Human Resources: How to tap into the female talent in tech pipeline

"Find me female candidates!"

Sound familiar and feel impossible at the same time?

"I want more BME candidates!"

Do these type of demands fill you with dread because your usual recruitment strategies are simply not working?

"Don't just sent me white males, I want more diverse candidates. I don't care how you do it, just get it done!"

You understand why diversity is good for your business but you've simply not figured out how to actually recuit more diversely.

I understand how you feel.

As the HR team, it can feel like you are faced with an impossible task. You know, it's not a simple excercise finding diverse candidates. There are many moving parts to finding them and sometimes you are stuck in trying tofigure what actual steps you should be taking.

But your boss doesn't want to hear that. Instead you are expected to make the magic happen. At any cost.

I understand the challenge you face and I know that there are tips that we can share with you to help you get the results you want. This workshop is a collaborateive one where three speakers will be sharing their expertise on how to create a diverse recruitment strategy.

Guest Speaker (1)

Kirsty Styles - Head of Skills and Talent, Tech North

Kirsty Styles has just finished working as a technology journalist, editor, podcaster and campaigner in East London. Having made ‘tech for good’ and other social and economic issues a focus of her work in tech, she recently headed back home to head up the talent and skills programme for Tech North. It’s her job to make people realise that the North has lots of great technology companies and thousands of great digital jobs - we just need people to do them! 

Before this, she was a B2B tech editor at the New Statesman, and was previously a reporter at The Next Web and editor at Tech City News. Kirsty also created and presented the New Economics Foundation’s Weekly Economics Podcast, which was featured in The Observer and has received hundreds of thousands of listens. 

She speaks about everything from the future of work to infrastructure, political utopias and the future of the media, and has done just that at events like Thinking Digital Women, FutureFest, Slush and the Battle of Ideas.

Guest Speaker (2)

Michelle Gyimah, Director - Equality Pays

Equality Pays is an HR Consultancy dedicated to helping technology firms create inclusive business cultures.

Technology companies are at a tipping point where they can no longer ignore the reasons why women leave tech or never enter the industry in the first place. It’s time for technology firms to address these issues and develop new innovative working practices to support women in the technology industry.

Guest Speaker (3)

Nancy Evbuomwan - Director, Hacktopia

It is challenging for recruiters or hiring managers to draw a conclusion about a candidate based on what is written on their cv. At Hacktopia we understand that this challenge often results to a painful and exhausting hiring process.

We want to solve that painful and exhausting process by providing recruiters and hiring managers with information about a candidates work. Information which is easily accessible at a simple request before you even pick up the phone to call. 

This allows us to enable recruiters and hiring managers to insight of a candidates true ability beyond what is written on their cv.

Our aim is to fix the way we hire while saving you time and money.

Nancy will be sharing with you how hackathons can be used as a new innovative recruitment tool and demonstrating how Hacktopia could benefit your business.

*PLACES ARE LIMITED SO BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.*

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What will I learn?

By the end of this session you will know how to:

• Access more qualified diverse candidates that are suitable for the roles you are recruiting for
• Utilise new technolgies for more effective recruitment
• Understand how diverse teams are created
  
• Utilise under-represented talent pools
  

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What are the benefits of attending?

The key benefits of attending are:

• The difference between having happy clients that get the results they want or unhappy clients that are ready to lay the blame at your door
  
• Free access to a new hackathon tool designed to improve diversity
• Chance to develop a reusable recruitment strategy for ongoing recruitment campaigns
  
• Understanding the unique aspects of diverese recruitment
• Mixing with other HR professionals facing the same issues as you
• Enabling you to stand out as the employer of choice

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Who is this training for?

This training is for North-West based tech HR professionals who are are ready to reach out to more diverse talent and want to know how to do this.

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Who is Equality Pays?

Equality Pays is a tech gender equality consultancy based in Manchester led by Michelle Gyimah. Michelle has over 10 years experience of working with employers to help them create inclusive business cultures.

Her experiences have given her a unique insight into what it takes to attract diverse candidates into male dominated workplaces and now focuses on helping technology firms do just that.

Equality Pays has worked with Maddox Events, ThoughtWorks, The Co-operative Bank, KFH Accounting and many other UK based firms.

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FAQs

 

How can I contact the organizer with any questions?

You can contact the organiser at mgyimah@equalitypays.co.uk

 

What's the refund policy?

There is no refund but you can transfer your ticket to someone else

 

Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?

Yes or you can simply show the confirmation e-mail you will receive

 

Is it ok if the name on my ticket or registration doesn't match the person who attends?

Yes that is not a problem