Professional Career Services

Executive Search · Recruiting & Staffing
Truth index A
102Open roles93 posted in 30 days+32 this week
$27kMedian advertised pay$18k – $40k
25 daysTime to fillmedian of 48 closed rolesmarket: 32 days
A 100/100Truth index
Lately:+32 roles posted this weekFollow changes →

Facts

as of Nov 14, 2026

Professional Career Services is a South African recruitment agency based in Randburg, Johannesburg, that fills permanent and contract positions for client companies in engineering, finance, manufacturing, hospitality, law and IT. Its consultants run each search under a personal reference code and place candidates across Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, the Western Cape and Limpopo and Botswana, for employers ranging from law firms and underwriting agencies to mines, factories and game lodges. Current assignments include financial managers and accountants, quantity surveyors and structural engineers, production supervisors, compliance officers, conveyancing secretaries and hotel managers.

It is hiring: 102 open roles, 93 of them posted in the last 30 days.

Headquarters
Randburg, South Africa
Founded
1983
Employees
51-200estimated range
Open roles
102 in 10 citiesAlion job postings
Website
pcs-sa.co.za

As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 102 open roles at Professional Career Services. Professional Career Services is headquartered in Randburg, South Africa. It was founded in 1983. The median pay stated in its open roles is $25k, across 56 postings that state pay.

Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake

Trust

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What the registers and the postings say about this employer.

Postings are real
Alion truth index: A
100/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Domain in use
pcs-sa.co.za: first seen in registries and web archives
since 1999
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices

Hiring

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Hiring at full speed: most open roles are fresh.

Industrial Engineering is the largest family, 20 of open roles.

93Posted in 30 days90% of open roles are fresh
4%Remote roles4 of 103
7Roles in AI7% of open roles
10Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Closed for your country
None of 3 remote postings in the last year included United States
South Africa171On site
Remote, from elsewhere4Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 4.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Professional Career Services25 days
Market, same roles32 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand32
Pay9
Your chance11
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Are the postings real?
A
100 / 100Professional Career Services scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 25 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale0%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Industrial Engineering20▲
Field & Service19▲
Operations13▲
Sales10▲
Finance8▲
Hospitality7▲
Newest roles
RB 19856 - Robot Programmer (Welding) - Pretoria
$14k – $16k per year (gross) · In office · Full-Time · Randburg
RB 19856 - Robot Programmer (Welding) – Pretoria
In office · Full-Time · Pretoria
TJ 19739 - SENIOR SYSTEMS SUPPORT TECHNICIAN
$21k – $32k per year (gross) · In office · Full-Time · Randburg
Experience asked: 5.1 years on average, in 31 postings.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Flexible schedule22%
Life insurance11%
Contract type
Full-Time 98Contract 3Internship 1
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
View 102 jobsRoles matching my profile
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family

Pay

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What its postings pay, by level.

$27kMedian
$18k – $40kTypical rangeUSD a year
$800kHighest paying roleVJ 19797 - Senior Bulk Material Handling Site Supervisor (Secunda) - 18 Month Contract
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked
Middle4$18k$18k – $25k
Senior13$33k$18k – $51k
$0$25k$50k$75k$100k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year

Footprint

Hiring in 10 cities in 1 country.

10Cities
1Countries
RandburgBusiest site
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SiteTypeOpen rolesHires most forEngineering
Randburg South AfricaNot classified43Industrial Engineering, Sales, Operations5%
Johannesburg South AfricaNot classified39Field & Service, Industrial Engineering, Finance8%
Durban South AfricaNot classified4Hardware, Legal, Sales25%
Cape Town South AfricaNot classified4Field & Service, Customer Success, Hospitality0%
Vereeniging South AfricaNot classified2Finance, Operations0%
Pretoria South AfricaNot classified1Finance0%
Gqeberha South AfricaNot classified1Field & Service0%
Sandton South AfricaNot classified1Sales0%
All 10 offices
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Professional Career Services over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.

27Technologies in use
47Postings analysed
65/100Stack modernity
LanguagesSQL 13%Python 9%C# 6%C++ 2%Java 2%
Frameworks & librariesWPF 4%
DatabasesMS SQL 4%
Cloud & platformsPower BI 11%.NET 4%Sophos 4%Windows 4%Windows Server 4%Azure DevOps 2%Tableau 2%Azure 2%
Developer toolsMicrosoft Excel 51%AutoCAD 19%Git 4%Canva 2%SolidWorks 2%
Practices & domainsDNS 9%DHCP 4%ETL/ELT 4%HPC 4%Wi-Fi 4%Computer Vision 2%GD&T 2%
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site

Milestones

1983
Founded
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press