{"id":307604,"date":"2019-03-29T14:47:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T12:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=307604"},"modified":"2019-03-29T14:47:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T12:47:24","slug":"capitec-is-targeting-hires-in-these-3-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/307604\/capitec-is-targeting-hires-in-these-3-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitec is targeting hires in these 3 areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capitec is currently bolstering its digital and IT staff as it plans for the future, says CEO Gerrie Fourie.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the bank&#8217;s results presentation on Thursday (28 March), Fourie said: &#8220;We are focusing on the future &#8211; we&#8217;ve created a digital value stream that is close to 180 people &#8211; just focussed on the development of new products and new digital streams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is not people focussed on maintaining the current infrastructure.&#8221; These people, he said, are creating new digital capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Fourie said that in the next 9-12 months, the bank will introduce a host of new products and services into the market.<\/p>\n<p>Capitec currently employs 13,774 people, adding 441 to the mix over the past year, while 2,124 staff were promoted to new or vacant positions over the same time period.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to BusinessTech in a telephonic interview, Fourie said that the bank is still hiring primarily in the following three areas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The IT space &#8211; <\/strong>He said that these hires are focussed on building a long-term strategy and building IT capabilities. &#8220;If you are running our volumes then you need to make certain you have the right infrastructure and you have the right capabilities,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In December we did 1.1 billion transactions on our IT systems so you need to support that. You also need this IT expertise for building in our branches.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Digital &#8211; <\/strong>Fourie said that the bank is looking to enhance its digital offerings and create new platforms where you can &#8216;plug in and plug out&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Machine learning and AI\u00a0 &#8211; <\/strong>Fourie said that Capitec is also hiring in the machine learning and AI space. &#8220;There are so many opportunities to use our data much better to enhance the client experience,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If we can hire 100 of these people we would hire them tomorrow.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fourie said that Capitec also has a standing relationship and shareholding with Praelexis, a machine-learning company based in Stellenbosch, highlighting its importance to the future of banking.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/307520\/capitec-is-adding-127000-new-customers-every-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Capitec is adding 127,000 new customers every month<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If we can hire 100 of these types of people we would hire them tomorrow,&#8221; said Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":122609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[1798,26],"class_list":["post-307604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-capitec","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307604"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308006,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307604\/revisions\/308006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}