{"id":525228,"date":"2021-09-30T16:47:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T14:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=525228"},"modified":"2021-09-30T16:47:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T14:47:19","slug":"capitec-is-on-a-hiring-drive-for-500-jobs-heres-what-they-are-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/525228\/capitec-is-on-a-hiring-drive-for-500-jobs-heres-what-they-are-looking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitec is on a hiring drive for 500 jobs &#8211; here\u2019s what they are looking for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capitec Bank chief executive officer Gerrie Fourie says the bank is still looking to fill hundreds of positions at the company &#8211; ranging from graduates to senior positions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to BusinessTech following the bank&#8217;s financial results on Thursday (30 September), Fourie said that there are 500 vacancies across the group that need to be filled.<\/p>\n<p>He said that around 200 of these positions are in call centres and branches, with the bank still maintaining a strong physical presence.<\/p>\n<p>However, he noted that there has been a steady shift from Capitec towards digital in recent years, with the bank now specifically looking to fill tech positions in emerging fields such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Fourie said that South Africa faces a skills shortage in several areas, and some of the job roles are proving challenging to fill. Specific openings that Capitec has been looking to fill in recent months include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business analysts;<\/li>\n<li>Developers;<\/li>\n<li>Analyst developers;<\/li>\n<li>Data engineers;<\/li>\n<li>Scientists;<\/li>\n<li>BI analysts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find the full list of vacancies\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.capitecbank.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vaccines and working from home\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fourie also confirmed that Capitec was firmly in favour of Covid-19 vaccines &#8211; but would not follow the steps of other companies, such as Discovery, in making vaccines mandatory for staff.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Fourie said the focus would be on the company&#8217;s strong corporate culture, with employees encouraged to get vaccinated as part of a return to the office to prevent further waves and get back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that Capitec was still using an alternating work-from-home model, with around 60% of the company&#8217;s employees in the office, while 40% are working from home at any given time.<\/p>\n<p>This aligns with the country&#8217;s other major banks, which are planning a permanent shift in their workforce structure. In July, Nedbank said it would also be introducing a 60\/40 split and consolidating its real estate portfolio in line with the change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nedbank has been on a journey over the past few years, rethinking its operating model and ways of working to keep up with the changing world and world of work,&#8221; said Deb Fuller, group executive of Human Resources.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Subsequently, Nedbank has gradually introduced new Ways of Work and incorporated flexible work practices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Standard Bank chief executive Sim Tshabalala says that the bank is also set to keep a work-from-home strategy in place for much of the next year. Standard Bank forecasts that the country&#8217;s vaccination rollout will gain momentum in the coming months, enabling more employees to return to normal working.<\/p>\n<p>However, Tshabalala said that the bank, which employs more than 45,000 people, will continue working on a hybrid basis in 2022.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/525074\/capitec-reports-continued-recovery-on-expanded-digital-offerings-and-strong-customer-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capitec reports continued recovery on expanded digital offerings and strong customer growth<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitec Bank chief executive officer Gerrie Fourie says the bank is still looking to fill hundreds of positions, in jobs ranging from positions for graduates to senior professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":307578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[1798,26],"class_list":["post-525228","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\/525228","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=525228"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525388,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525228\/revisions\/525388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}