Are you one of the many women today who want to try their luck in the digital world, career-wise? Whether you're a mom, wife, or a single woman who wants who tries her luck at work in the tech world, these helpful tips from the tech gurus are what you need. They are the best people to inform every woman how to boom in the digital world.
Just in time for International Women's Day, this day also serves as an opportunity to honor the women most-admired for their technological expertise.
And, to show how admired and special they are because of their contribution to technology, CΙNet featured "some of the key women in the tech field," still in celebration of this special occasion by asking them, if they were asked about how to assure the American students, as well as workers, that they are equipped enough to bloom in this "modern, digital world" and what's the role of technology in the creation of enabling of the workforce of the future?
This was the same question which was, not coincidentally given to Ivanka Trump during the CES 2020.
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Some of Today's Most Admired Tech VIPs
The question the presidential daughter remains relevant given the swiftness at which this digital economy is evolving. With technology portraying an increasingly vital role in lifting the US economy, it is also an industry that provides a lot of employment opportunities, particularly for women, from the engineering field to design, to heading some of the biggest companies of the world.
Despite this success, the Institute of Women's Policy Research released estimates, though, suggesting that women are more at risk than men, of losing their jobs to technology-related fields.
Women should not lose hope nor feel alarmed. For women to thrive in the future, they must be ready as early as now for what's going to happen later. See what these three of the tech VIPs say and learn from their experience:
Cindy Gallop (Founder and former chair Bartle Bogle Hegarty's US branch; If We Ran the World and Make Love, Not Porn founder)
She said she believes, technology has a "huge role to play for both students and work in driving the new American dream." The old American dream, she elaborated, has historically been separately focused. Meaning, the idea is that the one that one, on his own tries so hard to strive and attain entirely through her own efforts.
Christina Janzer (Slack director for research and analytics)
She shared, for students to boom in this digital and modern economy, she strongly recommended for them to take writing class, computer science, and design thinking. Design thinking, she explained, will teach these students the importance of brainstorming, understanding their customer and prototyping.
Computer science, on the other hand, is going to teach them the skills needed to solve hard problems. Lastly, writing skills, the director said, will let them communicate and work in collaboration effectively and clearly.
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For her, technology enables one to find people to collaborate with him, to work with him, to a common or shared benefit. She firmly believes too, that "the business model of the future is Shared Values + Shared Action = Shared Profit".
Meaning, business ideals soon aim to achieve both financial and social profit. This, for her, is today's American dream, and technology is what can turn it into reality. However, she emphasized, the key thing is not only technology but the people who create it and what they're doing with it.
