The tech industry asks a lot of people. Networking and industry events happen out of work hours and on weekends. This can keep talented people with carer obligations from valuable opportunities. I do a lot of outreach with adults wanting to break into the tech industry and with technologists wanting career advice. It’s amazingly rewarding but can involve a lot of meetings over coffee. To help make my advice easier to access, I’ve been having more and more meetings with parents who have brought their kids along. …
I do a lot of introductions between talented technologists in my network and trusted companies or (more rarely) external recruiters. I recently got some feedback that greater transparency in how I connect people would be useful. Please enjoy (and help me refine!) my current process, as well as some thoughts about how I plan to change this process in the near future.
Why I do it
I began doing introductions as a follow up from doing open 1:1 career advice calls for technologists. Calls often touched on toxic workplaces, being underpaid or feeling underappreciated. As I’ve been lucky enough to…
You’ve hired someone toxic. Or someone else hired them. But you’re stuck managing them. It’s not a great situation to be in.
Perhaps this person is endlessly combative? Patronizing? Taking credit for others’ work? Are they refusing to share resources or information? Are they harassing others?
Regardless of *how* this toxic person is disrupting your team, you’re stuck with trying to balance the needs of your other team members with someone likely to suck up most of your energy and attention.
Fixing this is your job As (hopefully!) most of your team is made up resilient professionals, they may attempt…
Jessica Rose
Technology's den mother. Made @opencodeclub, helped make @trans_code & sometimes @watchingbuffy ❤ asking questions.
