent desks with agencies in the UK, the US and Australia, worked from home in South Africa. Paid for the desk you run, not for where you happen to live.
You are already doing the job. The market just hasn’t been told.
South African recruiters have been running UK, US and Australian desks from Cape Town and Johannesburg for years. The work is the same work. What changes when an international agency hires you directly is who you report to, what you are paid, and whose brand is on your placements.
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South Africa’s score on the published proficiency index: 13th globally, against a world average of 488.
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One to two hours ahead of London, all year. No daylight saving, no night shift for a UK desk.
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Desk structures we recruit for, from resourcer through to a full 360 with its own P&L.
Your day
A UK desk is not a night shift.
This is what the day actually looks like. Worth knowing before you decide which markets you want to be put forward for. A US desk is a real change to your evenings, and you should go in with your eyes open.
A London desk
09:00
Your morning starts an hour before theirs in summer, two in winter.
A New York desk
15:00
Afternoons only. Your morning is yours.
A Sydney desk
01:00
We will tell you honestly that this one is a night shift.
Your own clock
UTC+2
Unchanged all year. You never move it for anyone.
The roles
Know which desk you want before someone puts you on the wrong one.
- 01180 RecruiterYou either source or you sell. Not both.
- 02270 RecruiterYou keep the clients you are given and grow them.
- 03360 RecruiterYour own P&L. The most autonomy and the most exposure.
- 04Delivery ConsultantPure delivery. Judged on placements, never on new business.
- 05Resourcer / SourcerSearch and mapping. The best way in if you are early.
- 06Recruitment SDROutbound all day. Sales skills, not delivery skills.
- 07Recruitment AdministratorCoordination and compliance. No targets on your head.
What agencies are looking for
Four things that decide it, and none of them are your CV template.
Evidence, not adjectives
Placements made, roles filled, time-to-fill, the desks you have run. "Hard-working" is on every CV in the pile. Numbers are on almost none of them.
A reason you want this desk
International agencies are wary of applicants who want any international job. The ones who get hired can say why this market, this vertical, this desk.
Proof you can run remote
A room you can take calls in, a connection that holds, and a track record of managing your own week without somebody standing behind you.
Honesty about hours
A UK desk is close to your normal day. A US desk is not. Agencies would far rather hear what you can genuinely commit to than discover it in month two.
Working with us
Why this beats applying on your own.
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We talk first
A proper conversation about what you have actually billed, what you want next, and what you are not prepared to compromise on.
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We only put you forward where you fit
You will not be blanket-submitted to every agency on our list. You will know the name of every business your CV goes to, before it goes.
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We prepare you properly
Who you are meeting, how they bill, what they will push on, and what the desk actually looks like on a Tuesday in month three.
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You interview
We handle scheduling, feedback and the parts of the conversation that are awkward to have yourself, including money.
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We stay in it
Through offer, notice and the first months in the role, when a remote hire either lands or quietly does not.
Put your name in front of agencies that are actually hiring.
Tell us what you have billed and what you want next. If we do not have the right desk for you today, we will say so, and keep you on file for when we do.
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