Upcoming Webinar

Hiring Mythbusters: 4 Myths Killing Your Scaling Plans

📆 22 May 🕞 12:00 SAST 📍 Online

Hiring in 2025 is hard enough when everything’s changed and the old playbook's stopped working. Don’t make things worse with outdated assumptions that quietly wreck your pipeline and scaling plans.

In this webinar, join us as we bust 4 common hiring myths breaking your process and see what the data actually says.

The myths we’re unpacking:
đź’° "Developers only care about money"
🔄 "Developers will leave as soon as something better comes along"
💼 "It’s just a hiring problem, it’s not about how we retain"
🤖 “I just need the right tool to solve AI adoption on my team” 


Ready to get the facts and double down on what actually works in 2025?

Meet our speakers

Mercia Malan

Head of Data Engineering at Sand Technologies

Data Engineer by trade, Software Engineer at heart - she loves working with data and helping others learn and grow. She's a driving force in South Africa’s data community and founder of DataConf.

Jonathan Coetzee

Talent Acquisition Lead at TROOP

Jono brings 10+ years of tech hiring experience across agency, consultancy, and in-house roles. As TROOP’s founding Talent hire, he now leads global recruitment across SA, Spain, the US, and the UK.

Marlon Demas

Senior Fullstack Engineer & Tech Lead

Full-Stack Software Engineer at Specno, building scalable, high-performance applications. Passionate about solving complex problems, mentoring, and fostering team cultures where developers thrive.

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