Market Intelligence

Our market intelligence service provides contextual insight that goes beyond CVs, job descriptions, and salary data.

It draws on long-standing, hands-on involvement in South Africa’s renewable energy sector and is used to support better judgement in hiring, bidding, and risk management.

For long-standing clients, we provide context and insight on candidates they have sourced independently, where we are not the party introducing the individual.

Because the renewable energy market is relatively small and project-based, professionals often reappear across multiple projects, employers, and delivery environments. In many cases, candidates are already known to us through prior searches, previous processes, or broader market exposure.

Where appropriate, this allows us to provide informed context on:

– how a candidate is perceived in the market

– patterns observed across previous roles or projects

– delivery, behavioural, or reputational considerations not evident on a CV

This insight is framed as context, not opinion, and shared responsibly to help clients avoid unintended hiring risk.

For long-standing clients, this forms part of our broader market-intelligence advisory.

For others, it is available as a standalone, paid service.

Market intelligence is provided both:

– reactively, where clients request insight on specific candidates, roles, or situations

– proactively, where we flag potential risks or considerations based on role context or market dynamics

This is particularly valuable where a candidate’s prior success may not translate cleanly into a different operating environment.

Market intelligence also supports bid strategy and risk-adjusted pricing, particularly for Owners Engineers.

Through close market involvement, we may have confirmed knowledge of project stakeholders ahead of public disclosure, or high-confidence insight where appointments are not yet formalised.

Understanding who key delivery parties are — and their track record — allows organisations to account for:

– programme certainty and extension risk

– compliance and safety exposure

– the level of oversight and intervention required

This enables more deliberate pricing and risk management at bid stage, rather than discovering exposure once a project is underway.

Market intelligence is offered as a standalone advisory service, or as part of ongoing advisory relationships with long-standing clients. It is also included where retained search or exclusivity applies.

With Contingency recruitment this is a paid service.

Scope, use, and confidentiality are agreed upfront.