About e-Merge
The Secret to Salary Negotiations
Most people think getting the job offer is the biggest hurdle of your job search. In truth, the biggest hurdle is actually getting the right package from the right company. For a software developer, as with many other careers; finalising an offer that combines your...
What Do Developers Want?
Over and above a salary, there are certain things a developer needs - we all have needs. If you haven’t asked yourself yet, ‘what do developers want?’, can you actually attract the talent and skills that your company needs? At e-Merge, we are big on matching...
What Happens When Candidates Don’t Get Interview Feedback?
Legally no potential employer is required to offer candidates feedback but in all honesty its just the polite thing to do. So what happens when you don’t give candidates interview feedback? Sure, as the HR or hiring manager, you may run a pretty tight schedule and...
The Worst Career Advice Ever
Everyone has been at that place where you have been given so much career advice, you simply do not know whether you are coming or going. The biggest problem when you are just entering your career is what advice to take and what advice to completely ignore. Whether you...
Why You Should Never Miss an Interview
There comes a day in every recruiter’s life when a candidate simply doesn’t arrive for an interview. We get it, life happens but seldom is there sufficient reason for not getting hold of us or the person responsible for attending your interview. Of course, car...
Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Ask in an Interview
There is something absolutely essential that we tend to overlook when it comes to interviews. It’s simple but it can have a massive impact on your career; ask questions; interview the interviewer. Don’t walk into an interview with your tail between your legs and your...
Hiring Skilled Developers: Taking Risks Versus Mitigating Risks
There are so many aspects to the contentious subject of the skills shortage in South Africa. We sometimes hear of candidates; skilled developers, being declined for what we see as rather silly reasons. When a candidate is a top-of-the-pile developer what really is the...
How to Use LinkedIn to Get Noticed
There are millions of South Africans and thousands of developers using LinkedIn to boost their professional profiles, is it worth the effort or is it online snake-oil? If you aren’t sure, it’s probably time you learned how to use LinkedIn. We decided to delve into the...
What to do When You Lose Your Job
Losing your job isn’t an easy thing to recover from especially if you are a skilled developer. You have worked hard to hone your craft but things didn’t quite go as planned. So your mind runs and you start to worry if you will ever code again. Take a deep breath, you...
A Few of the Greatest Programmers of All Time
Fame, notoriety, notability – it’s all relative. Besides a few very prominent names, like the Bill Gateses and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world, there aren’t exactly what one could call celebrity programmers, and most people really don’t care who invented the internet,...
What Happens When You Lie on Your CV?
There comes a point in everyone’s life where the market is tough, you’re new to your field or you’re just down on your luck and no one is responding to your job applications. Even though developers are in demand, a job search is by no means a walk in the park. Adding...
Why You Shouldn’t Accept a Counter Offer
Every now and then we have a developer who accepts a counter offer. It’s definitely not the norm, but it happens. It’s also easy to understand why. The problem is this; while money plays a very big role in the job selection process, it's not...
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