Join us on 31 March at 6pm CET for a conversation about developer careers, professional growth and career change with LinkedIn and Jeremy Edberg, Creator of Netflix’ Chaos Monkey.
The post pandemic surge in tech hiring has created an apparent lack of senior tech talent in developed markets. Even as overall hiring slows, hiring managers continue struggling to fill their tech talent pipelines.
One way to address this challenge is tapping into new pools of high quality tech talent. Africa has a large pool of skilled developers who are remote-ready: 74% of engineering teams in Africa work remotely, and 43% of African developers want to work for global companies.
At our upcoming webinar with Playroll, we’re spotlighting African software developer talent and how remote is making this a viable talent pool for tech companies and startups (38% of African devs now work for a company outside the continent).
We’ll be unpacking:
He is CEO and co-founder of Grovest , one of the largest VC and small cap PE Fund manager and administrator on the African continent. The Grovest group includes MeTTa capital ,GoGetta, Rencell, Sunstone Capital, Pepperclub , Kalon Venture Partners amongst others. Jeff is a pioneer of Section 12J Venture Capital Companies in South Africa and has been an active member of various sub-committees of SAVCA and Simodisa, both of which focus their efforts on the South African Venture Capital industry. Jeff serves on the Board of the 12J Association of South Africa. Jeff is also an active member of the Young Presidents Organisation.
Deborah is OfferZen’s Head of Talent Acquisition who partners with businesses to set and drive the Global Talent Acquisition strategy for OfferZen. She has worked across all conceivable recruitment spheres from heading up the recruitment team at Alexander Forbes, being a partner in a small IT focused niche recruitment agency, as well as working with top key accounts running a recruitment desk at the likes of Adcorp & Advtech Group. In Deborah’s free time, she is cooking up a storm in the kitchen and enjoys beach walks with her gorgeous red-nose pitties.
Andrew is the CEO of Deimos, which is the Largest Google Cloud Partner in Africa. Deimos serves clients globally from an employee base of close to 100 people across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and is currently expanding recruiting in Rwanda, Uganda and other regions