History / Leadership
Overview
Career 2000 has for over a decade specialised in the recruitment of Medical Device professionals in South Africa. With 15+ years of industry experience, Kim has had first hand experience meeting the needs of individuals and hiring managers, since the business started in 1997 in the Western Cape province. Providing superior customer service and recruiting top talent nationwide through our networking and innovative recruiting strategies. We also offer recruitment of individuals in the Pharmaceutical industry. Our speciality lies sourcing talent with experience in medical sales, management, marketing and executive staff in the health care market.
Kim Pennington - Professional Recruiter (business owner)
Since matriculating at Queens High School (Kensington), Kim spent eight years in corporate recruitment in Gauteng in the field of Abrasive Manufacturing and afterward, recruitment in Chemical Engineering. Next was "Randall Placements", a personnel agency Kim started in the Isando/Spartan suburbs, focusing her skill towards customers in and around this large industrial/office sector, recruiting staff to fill vacancies in all disciplines. A relocation to Cape Town forced a decision to open her next business. This time, Specialising in a niche market, hence the focus on placing Medical Sales Representatives today.
Over the past years, Kim has successfully managed to achieve her goal of positioning Career 2000 in the Western Cape market. A forward thinking, top agency, where all efforts have been guided by her previous experience as a personnel officer and innovator.
"Selecting Employees - Targeted Selection"
All managers want to be successful. To do so they must first select good employees. Later they must train them, lead them, manage their work, create a rewarding work environment, and see that they are properly compensated. All these responsibilities are very important, but all FAIL if the first step is not taken.
"The first step in maintaing a productive organisation is employing top quality people..."
The old saying: "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear" applies to many situations. Some employees will never be effective no matter how much training they receive.
TARGETED SELECTION is used as a screening tool when assessing skill sets for customers.
In TARGETED SELECTION Career 2000 is trained to use what they can understand best about applicants - their behaviours, actions, accomplishments and past experiences. As a result, applicants are evaluated on their own merits. Career 2000 finds out in the interview what an applicant has done in the past. Once this is known, we can accurately predict the skill, behaviour, decisions and actions the applicant will probably repeat in the future. Resulting in the applicants with the best chance of being successful being offered the position(s).
Your worth is what makes an employer want to hire you - Your worth is determined by the value that you offer the employer - An employer cannot extract value from you - You must offer it - You can only offer value if know what is valuable to the employer. What is valuable to the employer? Profit, it is the only certainty that enables us to survive and work - and succeed - yet another day !