NEWS & GUIDES
Here you will find helpful articles and guides that can advise you on getting started in a career in technology or how to make it in the world of tech as a woman. Along with what job role is ideal for you, the skills required and how much you could earn from it.
- • Advice & Guides
‘A balanced world is a better world’ is the tagline for International Women’s Day 2019. It’s a mantra that resonates particularly strongly with the tech industry, which has always typically been perceived as male-dominated. It’s possibly not unfounded, considering that
- • Advice & Guides
International Women’s Day (IWD) has occurred for over a century, the first IWD gathering was in 1911. The global day is spent celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. There isn’t an organisation, government, academic institution or
- • Advice & Guides
Women are still extremely underrepresented in the tech industry today and they experience some barriers when trying to progress within the sector. With only 26% of the technology workforce being women, it is evident to see the gender imbalance in
- • Advice & Guides
The government predicts that by 2020, nearly 1 in 3 workers will be aged 50 or over. Therefore, this means that retraining women in tech is going to be required if companies want to keep their teams diverse and give
- • Advice & Guides
Digital skills are in serious demand due to the digital skill gap widening. The job market is booming, and businesses are starting to focus on growing through digital advancements. There are several benefits from working in digital and plenty of
- • Advice & Guides
Meetups have developed over the past few years so people with the same interests can communicate either over the internet or in real life. Meetups are normally informal and can be quite fun, especially if you’re learning about things that
POPULAR GUIDES
- • Opinion
This Q&A brings together Women in Tech and Magda Hoffman, Director at Red Dog Talent Solutions to explore how inclusive hiring and progressive workplace cultures can reshape the UK technology sector. From addressing unconscious bias to supporting women returners and
- • Career
You have the qualifications, you have the experience and you know your profession inside out, but how do you make that first step from employee to freelancer, how do you start out? There is a lot of advice I can
- • Career
What is International Women’s Day? International Women’s Day is a globally recognised event that celebrates all of women’s achievements alongside fighting for gender equality. It all began in the early 1900’s when 15,000 women marched through New York demanding equal
- • Graduates
Graduate Jobs for IT experts It can be quite daunting looking for your first graduate job when finishing university, especially in the IT sector as there are so many different job roles to choose from. From Software Engineering to
- • Career
Equal pay is your right to receiving the same wage as someone doing the same or broadly similar work as you and someone in the same job role as you. The most common reasons for pay differences is gender and
- • Career
FDM Group, a professional services company with a focus on IT and the largest IT graduate employers in the UK, has reported an average gender pay gap of 6% and a median pay gap of 0% compared to the UK
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