We launched womenintechnology on International Women’s Day in March 2005 as an information portal for female technologists.
Within a week of the launch, we were approached by companies who wanted to advertise their IT jobs on the website. Within four months, we set up a job board. On the day it went live, we planned a networking event – but sadly it fell on July 7th 2005; the same day as the London bombings. We rescheduled the launch networking night for two months later and welcomed over 200 women to the first of many successful networking events.
Since then the job board has gone from strength to strength. There is now a dedicated graduate zone and we’re actively working with companies to help them attract more applications from female technologists.
We’ve run over 20 networking events covering topics such as “Political Savvy for Women in IT”, “How to get ahead in IT - successful career strategies for women in technology” and “Powerful Conversations - Successful Negotiation Skills for Women”.
In early 2007 we started running full day training courses and in 2008 we added evening sessions to our training calendar too. All of the topics, for example “Women Don’t Ask”, “Building Up Your Confidence“ and “Be the Strategic Networker”, are aimed at helping women build successful and rewarding careers in the IT and technology industry. Click here to see all of our previous courses.
Our aim is to increase the number of women working in the UK’s technology profession, provide fantastic networking opportunities for women already in the industry and hold events that help our members build the highly successful and satisfying IT career they’ve always wanted.
