Top Recruitment & Staffing Websites in South Africa

Key Insights on Top Recruitment & Staffing Websites in South Africa on May 2026

As of May 2026, pnet.co.za leads Recruitment & Staffing in South Africa with 2.01M monthly visits. Its audience skews mobile-first (33.4% desktop / 33.4% mobile), and traffic is up month over month 14.07% and up year over year 5.15%. mcidirecthire.com holds second with 886.91K visits and a mobile-leaning mix (29.46% desktop / 70.54% mobile), while executiveplacements.com ranks third with 474.62K visits.

Across the leaders, aldirecruitment.ie is the most mobile-first (100% of visits), whereas enhancv.com is the most desktop-reliant (100%). Momentum favors tesco-careers.com in the latest month (2,848.17%), while zajob.com shows the steepest pullback.

Acquisition patterns also differ: pnet.co.za is driven primarily by search, pnet.co.za by direct, and pnet.co.za by referral; overall, 81 of the top 100 sites are direct-led, 8 are search-led, and 10 lean on social.

These insights come from the Traffic & Market Toolkit, enriched with extensive clickstream data.

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