Just a few reasons to ensure that your assessment and hiring processes are battened down: The average job posting in South Africa receives up to 250 applications, 75% of applicants are unqualified for the job, 88% are not strong enough to move forward to an interview, and the average time taken to successfully fill a […]

The recent arrest of a 40-year-old internet café owner from the east of Johannesburg on charges of fraud for allegedly producing fake certificates, school reports, and asylum papers should make employers consider the validity of their employee or potential employee documents. Good practices during recruitment of new employees are critical to business success. A key […]

In South Africa, 26 out of every 100,000 people die on the roads – far higher than the global average of 18 per 100,000. Whilst this may be a horrifying statistic how can this be changed when vehicles are not road-worthy or drivers are legally licensed. Recently the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport (a […]

South Africa is a crazy place right now with the run up to the ANC elections. South Africa is in the midst of an energy crisis, facing a spate of violent crimes, struggling with poverty and unemployment and corruption appears to have eaten away the nation’s soul after the release of the recent Zondo commission. […]

Sadly, in many discussions, dreadful terms are used to define the HR department and their role in a company. HR Dive recently conducted a survey and found that according to the HR leaders, 58% considered their department to be highly valued while 8% said they were not valued at all. At iFacts, we believe that […]

In South Africa, unemployment is sitting at a ridiculously high level. Many may argue that the informal sector is not included in the official unemployment figures. Still, in June 2022, according to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey for the first quarter of 2022, the unemployment rate was 63,9% for those aged 15-24 and 42,1% for those aged […]