IEEE Survey Finds That Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces
More than 4,500 respondents reported their experiences, and many offered suggestions Female IEEE members say they face significant discrimination in the workplace, including demeaning comments, inappropriate job-interview questions, and exclusion from networking events and important business meetings. Those were among the most common negative experiences…
Why Companies Need Engineers With a Creative Bent
STEAM education is helping the next generation of tech workers explore their artistic side People with the ability to combine their engineering and scientific skills with their understanding of art, literature, music, and other creative works have introduced popular products and spawned billion-dollar industries. They’ve…
What Are Silicon Valley’s Highest-Paying Tech Jobs?
Product management, reliability, and security jobs pay the most in Silicon Valley, says job search firm Indeed Job-search site Indeed crunched its Silicon Valley hiring numbers for 2018, looking at tech job searches, salaries, and employers, and found that engineers who combine tech skills with business skills…
Soft Skills enhancement is a lifelong credential
IEEE rewards its members by helping them enhance their soft skills through its multiple activities According to Forbes “Soft Skills Are The Key To Finding The Most Valuable Employees”. Even though enhancing our hard skills, such as statistical analysis, SEO/SEM marketing, software development, data mining,…
Encourage Tunisian women build their own business
Khoubeyb Layouni A two-days workshop entitled «SEF UP» sharing the goal to Encourage Tunisian women build their own business, held by IEEE WIE ISSAT SOUSSE in collaboration with JCI KSOUR ESSEF. In Ksour Essef (a town in Tunisia) women are mainly at home, instead…
Are You Alone in Developing Your Professional Career?
Have you heard mentorship? Sometimes people need advice and new perspective when developing their professional career. In such a case you can find the mentor or mentee about your specific interest and work topics. Mentorship can be defined as the relationship of learning and development between mentor and mentee. Let’s…
Would You Quit a Tech Project Over Ethical Concerns?
Engineers at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are demanding the companies put ethics before profits More and more are demanding their employers make ethics a priority. They are protesting, signing petitions, and even quitting their job. A research scientist recently left Google over concerns that the search engine…
Tech Startup Thorn Takes Aim at Child Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking
The company, cofounded by actor Ashton Kutcher, develops tools to help identify victims and catch criminals The sexual exploitation and trafficking of children is a serious problem worldwide. Children account for nearly one-third of identified trafficking victims globally, according to UNICEF. Today’s technology provides traffickers with convenient…
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