Headline: South Africa’s 1st Female Owned Career Branding Company Goes International
Date to be published: Immediately
Maybe looking to the conventional way of thinking to solve the country’s unemployment issue is not the best available option.
Elite-CV, a division of Elite Career Solutions, a three-year-old local start-up specialising in helping professionals and executives to attract job opportunities through career branding, has officially opened its doors to the international market. This enables professionals and executives based both locally and internationally to order their professional CVs, Portfolios and LinkedIn Services online, to be produced right here in South Africa, enabling economic growth and job creation.
The job market is highly competitive, and most professionals fail to properly articulate their true value and competencies, therefore, losing out on many opportunities. Having a professionally written and designed CV helps individuals to secure more job interviews faster and easier because they are professional and well-articulated.
Career branding is a relatively new term in the employment industry, more especially in South Africa. This is due to the fact that branding was previously perceived as something reserved for celebrities and top CEOs. Something used to shape the public images of the elite and influential. For ordinary people who are employed, branding was a foreign concept. We are now transforming from the age of the old traditional CVs as recruitment agencies and employers have now adopted technology into their placement processes. CVs have to now survive the brutal reality of being scanned by software in order to make the cut and be seen by human eyes. The challenge is that most CVs are structured in a way no longer compatible with modern recruitment requirements.
Quote from a client:
“Thank you for your proudly South African professional services and added freebies. Paying a modest fee for a professional C.V service has been one of the best investments I have ever made.
As a South African doing contract work in China, having a great C.V made in Mzansi has proven essential. It also paid off…
I was able to secure a new one year contract lecturing at a University here in China”
Neville Edwards
Undeniably, times have changed, recruiters and employers now look at more than a CV to source and select their candidates, and this is because the internet has provided them with power and convenience to scrutinise their candidates. Social media is a great source of information, and LinkedIn is currently one of the leading platforms for recruiters and employers to source their candidates.
After mastering the art of career branding and succeeding by branding over 1200 top Executives and professionals in South Africa, Elite CV has welcomed international buyers by optimising the buying process which now caters for multi-currency based on location so people around the world can conveniently order their services. A real milestone in South African businesses as we also need to challenge the world innovatively and economically.
With this international launch, Elite-CV has also created a free online CV maker allowing people who cannot afford professional CV services the opportunity to present themselves well. The system creates professional CVs in minutes, and it is a great tool for South Africans who are finding it hard to find jobs. This service is accompanied by free CV reviews another free service Elite-CV offers to the public, so they know where and how to improve their current CV in order to get a job.
“These are exciting times; the internet has opened new doors of opportunity for anyone with a great idea. Digital transformation is at the forefront of everything we represent — convenient, quick and reliable service at your fingertips. Elite-CV is no stranger to working with international clients. In the past year alone, we have been sourced out by clients in the USA, Australia, Austria, Vietnam, Dubai, UK, Ireland, Singapore, and many other countries. These clients were keen to work with us because of our unique value offering in the professional career branding space.” said Lerato Mabiletsa, CEO of Elite Career Solutions, South Africa’s first black woman to launch a fully online-based Career Branding company.
“The international market is way ahead of South Africa when it comes to online buying, many developed countries find it is easier to purchase services online and this is a great advantage for Elite-CV. But the best part of it all is the international exposure our local talent is getting, they interact with professionals from around the globe and as a result have sharpened their skills to an international level and when they progress in their careers, the experience they would have gained will be invaluable. We are also excited about the new jobs the global expansion has allowed us to create and look forward to growing the team further and employing more young talent.”
For more information contact:
Bokang Mabiletsa Marketing Director on +27 11 704 3740 | [email protected]
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