Posts tagged ‘hiring’

What are some ways in which I can avoid rejecting people who suffer from impostor syndrome when they apply for a job?… I don’t want to lose out on quality applicants as they are modest about their achievements and abilities, due to impostor syndrome or otherwise.

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question: What are some ways in which I can avoid rejecting people who suffer from impostor syndrome when they apply for a job? I’ve recently been promoted to ...

Want to do some background reading in 2011? Check A Year of Feminist Classics. January’s books are A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Mary Wollestonecraft) and So Long a Letter (Mariama Ba) The Intrepid ...

In anticipation of a December/January slowdown, I’m reposting some of my writing from earlier in 2010, for the benefit of new (and nostalgic!) readers. This piece originally appeared on the 9th April 2010. Code Anthem’s ...

I was just going to stick this in a linkspam: The Anita Borg Institute for Women in in Technology is hiring! There are currently three positions available: Development Director, Marketing Manager and Manager, Research and ...

Alice Adams writes about What women want and how not to give it to them, which includes a list of things companies do that cause their attempts at hiring more women to be ineffective. Chantaal ...

Code Anthem’s Don’t Judge a Developer by Open Source (via Meg in the Open Thread) argues that companies that rely on Open Source coding contributions as a hiring criterion are both demanding a lot of ...

Role Playing Girl Zine, a yearly publication about women in gaming, is seeking “submissions of essays by women gamers, designers, researchers and others interested in role playing games.” Cartoons also welcome. The 2010 theme: “International ...

We’ve been saying for a while that we ought to do something like this, so here’s a first attempt. I frequently get email from people who say that they’re trying to recruit women for events, ...