The best South African recruitment agencies for overseas jobs
1. FreedomJobs (our platform)
FreedomJobs offers vetted international remote job listings for South Africans. It is the only international remote jobs platform on the internet. This means you can find work-from-home jobs with UK, US and European companies. FreedomJobs values transparency and authenticity, verifying the legitimacy of every job posting.
- Exclusivity: Exclusively for South Africans. Yep.
- Premium experience: Offers hand-picked, high-quality job postings that are regularly updated.
- Currency: Get paid in USD, EU and GBP.
- Local presence: South African founding team located in Cape Town and London.
- No scams: All jobs are genuine and checked.
Candidate? Browse our jobs here
Join our talent pool: Submit your CV here
Employer seeking talented South Africans? Look at our advertising/recruiting options here
2. RecruitMyMom
RecruitMyMom is a women-owned recruitment agency that focuses on economic empowerment of women. Although they offer flexible work arrangements they are not primarily a remote job board and offer few international remote roles and they exclude men.
3. Crossover
Crossover provides remote product management jobs for US companies, focusing on tech roles. Their compensation model is generally performance-based which can be disheartening considering that they have high expectations and tough assessments.
4. Remote Recruitment
Remote Recruitment regularly updates their job listings, helping South African job seekers navigate remote jobs. Users have reported to proceed with caution when sharing personal data as there is no response after submitting applications, possibly indicating data harvesting. Also their jobs are not international remote jobs, just remote jobs in South Africa.
5. VirtualStaffSA
VirtualStaffSA is a remote-first talent pool for South Africans. With a lack of public feedback and hidden ownership, it reduces the legitimacy and transparency of the company. With their own blog post covering the topic of “How To Spot Scam Remote Jobs Online” it could indicate that they are aware of how untrustworthy remote jobs in the region are.
6. Talenteum
Talenteum promotes itself as a remote-staffing platform that connects companies with remote professionals from Africa in general. This includes handling employment contracts, payroll, compliance with local laws and paying salaries in the employee’s local currency. It is not user friendly for freelancers looking for a job board, but rather caters to companies looking for remote employees.
7. OfferZen
OfferZen mainly focuses on developers and tech professionals in South Africa with most of their demand being on-site roles. You should not rely on OfferZen for stable international remote work as the majority of their positions seem to remain local.
8. FreshTalent
FreshTalent connects global companies with pre-vetted remote professionals with a top 3% acceptance rate across industries. With a lack of public feedback and hidden ownership, it reduces the legitimacy and transparency of the company making it difficult to verify their acceptance rate.
9. Adcorp
Adcorp is a large workforce-solutions company that helps with staffing across many industries. Their main focus is not remote work, but rather focuses on traditional hired jobs. There have been reports of poor management, wage issues allegations, lack of benefits and job security concerns. Additionally they have warned the public of scammers using Adcorp’s name to promote fraudulent jobs.