{"id":2283,"date":"2017-06-20T14:45:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T20:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2017-06-30T08:53:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:53:55","slug":"act-w-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/act-w-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: Advancing The Careers of Technical Women (ACT-W), Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Wisdom from &#8220;Advancing The Careers of Technical Women (ACT-W)&#8221; New York 2017 Conference<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Or How a Woman&#8217;s Tech Conference Saved My Butt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kind of on a whim, I decided to attend the Advancing The Careers of Technical Women (ACT-W), 1-day conference. The purpose was to provide career advice for women in all parts of the tech world, not just for developers. Overall, it was incredibly inspiring and energizing, which I really needed. Job hunts can be very depressing.<\/p>\n<p>In an upcoming post, I will share detailed notes from each speaker. But for now, I will share some highlights and how I&#8217;ve applied\u00a0the advice I learned from attending.<\/p>\n<h3>Highlights of Wisdom, Summarized<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>build a community; don&#8217;t\u00a0network<\/li>\n<li>create an objective panel of reviewers<\/li>\n<li>tell your unique story<\/li>\n<li>diversity of opinions and experience is important<\/li>\n<li>earn trust<\/li>\n<li>ask for help<\/li>\n<li>be honest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Taking Action<\/h3>\n<p>Examples of how I applied the advice I learned by taking\u00a0action:<\/p>\n<h4>1 &#8211; BUILDING A COMMUNITY<\/h4>\n<p>I immediately started applying the concept of community building. I got some business cards and names, from a few attendees, and I connected with them on LinkedIn and sent emails. I&#8217;ve even been reaching out to complete strangers on LinkedIn!<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, this was kind of happening in real life, too, which made everything a little overwhelming but also provided another opportunity to try out these new ideas.<\/p>\n<h4>2 &#8211; ASKING FOR HELP<\/h4>\n<p>I decided to ask for help from people I haven&#8217;t tried before. For instance, I reached out to employers that rejected me for a job, to ask for help. Either to ask what they look for or to ask for career advice.<\/p>\n<h4>3 &#8211; BUILDING TRUST<\/h4>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on redoing my website (again) and this time, I included more information highlighting my expertise. Not to brag, but to build trust.<\/p>\n<h4>4 &#8211; TELLING MY STORY<\/h4>\n<p>As a\u00a0part of redoing my website, I&#8217;ve included an About page. I&#8217;ve\u00a0used part of that page to go into more detail into my background and how I got to where I am.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2313\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/about\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2313\" src=\"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-4.14.07-PM-1024x561.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-4.14.07-PM-1024x561.png 1024w, https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-4.14.07-PM-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-4.14.07-PM-768x421.png 768w, https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-4.14.07-PM-1200x658.png 1200w, https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-04-at-4.14.07-PM.png 1425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My new &#8220;About Me&#8221; page has a &#8220;My Story&#8221; section.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>My next post will include detailed notes from the speakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisdom from &#8220;Advancing The Careers of Technical Women (ACT-W)&#8221; New York 2017 Conference Or How a Woman&#8217;s Tech Conference Saved My Butt Kind of on a whim, I decided to attend the Advancing The Careers of Technical Women (ACT-W), 1-day conference. The purpose was to provide career advice for women in all parts of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/act-w-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Event: Advancing The Careers of Technical Women (ACT-W), Highlights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[420,80,1,8,373],"tags":[350,451,412,404,352,452,450],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}