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How Women can Find a JOB ????? Writing Your Resume  Starting a career in computer science isn’t as easy as graduating and showing up to a job interview. While new grads can expect a friendly job market, a candidate’s competitive edge comes from specific expertise in a particular branch of computer science. With that in mind, consider these three points when you’re searching for a position in the field. Before You Apply.... Identifying potential career paths can help you develop an appropriate marketing strategy for your skills. When you know your preferred career trajectory, it becomes easier to organize how you present your abilities.   How to write a perfect Resume  Contact information. Select one email address and one phone number to include on your resume. And setting up an email address that’s dedicated to your job-search activities and using your cell phone number on your resume, as this gives you the ability to control the voicemail m...
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She++, a Stanford community for women in tech Through movies like The Social Network and The Internship, mainstream media has created a misleading image of the individuals who make up the tech industry--a bunch of hoodie-clad guys, typing obsessively at their laptops at 3 a.m., fueled by caffeine and junk food. Even this past week, the trailer for HBO’s new comedy TV series “Silicon Valley” featured no women, and a plethora of stereotypical male programmers. At she++, we’re trying to change that. We want to introduce you to the women in technology--the software engineers, designers, and program managers--hacking cool things all across the tech spectrum. There are countless women making an impact on the world through their contributions to technology. And regardless of whether you’re not sure if CS is for you, you’re one of few women in your CS classes, or you’re joining a company as their first female engineering hire, many of these women h...
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Why so few women in Tech??? Common Challenges Historically, women in computing have had an effect on the evolution of the industry, with some of the first programmers during the early 20th century being female. But in early days it became a quite challenging field.   For many, schools can be a time of intellectual sense, an opportunity to explore new academic and professional job and even collaborate with experts in the field. And it is also an opportunity to find friends who help you learn and grow, initially during school and sometimes well beyond. Girls are growing up in rural areas and attending girls schools so they had no idea how to speak boys. This provided a challenge them to resolve some basic technical doubts. It is quite challenging field, to women to pursuing careers and the reasons behind this gender imbalance are varied from lack of female mentors to lack of encouragement, both at an early age and even adulthood. So many times...
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