CV of speaker – Gavin Buys

Gavin has extensive HR development consulting experience with many national and multinational client-companies on various projects, including competency-gap analyses; organisational surveys; business competency audits; HR systems design; job design; job evaluation and grading; competency-based HR systems; employee development processes; response handling & recruitment; industrial relations; employment equity; skill development; assessment of employees(including identification of employee potential; career development; assessment centres; performance management; leadership identification; driver profiles; literacy skills evaluation); job and competence profiling.; Training & Development of employees.

Gavin’s professional profile as a HR Development Practitioner:- he has varied experience (14 years) in the areas of management and supervisory development; soft skills training and HSE (Health, Safety & Environmental) training.

Gavin is an accredited Subject Matter Expert and Learning Programme Evaluator with the Freight Handling Chamber of TETA (Transport Education Training Authority).

Prior to consulting, Gavin held management positions in areas of Occupational Health & Safety; HR Development; Organisation Development; Generalist Human Resources; Employee Relations as well as Retail Management for large national and multinational organisations.