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Top 5 Teamwork No-Nos
Sure enough, not all developers work in teams but those who do need to know how to navigate this tricky interpersonal minefield. Teamwork requires the ability to successfully draw on all of your soft skills for the greater good of the team. The most basic premise of...
The Top 5 Most Important Soft Skills for Developers
The term soft skills belittles the importance thereof. Soft skills aren’t quantifiable and they are only really learned through experience and even then there is an art to learning how to apply them. You can have as many programming certificates as your heart desires;...
How to Maintain Integrity in Your Job Search
The words integrity and ambition are rarely seen in the same sentence. The thing is, they don’t have to be mutually exclusive. There’s no need to be shady while you’re climbing the ladder and even less so when you’re looking for a job – unless you want to make enemies...
Are You Fighting Imposter Syndrome?
Previously we’ve discussed impostor candidates, people who speak themselves up to the point of deception. They call it the Dunning-Kruger effect and its far from an admired trait. The opposite of this however is known as the impostor syndrome. Marred by persistent...
Why Do Companies Ask You to Complete Pre-Interview Skills Tests?
It can be a time-consuming pain in the neck when companies ask you to complete a pre-interview test. Whether it’s a coding test or a psychometric test, many employers insist on testing candidates before seeing them so that they have a clearer picture of who you are...
Why Should You Complete Your Pre-Interview Skills Test?
Whether you are just starting out or you are a high calibre candidate, you are bound to be asked to complete a pre-interview skills test at some point when you are applying for jobs. If you’ve read the other blog post in this series, you will be well informed as to...
Mind the Afrilennial: Part Two, What’s Up With South African Millennials?
In case you missed it, our previous article on millennials took a more learned look at millennials than some of the sensationalist tabloid style drivel you are probably used to reading about millennials. There’s a lot more to generational theory than meets the eye and...
Mind the Millennial: Part One, What’s Up With Millennials?
The entire topic of generational theory is nothing short of political. It’s fraught with finger pointing and sly, snarky jabs and more than anything – misunderstanding. Millennials are not the enemy, lack of change however is. Born between 1980ish and mid 1990ish,...
Avoid the Robot Recruiter
There is a certain approach to recruitment which just really gives recruiters a bad name. It’s that old mechanical conveyor belt system, we call them robot recruiters which is polite seeing as they are just bad recruiters. Recruiters who are forced to spend excessive...
Check Yourself: Are You an Impostor Candidate?
As recruiters, we often come across candidates who are just so smooth, so slick and so together. Every so often though; not all is as it seems. The lighting is good and the makeup is on point… but those Instagram models are just not who they say they are. They have...
Why South Africa Needs Grassroots Graduate Programmes
South Africa has a burgeoning unemployment problem but still so many hiring managers argue that they are struggling to find candidates with the skills that they need. Sure some skills are unique but it’s time to look at this entire scenario from a different angle....
To Upskill or Not to Upskill
Developers will forever be at the mercy of ever-changing technology; be it hardware, software or firmware. Naturally, this leaves you at a disadvantage if you are unable to keep up. The trick to ensuring continual growth is to see learning and upskilling as an...
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