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The Source International · South Africa & Europe

The Source of your next great hire.

South Africa Europe

We source hard-to-find talent for European and South African employers.

Ten years of recruitment across South Africa and Europe. A high-touch, quality-first approach to finding the people your competitors can't.

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Recruitment that is built around you.

We don't run volume. We don't work on every role that comes in. We work selectively — on the searches where we can genuinely add value — and we put the same depth of effort into every one.

You get one point of contact from brief to placement. The person who takes your brief is the person doing the search. No handoffs, no broken telephone, no junior sourcer handling the role you briefed to a senior.

And because we're not chasing a commission on every role in our pipeline, we're free to be honest with you — about the market, the brief, and what's realistic.

The brief
We take time to understand your business, your team, and what the role actually demands — not just the job description.
The search
We go beyond LinkedIn. Communities, networks, platforms and direct outreach — sourced with intent, not volume.
The result
A focused shortlist of people who are genuinely right for the role — not just available and roughly qualified.

Does any of this sound familiar?

These are the situations we hear most often from clients before they work with us.

01
Are you managing multiple open roles at once and running out of bandwidth to give each one the attention it needs?
02
Has a role been open for longer than a month — and the right person still hasn't come through?
03
Are you getting applications but nobody relevant — people who look right on paper but clearly aren't?
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Is this a role where the right person isn't actively looking — and a job ad alone isn't going to find them?
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Are you building a team from scratch and need hiring support without the overhead of a full internal recruitment function?

Four steps. Zero surprises.

The process is straightforward by design. You know the fee before we start. There are no hidden costs, no mid-search renegotiations, and no percentage waiting at the end.

1
Tell us what you're hiring

Share the brief — the role, the team, the context, and what success actually looks like. We'll ask the questions that matter.

2
We scope the search and agree the fee

We assess the complexity, the market conditions, and the work involved — then propose a transparent flat fee. Agreed before we start. No percentage. No surprises.

3
We run the recruitment

LinkedIn, job boards, social media, community groups, direct networks and more. Sourcing across all channels — presenting only people who are genuinely aligned to your brief.

4
You hire

A focused shortlist of properly briefed, genuinely aligned candidates. You make the decision. The fee doesn't change based on who you choose.

Relentless by design.

Ten years of recruitment across South Africa, the UK and Europe. A BA in Industrial and Organisational Psychology. A deep belief that the right hire is never just a CV match — it's someone aligned in values, motivation and timing. We are intentionally structured to give each search the depth it deserves.

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Quality over volume

We take the time to understand your business, your team, and what the role actually demands — because that's what allows us to present people who truly align. Not just on paper. In mindset and ambition.

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We look where others don't

LinkedIn is a starting point. We go further — into communities, social platforms, direct networks and passive talent pools. We treat every search like detective work, following every lead until we find the right person.

03
Partnership, not transactions

We don't just approach talent — we engage them. We bring your business to life through storytelling, creating a narrative that makes the right people want to join before they've even met you.

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Relentless by design

We aim for the top tier and explore every avenue. This depth is only possible because we are structured to give each search the time and attention it deserves — not split across a pipeline of contingent roles we're hoping will close.

Questions we always get.

The most common questions — answered honestly.

The fee is scoped based on the complexity of the role, the depth of search required, the market conditions, and the seniority of the hire. We assess the work involved in finding the right person — not the salary they'll be offered. Once we understand your brief, we'll propose a fee and explain what it covers. You agree before we start, and it doesn't change.
The full recruitment process — from brief to shortlist. This includes search strategy, multi-channel sourcing across LinkedIn, job boards, social media, community groups and direct networks, candidate assessment, shortlisting, briefing candidates on your role, and managing the process through to your hiring decision.
It's not cheaper — it's fairer. A percentage fee is inflated to account for the risk an agency takes working unpaid until a placement is made. Our flat fee reflects the actual work involved in the search, without that risk premium built in. For senior roles in particular, the difference can be significant — because the complexity of the search doesn't scale linearly with what the candidate earns.
Our flat-fee model isn't for every business — and we understand that. For clients who prefer a success-linked structure, we offer an alternative: a smaller initiation fee to commence the search, followed by the balance upon successful placement. This acknowledges the work involved upfront and still gives you the reassurance of paying the majority when the outcome is delivered. We'd rather find a structure that works than turn away a search we believe in.
Two guarantees. Three-month replacement: if the placed candidate leaves within three months, we replace them. First-shortlist refund: if the first shortlist we deliver completely misses the brief we agreed on — not a close miss, but a genuine miss — we refund in full. The flat fee is also agreed and fixed before the search begins — it does not change mid-search.
Our target is to deliver a first shortlist within a few working days of the brief being agreed and the search commencing. The timeline depends on the complexity of the role and the market — but speed without quality is not the goal. You'll receive candidates we can defend, not candidates rushed through to hit an arbitrary deadline.
Yes. We specialise by the type and complexity of the search, not by sector. We work across tech, fintech, professional services, retail, logistics, manufacturing, healthcare and more — across Commercial, Operations, Product, Engineering, Leadership and Technical disciplines. Startup to enterprise, South Africa and Europe.
The person you brief is the person doing the work. There is no handoff to a junior sourcer after the kickoff call, no broken telephone between brief and execution. One point of contact, from first conversation to final shortlist.

Tell us what you're hiring.

Share the brief and we'll come back with a transparent flat fee for the search. No obligation. No percentage. Just a clear answer on what the recruitment will cost — before we begin.