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Tag: diversity
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How to Create Better Employee Experiences for Workers with Disabilities
Companies need to provide inclusive, accessible opportunities for workers with disabilities.
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SVAcademy Counters Tech's Diversity Problem with Education and Mentorship
The tech industry suffers from a longstanding misconception that it is a meritocracy, where only hard work and the best ideas are rewarded regardless of gender, race or socioeconomic status.
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Empowering Women, Advancing AI & Much More at Dreamforce '16
SAN FRANCISCO – Melinda Gates made an interesting cultural observation about subtle bias against women during a fireside chat at Salesforce's user conference here last week. Why, wondered the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are the default voices for popular digital assistants like Siri, Alexa and
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Twitter Invests in Machine Learning, SAP Embraces Diversity, More
Twitter is investing in machine learning with the $150 million acquisition of Magic Pony Technology, a London-based firm that developed machine learning techniques for visual processing. Calling machine learning "the core of everything we build at Twitter,” CEO Jack Dorsey blogged that the buy builds on other investments his company
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One Man's Commitment to Diversity in Technology
Your dad should have a gun because he’s black. A first-grade girl said that to Anjuan Simmons’ daughter when she showed her classmate her family drawing, a class assignment. Simmons is a Houston-area agile project manager for a construction software company.
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What You Need to Know About Tech Jobs and What They Pay
There are 6,513,236 tech industry jobs in the US, provided by some 452,303 companies. The tech industry's payroll is a nice $654 billion, with the average wage clocking in at $100,355, compared to a $49,611 average private sector wage overall.
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How One Female Web Technologist Broke Barriers in Tech
Martha Elliott remembered walking into the office to interview for a web designer position when she was 40-years-old. “The interviewer,” Elliott recalled, “looked puzzled and said, ‘I'm sorry we're not looking for receptionists at this time. We're looking for a web designer.
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Companies Desperately Seeking IT Talent
It would be a simple matter, it would seem, to hire a senior developer with Microsoft Dynamics skills. Yet, Kelly Bedrich, the director of IT for the non-profit firm APQC (the American Productivity and Quality Center), has been having difficulties filing the position. He has his theories.
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Do You Really Need a College Degree to Work in IT?
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is known for her insistence on hiring employees with stellar college credentials. She even reportedly turned down actress Gwyneth Paltrow for an editing job with Yahoo for that reason, according to The New York Times. Paltrow is also the author of cookbooks and head of
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How to Make Boomers, Millennials and Everyone Else Get Along
There are a lot of stereotypes about today's workplaces, including the unsubstantiated notion that you have to be in your 20s to understand today's technologies. But all those misperceptions are taking their toll. All is not well in today’s multi-generational workplace.
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Are You Too Old to Work in Tech? IT's Midlife Crisis
IT has the reputation of being a young person's game. Average tech workers are portrayed in media and industry lore as 20-somethings who spent their youth tinkering with code and playing video games.
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Jeffrey Bowman on Demographics, Diversity and Reaching Customers
You don't have to look far to realize the US has changed — and we're not talking about social and mobile. We're talking something far more basic … specifically, the people behind all those emerging technology trends. There's more diversity than ever before, US Census data confirms.
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Diversity Drives Innovation #ILTA12
Today starts our week-long coverage of ILTA 12. Though the International Legal Technology Association brings together a variety of legal professionals, the focus of this year’s conference relates to most, if not all of us in the enterprise -- Act, Collaborate to Drive Change (AC2DC).
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