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Our B-BBEE ACCREDITATION

Our B-BBEE ACCREDITATION

• Business Leaders Award winner Whitey Basson from Shoprite Checkers, at the helm for 30 years, believes:“I have to give as much attention to the guys who make the bread as I do to the guys who make the decisions as to where it’s made,”.
  “I manage by trying to sleep on weekends. I sleep with one eye open.”
• Top Company Award won by Chris Cory from Assore, a mining holding company’s success was built on: “it is good quality deposits and long-term relationships”.
  “The company had been able to come through the global recession by being cost conscious and sticking to what it was good at, namely focusing on solid, long-term organic growth.”
• Lifetime Achiever Award winner Brian Joffe believes that a successful business should be managed by entrepreneurs on a very decentralised basis. The important measurable is not profitability but returns. He adds “Gut feel is important for us; it’s been very good for us. We’ve made mistakes along the way, but gut feel is an important part of entrepreneurship.”

With acknowledgement to Business Times 30 October 2011.

• Temporary, contract and agency workers are favoured above permanent / long-term employees
• Employers wish to keep employee workforce numbers flexible, in accordance with the exigencies of their business
• High-tech corporate companies have become more productive and efficient, but it has been paid for in job losses
• Only 0.6% of South Africa’s 2million people with disabilities are represented in the workforce
• Employment costs that grow above the inflation rate hampers economic growth and the sustainability of businesses
• In 2008, 7,8% of economically active people in South Africa were entrepreneurs; in 2009, it was only 5%
• In South Africa, entrepreneurial levels are at 3%, that is 9% points lower than the average of 12% of the 59 countries research by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
• The role of SME’s in job creation should not be underestimated
• 42% of young people aged between 18 – 29 years old, are unemployed

With recognition to the HR Highway Newsletter for September 2011 and The Star Business Report 22 September 2011

pinpoint one human resources is an SMME that has completed 12y+ successful years in business. We are a job creator and a contributor to the economy – support our business and benefit yours! Contact us TODAY to provide you with a comprehensive recruitment and assessment service resulting in your employment of effective leaders who will sustain your business today and tomorrow.
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Pinpoint one human resources (Pty) Ltd is a committed small South African company that provides cost effective recruitment and assessment services to clients in the private, public and NGO / Section 21 sectors. The objectives of our comprehensive processes are to minimise the hiring risk for our clients and to deliver the most suitable candidates on each assignment. Such candidates will have effective leadership attributes to contribute to your business’ current and future success. We apply many years of demonstrated expertise to each assignment and add value at every opportunity.

Our commitment is also demonstrated by our continues drive to retain our B-BBEE status – Level 1 Accredited Qualifying Small Enterprise – so that our clients can improve their own B-BBEE ratings / scorecards. Should you utilise the services of pinpoint one, you do not only get professional delivery on each assignment, but we increase the following elements of your scorecard:
Indirect Empowerment Measures:
*Code 500 - Preferential Procurement 20% - for every R1 spend with pinpoint one, you can claim R1.35 towards your own Preferential Procurement, optimising your own supply chain initiatives and ensuring your registered supplier is compliant
**Code 300 - Employment Equity 15% – pinpoint one has a proven track record of 80% of all placements made over many years, are Historically Disadvantaged South Africans and or Individuals. We can deliver on your employment equity objectives by sourcing suitable and competent individuals to join your organisation.

*Underpins the requirement by the Preferential Procurement Act – companies in South Africa that deal with the government or para-statals must be empowered. In return, these companies require their suppliers to be empowered.
**Underpins the Employment Equity Act and contributes towards your annual Employment Equity submission.

Your decision to use the recruitment and assessment services of pinpoint one is simple – you get:

• Professional, cost effective delivery on your assignments
• An opportunity to increase your own B-BBEE Scorecard rating

pinpoint one understands what makes economic sense – contact us today!
Lucia Mabasa, Clive Viveiros and Florence Thom (Founder Members, Shareholders and Consultants) are keen to develop mutually beneficial and productive working partnerships with you.

Some thoughts and views on leadership are:

• Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran in their book “Why are we bad at picking good leaders. A better way to evaluate leadership potential” identifies seven key leadership attributes – integrity, empathy, emotional intelligence, vision, judgement, courage and passion – that need to be assessed accurately in order to make good leadership selection decisions
• Vadim Kotelnikov, inventor and founder of Ten3 Business e-Coach has captured and discusses 10 Roles of an Inspirational Leader:
  • Provide and inspiring vision and strategic alignment, launch a crusade
  • Help people connect their personal goals to business goals
  • Make relentless innovation a religion
  • Encourage entrepreneurial creativity and experimentation
  • Involve everyone, empower and trust employees
  • Coach and train your people to greatness
  • Build teams and promote teamwork, leverage diversity
  • Motivate, inspire and energise people, recognise achievements
  • Encourage risk taking
  • Make business fun
• Dwight D Eisenhower defines leadership as “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

Let us all use the month of September to further develop our knowledge and competence on leadership, much needed in these complex economic times.

PS. pinpoint one’s comprehensive recruitment process encompasses the identification and assessment of leadership attributes….

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