She Sharp & MYOB - Mind Your Own Career

Name: She Sharp & MYOB - Mind Your Own Career
Start: 2022-04-28T02:30:00-0400
End: 2022-04-28T04:00:00-0400

Thu, 28 Apr 2022, 2:30am - 4am EDT

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She Sharp

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Mind Your Own… CAREER!

She Sharp is teaming up with MYOB to discuss the diversity of careers in technology and the multiple pathways we can take to achieve our dream job in STEM.

Come along on Thursday, 28th April, 6:30 pm and engage with an expert team of MYOB panellists who will highlight some of the pathways that can be followed which lead to a career in Technology, participate in a guided workshop to help discover our deep-set motivations and Q&A with the MYOB and She# teams to create a composition of insights to enable us to make conscious career choices based on our aspirations and motivations…. so YOU can definitively begin to Mind Your Own Career.

We will have special prizes and giveaways for those who register and attend the event. Get your tickets now!

Speakers:

Lyndsay Kilburn, Delivery Manager at MYOB

Lindsay has been with MYOB for 6 years across a variety of roles and is currently Delivery Manager for a cross functional team of developers and engineers focused on site reliability engineering. She's passionate about diversity in technology in all its forms and finding opportunities for people to thrive.

Taylor Waddington, Protégé Software Developer at MYOB

Hi, I’m Taylor. Just over a year ago, I started at MYOB in the FMA program as a protege Software Developer. Before moving to MYOB I was down in Dunedin studying a double degree in Information Systems and Marketing. Since being at MYOB I have had the opportunity to grow and navigate myself through the corporate world. I have discovered what it’s like to be a Software Developer and had the opportunity to venture outside of this expertise and work aside one of MYOB’s Business Analyst to further develop my skills in another area.

Kyle Nicholas, Senior Developer at MYOB

Hi, I’m Kyle, a Senior Developer at MYOB. I’d say I’m a classic T-Shaped Full Stack Developer and have worked with C#, Jade, PowerShell etc. I strongly believe that the journey is half the fun; traditional or non-traditional, we learn from all of it and it’s what we make of it that counts

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Computer science, computer engineering, IT, and tech-related fields all battle a similar problem: gender imbalance. We believe this is mainly due to a misconception about these fields, and a pre-conception of who should study and work in this area. As there is already a low female-to-male ratio, people think this is the norm, and because of this, the situation remains this way. She# has several missions. We aim to link together women who are already in this field (in both academia and industry) and establish a platform to network with each other. It’s hard enough being a minority, but harder still if we can’t network with others in similar situations! Secondly, it is our goal to influence the next generation for good; we wish to promote computer science and related fields to high school students who haven’t yet decided which career path to follow. If we can show young girls how exciting, interesting, and relevant computer science is to their lives, not to mention the massive potential job opportunities there are for them; we can provide a positive influence and help young women make informed career decisions. We hope those women can surpass and change what is believed to be normal and take opportunities to work as equals alongside their male peers. Lastly, by opening events to men we aim to educate them in why encouraging women of all ages and skills are important. We invite them to work side-by-side with us to advocate gender balance in the workplace. We can change things if we work together.

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Thu, 28 Apr 2022, 2:30am - 4am EDT

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