Build Your Brand as a Tech Leader
Building your brand as a tech leader is essential on your career journey. It’s about intentional self-awareness of your values, strengths and weaknesses, goals, and reputation just as much as your work, presence, and network.
Knowing who you are makes aligning with the right company culture, work, and growth opportunities more apparent throughout your career. You also feel empowered to advocate for yourself and take a stand in challenging situations. Building on your knowledge of self and the industry allows you to flourish because you trust yourself, process, and can pivot if needed.
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WWCode Member Highlight: Blog
WWCode Talks Tech #4: The Must-Haves for an Accessible Application
By: Nivedita Aggarwal
Accessibility refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities. Who are our accessibility users? It could be people with different abilities, the elderly or, kids who may not be able to perform all activities. It could be you and me. We're talking about accessibility because, globally, there are over one billion people who have disabilities and six billion people who are temporarily able-bodied, meaning someday they will have a disability. If products are inaccessible, billions of people are put into potentially stressful situations and there is no inclusivity. They need to be able to achieve the same goals as everyone else. However, they may use different mechanisms to achieve their goals than the commonly understood approach.
In this accessibility talk, we will focus on four accessibility personas, people who have challenges with vision, hearing, mobility, and cognitive or learning disabilities. This is not an exhaustive list but it's a good start.
Read more here.
Technical Highlight - Building Your Personal Brand
Taking the time to build your personal brand is an exciting chance to think deeply about how you want to present yourself — professionally and personally — to current and potential opportunities. Imagine your portfolio and online presence as a curated gallery to show your authentic self, skills, passions, and goals.
This week, we’re highlighting videos with advice on building your personal brand from trusted voices in the tech community on the WWCode YouTube channel.
WWCode Technical Videos to Support Building Your Personal Brand
See more videos on building your portfolio and personal brand.
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Upcoming WWCode Events
Digital educational events from our global Networks:
Bytes n' Brew Online Breakfast | WWCode Belfast
Bytes n' Brew is a fortnightly social event, a relaxed space designed to give our community an opportunity for conversations and connections around busy/work-life schedules. Join online to make new friends in the community, ask others for career advice, coding help or mentoring.
Date/Time: Thursday, July 28, 2022 | 8:00 AM BST (Belfast)
Fall Down and Get Back Up Again: Resilience, Failure and Fear | WWWCode Melbourne
In this session, learn how to reframe your relationship with fear and failure and leverage confidence and resilience to create the career and life you deserve.
Date/Time: Thursday, July 28, 2022 | 7:00 PM AEST (Melbourne)
Data Science at the Home Depot | WWCode Data Science
Join this event to hear from two Data Science professionals from The Home Depot share about AI and Predictive Modeling in Online Marketing.
Date/Time: Thursday, July 28, 2022 | 12:00 PM EDT (Atlanta)
Cómo Llegar a Ser Chief Data Officer | WWCode Santiago
En esta oportunidad tendremos de invitada a Claudia Ramos, la actual CDO de Bci. Claudia nos contará un poco de su historia y cómo llegó a su rol actual. Nos comentará en qué consiste su trabajo, herramientas y metodologías que usa, así como también recomendaciones para avanzar en tu carrera profesional.
Fecha/Hora: Jueves, 28 de Julio 2022 | 4 PM CLT (Santiago)
Algorithms & Interview Prep - Recursion (Whiteboarding Practice) | WWCode San Francisco
Practice your whiteboarding and interviewing skills in this guided online session with host Monica Parrillo. Gain access to study resources, example code and practice problems to help you ace your dev interview.
Date/Time: Thursday, July 28, 2022 | 6:30 PM PDT (San Francisco)
Member Meet & Greet | WWCode Python
The WWCode Python track invites you to our casual and fun meet and greet! This is a relaxed, interactive social event designed to give our community an opportunity to connect, kick-start conversations, and have fun! We will chat about Python and play fun Python activities.
Date/Time: Friday, July 29, 2022 | 12:00 PM EDT (Atlanta)
Web Security Basics | WWCode Front End
In this web security walkthrough, people will learn about cross-site scripting (XSS) and web security methods, such as HTML entity encoding, using JavaScript to protect their websites from cyber-attacks.
Date/Time: Friday, July 29, 2022 | 7:00 PM EDT (Atlanta)
Monthly Tech Night - Diversity & Inclusion in Tech R&D | WWCode Boulder/Denver
When diversity and inclusion (DI) are not baked into the research and development process, products and end users suffer from it. Join speaker Kayla Kantola who will discuss three case studies highlighting times where DI was not considered — sometimes resulting in consequences as severe as death.
Date/Time: Monday, August 1, 2022 | 6:00 PM MDT (Boulder)
This Month in WWCode History
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Opportunities for Members
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Women Who Code has partnered with The Linux Foundation to offer 50 full scholarships each quarter to members of our community for any of their eLearning courses + registration for any of their certification exams. Deadline: September 2022 for Quarter 3. Apply now.
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October 14th: REACT BRUSSELS @ Brussels, Belgium
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Pro-Tip of the Week
"Don't be shy, share your cool ideas with a product manager, and participate in Hackathons."
- Nilou Houshmand, WWCode Member
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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