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The right partner for talent architecture
No matter how much planning organisations do, it is difficult to anticipate when critical resources might decide to move on. Despite well-developed internal succession plans, the risk always remains.
Cortez is the executive search and talent mapping practice within EOH Human Capital, a division of one of the leading management consultancy firms in South Africa. EOH is a JSE listed company, and one of Africa’s largest technology guru’s – a true South African success story.
As experts in the art of talent mapping to source critical, senior and executive appointments, who understand the importance of matching the right individual to your organisation, we dedicate a project team to your business who apply our unique processes and methodology to attract the best talent.
Awards & Recognition
Cortez Executive Search was rated as one of the top 10 executive search companies in the country by the PMR Awards.
PMR.Africa completed its national survey of Executive Search companies and interviews were only conducted with respondents of companies that have placed candidates in top management positions.
"... General market movements and trends: the professional feedback provided by Cortez regarding external market developments is always appreciated and helps the organisation to appropriately steer the talent acquisition strategy. The data shared covers areas like rewards trends, migration of skill and talents, generation idiosyncrasies as regards motivational fit and retention developments. The focus scope is global given the nature of Schneider Electric. External mapping: Due to the nature of our business, the criticality to lessen transition time losses is unparalleled. Cortez was engaged to provide this service for top managerial level roles for the organisation, in areas that are difficult to resource. The exercise was immensely valuable and provided us with opportunity to benchmark structural efficiency, skills availability and application and available market bench strength.”
"... Cortez has conducted detailed human capital mapping within the Pharmaceutical Industry, providing invaluable research results and presenting Lilly with a minimum of two to three equity candidates for final round interviews. Two of the most recent searches were for Senior Management positions and were quite specialized, falling into the scarce skills category; the end result being two successful appointments. We thank Cortez for their continued professionalism, support and commitment to our company and look forward to our future interactions."
"... services have been rendered to the Billion Group for the past four years, which include three critical Financial Director roles for different funds with the Group. We wish to thank you for your continued support and look forward to a fruitful and continued partnership."
" ... provided search services for Stefanutti Stocks for in excess of six years. The search assignments managed have focused on Executive level and Senior Management level roles focusing predominantly in sourcing equity and non-equity talent from within the construction industry. ... managed a large project conducting full scale research tailored around an intricate methodology to build a landscape of evidence across industries to identify relevant skill and scarce skills to equip Stefanutti Stocks in building a proactive framework of potential with emphasis on equity capability. We thank them for their support and look forward to our continued partnership."
"... extensive external talent mapping for scarce and critical sales skills across four tiers in the following areas: Industrial, Healthcare, Mining, Mobile, Government and Retail. Thank you for your continued support and professional service. I am looking forward to a continued productive working relationship."
