Recruitment Tech Talks: What if technology was the easy part?
Talent Business Partners
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A 60-minute peer conversation for recruitment agency leaders who are ready to do things differently in the South African market.
Traditional recruitment in South Africa is under pressure. Clients brief five agencies on the same role. Candidates send applications into silence. Fees are being squeezed while the workload keeps growing and somewhere in the middle, recruiters are losing the time they need to actually do their best work.
For this first South African edition of Recruitment Tech Talks, we're bringing together three practitioners who have decided to break that cycle; each in their own way. One has rebuilt her business model from the ground up. One has turned talent acquisition into a strategic audit. One has built the tools he wished he'd had when he was running a team of 22.
Between the CV overload, the client pressure and the AI noise, it's hard to know what actually works. We'll be talking about exactly that:
- Can you still set boundaries with clients in a market this competitive — and actually win more by doing it?
- Is AI screening ready for South African recruitment, or does it create more problems than it solves?
- What does the future of the SA recruiter look like — and what do you need to do now to be part of it?
No miracle method. Just an honest conversation between professionals who are trying to work better using technology to get back the time that recruitment was never supposed to take from them.
Date: August 27, 2026
Time: 14:00 – 15:00 CEST
Format: Live interactive webinar (Contrast)
Price: Free
Speakers
Kabwe Mulolo-Gondo
Managing Director @ Construct Executive Search (CES)
Kabwe Gondo is the Founder and Managing Director of Construct Executive Search and the Acritus Group of companies. With over 12 years of experience in recruitment and talent advisory, she specialises in the construction, engineering, and infrastructure sectors across South Africa and Zambia. A strong advocate for strategic talent acquisition, Kabwe has built her businesses around a retained and exclusive search model, helping clients secure critical skills through a more consultative, partnership-driven approach. Her expertise spans executive search, talent strategy, remuneration advisory, and workforce planning, enabling organisations to make informed people decisions that drive long-term success. Through her work, Kabwe continues to challenge traditional recruitment practices, positioning talent acquisition as a strategic business function that creates measurable value for clients and sustainable career opportunities for professionals.
Jonnathan Koch
CEO @ Xrecruiter AI | TalentGenie | Flipdrop
A former recruitment agency owner with 14 years of hands-on experience and a national footprint in South Africa, Jonnathan pivoted from running large recruiting teams to building the technology he wished he'd had. He is the founder of three award-winning companies in the talent acquisition space: TalentGenie, Flipdrop and Xrecruiter AI but also one of the earliest adopters of AI in SA recruitment, deploying his first AI layer in 2016.
Tracey Lee Shearer
Founder & MD @ EQ8 Recruit | Pulsate
With 20 years of experience across the UK, Singapore and South Africa, Tracey specialises in shipping, maritime, logistics and energy recruitment with a global client base. She has evolved her practice from traditional recruitment into consultative talent advisory auditing what talent acquisition truly costs businesses and helping them build smarter, more human processes.
Francine Ruth Nyamba
Chief of Staff @ Talent Business Club
With 10 years of experience in recruitment on EMEA, LATAM and African markets, Francine specialises in international recruitment strategies. She is Chief of Staff at Talent Business Club, where she drives company culture continuity through the markets, operations and events that bring together recruitment and staffing leaders in Europe and beyond. She'll moderate the conversation with an insider's eye.
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