What’s it like when you’re one of three women dispersed at a professional dinner that’s 90% male, 90% raucously drunk, and one of the men keeps touching your thigh under the table? It’s intimidating, unnerving and at times, terrifying.
This happened to me a few years ago. Shortly thereafter, I was asked by male colleagues what they could have done to help women like myself in similar situations. I paused and thought, I’ve never been asked to define allyship before.
I guess they asked me because I’m a pretty outspoken, self-assertive, New York born and bred extrovert. I’m no wallflower…
When I was first designated as a culture interview for our Engineering Team at WorkMarket, I didn’t know where to start.
How do you interview for cultural fit? What qualities in a hiring candidate do you need to suss out? What questions do you ask? How do you judge such an unquantifiable, abstract quality in a potential coworker in such a short time span? I was worried about getting it right and avoiding the typical pitfalls, such as disproportionately approving candidates that had similar personalities to me.
I rolled my sleeves up and dug into anything I could find on…
The job market is flourishing — employers around the country are adding an average of 200,000 opportunities per month. Although some nail-biting economists believe we are heading towards a recession, this is unlikely to occur within the next year. Thus it is “safe” to say that we’ll continue to be in a job-seekers market for the rest of 2019. But with all this hiring and projected job growth, the big question remains — do we have a fully representative workforce to fill these empty seats?
UDemy reports that 84% of US workers believe there is indeed a skills gap, and…
Like many other companies, our Culture Club is responsible for organizing holiday celebrations, group sports, charity work and influencing company culture. As we have recently revamped this group, I realize that every time I mention our charity efforts, people automatically associate it with our Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Group. People are conflating charity work with D&I efforts.
What is that?
Are the wires getting crossed in people’s minds about the purpose of D&I in the workplace? For some reason, charity work is almost always associated with the D&I Group. For those who put the two in the same category, the…
The past decade has seen an outrageous boom in technology startups across the U.S. Although it may seem that the creators of these successful companies have created unicorns and have done everything right, there’s one key ingredient that many have left out — building an inclusive workforce that welcomes women.
There are many facets to this issue. Some companies continuously hire people from the same backgrounds instead of working with local, women-based workforce development programs (like Women Rising). Some put all their resources into hyper-growth and let office culture fall by the wayside. …
93% of engineers are men. 93% are heterosexual. 74% are white or of European descent.
These statistics from Stack Overflow’s 2018 Developer Survey shed light on the enormous challenges engineering teams face worldwide. With numbers like these and a lack of resources, what’s a group of Diversity and Inclusion newbies to do in order to create positive change within their engineering organization?
Although many companies showcase their D&I (let’s call it that from now on) achievements, few of them provide a roadmap that led them to their successes as an example for others. …
WorkMarket Diversity & Inclusion Committee
"We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value." -Maya Angelou
