Technology needs women; their fresh thinking, diverse perspectives, and passions. While it might seem intimidating from where you are sitting – the technology industry offers women incredible flexibility, progression and boundless opportunities to put your creativity to work. You just have to know how to grab the opportunity with both hands.

In this workshop with two senior Sparta Global Talent coordinators, you’ll learn how to get confident and get started in a technology career, and how to maintain career momentum by improving your employability – giving advice you can use and practical tasks to complete that will showcase how best to present yourself to employers.

• CV skills | CV dos and donts to ensure your strengths and experience are always at the forefront.
• Interview prep | We interview hundreds of candidates every year, get insight into the type of questions you could be asked and how best to answer through the STAR method.
• Applications + psychometric or tech tests | In an effort to make hiring more inclusive, lots of employers have moved away from traditonal applications and assessments. We’ll talk you through psychometric tests, technical test and what you might be able to expect to prep you for success!
• Plenty of stories to tell! | We’ll dip into the stories from some of our 3000 successful Spartans and showcase their experiences to give you a real-time view of being a woman in tech.

Ishara and Kira-mae are both experienced talent advisors that cover Software Development, Software Testing and DevOps (amongst other specialisms). As well as running their teams day-to-day activities, together they have screened over 5000 applicants, helped to kickstart the careers of almost 600 Spartans, and provided individuals with a wealth of knowledge around to expect from employers today.

Sparta Global:

Sparta Global has been helping graduates, non-graduates, career changers, and returners, to kickstart careers in business and technology for more than a decade. More than 3000 individuals have now successfully completed our specialist training programmes and gone on to work on site with Sparta clients, and we work 100 public and private sector businesses across almost every industry area.

An award-winning equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) employer, we pride ourselves on removing barriers to entry across technology – hiring based on attitude and aptitude and potential, providing free training, paying trainees during training, and providing continued pastoral and professional care for all Spartan employees as they kickstart their careers. Sparta Global is the only B Corp Hire, Train, Deploy company, a Top 20 employer for Social Mobility, Princess Royal Training Award winner, and official Women in Tech partner.

Find out more about Sparta Global here.

Our Athena Academy:

An alternative way to access Sparta Global’s opportunities for training and careers, the Athena Academy offers women the chance to join, learn, work, and grow into future tech leaders – providing them with the confidence, skills, and connections to build a profitable and powerful tech career.

Trained by an award-winning female training team, and learning alongside a small all-women cohort, the Athena Academy is a supportive and safe space to push the limits of your potential.

Find out more about Sparta’s Athena Academy here.