Diversity helps when you need to recruit the best

Needing to hire the "best and the brightest" is like motherhood and apple pie. No-one can argue with it. And yet it is harder than you'd think for many companies. Great prospective employees can pick and choose and they make their decisions as often on soft issues like who they'd work with/for and what the culture of the company is like as they do on hard issues like project, title and pay.At FirstRain we work hard to create a fun work environment and to be innovative in our culture - [...]

By |2017-12-06T17:14:07-08:00August 12, 2010|Equality|0 Comments

I Am A Technical Woman – Anita Borg Institute

I am at the Grace Hopper Conference today in Tucson Arizona - here as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology. Check out the video the team made last night (and which is at the top of Digg this morning) - it will make you smile and give you sense of the power of this group of young women.The conference is a spectacular success - 1600 attendees - 99% technical women and 50% students. The energy and enthusiasm for technology is [...]

By |2017-12-06T17:16:39-08:00October 2, 2009|Equality|0 Comments
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