Facts
as of Nov 15, 2026
Founded in 1981, Communicate Recruitment (operating as a division of ADvTECH Resourcing) is a human resources consulting and recruitment enterprise. Headquartered in Johannesburg (Sunninghill), South Africa, with regional offices nationwide, the company specializes in specialist talent acquisition across finance, IT, digital, and engineering sectors. By combining niche sector expertise and comprehensive candidate vetting - including qualification, background, and credit verification - with permanent, contract, and temporary placement models, the organization enables commercial enterprises, multinational corporations, and job seekers across South Africa and the African continent to fill specialized technical roles, accelerate executive search, and optimize human capital management.
It is hiring: 371 open roles, 144 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 16% above the market estimate for the same roles.
- Headquarters
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Founded
- 1981
- Employees
- 201-500estimated range
- Open roles
- 371 in 8 citiesAlion job postings
- Website
- communicate.co.za
As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 371 open roles at Communicate Recruitment. Communicate Recruitment is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was founded in 1981. The median pay stated in its open roles is $42k, across 186 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: D
42/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
83%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Domain in use
communicate.co.za: first seen in registries and web archives
since 1997
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Domain and mail securitycommunicate.co.za · Nov 14, 2026
Spoofed mail (DMARC)
Spoofed mail is rejected
Good
Who may send its mail (SPF)
Other senders soft-fail (~all)
Good
HTTPS certificate
Valid certificate · Let's Encrypt
Good
HTTPS enforced (HSTS)
Enforced
Good
Security contact (security.txt)
No security.txt
Weak
Encrypted mail delivery (MTA-STS)
No MTA-STS policy
Weak
Signed DNS (DNSSEC)
Not signed
Weak
Certificate issuers (CAA)
Any authority may issue certificates
Weak
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices The domain: its DNS records, its site's headers and certificate.
Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.
Finance is the largest family, 43 of open roles.
144Posted in 30 days39% of open roles are fresh
<1%Remote roles2 of 372
8Roles in AI2% of open roles
8Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Closed for your country
None of 1 remote postings in the last year included United States
South Africa544On site
Remote, from elsewhere2Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 2.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Communicate Recruitment7 days
Market, same roles31 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand31
Pay29
Your chance7
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 21This week
Open roles a week: 55 then, 0 now
Are the postings real?
D
42 / 100Communicate Recruitment scores D on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 217 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 83% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 90% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 7 days.
Ghost roles83%
Gone stale0%
Reposted90%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Finance43▼
Industrial Engineering15
Backend5▲
Marketing5▲
Field & Service4▲
Hardware4
Newest roles
Head of Product$89k – $101k per year (gross) · In office · Full-Time · Cape Town
Product Manager$50k – $53k per year (gross) · In office · Full-Time · Cape Town
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 97%Master's Degree 3%
Experience asked: 4.3 years on average, in 248 postings. 110 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Continuous learning92%
Growth opportunities62%
Hybrid work41%
Flexible schedule21%
Life insurance21%
Equity10%
Contract type
Full-Time 360Contract 11
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
Pays 16% above the market estimate for the same roles.
$42kMedianmarket estimate $37k
$29k – $61kTypical rangeUSD a year
$873kHighest paying roleCivil Engineer (PR Technologist)
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $37k
Junior25$29k$22k – $36k
Middle47$36k$29k – $46k
Senior67$52k$37k – $72k
Staff+7$60k$25k – $91k
Lead6$74k$72k – $79k
Head+4$91k$42k – $96k
$0$38k$75k$113k$150k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Footprint
Hiring in 8 cities in 1 country.
8Cities
1Countries
JohannesburgBusiest site
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Communicate Recruitment over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
142Technologies in use
316Postings analysed
86/100Stack modernityAI adopter
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
Jul 312026
Blog
For most of the past decade, the story about South African engineering talent was one of surplus in some places and shortage in others, with the shortages easy enough to work aro…
Jul 312026
Blog
The South African tech job market has spent the past few years in a kind of awkward middle position. Global retrenchments made headlines, hiring slowed, and the confident narrati…
Jul 62026
Blog
Are we really ready to trust our universities with your AI skills pipeline?
Africa does not have an AI problem. It has an AI readiness problem.
Yes, the…
Jul 62026
Blog
If AI can produce reports faster, generate forecasts quicker, and surface insights in seconds, what exactly should your finance team be hired to do next?
It's a fai…
May 42026
Blog
"There's a clear move away from purely 'crunching numbers' towards roles where they can actively impact the business."
Finance is being asked to do more. It is expe…
May 42026
Blog
In the world of AI, remaining human still wins. Every. Time.
AI has obviously entered the job search.
We can clearly see that your CVs are being rewritten…
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once
