Community Newsletter, March 2022
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Hello Tech Professionals,
Our goal is to bring you insights on important topics. This month we invited Kim Borman, Executive Director, Boston Women's Workforce Council, and Lauren Zajac, Chief Legal Council, Workhuman, to co-host a discussion on the gender wage gap. Our community members who attended learned strategies for making impact inside their organization. We are planning for an active year in this community, and we invite you to attend and share what is on your mind. Help us design programs on topics of importance to you by taking our survey here.
As we look to build a trusted network of talent professionals, we will continue our virtual community programs while testing the waters for in-person meetings at the executive level.
Don't forget to check out MassTLC's new job board offering over 9,000 jobs listed!
Happy Spring!
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Nayla Daly
Communities Manager
MassTLC
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Stay Informed and Get Involved |
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Board-Ready Bootcamp, deadline for application is Friday, March 25th: The Board-Ready Bootcamp is designed to improve the quality of board governance and composition at tech companies by providing a high-impact curriculum on board fundamentals, strategy, and governance. Given the lack of diversity in the tech boardroom, the bootcamp is focused on preparing underrepresented tech leaders, including Black, Latinx, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, and women tech executives. Learn more here.
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Virtual Career Fair: Register for our March 29th fair and meet with hot companies like NETSCOUT, Blink by Amazon, Centric Consulting, Rapid7, Triverus Consulting, and more. Register here.
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Kids in Tech-Board Room Information Session, April 13th: Kids in Tech hosts a virtual information session for anyone who might be interested in running for their Board of Directors. Register here.
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Women's Money: Growth & transformation, March 31st: Budget Buddies is hosting this event for Women's History Month! Featured presenter Tiffany Payne will share her growth and transformation journey from homelessness to entrepreneurship. Register here.
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Your feedback is important to us. As we continue to improve the Professional Women's Community program to support your needs, we ask that you take a two minute survey so we can continue to provide you and your team with the highest quality programming. Survey, here.
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Community News and Insights |
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Tips To Build A Strong Employer Brand To Attract And Retain Talent: This is the era for job seekers. They can choose who they want to work for or where to work from. They can also opt to start their own company or decide to stay at home. We’ve all heard about the Great Resignation. It’s time for businesses to invest in developing purpose-driven employer brands to attract, retain and motivate top talent. Read more here.
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Keeping Human Resources Human: Dr. Liana Epstein, Chief Operating and Analytics Officer at Cangrade, on Humanizing Hiring with AI, Valuing Employees, and More: For Dr. Epstein, building Cangrade was not only a way to create positive change in the world from within the private sector but also a way to build the type of place that she wanted to work for, from the ground up. MassTLC Community Manager Nayla Daly spoke with Dr. Epstein to learn more about why employee happiness is not just a nice to have but a need to have in all organizations and how Cangrade is keeping human resources human. Read more here.
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How Emotion AI Overcomes the Challenges of Gender Bias: Many AI products and services that we still use today tend to be tested and validated with data from western-based, English-speaking, Caucasian, and/or male populations, as those were the predominant sample demographics that were available at the time. While this may have sufficed in the past, we now need to broaden our horizons and think about how we can make technology applicable to all. Read more here.
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Understanding Women in Tech: Infographic by Talent Works: When it comes to women in technology, many employers focus their attention and energy on attracting more women candidates for their open roles, but new research from Talent Works points to bigger issues at the core that need to be solved in advance of attraction efforts. In an effort to support employers with actionable insight, Talent Works surveyed 400 women in technology roles in the US. Read more here.
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Community Member Spotlight |
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Creating Environments Where People Find Meaning: Steve Pemberton, CHRO of Workhuman, on the Changing Ways We Work and
Why It Matters
What if we began our conversations asking about the seemingly ordinary people who touch our life? It’s a powerful question, one that Steve Pemberton, CHRO of Workhuman and author of “The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World” and “A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home,” asks us to consider when interacting with seemingly distant people. We may have many differences, but as human beings, Steve believes we ultimately have more in common, and he has made it his mission and responsibility to reconnect the corporate world with this essence of what it means to be human. Read more here.
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Thank you to our Community Advisor |
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Parna Sarkar-Basu
CEO & Founder
Brand and Buzz Marketing, LLC
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Professional Women's Community Sponsors |
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