Resources for Technology Professionals

Learning resources

• Returning to STEM: Free 8 week Open University course to help you to get back into STEM
• Reboot Your STEM Career: Interactive toolkit  to help STEM professionals to relaunch their career after a break

Professional associations and networks

• BCS Women
• Tech London Advocates
• TechUK
• Equate Scotland – working for gender equality in SET and built environment
• Digital Women
• Women’s Engineering Society (WES)
  • MentorSET – one-to-one mentoring for women in and returning to STEM fields, co-ordinated by WES
• SET Women

Specialist recruitment agencies

• Power to Fly – tech roles for remote working

Strategic Volunteering

• School Gate SET: volunteering opportunities for parents on career breaks to help with STEM in primary schools

Professional bodies with re-entry programmes

• Daphne Jackson Fellowships – Fellowships with mentoring and training to help people with STEM backgrounds to return after a career break

Success stories

• Returning to Cloud Services at AWS: Kseniya’s Story
• Returning to Technology at Reed Exhibitions: Mrinalini’s Story
• Returning to tech and ops at Capgemini: Geraldine’s Story
• Returning to tech at Capgemini: Sarah’s Story
• Returning to telecoms at O2: Clare’s Story
• Returning to mobile phone technology: Nina’s Story 
• Returning to software development: M’s story 

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