Westlakes International Recruitment provides "more than just solutions!" when it comes to helping you find a job... 

Unlike other agencies we provide what we like to call "candidate care" to every single person that applies to us. We're here for you every step of the way! So send us your CV or your resume ASAP and let's help you find that job!!! Click here to contact us, submit an enquiry, or to request a call back. 

Westlakes? recruitment consultants are able to recruit with understanding and with purpose! Using three key strategies, we strive to ensure that we find you that dream job as soon as possible: Focus, cohesion, and simplicity!

We make sure that our team has COHESION such that there?s always more than one person keeping an ear to the ground for you!
 

We make sure that the main feature of our recruitment process is SIMPLICITY so that we can cut to the chase and get you placed!

We're making placements left, right & centre at the moment - regardless of the state of the economy! Whether you're coming to South Africa to explore new opportunities - or you're coming home... You may be permanently based in South Africa, or you may be looking to explore new opportunities abroad... Either way - we're here to help! So get in touch with us right now and let?s get going! Click here to contact us now.

Here is a list of roles we?ve either successfully placed, or that we?re currently recruiting for. The best way to find what you?re looking for is to get in contact with us. As you know, the job market is quite buoyant ? we get new jobs on a daily basis ? so get in touch right now and let?s find you that job! Click here to contact us, submit an enquiry, or to request a call back. 

Below, please find some explanatory notes on the area that you?re looking at. If you?d like more assistance, please don?t hesitate to give us a shout! Our consultants are knowledgeable and friendly, and are ready and waiting to help you find what you?re looking for! Click here to contact us, submit an enquiry, or to request a call back. 

In relation to a company or other formal organisation, a director is an officer (that is, someone who works for the company), charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. A director may be an executive director (a director who is also an officer or promoter or both) or a non-executive director, or independent, director. The directors collectively are referred to as a Board of Directors. Sometimes the board will appoint one of its members to be the chair or chairperson of the board of directors, traditionally also called chairman or chairwoman.

Theoretically, the control of a company is divided between two bodies: the board of directors, and the shareholders in general meeting. In practice, the amount of power exercised by the board varies with the type of company. In small private companies, the directors and the shareholders will normally be the same people, and thus there is no real division of power. In large public companies, the board tends to exercise more of a supervisory role, and individual responsibility and management tends to be delegated downward to individual professional executive directors (such as a finance director or a marketing director) who deal with particular areas of the company's affairs. 

Directors are traditionally divided into executive directors and non-executive directors. Broadly, executive directors tend to be persons who are dedicated full-time to their role in relation to the management of the company. Non-executive directors tend to be "outsiders" brought in for their expertise, and to lend a more impartial view in relation to strategic decisions. In practice, executive directors tend to dominate board meetings simply by virtue of their much greater familiarity with the company and its internal workings.

Because directors exercise control and management over the company, but companies are run (in theory at least) for the benefit of the shareholders, the law imposes strict duties on directors in relation to the exercise of their duties. The duties imposed upon directors are fiduciary duties, similar in nature to those that the law imposes on those in similar positions of trust: agents and trustees.

Historically, directors' duties have been owed almost exclusively to the company and its members, and the board was expected to exercise its powers for the financial benefit of the company. However, more recently there have been attempts to "soften" the position, and provide for more scope for directors to act as good corporate citizens. For example, in the United Kingdom, the Companies Act 2006, not yet in force, will require a director of a UK company "to promote the success of the company for the benefit of its members as a whole", but sets out six factors to which a director must have regards in fulfilling the duty to promote success. These are:

The need to foster the company?s business relationships with suppliers, customers and others;
 

The impact of the company?s operations on the community and the environment;
 

The desirability of the company maintaining a reputation for high standards of business conduct; and
 

This represents a considerable departure from the traditional notion that directors' duties are owed only to the company. 

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