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About Ferreira & Associates

We will not stop until we find the right leader – this is what we do best.

Over the years of our collective experience we have conducted over 250 000 interviews and made more than 26 000 international placements, which is unparalleled in South Africa.

From this extensive knowledge emerged our belief that the time is right for a fresh approach to executive search. Throughout the assignment and beyond, our clients and candidates are guaranteed complete discretion as well as the informed perspective and guidance they value to move the process toward successful completion.

Every first contact with us is the start of a long-term relationship forged of trust, professionalism and respect. Each conversation with our team is grounded in our steadfast commitment to help clients achieve their business goals and our desire to help candidates effectively navigate their leadership careers.

Our deep experience sourcing candidates from and recruiting talent executives to South Africa and across the continent gives us a decided advantage in tapping the richly diverse South African talent market.

We can deliver results surprisingly fast because of our market knowledge and access to superior management candidates across a broad range of industries.

Our commitment to clients is clear and simple: We will not stop until we find the right candidate. And we keep our word – always.

  • ‘ A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts ’ – Sir Richard Branson, self-made billionaire, entrepreneur

  • ‘ In the current state of the world I believe that we must recommit humanity to a vision of shared destiny and collective effort for a better future ’ – Reuel Khoza, Author of Attuned Leadership: African Humanism as Compass
  • ‘ All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well ’ – Patrice Motsepe, Chairman African Rainbow Minerals & leading SA mining entrepreneur
  • ‘ I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it ’ – Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize winner, former South African President
  • ‘ Leadership is ultimately about having the ability to inspire others. Inspiration comes from within and one is able to do this when there is motivation, maturity and personal satisfaction ’ – Christine Ramon, Among SA’s Top Woman in Leadership, WEF Young Global Leader
  • ‘ The success to getting to greatness is to start charting a course to that future in which our children will be able to live ’ – Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, South African Businesswoman and Author
  • ‘ The way you achieve the best long-term value is by building real value in the world… if we can do that, I don’t think we’ll have a hard time making a lot of money ’ – Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder & one of the world’s youngest billionaires
  • ‘ Diversity is the art of thinking independently together ’ – Malcolm Forbes, Publisher of Forbes magazine
  • ‘ We created competitive advantage by changing the rules of the game ’ – Laurie Dippenaar, Co-founder FirstRand