You know the drill by now- we find brilliant women in tech, and then we talk about them on our blog. We’ve had Delphine, Ada, Roxanne, Hedy, Anne-Marie and Zoe- and today we have Kate Russell, of BBC Click! We’re very lucky in the people who’ve responded to our call for help- lots of you!- and we’re incredibly pleased to be bringing you Kate today… Continue reading Interview with Kate Russell, of tech kingdom BBC Click: “Sorry, boys…”
Google Maps has let me down. Google Maps has led me astray. Google Maps is the reason that I am pacing up and down this road, and probably the reason Anne-Marie Imafidon has probably given up waiting for me, and gone home. I am fifteen minutes late for our interview, in a coffee shop that this blasted machine swears blind is just on this corner. It isn’t. Continue reading Interview with Anne-Marie Imafidon, Stemettes: “Not pink, just cool!”
The internet is a wonderful thing, but it is often a very ugly, and very useless thing. Luckily, to cheer ourselves up, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the bits of the internet that are brilliant, and beautiful, and useful- to give you alternatives to the grim world out there. You know TripAdvisor? This is the pretty one of that. It’s also, given the latest news on TripAdvisor, the factual, useful one of that.
Continue reading Interview with Charlie Osmond, CEO and Founder of Triptease, CEO of the Week
To continue our season highlighting Women In Tech, we’ve got an interview with the lovely Zoe Peden, Chief Juggler at Insane Logic– a tech company currently creating speech, language and communication tools for the very young and those with special needs. We love Insane Logic over here- I once cornered Zoe at a careers fair and told her at unprecedented length how great and how needed her product was- and we’re pretty sure you’ll feel the same. Continue reading Interview With Zoe Peden, of Insane Logic: “build technology that changes lives”
The thing is, right, not everyone who likes tech is going to be a CEO. Not everyone who codes is going to invent a new iOS, or Candy Crush. But every single lady involved in tech is making a difference- to the way tech is perceived, and the way the industry is structured– so today, we’re talking to brilliant Delphine, who is studying web design. Think you might, one day, like to study web design? You’re going to love Delphine, and Delphine loves coding. Continue reading An Interview With Delphine, Who Loves To Code So Much She Can’t Explain It
How better to kick off our Women In Tech season than an interview with Roxanne Varza, founder of Girls In Tech UK, former editor of TechCrunch and Microsoft’s Startup Lover? Roxanne is all sorts of great and inspirational, and does SO MANY THINGS in the tech world? Today we talk start-ups, the future, and post-blogger syndrome… Continue reading Interview with Roxanne Varza, Girls In Tech:“In the future, understanding code will be like understanding English”
Time after time it’s the same old story. Send off as many CVs as possible, grab any chances that come your way with both hands regardless of whether they are what you want to do or not, and hope for that precious 20 minute interview window with which to wow a potential employer. Surely there’s got to be a better way to get our talented graduates into opportunities they love? Continue reading The Hiring Process Is Broken: How Enternships’ “Unrecruitment” Is The Answer
So the thing is, no-one likes a boaster. It’s not cool, it makes a terrible first impression, and anyone in the near vicinity is likely to take the money for that drink they were going to buy you, and spend it on heavy clods of dirt to throw in your eyes. But dammit, it’s what you’re going to have to do. A good CV is a beautifully presented, unapologetic boast, and remember; people who exchange drink money for dirt clods are idiots and don’t deserve your attention. Continue reading 10 steps to writing the world’s greatest CV
So what exactly marks out going for a marketing job in a startup from generic job scrambling? Having conquered the challenge himself, DTCW Communications founder and author Dominic Tarn wants to give you the inside scoop… Continue reading How To Get a Job in Marketing And Impress A Startup: Always Be Prepared
