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 We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who came along to the "Raising Your Profile for a Successful Career in IT" event which we co-hosted with Microsoft on Thursday 24th May 2007 at the Great Eastern Hotel in central London. Once again we had a fantastic turnout and if you attended, we hope you enjoyed the evening.
We'd like to say a special thank you to the Microsoft speakers: Eileen Brown, Manager IT Pro Evangelist Team, Paul Norris, EMEA Director and Kate Isler, Online Services Group Chief of Staff. And thank you to our panellists – Salma Shah, Director of SN Training and Terry Thorpe, Chief Transformation Officer at the Centre for Integral Transformation.
Eileen presented the results of the Microsoft / womenintechnology survey that was undertaken earlier this year.
Paul spoke about what women are looking for from their IT careers and about the importance of networking to help you raise your profile – both at work and outside of work.
And Kate’s presentation focussed on three key areas: communication, confidence and support as well as the importance of building and maintaining your profile whilst still being yourself.
After the presentations, there was a 30-minute Q&A with our speakers as well as Salma Shah and Terry Thorpe. Terry highlighted the variety of ways you can raise your profile from being a member of a professional body, writing articles for in-house/external magazines and websites, entering award competitions and keeping a blog through to having a mentor and creating a persona on Second Life. Salma spoke about defining your own personal brand, being aware of it and using it to help increase your profile in a work situation.
The networking after the presentations and Q&A was as busy and as lively as ever with people having the chance to talk to the speakers, panellists as well as members of the Microsoft recruitment team.
If you would like to find out more about Microsoft you can contact Caroline Buckingham, Recruitment Manager at Microsoft directly - v-carolb@microsoft.com and 01189 095 799
And a final thanks goes to Microsoft for co-hosting this event with us and for their on going support of womenintechnology! | 