UTS Tech Festival 2023 - Microsoft: Empowering Women in IT

UTS Tech Festival is back in 2023, bigger and better!

Hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and IT, Tech Festival brings current and prospective UTS students, academics and industry together to foster learning, inspiration, share ideas and promote innovation!​ You won't want to miss this two-week festival of events, showcases, hackathons, workshops and seminars!

Microsoft: Empowering Women in IT - Build your career by building a portfolio or resume website

Learn the tech skills and the career skills to put your best foot forward when applying for jobs! You’ll build a custom website for your resume or portfolio so you can discuss your skills while showing real-life clickable proof to back it up!

In this session, we’ll cover how to launch a custom website using GitHub Pages. We’ll set you up with templates to get you started on showing off your work, experience, and skills in the form of a portfolio or resume website. From this you can take our tips on what content employers want to see, guides for styling your site professionally, and a few special features you could code if you want to stand out from the crowd technically and visually.

Also, take this opportunity to learn about the Microsoft Student Ambassador Program (great to put on that resume!) and the benefits to your career you can get by being involved.

Registrations essential - register by Friday 16 June 2023.

When: Wednesday 22 June 2023

Where: CB11.00.Room 405

Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm

What to bring: please bring your own laptop. Create a GitHub account before the workshop if you can.

Bonus – think about the content you want to include on your resume or portfolio and get feedback from our Microsoft hosts.

Speakers:

Renee Noble

Renee is a Cloud Advocate for Microsoft, with a special focus on the Australian & New Zealand community. She's passionate about technology, education, and community, and bringing them all together in-person and online.

As an avid learner and educator, she'd love to help you on your learning journey in a fun and friendly way. Join Renee to learn about Python, web dev, and data science, as she shares her knowledge and discoveries from her latest learning explorations. She’s recently joined the low-code Advocacy team and looks forward to showing everyone how they can highlight their coding prowess by hooking it up to low-code platforms.

Elizabeth Pappalardo

Elizabeth is the Microsoft Community Manager for the APAC region, working with students and professionals to grow their career progression potential. She’s passionate about supporting students to take advantage of what Microsoft has to offer through the Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador Program and also works to ensure continued opportunities for growth and exposure to the community, with opportunities to engage with Microsoft through events, and to become part of our core community of MVPs and Regional Directors.

Please contact nabin.sharma@uts.edu.au if you have any questions about this event. 

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