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# 

## Breadcrumbs

- [HR & Talent](/categories/hr-talent)
- [Shortlist](/shortlist)

## Summary

Executive search and youth workforce programs across Africa

A Kenya-headquartered human capital firm founded in 2015, providing executive search and workforce innovation programs for employers, donors, governments, and impact organizations.

## Product details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://shortlist.net/ |
| Tagline | Executive search and youth workforce programs across Africa |
| Primary country | Kenya |
| Platforms | Web |
| Average rating |  |
| Published reviews | 0 |
| Verified listing | No |

## About the product

Shortlist is a **human capital solutions firm** serving impactful and innovative employers that need leadership hiring and workforce programs across Africa.

Key capabilities include:
- **Executive search (Shortlist Search)** for **senior leadership** hiring in Africa and beyond, including full-time, fractional, and board-level roles, covering role definition, sourcing and market mapping, candidate engagement, interviewing support, compensation benchmarking, and offer negotiation.
- **Workforce innovation programs (Shortlist Futures)** that design and run **youth employment**, apprenticeships, and work-based learning initiatives with employers, donors, governments, and education institutions, including multi-country programs such as the **Mastercard Foundation Associates Program** (East Africa and Francophone West Africa).
- **Africa Climate Careers Network**, a web platform that aggregates **1,000+ green economy job openings** from **100+ companies** to mobilize talent for climate and clean energy careers.
- **Off-Grid Talent Initiative**, a completed program placing 400+ young professionals (52% women) into clean-energy roles across 10 African countries, delivered with the African Management Institute and funded through Carbon Trust's Transforming Energy Access platform.

Available on **Web**.

Target users include startups, NGOs, social impact organizations, multinationals, donors, governments, and enterprises hiring leaders or implementing youth employment and skills-to-jobs programs across African markets.

Founded in **2015** in Palo Alto, California, by co-founders including **Paul Breloff** (CEO), Shortlist expanded to Mumbai, India that same year and to **Nairobi, Kenya** in 2016, later adding offices in **Nigeria** and the UK (2022) and the US, **Mauritius**, **Senegal**, and the Philippines (2023). Its African operations run through the legal entity **Shortlist Professionals Limited**, registered in Mauritius.

## Features

- [HR & Talent](/categories/hr-talent): Category
- [B2B](/tags/b2b): Product feature or technology
- [Recruitment](/tags/recruitment): Product feature or technology
- [Skills Training](/tags/skills-training): Product feature or technology
- [Egypt](/countries/egypt): Market
- [Kenya](/countries/kenya): Market
- [Mauritius](/countries/mauritius): Market
- [Nigeria](/countries/nigeria): Market
- [Senegal](/countries/senegal): Market

## Related pages

- [Alternatives](/shortlist/alternatives)
- [Reviews](/shortlist/reviews)
- [Transparency](/shortlist/transparency)

## Access and citation

- [Canonical HTML page](https://liners.com/shortlist)
- [Markdown route index](/sitemap.md)
- [Agent access guide](/llms.txt)