Call Centre Marketplace

South Africa's call-centretalent marketplace

One live marketplace connecting call-centre operators who need work-ready agents with South Africans who are pre-assessed and ready to start. Browse by province, connect directly — no middleman, no agency fees.

What we see across the industry is that hiring demand fluctuates. When volumes are manageable, internal teams cope perfectly well. When demand suddenly spikes, recruiters come under pressure, screening standards can slip, and time-to-fill starts taking priority over quality.

ShiftMate is designed to act as an additional sourcing channel during those periods — giving employers immediate access to candidates who have already been screened and assessed.

Every candidate pre-assessedFilter by provinceConnect directly — no middlemanNo agency fees
What it is

An always-on live talent pool for the contact centre industry.

Every day, South Africans get sourced, assessed and trained on our platform — then join one live, ranked pool of work-ready agents. Operators log in any time, browse pre-assessed talent filtered by province, and secure people for trial shifts directly. Open all year round, not a one-off event.

Two sides, one marketplace

Who it's for, and how it works.

Whether you run a contact centre or you're looking for call-centre work, getting started is simple, free, and takes minutes.

For operators

Hire work-ready agents, faster.

For any business that hires call-centre agents — BPOs and in-house contact centres alike (banks, insurers, retailers, telcos).

Get live access to a pool of pre-assessed candidates. Browse, filter by province, and book South African talent into your trial-shift slots — in real time.

  1. 1Register your operator account — free
  2. 2Browse the live pool, filter by province & score
  3. 3Book candidates for trial shifts — billed on account
For candidates

Get discovered by hiring operators.

For any South African looking for call-centre work — no experience needed.

Sign up free, complete your assessment, close the gaps with our free call-centre training, and stand out the moment operators start browsing.

  1. 1Sign up free — phone number, two minutes
  2. 2Complete your assessment + free training
  3. 3Join the live pool and get booked for trials
Sign up free
Free · No experience needed
How it works · AI · End-to-end

Tackling the industry's biggest bottleneck — end-to-end, at scale.

South Africa can't hire fast enough to match global demand — and the slowest part of the funnel is finding work-ready talent. We've built the entire pipeline ourselves, on one AI-powered platform, so the day a candidate is sourced and the day they walk on-site can be days apart, not months. No vendors, no hand-offs, no gaps.

01 · SOURCE
Talent Sourcing

AI-powered acquisition across WhatsApp, web, partner channels and grassroots outreach — meeting South African talent where they already are.

02 · ASSESS
AI Assessment

Multi-layer behavioural, cognitive, CRM-simulation and voice scoring — surfacing the potential operators can't see on a CV.

03 · TRAIN
Close the Gaps

Free, industry-specific call-centre training modules that close the exact gaps the assessment identifies — and re-test until candidates are work-ready.

04 · PLACE
Live Placement

Operators book trial shifts directly from a live, ranked talent pool — work-ready people on the floor in days, not months.

Source. Assess. Train. Place. One technology stack, built in South Africa, for the South African GBS industry — turning untapped potential into the world's best-prepared CX workforce.

The top profiles get snapped up fast.

Top South African operators log in to the live marketplace, browse pre-assessed candidates in real time, filter by province, and secure them for trial shifts — directly, with no middleman.

Browse · Book · Secure trial shifts

Join the marketplace.

Operators and candidates — pick your side and get started in minutes. It's free to join, on both sides.