{"id":195232,"date":"2017-08-30T07:10:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T05:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=195232"},"modified":"2017-08-30T07:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T05:10:41","slug":"the-companies-where-south-african-students-most-want-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/195232\/the-companies-where-south-african-students-most-want-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"The companies where South African students most want to work"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South African Graduate Employers Association has published the winners of its 2017 SAGEA Employer Awards, naming the companies most favoured by South African students across 24 sectors.<\/p>\n

Launched in 2010, the survey is conducted on an annual basis to help SAGEA members to review the success of their graduate campaigns and help plan their future recruitment programmes.<\/p>\n

Research for the 2016 list took place between March and May 2016, using an online questionnaire, drawing 1,960 candidate responses.<\/p>\n

Each candidate was asked to name up to two organisations whom they felt had the best graduate programme in specific sectors or industry groups with which they were familiar.<\/p>\n

There were no\u00a0lists of organisations to choose from \u2013 their responses were entirely unprompted \u2013 to help ensure that\u00a0no preconceptions or assumptions were made regarding a predefined group of employers which\u00a0candidates may associate with specific sectors, SAGEA said.<\/p>\n

In the accountancy sector, PwC gained more than a fifth of the vote. Between them, Standard Bank, First National Bank and Nedbank gained more than three-fifths of the votes within the banking sector.<\/p>\n

The legal sector was very closely fought, with few votes separating the top three employers,\u00a0SAGEA said.<\/p>\n

Three organisations secured first place in two different sectors: Sasol gained the most votes in both the chemical & pharmaceutical and engineering or industrial sectors; Unilever secured the FMCG and manufacturing sectors; while Discovery was in first place for both the health and insurance sectors.<\/p>\n

Here are the companies South African students chose as the best (changes and new additions from 2016 in green):<\/p>\n

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Category<\/th>\nTop Company<\/th>\nRunners-up<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Accountancy<\/td>\nPwC<\/td>\nDeloitte, KPMG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Automotive<\/td>\nBMW<\/td>\nMercedes-Benz, VW<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Charity or voluntary<\/td>\nGift of the Givers<\/span><\/td>\nThe United Nations, UNICEF<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chemical and pharmaceutical<\/td>\nSasol<\/td>\nAspen, Unilever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Commercial and retail banking<\/td>\nStandard Bank<\/td>\nFNB, Nedbank<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Consulting (IT)<\/td>\nAccenture<\/td>\nDeloitte, KPMG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Consulting (Management)<\/td>\nBain & Company<\/span><\/td>\nMcKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Engineering or industrial<\/td>\nSasol<\/td>\nAnglo American, Eskom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fast-moving consumer goods<\/td>\nUnilever<\/td>\nProcter & Gamble, Tiger Brands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Health<\/td>\nDiscovery<\/td>\nMediClinic, Netcare<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Insurance<\/td>\nDiscovery<\/td>\nOld Mutual, Sanlam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Investment banking<\/td>\nInvestec<\/td>\nRMB, Allan Gray<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IT hardware or software<\/td>\nMicrosoft<\/td>\nGoogle<\/span>, IBM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Law<\/td>\nBowmans<\/span><\/td>\nWebber Wentzel, Norton Rose Fulbright<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leisure<\/td>\nSun International<\/td>\nTsogo Sun, Southern Sun<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Manufacturing<\/td>\nUnilever<\/td>\nSAB (ABInBev), Toyota<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Media<\/td>\nMedia24<\/td>\nSABC, Multichoice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mining and resources<\/td>\nAnglo American<\/td>\nAnglo Platinum, Sasol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Property<\/td>\nPam Golding<\/td>\nProperty24, Growthpoint<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Public sector<\/td>\nNational Treasury<\/td>\nSARS, Reserve Bank<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Retail<\/td>\nWoolworths<\/td>\nTFG, Shoprite<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telecommunications<\/td>\nVodacom<\/td>\nMTN, Telkom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Transport of logistics<\/td>\nImperial Logistics<\/td>\nTransnet, Barloworld<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Utilities<\/td>\nEskom<\/td>\nRand Water, Sasol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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