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Graduate employer of choice 2020
orking actively towards making an engineered impact in the communities it serves,
and cocreating complete solutions in collaboration with its clients, resulted in Zutari
Wtaking first place in the Professional Services: Consulting Engineering category as a
preferred graduate employer at the GradStar Students’ Choice Awards 2020.
“This is testament to our strategy of incorporating different skills, backgrounds and
experience to allow us to thrive as a business. While we always work as a team, we allow space
for each other’s differences, while building the trust needed to achieve shared goals,” comments
Dean Naidoo, the company’s chief “people officer”.
For the past five years, BlackBark Productions’ GradStar Awards have identified the most
employable tertiarylevel students. September saw the announcement of the Top100 Students of
2020 and also the “Ten of the Finest”. Last year the students were also asked to list their top five
preferred employers. After receiving almost 5000 responses and over 23 000 unique answers,
the GradStar Students’ Choice Awards 2020 were selected. The winners were announced in a
Modlay Davids
webinar hosted in November 2020.
Zutari participates in career events at all key universities to engage with students about services for studies towards relevant
graduate opportunities, as well as hosting vacation work programmes aimed at providing diplomas and degrees.
students with practical work experience during university holidays, aligned with the students’ “The successful development of our
fields of study and university requirements. young professionals provides Zutari with
“The future of our business relies on the education and skills of tomorrow’s leaders, and the next generation of leaders and technical
therefore we invest heavily in our emerging talent programme to attract top talent and build our experts who embody the values, culture and
future leadership pipeline,” explains Zutari’s Emerging Talent Recruitment Partner Modlay Davids. behaviours of our organisation,” concludes
To support this pipeline, Zutari funds 44 undergraduate bursars in civil, mechanical, Davids. Zutari employees work in
electrical and electronics, mechatronics, chemical and industrial engineering at leading multidisciplinary, multisector and
universities, including the University of Cape Town, Stellenbosch University, University of multicultural teams that pool their skills
Pretoria and the University of the Witwatersrand. A total of 75% of all bursars are black and expertise across Africa and its design
candidates and 43% are female. Zutari’s total bursary spend represents an investment in centre locations. n
education of more than R4million a year.
In addition, Zutari partners with the Western Cape Department of Transport and Public Contact Rashree Maharaj,
Works through the Masakh’iSIzwe Bursary Programme to address skills shortages in Tel: 012 427-2000,
transport, engineering and the built environment by providing bursaries and related support rashree.maharaj@zutari.com
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