Top Global Hiring Hubs

Top Global Hiring Hubs – Africa

A look at current and emerging hiring hubs on the African continent

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South Africa's population is one of the most highly educated in the region — over half of its inhabitants have received higher education at one of the country’s top universities. Additionally, South Africa has a vibrant startup scene and attractive tax incentives for international companies wanting to invest in the region. Companies can find skilled talent to assist them with research, tech roles, and digital marketing jobs.

Spotlight on South Africa

Major companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have seen the potential of the region as an emerging hiring hub, and have begun accessing the growing pool of highly skilled and educated tech workers. If your company is considering tapping into Africa for top tech professionals, G-P can help. We make it fast and easy for companies like yours to hire anywhere in the world, in minutes instead of months. We make it all possible with our fully compliant, market-leading global employment solution that allows us to find, hire, manage, and pay your ideal talent, regardless of location. Leave the legal and administrative complexities to us, so you can focus on scaling successfully.

Africa is gaining increasing momentum in the tech space.

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Three additional noteworthy Chilean talent hubs include:

Aside from an educated and motivated workforce, Chile is a fertile business ground for companies for the following reasons: 1. The nation shares trade agreements with 65 countries around the world, which comprise a USD 3 trillion dollar market. 2. Chile's IT sector growth is the third largest in all of Latin America. 3. Chile is home to approximately 150 tech companies and an additional 800 gaming and app-dedicated businesses.

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With a population of over 1 billion people and a fast-emerging tech scene, Africa has been steadily gaining recognition as a popular hiring hub. Here are some of Africa’s top hubs for hiring talent:

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Administrators, finance and HR professionals, construction workers, accountants, and engineers — these are just a few of the types of skilled professionals global companies wanting to hire in the region will find in Ghana. Not only is Ghana a mecca for companies looking to hire talented administrative, engineering, and construction professionals, but in mid 2021, global social media giant, Twitter, announced it would be opening its first-ever office in Africa – in Ghana. The region is brimming with talent, and companies building global teams are increasingly looking to Ghana as an emerging talent hub.

Ghana’s highly skilled talent pool

Home to the second-largest film industry in the world, and the fashion and tech hub of the entire continent, Nigeria is a recruitment hotspot for both national and global companies. According to the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), the region has been forecast to become the tech talent hub of Africa. The Director-General of the NITDA acknowledged Nigeria’s current global importance, and added that in the coming years, the country will look to adopt and incorporate AI, as well as become the global solution to the gap in tech talent. Companies wanting tech-savvy and educated professionals will find no shortage of film production and highly skilled tech workers in Nigeria — especially as the region is already home to 90 tech hubs.

Nigeria’s global reach

The tech hub was created as a collaborative space to connect entrepreneurs with investors, as well as to support over 450 startups — all of which are local to the region and employ highly skilled Kenyan professionals. Noted as an up-and-coming outsourcing hotspot for global companies, Kenya is climbing the ladder of East Africa’s technology ecosystem. Businesses looking for emerging tech workers will have a large pool to chose from in Kenya.

Nairobi, Kenya, has been making waves in the tech industry — with the establishment of the well-known tech hub iHub in 2010.

Eye on Kenya

Zanzibar, Tanzania, is fast becoming one of Africa’s go-to tech hubs, especially with the creation of the Silicon Zanzibar initiative — a project that aims to help the region become the chosen destination for global tech companies and their teams. In 2022, Daniel Yu, founder and CEO of B2B e-commerce platform Wasoko, one of the fastest growing businesses in Africa, moved operations to Zanzibar. Tanzania is home to a variety of tech professionals and startups, as well as tourism talent and agricultural workers.

Tanzania and the rise of Zanzibar

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South Africa

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It’s no wonder that mega companies such as Uber and Spotify have chosen Brazil as their base in Latin America.

Throughout all of Latin America, Chile ranks at the top of the list for entrepreneurship. In addition to offering its workers a fantastic opportunity to launch their own businesses, in 2017, Chile’s federal government increased its education budget by more than 20 percent, further strengthening its emerging workforce. Therefore, it’s no surprise that Santiago de Chile is nurturing talented and ambitious future local tech leaders and IT professionals that can be found in abundance to fill the following tech roles:

What about the talent?

Did we mention internet speed?

Brazil has the fifth-largest online population in the world, which means the country has made major improvements as far as internet speed and accessibility — 76 percent of the population has easy access to the internet. The country’s download speed ranks 35th in the world.

The capital city became a leading tech hub in the early 2000s due to a wave of successful local startups, including Mercado Libre, OLX, Despegar, and Globant. Buenos Aires offers: - A pool of over 115,000 software programmers. - The #1 ranked English-speaking workforce. - Tax incentives for tech companies.

Where are Brazil’s main talent hubs?

Rio de Janeiro

Belo Horizonte

São Paulo

There are 208 million people in Brazil, so where should companies focus their recruiting efforts to find the right candidate? The top talent hubs in Brazil include Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, and Belo Horizonte. All three cities boast a thriving and talented pool of tech professionals, and São Paulo is often referred to as the country’s “innovation powerhouse,” as it is home to more fintech startups than any other city in Latin America!

Córdoba

Traditionally known as a manufacturing, agricultural, and logistics hub, Córdoba has been quietly growing its own tech service industry. Today, there are nearly 400 IT companies based in the city of just over 1.5 million residents. Córdoba also offers: - Between 30 to 40 percent of Argentina’s software development exports. - Eight major universities in the province. - Similar time zone to the East Coast of the U.S.

Buenos Aires

Rosario

Rosario has grown from an agribusiness hub into a thriving technology metropolis, thanks to its six top-rated universities, including the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, (which has over 3,500 researchers.) Rosario is also home to: - Almost 80,000 university students. - Business focal point for Apex America, Globant, and IBM. -The Program for the Promotion of Science, Technology, and Innovation.

Mendoza

Mendoza is famous for its fresh produce and wine, but its growing tech industry makes it an attractive region for investment. It has become a benchmark for talent and creativity and stands out for its audiovisual production, gaming industry, software development, and graphic design sector. Mendoza prides itself on having: - Private and public programs to boost entrepreneurship. - Spanish IT firm Everis’ Latin America headquarters. - Local universities that work closely with the software development industry.

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