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USA TODAY
Facebook is launching a new effort to expose more students and their parents to the promise of computer science as part of the company's broader push to increase the ranks of underrepresented minorities in tech.
TechPrep will offer resources in English and Spanish to help young people and their parents or guardians explore how to get started in computer science, the jobs available to programmers and the skills required to become a programmer.
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CIO
Frustrated by the lack of diversity at your tech company or by the lack of women and underrepresented minority applicants? At the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology, recently in Houston, several experts shared tips on how to address the issue, emphasizing that successful diversity strategies start by making sure every step in your hiring process is consistent with that goal. That starts with identifying where in your hiring process the problem is occurring.
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The Hill
Tech innovation is flourishing in America. Yet for all of the innovation and growth this tech boom has brought, women and minorities are too often on the outside looking in. This needs to change.
According to the National Center for Women and Information Technology, 1.4 million computer science job openings are expected to be offered by 2018. However, just three percent of these jobs will be filled by women. Despite these statistics, diverse talent is out there, but we need to identify how to tap into it more effectively. What is too often missing are the tools and exposure necessary to develop and transform passion into workforce skills.
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SiliconANGLE
The lesson of women in the workplace is that diversity produces better outcomes. However, companies have been at a loss for a solid game plan in how to increase diversity; it’s not as easy as just hiring more women, or other minorities, for tech positions. Uncovering the data behind what diversity truly means for a company has been a long process.
To talk about what companies can do to improve their diversity, Jeff Frick, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, spoke to Gunjan Aggarwal, VP of HR and head of talent acquisition, diversity recruiting and mergers and acquisitions at Ericsson, during the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2015 conference.
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Latin Post
It's no secret that the technology industry has a diversity problem. And while larger firms like Apple, Intel, and others are now working to hire more staff from underrepresented minorities, the most well known representatives of Silicon Valley are only part of the overall picture. The other center of power is known as Sand Hill Road, a part of Silicon Valley that's the center of private equity for the tech industry.
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Atlanta Black Star
Brian Douglas is a software engineer whose tech journey started two years ago when he enrolled in Bloc, the online, mentor-led coding bootcamp. Douglas shares his advice on learning how to code and his perspective on being Black in tech on his blog, TheBlackc000000de and his podcast, This Developing Life. Diversity in the tech world has been a topic of conversation in recent months — TechCrunch reported that the amount of Black people in the tech industry was a mere 2 percent while the hash tag #ILookLikeAnEngineer helped raise the profile of women in the tech industry.
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Tech Crunch
Erica Baker, a build and release engineer at Slack, is making waves in tech right now. She's the ex-Google employee who released employee salary data at Google. She's also the one behind #RealDiversityNumbers, a Twitter movement to get companies reporting numbers around retention, number of lawsuits settled out of court, etc.
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EnterpriseTech
The face of computer science is changing as organizations large and small proactively embrace a culture of diversity in hiring, retention, and promotion. But diversity goes far beyond gender, color, and religion, to encompass thought and culture to result in a richer palette of knowledge that creates better work environments, products, and customer experiences.
"Diversity is an inclusion of different ideas," said Liz Centoni, vice president and general manager, SP Access, at Cisco in an interview during the Grace Hopper Celebration recently.
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Fortune
You can often tell much about how seriously a company regards a new strategy or initiative by whether or not someone’s compensation is tied to its success.
That's why my ears perked up last week when Erica Lockheimer, Linked's director of engineering growth and women in tech, somewhat casually mentioned that 20 percent of time — and therefore a portion of her salary and bonus — is tied to the social media company’s overall diversity goals.
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The Huffington Post
The successes of Silicon Valley are well-chronicled — some of our brightest minds take a singular idea and turn it into a billion-dollar company that changes the world. Every venture capitalist across the United States aims to be the one who discovers the next Facebook, Snapchat or Uber, so naturally, the first step is to try and emulate what has already worked so well in regards to business models and investment structures.
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